To get the most out of your employees, you need to have a scheduling strategy in place. This should take in your goals, your employees' preferences, publicly available data and many other details. This will ensure that you create an accurate strategy that helps you accomplish your company goals on time without sacrificing employee happiness.

So, to help you get it right, I have shared below the step by step process you need to follow to create an employee scheduling strategy that works...

#1 Gather the data:

Do you know what the main difference between the successful and unsuccessful companies out there? The successful ones aren't afraid to look at their past. They want to learn all about their victories and failures.

They then build on this information to do the right things that gain them wins and to avoid the wrong things that lead to losses.

So, before you begin creating your strategy go through your company's past successes and failures to see what caused them. If you have been tracking your employee activity, the data will come in handy now.

You can also gather more data by conducting surveys and interviews. This data will be more useful to understand employee preferences. This can be used to thwart tactics that can ruin employee happiness and engagement.

You can also get more data from third party institutions and companies that release the best practices information to the public. An example of a company that does this is Gallup. They release information like the Employee Engagement Survey which tells you what the average employee engagement rate is.

You can use this data to set benchmarks.

So, find as many third party reports as you can and study their data before creating your strategy.

#2 Create your strategy:

After you collect your data you can begin creating your strategy. Start this process by defining your goal(s). You need to have 2 goals in mind. One is a short-term goal, the other one is the long-term goal. The short-term goal is what you want to achieve with your company within a period of 90 days (3 months). The long-term goal is what you want to achieve with your company within a period of 1 to 3 years.

Usually all your short-term goals will add up to your long-term goals.

So, if you already have a long-term goal, divide it up into smaller short-term goals (90 day goals). This could be to increase revenue or build brand awareness or something else that will add to your company's bottom line.

After that you can begin creating the scheduling strategy for the short-term goal using the data you collected earlier.

Make sure you do this by using a scheduling software app like Deputy's. As it has features like scheduling templates and auto scheduling that make it extremely easy to build a schedule. You can also build your own custom scheduling templates. And it is very easy to do too with their drag and drop builder.

It is so much simpler than using a piece of paper or spreadsheet.

It also makes it easy for your employees to view and make changes to the schedule via their app which can be installed on both smartphones and tablets.

#3 Begin implementing the strategy and make modifications as you go along:

Once your strategy is set up, you can begin implementing it to create the schedule. But be ready to make modifications to it as you go along. As your employees will regularly get back to you with their feedback. Instead of turning a blind eye like a lot of companies, you should take this into account and try incorporating it in the strategy.

You can then monitor the new strategy to see if it brings in better results. You can save the previous scheduling template on Deputy because if this one fails, you can always revert back to it with ease. But if it is a success this one can become your current template.

You won't create the perfect version of the strategy in your first attempt. This rarely happens. But if you pay attention to your employees' feedback and recent results and regularly update it, you will get there in a few months.

Conclusion:

This is the step by step process you need to follow to create an employee scheduling strategy that works. Follow it now to boost employee productivity and happiness.

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