Scheduling Center of Excellence

Please excuse the formatting on this employee schedulingissue. For a full version with all four categories of employee scheduling strategy, you can pull it off our corporate website at this location: www.corepractice.com

Dedicating resources and time towards continuous improvement will always be constrained within businesses, both large and small. All too often the day-to-day obligations, including fighting fires and dealing with constant operational changes, limits improvement activity to purchasing costly capital equipment and then hoping productivity improves enough to justify the cost. While capital improvements should have a significant role in your business strategy, the right labor schedule can minimize a variety of existing problems and result in substantial cost savings. These benefits hit your bottom line year after year.

Business leaders miss millions poor decisions based on short of dollars in opportunities that term fixes such as:

• Copying a schedule
• Listening only to employees
• Implementing a scheduling with out working with employees on the solution
• Doing nothing with the hope that problems will eventually go away.

Changing employee schedules is like forecasting; it is easy to do, but very difficult to do well.

You only get one shot at making a successful schedule change. Most facilities can achieve an 11% to 17% improvement in labor costs by implementing the right schedule. With millions of dollars on the line, you must follow the four critical focus areas: Operations and Labor, Employee Buy-In, Health & Safety and Implementation.
Core Practice Partners LLC is in Operation and Labor strategy, specializing in shift workand scheduling. If your organization operates outside the 9-5, Monday through Friday work week, contact John Frehse, Chief Strategist and Executive Coach in Labor Strategy at: jfrehse@corepractice.com or call 1-212-534-0539. You can also learn about our free half day executive workshop on our website at: www.corepractice.com.