2025 Best Practice Guide
Raising Standards

Here is an example of how a Bespoke Learning Academy could look like for your organisation

You can view all the modules you need below. To see individual Modules in the showcase click on the dropdown at top left of the video. Module descriptions are below the videos.

You can gain Foundation Accreditation by watching at least one of the showcases below and completing this Accreditation Questionnaire. Send a copy of the questionnaire to your manager and accreditation@theforum.social for sign off. More information on accreditation can be found here.


You can download our Best Practice Guides here.

These modules are available to you until "Agreed Date"

Accredited Professionals

Congratulations to the following who have been accredited at Foundation Level
 - Jane Smith
 - Mohamed Ahmed
 - David Green
 - Karen Jones

Academy Launch & Tutorials

We can hold a launch for your academy so everyone understands how to access the modules and what they need to do to gain accreditation. We can also hold regular tutorials to layer in the learning and discuss how it is most appropriate to their role.

Start your learning

Your team get access to modules to help them focus on their learning, hear from other members on why learning is so important to them, how they build time into their diary for development and what they are doing differently because of this.

Your modules

We can add some of our box sets here or curate a set of individual modules that work best for your team.
Module Title
Description of what the module contains and what you will learn from it
 - Point one of specific learning
 - Point two of specific learning
 - Point three of specific learning

Module Title
Description of what the module contains and what you will learn from it
 - Point one of specific learning
 - Point two of specific learning
 - Point three of specific learning

Module Title
Description of what the module contains and what you will learn from it
 - Point one of specific learning
 - Point two of specific learning
 - Point three of specific learning

Individual Modules

You can choose the modules from the full list that are most suitable for your team

Team Structure

Benchmarking key considerations for now and the future to understand best practice and readiness for whatever is next.

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Categories: Library

Operational Support Report from Douglas Jackson

Douglas Jackson have published their Operational Support Report for 2025 offering opinion on what 2025 holds for the Operational Support functions. As part of this, they collate Salary Benchmarking for Senior Planning and Insight roles. We have summarised the key points raised within this report along with the benchmarking salary information and thank Perry Fletcher for sharing this insight with us and our community. Follow the QR Code if you would like to read the report in its entirety.

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Categories: Library

The Challenge of Attrition

Attrition is a huge challenge for many of our members and we see a huge range, with external attrition ranging from 1.1% to 64%. For some, high attrition and rapid turnover drive up costs. They can’t deliver great service. For a few, low attrition can bring its own challenges.

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Categories: Library

Beyond the Benchmark

Understanding the true industry standard for service levels. In this article we will explore the origins of the service level along with the variations that are being used to understand the right metric for your organisation.

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Categories: Library

Shrinkage Benchmarking: understanding how we use time

What do the numbers mean and how can you compare your business against others?

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Categories: Library