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.

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Partner Article: Majority of UK businesses still ill-equipped for a hybrid working future according to new survey

UK businesses are firmly committed to a flexible working future but the majority are still in the planning stage of their hybrid working projects according to a new industry survey of contact centre industry professionals.

Partner Article: How to set the right service level goal in your call center

What is your contact center service level goal? Odds are, some or all of the groups are at either 80/20, 70/30 or some combination of those. They are extremely common. Do you use average speed of answer (ASA)? If so, is it 20 seconds or 30 seconds? Those are by far the most utilized ASAs. But what do these actually mean and how do you know if you have the right measure?

Webinar: Employee Engagement is more than just a fad in partnership with Genesys

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Tips to make your customer and employee experience strategy more effective.
 
Employee Engagement isn’t just a phase, although the recent cost-of-living crisis may have taken the focus away from Covid, businesses that have embraced Workforce Engagement Management (WEM) continue to realise the positive impact on frontline colleagues, see a reduction in employee and customer churn and greater insight into customer journeys, making the operation efficient but not at the cost to the employee. In this session we will hear real life customer stories and industry insight from The Forum and Genesys.
 
We will discuss and share;
 - The importance on Employee Engagement and the positive benefits it brings – lower attrition, improved performance, lower shrinkage, more profitability, better CX
 - How WEM supports and drives Employee Engagement – native, fully integrated, single pane of glass sharing employee and customer insights reduces technology fatigue for frontline colleagues.
 - Employee Engagement accelerated when Covid hit, new challenges include the current cost-of-living crisis. Organisations, more than ever, need to balance astute commercial decisions on agile technology that continue to offer leading CX and EX.

Partner Article: Occupancy, utilization, productivity: what’s the difference?

These familiar metrics are critical to managing every contact center. And it’s vital to take them into account properly within the workforce management process. The problem is, they all sound very similar and are sometimes confused with one another. Let’s examine them one by one.

Webinar: Resilience 2.0 - In It Together in partnership with Sabio

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Resilience 2.0 - In It Together ... the power of community, identity and control
 - Setting the scene - Agent Experience (AX) in the contact centre today.  The cost of poor agent mental health and the opportunity for change.
 - Resilience as a team sport - the importance of creating an environment where agents can be their best.
 - The power of data in creating this environment - and in driving a systematic approach to wellbeing.
 - Key Takeaways - what can I do today?

Partner Article: Data, AI and automation will never replace humans. Fact

Matt Rumins, European Head of Customer Success at Intradiem, argues that while these technologies can empower humans, they neither can nor should ever replace them. 

Webinar: KPIs and how they drive the narrative of performance in partnership with NICE

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In this session we will look at the relationship between KPIs and how they are influenced by the context that they are measured in. Join Graeme Gabriel, WFO Solutions Consultant from NICE and Phil Anderson Director at The Forum for a lively and interesting discussion touching on;

- KPI Interdependence
- OKR to KPI
- Context is everything
- KPI Matrix

Partner Article: Contact centre recruitment challenges? Focus on productivity first

Keir Woolhouse, Commercial Director at miPerform, writes about how virtually every COO/senior contact centre leader is struggling to meet their KPI/Service Level targets with the resources available to them.

Partner Webinar: Is Automation and AI Taking Over the Call Centre?

Join Alvaria on 18th April at 4:00 PM BST for the webinar, Is Automation and AI Taking Over the Call Centre? Does the “Less Human” Approach Work with Your Customers?  

Strength in numbers the value of community

We build strength when we focus on how we collaborate and who we do this with. When we bring together trusted data, analysis and insight alongside a group of people with a collective desire to improve, we can achieve greatness.

2023 Planning Awards: Planners have interrogated their data to thoroughly understand issues at Hoover Candy

2023 Planning Awards: Planners have interrogated their data to thoroughly understand issues at Hoover Candy
Challenging their software vendors uncovered issues that also impacted other customers. They’ve built relationships with stakeholders, who now trust the information provided. And a new Pathway to Planning offers advisors new career choices. Participants have even become informal planning champions in their teams!
 

2023 Planning Awards: See how data scientists are transforming customer journeys at Legal & General

2023 Planning Awards: See how data scientists are transforming customer journeys at Legal & General
Gathering information form front-line staff has mode possible automated workflows for 27,000 customers per month and led to greatly improved customer journeys. This has increased engagement with the operation. And it’s reduced repeat contacts, increasing the value that advisors can add to each call.
 

2023 Planning Awards: Next generation branch planning at Lloyds Banking Group

2023 Planning Awards: Next generation branch planning at Lloyds Banking Group
Intensive time surveys have come in-house so that branch managers and teams are now assessing information about customer behaviour. This now happens more often over a wider range of branch sizes, improving forecasts and leading to better staffing coverage with increased shrinkages and improved service to customers.

2023 Planning Awards: Extending planning into new areas by building trust and support at SSCL

2023 Planning Awards: Extending planning into new areas by building trust and support at SSCL
The team are feedback driven and overcame change fatigue, with trust scores in the team rising every year. They’ve engaged with operations as they introduce planning into new areas. And they’ve developed the team, to build confidence and extend skills. This has led to promotion and development opportunities for all the analysts.

2023 Planning Awards: Building a better tomorrow for both colleagues and customers at Vitality Health

2023 Planning Awards: Building a better tomorrow for both colleagues and customers at Vitality Health
The team embrace change and keep things very simple and transparent, with great stakeholder communication. Forecasting has improved, with accuracy close to 1%. Real-time optimise systems and reduce non-value contacts. By developing people in the team, they now have a wider view of their impact across the business.
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