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Successful companies continually invest in new workforce management features to improve outcomes. But what if the people you've asked to use a new piece of technology fail to adapt? Would you know how to address the warning signs before your implementation project tanks?

You know that Change Enablement is important your ROI but can't quite get your head around how to integrate it into your next technology initiative. Don't worry, you aren't alone. Change Enablement isn't a skill set you master overnight. It takes years of knowledge and hands-on experience to understand the tools of Change Enablement, the workforce nuances that affect it, and how to leverage it to drive a new technology adoption.

Mark Twain famously said that if the first thing you do in the morning is to eat a live frog, then you can forge into the rest of your day knowing the worst is behind you. Simply put, do the worst thing first. In Kronos speak, we could easily call standardizing our data our frog — or the task we need to do prior to our next Kronos upgrade.

Learn how Improv helped Land O' Lakes cut payroll exports from 39 to 8 and boost user adoption by 25%.

Have you ever started a project in an ordinary way — with the usual kickoff and discovery meetings — but soon realized you were working on something very special? That's how we feel about a project we recently completed for our client Land O' Lakes. 

The term attestation in the Human Resources (HR) world means to verify — or attest to — the amount of time an employee works and the breaks he or she takes during a workday. Get it right as an employer, and you are in the clear. Get your attestation process wrong, and you could find yourself in a heap of trouble. 

Controlling your labor costs. Minimizing your compliance risk. Improving your productivity. If you're a manager, these goals are top of mind when it comes to implementing or upgrading a Workforce Management (WFM) platform. But what you may not be focused on during this major internal change is the emotional undercurrent among employees in response to that change.  

One of the most unique and beneficial Kronos services Improvizations offers is our Implementation Audit or Gap Analysis. We believe before you can reach your destination, you need to understand starting point. Organizations launching an enterprise upgrade or implementation need to engage in Strategic implementation planning. A key step of strategic planning is the process of conducting a Gap Analysis.