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Raising Standards 2025

Sustaining a learning and improvement momentum that enhances personal and professional life.

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Webinar: Ditch the spreadsheets: modernise your front- and back-office planning in partnership with Anaplan

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Increasing channel complexity, staffing shortages, growing cost pressure, and the rapid rise of AI are pushing front- and back-office operations – especially contact centres – to their limits. Yet, 80% of contact centres still rely on spreadsheets to manage all or part of their workforce capacity planning. 
Join us for this webinar to find out how to transform decades-old processes and discover how peer organisations are transforming their front- and back-office workforce planning to: 
 - Overcome channel complexity and manual processes to enhance efficiency and the customer experience 
 - Improve forecast accuracy and minimise over- and understaffing 
 - Boost collaboration with finance and HR to ensure your workforce plans align with your strategic goals and business demands 

Calabrio Continues to Accelerate AI Innovation with Acquisition of Echo AI

Calabrio has announced the acquisition of Echo AI, a generative AI-native conversation intelligence platform. It is the next strategic step in Calabrio’s commitment to providing contact centres with the latest innovative solutions through near-time conversation insights that enhance customer experiences and operational efficiency.
 
Echo AI’s technology analyses every customer conversation across multiple channels, including calls, tickets, surveys and reviews, and delivers insights that drive customer retention, operational efficiency and growth.
 
“With this acquisition, we’re accelerating our effort to provide a seamless integration of human and AI-driven intelligence, empowering agents to improve efficiency and dramatically improve customer interactions,” says Dave Rhodes, CEO at Calabrio.  

WFM and AI: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Workforce Planning in the Future

As the business landscape continues to evolve, workforce planning is becoming more complex and dynamic thanks to companies across all industries being tasked with managing increasingly global, diverse, and hybrid workforces.

But while the workforce evolves, the methods required for effective workforce planning are still very much in the ‘traditional’ and ‘manual’ phase.

The fact that methods such as data analysis, basic forecasting, and administrative-heavy processes require the need for constant human input means there is a high danger of human mistakes leading to inefficiencies.  

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2025 Best Practice Guide - Raising Standards

To mark our 25-year anniversary we will be doing something different by expanding the Best Practice Guide with different editions throughout the year. This first digital edition was launched alongside our Best Practice Programme in January 25. The second edition includes additional articles and launced at our Customer Strategy & Planning conference on 29th April 25. The third edition will include the case studies from The Forum Awards, with all Innovation & Transformation, Partnerships and Best Practice finalists in time for our Best Practice Showcase in June 25. We have yet to decide if there will be a fourth edition in 2025, or if we will just start the creation of the 2026 Best practice Guide. What is important is that we continue to provide this valuable resource for our community of best practice and demonstrate how we are moving forward.

Why Is Your Cloud Contact Centre Transformation Failing to Deliver?

Customer experience can literally make or break a business, so it’s alarming that a number of UK companies remain tethered to legacy contact centre systems.

But what’s even more concerning is that those who've made the leap to cloud solutions aren't necessarily reaping the promised rewards. 

Webinar: Employee engagement in the Digital Era in partnership with NICE

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As the digital revolution continues driving change into the contact centre, and work life balance is vital to employees, its key that technology develops to support this.
 
In this session Graeme and Colin from NiCE will showcase new and exciting WFM features that have been created to support agent and operational flexibility.
 
This will include;

  • Cognitive load schedule optimizer –create schedules that enable agents to remain focused and engaged.
  • Bring your own schedule – BYOS. Ability for agents to customise completely and guarantee a schedule that balances your work and home life in a post COVID environment.
  • Simulation - Simulate how that heightened awareness and concentration level will drive CSAT and productivity.

Can AI Truly Revolutionise Customer Experience?

Join Huw Jones, Director of Solutions Consulting at Verint, as he delves into the revolutionary impact of AI on employee and customer experience (CX).

This session uncovers the practical steps and strategic insights necessary for integrating AI into CX initiatives. Huw will address the common challenges and highlight the critical success factors, emphasising the importance of aligning AI projects with clear business objectives. Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of how to leverage AI to enhance staff planning and nurturing, handle customer interactions, and drive business growth.

90% of bad Trustpilot reviews trace back to email, paper, and phone

If you want to see a new way to solve this problem, then this session is for you.

Mat Elliott from Nivo will share lessons from working with over 100 financial services companies to digitise customer facing processes, and dive into case studies with brands like CoOp bank, Barclays, and United Trust Bank, where Verified Identity Messaging has transformed NPS from minus figures to +90 and slashed timescales from weeks to hours.

How to Empower Your Employees Through Coaching

Discover how to elevate agent performance and transform customer experience using coaching & real-time guidance. Join Nick Rowe from CallMiner to discover best practices for providing agents with immediate feedback, personalised coaching, and actionable insights to improve customer interactions on the spot.

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