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Strategic Forecasting Part 3: Modeling Staffing and Productivity Curves for Accurate Financial Planning
In part one of this series of articles, I discussed "Strategic Financial Forecasting: How Time Tracking Data Transforms Multi-Year Financial Models." In part two, I focused on "Building a Calendar System that Anchors Multi-Year Models." In this article, I will explain how to create staffing and resource allocation models using actual productivity curves for more accurate and actionable forecasts.
Top 7 Ways to Get Employees to Complete Timesheets
After spending over 20 years as the CEO of a timesheet software company, I’ve spoken with many managers and business owners who struggle with timesheet completion.
Why Your Timesheet and Payroll Software Should Speak the Same Language
If you’ve ever spoken with someone who doesn’t speak the same language as you, you know communication can be difficult. You can rely on gestures, body language, and a simplified vocabulary to get your point across. But at the end of the day, connecting can be difficult.
Why Your Nonprofit Should Be Tracking Volunteer Time
Do you know the value of your nonprofit’s volunteer time?
Volunteer Management From Home: 4 Tips for Virtual Programs
Now more than ever before, people are leveraging digital solutions and doing more remotely than has even been possible.
Time Tracking Software for Small Business: What's Right for You?
The idea of “timesheet software” seems relatively straightforward. It’s a tool that helps you keep track of employee time within a timesheet...right?
Why Nonprofits Should Track Time
No one ever said running a nonprofit is easy. There are endless rules and regulations, a near-constant battle for funding, and significant pressure to simultaneously reduce overhead costs and recruit top talent.
Why Your “All-In-One” Nonprofit Software Can’t Track Time
I'm here today to tell you that "The One" doesn't exist.
Billable Hours vs. Non-Billable Hours: How to Get Paid for Both
Balancing billable and non-billable hours is a constant challenge for agencies, consultants, and contractors.
How Nonprofit Time Studies Help with Functional Expense Allocation
It happens every year — on the fifteenth day of the fifth month after the close of your nonprofit’s fiscal year, to be exact.
How to Write a Grant Budget to Win Your Dream Grant
Applying for grants can be a frustrating, time-consuming process. Different foundations have different requirements. Funders’ priorities vary based on their foundations’ missions. And the more money you’re asking for — especially if that money comes from the state or federal government — the more you’re asking for scrutiny into your nonprofit’s activities.
How to Write a Grant Budget to Win Your Dream Grant
Applying for grants can be a frustrating, time-consuming process. Different foundations have different requirements. Funders’ priorities vary based on their foundations’ missions. And the more money you’re asking for — especially if that money comes from the state or federal government — the more you’re asking for scrutiny into your nonprofit’s activities.
6 Benefits of Capacity Planning for Any Organization
Time management expert Alan Lakein once wrote, “Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.”
Resource Capacity Planning Best Practices: Advice From Experts
If you’re thinking about implementing capacity planning in your business, you’re probably the kind of person who wants to make sure things get done the right way.
10 Reasons Why You Should Let Your Employees Work From Home
41% of global businesses offer some degree of remote working in a study conducted from Condeco Software. Working from home is on the rise and can actually improve the productivity of both employees and employers alike. Apart from the obvious convenience of not being in bumper to bumper traffic or dealing with the public transportation, allowing your employees to work from home may actually help them get more work done.
Top 10 Advantages and Disadvantages of Working from Home
Let’s be real, no matter where you’re working from, you’re still doing just that: working.
Will Flexible Hours Make Your Team More Productive?
Traditional work hours are a thing of the past. The days in which employees rushed to clock in at 9:00am sharp and waited until 5:00pm to go home are nearly gone. In today’s modern workplace, employees are granted more flexible working hours outside their company’s normal open and close time.