A workforce management portal provides an organisation with a fantastic opportunity not only to engage their employees, but also to reduce admin tasks such as dealing with requests & reporting. If you’re considering deploying one, here are 5 top tips to ensure a successful outcome!

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5 TOP TIPS FOR DEPLOYING A
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2. What do I need to consider?
A workforce management portal provides an
organisation with a fantastic opportunity not only to
engage their employees, but also to reduce admin
tasks such as dealing with requests & reporting.
If you’re considering deploying one, here are 5 top
tips to ensure a successful outcome!

3. 1 Involve employees
from the outset
Make sure employees are included
throughout the entire planning and
rollout process. To help make this
happen, you can provide a platform
where employees can keep up to date
and offer their feedback, ideas and
comments.

4. 2
The deployment of a WFM portal
can be a big cultural change for
employees to come to grips with.
Consider testing out the
implementation with a sample team
of ‘WFM ambassadors’ first, to fine-
tune system and processes before
rolling it out to the wider
organisation.
Slow and steady
wins the race

5. 3 Thrive in stages
With a new system, the temptation will be
to deploy each and every functionality
from the get go. This may be
overwhelming. Consider an approach
which thrives in stages–taking the time to
roll out the key functionalities and
making sure each element is delivering
the original benefits agreed upon.

6. 4 Ensure you cover all
the bases
Resist the urge to go live without all
required technical integrations and
policies in place. E.g if you are
enabling remote access, make sure you
work with your technical team to
define access controls,
user permissions, firewall
modifications etc beforehand!

7. 5 Measure the
benefits
With a new technology in place, it’s
easy to forget to measure the
impact on the business from an
efficiency and engagement
perspective. The foundation to all of
this is to baseline the data at the
point of deployment and measure
the benefits in terms of operational
improvements and ROI.

8. If you need advice on Workforce
Management technology, talk to our
team of experts:
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