2025 Best Practice Guide
Raising Standards

Conferences

The Forum holds key conferences through out the year including our flagship Spring Customer Strategy and Planning, Summer Best Practice Showcase and Autumn #RaisingStandards conferences that offer a great opportunity to learn, share and network.

2025 Summer Best Practice Showcase (Virtual)

16th June - 22nd August 2025

Learn WHAT our award finalists are doing to continue “Raising Standards in Customer Operations”
This conference offers a unique chance for you to learn directly from our Awards winners. You will hear from the teams and individuals who are making a difference in their business, powerful partnerships whether that is with a technology provider or an outsource partnership. Finally, you can discover how large transformation projects have made massive changes in any business.

2025 Autumn: #RaisingStandards (Virtual)

13th - 17th October 2025

Learn HOW you can apply "Best Practice"
Designed specifically for Planning, Insight and Quality & Customer Experience Professionals. Learn first-hand from practitioners and business leaders who are delivering successful change whilst having the opportunity to collaborate with others. Bring new ideas and techniques back that will raise standards within your “Customer Operation”.

2025 Autumn Conference #RaisingStandards (In-Person)

Wednesday 5th November 2025, Coventry Building Society Arena

Learn HOW our community is applying “Best Practice”
This conference is designed specifically for Planning, Insight and Quality & Customer Experience Professionals. Learn first-hand from practitioners and business leaders who are delivering successful change whilst having the opportunity to collaborate with others. Bring new ideas and techniques back that will raise standards within your “Customer Operation”.

2026 Spring Customer Strategy & Planning Conference (In-person)

Tuesday 28th April 2026, Grand Hotel Gosforth Park, Newcastle

Learn WHY we need to keep “Raising Standards in Customer Operations" 
Our flagship Conference, this highly rated event is far more than just a conference. Designed specifically to focus on the hot topics within the industry and thought leadership whilst also delivering practical skills with new ways of thinking that will enhance you as a person. 

On-Demand Conferences

Catch up on the presentations from our previous conferences.
Moment of Truth: Confident to Succeed

Published on 15 December 2021

Moment of Truth: Confident to Succeed

The proof of the pudding is in the tasting. The real value, success or effectiveness of something is truly realised by testing or trying it. The moment of true isn’t the appearance or promise of something but the reality and in the case of the pudding the taste.

Our actions, or inaction, will define us. We are the key to our own success. During 2021 we focused on unlocking opportunities and the part each of us can play in helping to shape the future. For 2022 we want to focus you on your Moment of Truth and being confident to succeed. We each have the power to drive change, however this isn’t about being alone but part of a group. It takes a community of best practice to raise a professional. Over the past 12-months, more than ever we have seen how members have used the wider community seek assurance, learn new ways, share ideas and ultimately become more confident to succeed. We have all demonstrated our adaptability and ability to develop and improvement. It’s now time to stand up and make a difference.

“Covid was a moment of truth for many companies.  It made companies call centre models more transparent than ever before” Nick Lane, MD Customer Service, BT EE Plusnet

“Our industry has been waiting and working towards this moment, and now we need developed, knowledgeable and agile professionals to grab hold of this opportunity, for that’s what it is, and lead customer engagement, colleagues development and corporate responsibility to the next generation of contact centres.” Colin Whelan, Head of Workforce Optimisation, Hoist Finance

“The opportunity to influence and shape how we recover and grow from the pandemic, one of the biggest challenges we have faced post wartime and a great opportunity for individuals to step up and help re-shape the new normal.” Paul Milloy, Forefront Executive Council Chair, Intradiem

“I think it’s true for a lot of teams - post pandemic, this is where they find out if their underlying processes and techniques actually WORK; it’s where they and their business decide on what they really want to achieve and how they do it; and it’s also the point where relationships are tested - do you really have influence over your stakeholders’ decisions?” David Preece, Solution Consultant, QStory

We would love to hear what Moment of Truth: Confident to Succeed means to you. Please drop me an email. Phil.anderson@theforum.social

Author: Phil Anderson

Date Published: 15/12/21

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