Better Daily Log Software

Simple and easy communication between the management team and the staff members is a requirement for every business, in any industry.

It is important to keep track of daily notes, task lists, todo items, and sticky notes in every business – big or small, independent or chain. The task of managing all of these items is quickly cumbersome for all but the most disciplined staff members.

Scheduling human resource tasks, upcoming maintenance events, human resource tasks, management meetings, and other necessary items across multiple shifts (where the manager or staff member that created the event may not be the person responsible for the event) quickly becomes a management nightmare.

And, as your business grows, keeping up with the pile of paperwork and small notes can quickly become a nightmare.

Many businesses tackle the tornado of paper and notes by raiding the local office supply store – lab notebooks, 3-ring binders, and other similar products. While these paper products are very cheap, the disadvantages are obvious:

  • Paper products will tear and can be destroyed with any mild abuse.
  • Writing with pens or pencils can be smudged or unreadable by spilling a drink, or with wet hands
  • Searching through dozens of paper notebooks for historical data is impossible..
  • Staff who use ink pens will scratch out notes from other employees, making notes unreadable.
  • Notebooks are easily be lost in a back office under piles of other notes.
  • Handwriting that is made in a hurry can be unreadable minutes, or months, after the note is made.
  • Organizing notebook or 3-ring binder notes into categories on a day-by-day basis is cumbersome at best.
  • Multiple location / multi-store operators have no insight into the day-to-day operations of individual locations without faxing and scanning pages back and forth.

In most cases, the paper log book is simply insufficient for modern businesses. Many niche businesses provide organized paper notebook equivalents of the 3-ring binder or lab notebook, like Red Book Solutions and CommLog. While these product are somewhat better than the paper notebooks available at your local office supply store – all of the disadvantages of the paper process remain. In addition to the paper problem, these pre-printed log books are organized in a format that may, or may not, work for your business.

The TimeForge Daily Log is a superior solution to organize the notes and todo tasks at your business.

Use the TimeForge Daily Log for easy notes and communications

Use the TimeForge Daily Log for easy notes and communications

Use the Daily Log as your manager log and staff log – and for much more.   Read more about the TimeForge Daily Log!

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Track Staff Certifications and Qualifications

As operations managers and HR professionals know, managing labor is much more than building staff schedules and managing time and attendance for employees.   There are many other aspects of human resources and labor management, including:

  • Talent management
  • Tracking staff training and continuing education credits
  • Skills tracking and ranking
  • Onboarding and hiring processes
  • Background verification and skill assessments
  • Certifications and qualification tracking
  • Raise requests and workflow
  • And much more …

In many of these HR areas, we recommend that our users utilize a best of breed solution to ensure the best results for our customers.   For example, Corvirtus is simply the best company around to perform skills assessments in the hospitality and restaurant industries, and we recommend our customers look at Corvirtus for any unmet assessment needs.

However, a few of the these HR areas are easily managed inside of TimeForge’s best-of-breed labor management solution.   Historical raise requests, qualifications, skill tracking and ranking, and others are already available in TimeForge, and more will become available in the near future.

Let’s review employee certifications …

Did you know that TimeForge can track certifications for staff members?   Using TimeForge, you can track any number of certifications (staffing qualifications), testing dates, renewal dates, and test scores.   Each certificate can also include a note about the staff member’s qualification.

Specifics of a Certification / Staff Qualification

Specifics of a Certification / Staff Qualification

TimeForge allows savvy managers to set up certifications which are required before the staff member can be scheduled.   TimeForge can then stop you and your management team from scheduling employees who are not qualified for the job position.

For example, in the state of Texas, a server (waiter) that serves alcohol needs to have taken an alcohol awareness and training course.   Serving alcohol, of any kind, without this certification can land the employee and the responsible manager in jail for the evening.   With a single click inside of TimeForge, managers can ensure that staff are only scheduled if they are qualified to be scheduled.

Add a Certificate, Restrict who can be Scheduled

Add a Certificate, Restrict who can be Scheduled

As an added bonus, TimeForge will notify managers and employees 6 weeks before the certificate expires, so that managers and staff members both know that it’s time to renew the qualification.   The certification reminder also appears inside of the Daily Log.

Use certifications to make your life easy!

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