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Today's AI decisions will shape your success for the next decade

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Set your team up for success!

Today's decisions surrounding efforts to improve operational efficiencies, upskilling your team, and adopting new technologies may seem routine but the impact of these decisions is anything but routine.

 

The decisions that you make today will determine whether or not your team thrives in the AI era.   

 

By making informed decisions now, you position your team for sustained success, ensuring that you are not only responding to current demands but also future-proofing your operations for the challenges and opportunities of the coming decade.

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This is why it's so important to take a purposeful approach to adopting AI in your organization, focusing first on education and alignment and then working through the stages of growing your organization's use of AI.

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How Can AI Impact Your Department?

AI Powered Marketing Solutions: Harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI), our services transform marketing efforts across functions, leading to more targeted campaigns, marketing content that better resonates with the audience and data-driven decision making. Strategy and Planning: increase marketing ROI, improve market response and ensure alignment with organizational goals Content Creation: reduce content creation time by up to 50%, achieve consistent branding and more effective marketing materials. Digital Optimization: Improve search engine rankings, increase website traffic and improve conversion rates. Print Media: Reduce production time by up to 30% and create consistent marketing content.

Human Resources and Training: Leverage AI to automate your HR processes while ensuring that your HR processes enable consistent and objective execution. AI-Enhanced Performance Reviews: automate initial review process and customize ratings with weighted calculators for each role. Reduce review time by up to 70%, increase consistency and objectivity which will lead to improved employee satisfaction. AI-Driven Job Descriptions: Leverage AI maintain your job descriptions, resulting in a 50% reduction in the time required to manage job descriptions, ensuring that they are consistent with industry trends and consistent with organizational priorities. AI-Powered HR Assistant Bots: leverage AI to provide 24/7 access to your team for help with HR processes. Provide immediate answers for your team, reduce HR workload by up to 40% and enhance consistency in the enforcement of policies.

Reporting and Analytics: Data-driven decision making is a crucial requirement for leaders across industries and disciplines. Using the power of AI, we have re-invented reporting processes, enabling deeper insights, more accurate forecasting and enhanced visualization of complex data. Comprehensive Data Analysis and Visualization: Use AI to enhance your ability to spot emerging trends early, improve forecasting accuracy and draft more engaging and accessible reports for stakeholders at all levels. Custom Report Generation: We'll leverage our AI toolset to generate tailored reports that go beyond the capabilities of your traditional systems. We'll deliver reports that provide a snapshot of your comprehensive fiscal health, quickly identify underperforming and overperforming areas, enable proactive management of budgets and resources and save time in report preparation and analysis.

Accounting and Payroll: Optimize your accounting processes by automating items like bookkeeping entries from event registrations to connecting unrelated systems with AI powered solutions. Examples include: Automated Payroll Processing: Problem: Your workforce management system, such as Synerion, lacks the capability to handle complex payroll rules when uploading data to payroll software, such as JDE. This limitation results in time-consuming manual entries, particularly for: Different pay rates for work across various GL accounts Lump sum contractor payments AI-Driven Solution: AI-powered program that automatically processes the payroll file, applying complex rules and making necessary adjustments. This solution: Analyzes the raw payroll data from your workforce management system Identifies entries requiring special handling Applies the correct pay rates based on job classifications and GL accounts Adjusts contractor payments to the appropriate lump sum format Generates a modified file that's fully compatible with payroll software Impact Eliminate the need for manual entry of complex payroll items Reduce processing time from hours to minutes Minimized human error in payroll calculations Ensure consistent application of payroll rules across all employees Automated Daily Accounting Problem: Your registration software, such as Sportsman, doesn't generate a daily debit and credit report in a format compatible with your financial software. This incompatibility necessitates manual, line-by-line entry of accounting data. ​ AI-Driven Solution: AI-powered script that transforms Sportsman reports into properly formatted journal entries. Extracts relevant financial data from Sportsman reports Identifies and categorizes transactions based on predefined criteria Generates balanced journal entries in the format required by our financial software Produces a report ready for direct upload into the accounting system Impact Eliminated the need for manual data entry in daily accounting processes Reduced the time spent on daily financial reconciliation by over 75% Improved accuracy by removing the potential for human error in data transcription Enabled more timely financial reporting and analysis When asked about the impacts that these solutions have had on their Recreation Department in Southeast Michigan, their Assistant Recreation Director noted that "By implementing AI-driven solutions for connecting data between our various software systems, we've achieved significant improvements in efficiency, accuracy, and resource allocation. These innovations have not only streamlined our payroll and accounting processes but have also allowed our staff to focus on more strategic tasks, ultimately enhancing our overall service delivery in the recreation sector. The success of these AI applications demonstrates the potential for further automation and optimization across other areas of our operations, paving the way for continued innovation and efficiency gains in the future."

Recreation Programming: Leverage the power of AI to seamlessly create and manage recreation programs, including evaluation of program performance. Get started by trying the Recreation Program Pro GPT to optimize and/or automate any of the following: Comprehensive Program Planning - develop detailed plans and ensure programs are accessible and engaging for all community members. Financial Management: Optimize cost recovery and gain insights into effective budgeting practices used by other departments. Marketing and Outreach: market research shows that AI generated marketing copy is preferable to consumers over human generating content. AI powered marketing tools that are trained in your specific industry, such as the Park and Rec Marketing Pro are a great way to get started! This tool is designed for Parks and Rec to help with all things Marketing including generation of marketing plans, collateral. social media posts, emails, etc. Safety and Risk Management: Audit your policies and plans to ensure that you have implemented comprehensive safety management practices to protect your team and program participants.

Administration: Transform administrative tasks and professional development with AI. Whether you are looking to automate board reports and meeting minutes or you are looking for some creative inspiration, we have the AI tools for you! A couple examples of AI use cases within the Administrative function: Use AI to automate board reports and reduce report preparation time by at least 40% while ensuring that your reports are consistent, comprehensive and enable data-driven insights. Use AI solutions to automate meeting minutes and gain immediate insights into the meeting, from tone to action items to trend analysis. Another great use case for AI is the ability to craft department specific training materials, whether that is a full suite of training manuals, videos and chatbots or a chatbot that is trained on all of your department specific policies and training materials. These AI powered chatbots can be trained to provide skill gap analysis for each team member and develop custom learning paths based on each learners' unique needs. This results in accelerated learning of new skills, increases team adaptability, and enhances job satisfaction through continuous learning.

How to Implement AI

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