On-Demand Webinars

Virtual Best Practice Showcase – Planning

Join us for a practical showcase featuring Planning Leaders and teams recognised through our Awards Programme. With award-winning examples from eBay and Nationwide, we'll explore how Planning is evolving beyond traditional forecasting and scheduling to become a strategic driver of operational performance. Our speakers will share the challenges they faced, lessons they learned, and how their work has continued to evolve since their award submissions.

Virtual Best Practice Showcase - Continuous Improvement & Effective Change

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

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.

Partnerships

Technology is the key enabler for success in our industry and it is key that relationships between end users and technology providers continue to improve, so raising standards in customer operations. 
NCFE x SVL were totally aligned in the requirements from a new CCaaS implementation and how this delivered a seamless journey to delivery of a truly omni channel platform. 
NatWest wanted to offer more than just the minimum for their vulnerable customers, so worked with National Support Network to offer trusted support that went beyond just banking.

Awards Panel Discussion

Hear best practice from a panel of individual and team award winners across Planning, Insight and Learning/Knowledge. Featuring SSCL, LNER, OVO Energy and HGS.

Shaun Jardine, SSCL

Shaun Jardine, Planning Manager of the Year, SSCL describes how he has rebuilt the foundations of planning, introducing new techniques, tools and thinking to build trust ensuring Planning have a seat at the Leadership table

BT Group

BT Group explain how they connected governance, planning, technology, and leadership into a joined-up operating model. 

Innovation of the Year, NFU Mutual

Innovation of the Year Award winner, NFU Mutual, tell their award winning story of how they connected governance, planning, technology, and leadership into a joined-up operating model that demonstrates how to deliver strategic transformation at enterprise scale. 

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

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

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

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.