Recorded Webinar: An Introduction to Workforce Management Technology

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Written by Jo Robinson

Webinar on workforce management technology.


Agenda

  • Introductions – Jonty Pearce, Editor, Call Centre Helper
  • Introduction to Workforce Management – Stephen Thurston, Director, Business Systems
  • Workforce Management (WFM) Features – David Evans, Analytics Consultant, Business Systems
  • Tips from the audience – Send in your tips during the webinar

Winning tip; “Consider using a group of “flexible” agents who are happy to alter shifts on a regular basis with minimal notice – they can then help to plug the gaps caused by those who prefer the more rigid shifts.” thanks to  Suzanne Aylmer

  • Interactive Q&A – Live questions from the audience

Topics to be discussed

  • Spreadsheets vs workforce management software
  • How workforce management software works
  • Forecasting
  • Planning
  • Scheduling
  • Real-time planning
  • Shift patterns and shift swaps
  • How it connects to your telephone system
  • Cloud-based and on premise
  • How to make the business case

BusSysLogoThis webinar is brought to you by Call Centre Helper and is sponsored by Business Systems.

Original Webinar date: June 2012

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Jo Robinson

Jo Robinson has worked at Call Center Helper since 2007. She started off as News Editor and is currently Operations Manager. Jo quality checks a large number of the articles on Call Centre Helper, along with caring for our customers, managing the eblast programme and sponsorship of our annual benchmarking survey.

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