Upcoming Leadership Events

Are you a Director or Senior Leader? Join our regular forums to raise standards in customer operations together. The Forum holds events for leaders to network and hear from inspirational speakers throughout the year.

Each session will be recorded, with an edited transcription published and shared around the wider group and community. Future sessions will develop previous discussions and bring in new questions. Each month a new article will be published designed to be built upon exploring new different, but connected, topics. This will lead to a comprehensive article reflecting the comments of all sessions. Each discussion group will be kept small, to give each attendee the opportunity to contribute and answer the key questions, whilst allowing time for the topic area to grow.

Box Set: Telling a Story with Numbers

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The analysis and insight we produce is of little use if it does not drive action. This box set looks at how we can present our data to gain the buy-in and support of our stakeholders so we can drive change and improvement. This series includes 5 online learning modules to apply the learning in your own role to become an accredited professional.

You can watch each module on its own without applying for accreditation. You will then be charged for each individual module.

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Box Set: Knowledge Management

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Knowledge and Content Management is growing in importance within our industry. It is key to helping both internal colleagues and external customers. These videos offer practical knowledge and examples for specialist knowledge management teams, as well as key tips and guidelines for analysts, planners or managers looking to understand more, or curate knowledge in their own area of specialism.  

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Box Set: Power Query - Automating with Excel

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As analysts we can spend a lot of our time on repetitive tasks. Copying and pasting data from one file to another, cleaning and combining our data to produce regular reports. This is not only tedious and time consuming but it also can lead to errors.

Automating this work can free up our time to do more rewarding work and deliver extra value.

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Box Set: Quality & Improvement

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Learn new approaches to driving improvement in your role, alongside other professionals looking to gain new skills or knowledge and make a tangible difference over the coming year. You will:

 - Learn how to put customer experience and quality at the heart of your operating model & culture.
 - Understand how a fit-for-purpose monitoring & prioritisation framework can drive improvement and be able to apply this in your work.
 - Learn how to drive powerful improvement, using data and feedback, for service recovery, process improvement and behavioural change.
 - See what best practice looks like, with insight from practical examples, emerging trends and top tips, seeing how to avoid key pitfalls.

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Box Set: Excel for Analysts

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In this box set we show you the excel formula you need to create effective dashboards. These seven short modules start with the key basic techniques and from these, show how you can soon create complex formula.

 - Basic Mathematical Formulae
 - Structuring Formulae
 - Averages & Ranges
 - Decision Formulae
 - Reference Formulae
 - Dashboard Formulae
 - Pivot Tables

On completion of the box set you can become accredited at a foundation level in our Professional Accreditation Programme by sharing an example of how you have applied these techniques in your own work.

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Box Set: Driving improvement with Data & Insight

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Description: These modules explore the role of insight analysts, and the scientific method, in shaping decisions, generating measurable improvement, and engaging key stakeholders. The modules include practical exercises to help you identify gaps and opportunity in your current approaches.

Box Set: Driving Improvement with MI (Management Information) & Reporting

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MI, reports and dashboards are key to the success of any organisation, but are they as effective as they could be. Are they easy to understand, are they focussing on what matters most and are they driving improvement? In this box set we will provide you with ideas and tools that will help you generate improvement and challenge your thinking around topics such as dashboards, operational playbooks, strategy, and target typology.
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Box Set: Accuracy & Confidence

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To deliver value with our data we need to be confident that we are saying is correct and others need to be confident that the data, insight and forecasts we share with them are accurate. Unfortunately the measures we analyse will be affected by random chance and external and internal factors that can make 100% accuracy unachievable. In this box set we will.
 - Share tools and techniques to allow you to measure the impact of chance and understand the limitations of the data.
 - Discuss the ways that our data can become bias and ways we can manage this
 - Teach you to find the right balance between cost/time and accuracy. And make sure the MI, Insight and Forecasts we share are “good enough”
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Box Set: Planning & Insight in Field Operations

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Learn how to apply the whole planning cycle, from capacity to scheduling & real-time, with the chance to explore further your role and where it fits in.

After this session, you will understand;

 - The key drivers of performance and how to explain them
 - How to set up effective data, reporting & comms plans
 - Crucial elements of a good plan and their impacts, including shrinkage, models & forecasting

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Box Set: Engagement

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The knowledge and ideas we have is of little value if we cannot drive change and improvement. This box set offers you a number of different methods that can improve your engagement with your stakeholders and increase their buy-in. This series includes 5 online learning modules to apply the learning in your own role to become an accredited professional.

You can watch each module on its own without applying for accreditation. You will then be charged for each individual module.

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As a member, you are not on your own but part of a community with others facing many similar challenges. We are here to help you to make a tangible impact in your organisation and show how developing the capability of each specialist professional function is fundamental to your business.

Book for one of our events to experience our exceptional community or get in touch to talk about how we can help you and your teams to be fully effective in adding value to your business. Email advice@theforum.social, call 0333 123 5960 or contact any of The Forum team