On-Demand Webinars

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. 

Technology Showcase: Verint

Originally Broadcast Monday 13th October, 12:30

Smarter. Faster. Stronger: How Verint Co-pilot Bots Supercharge Contact Centres. In today’s fast-paced customer experience landscape, efficiency and personalisation are no longer optional- they’re essential. Join us for an exclusive session as we reveal how Verint’s Co-pilot Bots are reshaping contact centres by automating micro-workflows, reducing average handling times, and significantly increasing agent capacity.

Opening Keynote #RaisingStandards

Originally Broadcast Monday 13th October, 10:30

Reset, Redefine & Raise Standards
This keynote launches the week by challenging us to turn intent into action. Explore how learning, reflection and ownership drive personal growth and organisational progress. Discover how tools like the Learning Tracker, Reflective Method, and the Learning Pyramid support continuous improvement. We'll explore how to break out of firefighting, align strategy with daily action, and shift from “being busy” to “making a difference”. It's time to reset habits, redefine success, and commit to doing things differently. Because done will always beat intended.

Webinar: Aligning People and Planning: Smarter Scheduling for Happier Agents in Partnership with Calabrio

In today’s contact centers, scheduling is no longer just about filling shifts, it’s about empowering people, building flexibility, and creating an environment where agents feel engaged and supported. Because when agents are happier, they deliver a better experience for your customers.

That’s precisely what Lego, The AA, and Macmillan Cancer Support - all proud Calabrio customers - are doing. And now, they’re coming together to share how they’re rethinking forecasting and scheduling to create better outcomes for both their agents and their organizations.

In this session, you’ll hear how these leading brands are tackling some of the biggest challenges in workforce management.

Whether you’re a WFM leader or contact centre manager, you’ll walk away with real-world insights and practical ideas to build a smarter, people-first scheduling strategy that leads to happier agents and stronger results.

Bad Habits That Kill Your WFM Strategy

Workforce management has evolved far beyond simple schedule creation.

Modern WFM strategies must balance complex variables including customer expectations, agent wellbeing, operational costs, and regulatory compliance whilst adapting to increasingly volatile demand patterns. Yet despite significant investments in sophisticated forecasting tools and analytics platforms, many contact centres continue to struggle with fundamental execution.

2025 Best Practice Showcase: Rising Stars

In this final session of the 2025 Virtual Best Practice Showcase, we’ll be discussing this year’s Rising Stars – ​​​​​​talented professionals who’ve turned being new into a superpower.

Through these stories we’ll explore how curiosity, rapid learning, and fresh perspective can drive innovation, challenge the status quo, and spark lasting change. From automating processes to reshaping reporting and improving onboarding, these Rising Stars show that bold questions and small actions can create big impact.

This session is a celebration of what happens when new voices lead the way.

2025 Best Practice Showcase: Partnership Principles

The best partnerships don’t just happen, they are built on trust, shared goals, and a commitment to making things work. Join us to hear a range of inspiring and educational stories from our Partnership Awards which cover a wide range of areas including, chatbots, robot workers, employee engagement platforms and technology stack transformations.

2025 Best Practice Showcase: Partnerships

The best partnerships don’t just happen, they are built on trust, shared goals, and a commitment to making things work. Join us to hear a range of inspiring and educational stories from our Partnership Awards which cover all things WFM and WFO,

Webinar: 5 Ways to Transform Workforce Planning Using Interaction Analytics in Partnership with Business Systems

What if your contact centre conversations held the key to more informed forecasts, smarter scheduling, and fewer repeat contacts? 
In this insight-packed webinar, Business Systems’ CX Consultants explore 5 powerful ways interaction analytics is reshaping workforce planning in 2025. You’ll hear from WFM and speech analytics experts on how forward-thinking resource planning leaders can harness conversation insight, using it to improve everything from repeat contacts to agent coaching. 

2025 Best Practice Showcase: The Evolution of Planning

Hear from our finalists on how planning is evolving and raising standards across the business including back office and field.

The Evolution of Planning

Some things will always matter. Businesses will always need to balance customer demand, employee needs, and business goals. Planning will still rely on data, but how that data is used will keep evolving.

Technology will continue to speed things up. AI and automation will take over more of the routine tasks, but that doesn’t mean planners will become less important.