Planning for COVID-19

Webinar Series

Planning for COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all of us, the changes and impacts will continue for some time. It’s during times like this when you need you remember that you are part of a community of best practice, so don’t be alone. The Forum is your friendly, safe environment for sharing ideas, top tips and pitfalls to avoid. In this time of uncertainty its important that we collaborate and work together, bringing together ideas and use this time as an opportunity to learn and continue to raise standards. 

 We have designed three short series of learning academy modules, along with a top-tips & pitfalls to avoid for homeworking webinar and then a virtual networking group to help you. Phil Anderson has written an article about some of the considerations you might need to make. 

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Virtual Best Practice Showcase - Continuous Improvement & Effective Change

Tuesday 28th July, 12:00

Hear from OVO Energy & LNER as they talk about Continuous Improvement & Effective Change. They will discuss how to stop burn out, how to bring the whole centre along with the change and how to prioritise projects and show the benefits from each change.

Forecasting: Embrace the Unpredictable

Effective contact centre forecasting is often about eliminating uncertainty but it doesn’t have to be; it can be about deliberately planning for it. By viewing demand as a probability rather than a promise, you have the option to transform ‘residual noise’ from a source of failure into a strategic buffer that stabilises your operations.

Webinar: The Manager's New Toolkit: Closing the Action Gap in the AI Era in Partnership with Centrical

Watch at your own pace

Frontline managers have never had more performance data, and never had less time to act on it. Signals are scattered across QA, WFM, LMS, CRM, and a growing stack of dashboards. Now AI agents are joining the workforce as a new layer to oversee, and the gap between performance insight and performance change is widening fast.

This is the action gap. Closing it is the defining challenge facing frontline leaders this year.

Join Ian Chappell, Director of Consulting, EMEA at Centrical, for a practical follow-up to The Forum's Best Practice Showcase. Ian opens with a look at why most platforms are widening the gap rather than closing it, then previews three Centrical capabilities built for the manager's job in a hybrid human-AI workforce.

Webinar: See the WFM AI Assistant in Action in partnership with Sabio

Tuesday 21st April 2026, 12:00

WFM AI Assistant: Real-Time Intelligence for Smarter Workforce Decisions
Spot problems early. Understand the cause. Fix them immediately.
Managing workforce performance in real time has never been more complex. Volumes spike unexpectedly, AHT drifts, shrinkage creeps up — and by the time daily reports arrive, the damage is already done. The Sabio WFM AI Assistant changes that.

The WFM AI Assistant is a platform-agnostic AI solution that draws real-time data from:
 - Contact centre platforms
 - WFO and analytics platforms
 - HR systems
 - CRM solutions

Sabio's Vendor Spotlight Series - Transform Workforce Planning with Amazon FCS

Wednesday 25th February, 12:00

Join Sabio for a concise, insight-packed webinar on how Amazon Connect Forecasting, Capacity & Scheduling (FCS) is transforming contact-centre planning. Built on Amazon Web Services, FCS uses AI-driven forecasting, intelligent scheduling, and real-time intraday management to help organisations plan with confidence, adapt faster, and improve both service and employee experience.

Webinar: Volatility as the New Normal: Mastering Forecasting, Scheduling & Performance in Modern Call Centres in Partnership with NiCE

Thursday 15th January, 12:00

In today’s dynamic contact centre environment, volatility isn’t an exception—it’s the rule. Fluctuating demand, evolving customer and employee expectations, make traditional planning approaches difficult. This webinar explores why volatility has become the new normal and how organisations can use tools in NICE to mitigate this. 

Join us for an insightful session featuring:

 - Long-Term Forecasting: Techniques to anticipate demand shifts and plan strategically.
 - Intelligent Scheduling: Balancing flexibility and efficiency in a volatile landscape, whilst maintaining Employee Engagement. 
 - Performance Management: Driving engagement and accountability and providing the operation data for identifying tactical and strategic shifts in your business.
 

Technology Showcase: Route 101

Originally Broadcast Thursday 16th October, 12:30

Join Route 101 for a dynamic session exploring how Zendesk can revolutionise back-office operations through intelligent omnichannel routing and email management.Discover how unstructured inboxes can be transformed into structured workflows, enabling smarter task planning, queue categorisation, and actionable analytics. With insights from Route 101’s systems integration experts, this showcase will highlight real-world examples and integrations - bridging the gap between back-office tasks, CCaaS, WFM and QM to unlock new efficiencies. 

Technology Showcase: National Support Network

Originally Broadcast Wednesday 15th October, 12:30

Compassion fatigue and how to help your teams to care without burning out. Every day, our colleagues are expected to show up with empathy for customers in vulnerable circumstances. But what happens when empathy itself becomes exhausting? That’s compassion fatigue. It’s not burnout - yet - but if ignored, it can take us there. Join Helen from the National Support Network in an interactive session. 

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