Workforce Strategy

Your workforce strategy delivers your strategic objectives, however this too often is an afterthought after budgets have been agreed. This module explores the importance of a fully costed operating model.

- Linking the shifts that are worked to the business strategy
- Benchmark your current approach against the maturity model
- Have clear next steps to improve your workforce strategy

Scheduling & Flexibility Toolkit

One you have determined the volatility of your volumes you can start to think of ways to manage this through scheduling. The flexibility toolkit contains 18 options that you can use in your business. Learning outcomes include:
- What are the flexibility options and which can be combined?
- Pros and cons of each method and case study examples of how they’ve been implemented.
- Understanding how different tool kit options can be used strategically and tactical

Conformance & Adherence

Measuring and managing adherence and conformance effectively is critical, however this is often mis-understood and can drive the wrong behaviour. This module takes a close look at both measures, how they should becalculated and classic mistakes. Learning outcomes include:
- Understand how to calculate and report adherence and conformance
- Define new measures which drive the right behaviour
- Learn the pit falls to avoid and how to improve performance

Predictability of Events

A chance to practice assessing the predictability of events through a classic exercise from The Forum to help you hone your skills in forecasting ad hoc events.

Data Visualisation

Explore effective ways of presenting data in a meaningful, interesting and engaging way. Improve the way you inform and persuade your key stakeholders.
- Understand why your existing reports don’t excite or engage your stakeholders
- Learn the basics of data visualisation and how to communicate information
- Apply “2 key questions” and start the use the tools and resource you need

Building and optimising Real-time RAG Models

Drive decisions and continuous improvement by building effective RAG status trigger for actions, which engage the operation and improve performance. This module follows the “Using RAG models to take action”.

- Learn how to set appropriate thresholds for in-day reporting
- Understand different ways of engaging the operation
- Create a learning mechanism to drive continuous improvement

Driving Strategy through Real Time

Daily Real Time tasks work best when they are fully aligned to overarching business goals and objectives. If they are not, the result in wasted effort and add no value.
- Learn how to identify the strategy of your business
- Understand the language of engagement and the benefit of strategic communication
- See how volatile businesses use Playbooks to their advantage

Bottom Up v Top Down Planning

There are two different ways to approach budget planning – but some organisations find themselves involved in a hybrid third approach. There is no right or wrong way but it is vital to understand the process and to understand if it is appropriate.
- Learn the benefits and drawbacks of each approach
- Look at how your overall business strategy should determine your budget process
- Understand if your business is led by demand or by supply

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The Power of One

Teamwork and understanding the plan are critical to achieve strategic objectives. However, too often this is left to chance and not an embedded behaviour. So easy to get wrong, fortunately easy to improve. This module will help you to:

- Understand the “power-of-one” and the impact of small changes.
- Improve your on-the-day decision making and see the result for your customers and colleagues.
- Learn the classic mistakes and how to overcome these

Free Webinar: Create change with a Leap Of Faith – Rising Vibe

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A Leap Of Faith is an act of believing in or attempting something whose existence or outcome cannot be proven or known.

So much of the work we do with our clients around culture change requires a leap of faith. Without taking action, 'giving it a go', doing something differently or experimenting with a 'new way', NOTHING changes. Let me repeat this NOTHING changes. Yet the majority of human beings need some kind of 'proof' that it will all work out BEFORE they are prepared to take 'that action'.

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