Upcoming Webinars

These webinars are hosted by The Forum or in association with our partners. Register for the upcoming webinars below. New webinars will be added here as they are added to the calendar.

Catch up with past webinars.

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2018 Innovation Award Winners

The Innovation of the Year 2018 award was won by Homeserve; an organisation centred on people and customers. In achieving commercial success and building community engagement, front-line teams re-connected with the organisation’s purpose, to rebuild trust. Marked out by judges as one of the best entries they’ve ever seen, this is a story everyone can learn from and be inspired by. They were also presented with the Innovation Award for Social Transformation.

We can be heroes

Hero, a mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent endowed with great strength or ability. However, in this instance I’m referring to a person who is admired for having done something very brave or having achieved something great in the world of Contact Centres.

Technology Showcase: Business Systems

Originally broadcast Thursday 1st October 2020, 12:30

Inspired People go above and beyond – so how can you inspire your employees to engage with your planning team to drive impressive ROI? Your employees need to work in a positive environment so they can continue to grow, remained inspired and be more productive. So how can WFM help with this?

Technology Showcase: Calabrio

Originally broadcast Friday 2nd October 2020, 12:30

The State of the Contact Centre: Embracing the Evolving World of Work Join Ed Creasey, Director of Pre-Sales for Calabrio, as we explore how leading contact centres are turning disruption to their advantage. From the rapid increase in importance of the contact centre, to changes in demands from employees and customers, we will be envisioning the contact centre of the future. Join us to discuss tangible ways to embrace this evolving world of work.

Conference Endnote

Originally broadcast Friday 4th December 2020, 09:15

Positive habits for a successful career With so much uncertainty in the world, it is important to take control of our conduct, behaviour and attitude. Developing simple positive habits can make a huge impact on how you learn, share ideas and ultimately transform yourself and our career. This endnote presentation will take a look at the role of professionalism, how to build positive habits and an opportunity to hear from members who have transformed themselves during 2020.

Webinar: Harnessing AI & Automation For Seamless Customer Journeys in partnership with Sabio

Hosted on 18th February 2021

Harnessing AI and automation for your customer journeys can do wonders. But how? Join us as we cover how you can fully harvest the ROI of technology: delivering better service and improving your operational efficiency. 18th February 2021 12.00.

According to Business Insider, everyone’s ‘freaking out’ about AI stealing jobs, while – according to new research – 46% of UK respondents actually still have no idea what AI is all about.

Harnessing AI and automation for your customer journeys can do wonders, offering a customer facing service 24/7, helping agents deliver a better service and improving operational efficiency. But in order to fully harvest the ROI of technology, companies must take the right approach, following a few simple steps.
Join Phil Anderson, Director at The Forum and Stu Dorman from Sabio as we highlight opportunities for automation and AI along the entire customer service journey. We will discuss the common pitfalls to avoid and some practical steps to identify their right place and role.

Keynote: Unlocking Opportunities

Originally broadcast Monday 26th April. 2021, 09:30

Hear from Phil Anderson, Director at The Forum with the conference opening keynote. Understand how disruption can pave the way for new opportunities and how you can become key to unlocking change and development.

DAS Quality Team Awards Case Study 2021

At DAS, Gabi Stedman-Braun and her team rolled out a new quality framework, based on the Nunwood Model for Customer Experience. Scoring and guidelines are focussed on the actions that need to follow and embed a clear understanding of what each element of this customer experience is like for customers. It is common across different business areas and separate questions are allowing a clear focus on compliance, without creating complex combined scores.

2021 Innovation & Transformation Awards: FIS Group

Learning Culture at FIS Global
Career progression is now at the heart of this organisation’s culture, with a passion to drive learning and development. A playbook of next steps is embedded into their operating model, with metrics and review points, putting colleagues at the centre of their strategy for customer service.

2021 Quality & Improvement Awards: Susan Drape & The AA Quality Team

At The AA, Susan Drape-Comyn has developed her team of ‘check the checkers’ as a centre of expertise, as coaches within the business. They rose to the challenge of lockdown, early on, establishing ways in which virtual engagement and coaching offer new, if unexpected, benefit in time and impact. They’ve also seen a real shift in consistency of support across the different operations, key to their role, and explored bespoke calibration approaches focussed on need. All told, there’s been a marked boost in morale and engagement.

Planning For Covid Series 3: What are the top challenges organisations face right now?

Hosted by Phil Anderson

The Planning for Covid-19 series 3 will again share real-life examples of the challenges along with practical ideas to limit the impact and even prevent these from happening.
 - Understand the current top challenges from across the industry.
 - Hear how different organisations are approaching these with new and innovating ideas.

Standards and Business Accreditation

The Standards programme is designed as a journey of improvement leading towards accreditation for Planning, Insight and Quality teams and functions. Whether you are at the start of your journey, wanting to understand the fundamentals of best practice, or an established team wanting to become best-in-class this programme is you.

Planning For Covid Series 3 - Understanding our customer

26th October 2021, 12pm

Understanding our customer. Historical seasonality and demand profiles have changed making forecasting harder than ever. How can we identify short-term changes to long-term trends? 
 - Understand the current top challenges from across the industry.
 - Hear how different organisations are approaching these with new and innovating ideas.

Keynote: Unlocking Opportunities

Originally broadcast Monday 1st November 2021, 09:30

How has our thinking changed during 2021? Phil Anderson and Dave Vernon, Directors at The Forum will explore the ever-changing business environment and the different approaches being taken to drive forward with improvements.

Conference Endnote

Originally broadcast Friday 5th November 2021, 09:30

Learn how to invest your time wisely to help you spend time on the things that matter the most. Doing something different on a daily basis.

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