Prepare for Growth with Workforce Planning
Predict upcoming capacity needs. Identify talent gaps. And monitor your team’s effectiveness.
Advocate for new hires using data
Forecast Upcoming Capacity NeedsAs your organization prepares for growth, you’ll need to calculate the additional headcount required to match your new workload. With ClickTime, you’ll use historical project data to accurately forecast upcoming capacity needs.
Many teams fall victim to the planning fallacy, underestimating the total time needed to finish a project. With ClickTime, you’ll have access to historical data to correct optimistic bias.
ClickTime allows you to measure the amount of work an average employee can complete within a given timeframe. This way, you’ll know exactly how many new hires you’ll need to meet upcoming demand.
Rightsize your organization
Manage Your Team’s Current WorkloadPrevent Employee Churn: By previewing upcoming workloads in our Resource Planning grid, you can protect your employees from burnout and overwork.
Assign Project Hours: Managers can assign their team project hours using our Resource Planning grid. Employees will see assigned hours in their timesheet dashboard.
Identify Project Bottlenecks: Quickly see where projects are stalling due to a lack of resources. With ClickTime, you’ll measure the time between project phases.
Monitor Overtime Costs: View employee overtime reports to help prevent unnecessary project costs. ClickTime also allows you to require managerial approvals for all timesheets with overtime.
Optimize Utilization Rates: Review each employee’s utilization rates in ClickTime’s Employee Performance Dashboard to ensure that your resources are being used to their fullest potential.
Assign the right people to the right projects
Identify Talent GapsProper workforce planning not only involves anticipating capacity needs, but also making sure that you have the right skill sets within your team. With ClickTime, you’ll spot areas of talent deficiency, create optimal team structures, and identify who your star employees truly are.
Recognize Critical Competencies: ClickTime helps you identify which skills are in short supply within your organization and are creating bottlenecks in your workflow.
Plan for Succession: By identifying which roles are most impactful to your company performance, you’ll be able to plan for inevitable vacancies.
Reward Exemplary Employees: With ClickTime’s Employee Performance Dashboard, you’ll see which employees are crucial to retain.
Calculate the actual price of every initiative
Track Workforce CostsThere’s more than one way to grow your business. Being able to forecast the return on investment of different paths forward is therefore crucial to proper workforce planning. In order to forecast correctly, you’ll need accurate records of past project performance.
Track Every Expenditure: Time is money, and our platform tracks both. With the ability to automatically calculate the hourly rate of salaried employees, you’ll know what every project truly costs.
Forecast Project ROI: Use historical project performance to forecast the return on investment of future initiatives. With both cost and billing rates within our system, you’ll be able to accurately see every project’s profitability index.
Prevent Scope Creep: Make sure client requests are properly recorded. With ClickTime, you’ll track every change order by adding a new phase to your projects.
