Core Practice Partners Employee Scheduling Retreat Uncovers Why Excel Spreadsheets Aren’t the Answer
Excel spreadsheets are not the answer to management questions about effective scheduling. The release of the Core Practice Partners Executive Workshop will allow management teams to focus on the issues that matter.
New York, NY, February 22, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Core Practice Partners, based in New York and Chicago, recently held a two day scheduling retreat for labor management experts from around the world. A hot topic for the retreat was the current trend to use Excel spreadsheets to manage employee schedules. Management teams have long been looking for the silver bullet to make scheduling more effective, and this is the most recent novelty.
John Frehse, Chief Strategist for Core Practice Partners, spent time during his lecture discussing root problems with labor strategy and how the Excel spreadsheet revolution has done more harm than good. “Instead of focusing on core issues like idle time, overtime, employee morale, and general effectiveness management teams are looking at tools to more easily manage a bad system. Correcting the bad schedules needs to be the focus.”
The increased web presence of companies offering free tools for scheduling is creating momentum for things that move managers further away from the real issues. “Understanding the key cost saving and profit making opportunities is the first step,” according to Ethan Franklin, also of Core Practice Partners. “Discovering the schedules that make your employees want to come to work and be productive is step two.” Ethan Franklin has over 10 years experience in the scheduling field and spent over an hour with retreat participants drawing a wide variety of different schedule models. “Many people have forgotten about steps one and two and are busy trying to manage the current inefficient process. We need them to take a step back and do it right,” said Mr. Franklin. “Excel tools are gimmicks that distract us from solving the real problems.”
Core Practice Partners offers a powerful labor strategy workshop that uncovers hidden cost issues and shares best practices. In these workshops, management teams learn real skills to improve scheduling and learn to think differently about these challenges. As retreat participants signed their local management teams up for the workshop, it looked like at least they had gotten the message.
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John Frehse, Chief Strategist for Core Practice Partners, spent time during his lecture discussing root problems with labor strategy and how the Excel spreadsheet revolution has done more harm than good. “Instead of focusing on core issues like idle time, overtime, employee morale, and general effectiveness management teams are looking at tools to more easily manage a bad system. Correcting the bad schedules needs to be the focus.”
The increased web presence of companies offering free tools for scheduling is creating momentum for things that move managers further away from the real issues. “Understanding the key cost saving and profit making opportunities is the first step,” according to Ethan Franklin, also of Core Practice Partners. “Discovering the schedules that make your employees want to come to work and be productive is step two.” Ethan Franklin has over 10 years experience in the scheduling field and spent over an hour with retreat participants drawing a wide variety of different schedule models. “Many people have forgotten about steps one and two and are busy trying to manage the current inefficient process. We need them to take a step back and do it right,” said Mr. Franklin. “Excel tools are gimmicks that distract us from solving the real problems.”
Core Practice Partners offers a powerful labor strategy workshop that uncovers hidden cost issues and shares best practices. In these workshops, management teams learn real skills to improve scheduling and learn to think differently about these challenges. As retreat participants signed their local management teams up for the workshop, it looked like at least they had gotten the message.
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