2025 Best Practice Guide
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Box Set: Real-time Operational Effectiveness & Readiness

Box Set: Real-time Operational Effectiveness & Readiness

Watch at your own Pace

The Modules

Introduction to Real-Time Effectiveness and Tactical Planning
This module covers:

  • The transition from strict monitoring in contact centres to addressing high turnover and low engagement.
  • Post-pandemic shifts towards valuing rest, growth, and teamwork for better employee investment.
  • Adoption of dynamic playbooks and automation to empower staff, enhance agility, and improve decision-making.

Driving Improvement The Planning Cycle
Learn the role planning plays in implementing your strategic objectives.  Understand the importance of your role and how you can help others.

  • Understand how the strategic objective is implemented into a forecasting, scheduling and real-time plan.
  • Learn about the importance of effective data checkpoints, change governance and hand-overs
  • Play a part in driving continuous improvement and become the nerve-centre of the business

Predictability of Events
This module covers:

  • Forecasting's role in preparing for future uncertainties, highlighting the importance of distinguishing between knowns and unknowns in event predictability.
  • The emphasis on considering a broad spectrum of factors in forecasting, from workload and technology changes to external influences.
  • The introduction of the VUCA framework and predictability matrix as tools to navigate future volatility and uncertainty, enhancing strategic readiness.

Conformance & Adherence
Measuring and managing adherence and conformance effectively is critical, however this is often mis-understood and can drive the wrong behaviour.

This module takes a close look at both measures, how they should be calculated and classic mistakes. Learning outcomes include:

  • Understand how to calculate and report adherence and conformance
  • Define new measures which drive the right behaviour
  • Learn the pit falls to avoid and how to improve performance

Volatility and Flexibility in Real Time
Develop a deeper understanding of your supply and demand intraday profiles to understand how much flexibility you have and need.

  • Understand how to measure the variability of intraday profiles
  • Learn how to create triggers for action to flex your staff
  • Improve your operational readiness to become more effective

Thresholds & Contingencies
Drive decisions and continuous improvement by building effectives RAG status trigger for actions, which engage the operation and improve performance.

  • Learn how to set appropriate thresholds for in-day reporting
  • Understand different ways of engaging the operation
  • Create a learning mechanism to drive continuous improvement

The cost of this mini series including accreditation is great value at £325 + VAT and free for students on our assisted learning pathway.

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