Recorded Webinar: Top 5 Workforce Management Myths

Webinar on WFM myths and provide insights. 

There are many common misconceptions about WFM.

For example, “Overtime is always bad” or “True labour costs are easy to calculate”.

In this webinar, The Call Center School and injixo explored the top 5 common WFM myths and provided insights that you can take away to improve your WFM practice without disruptive change (and without spending lots of money).

Agenda

• Introductions – Jonty Pearce, Call Centre Helper
• 5 WFM Myths
  – Mythbusters; Penny Reynolds, The Call Center Schoo, Chris Dealy, injixo ,Dean Couchman, injixo

• Your tips

Winning tip – “On quieter days let staff choose to finish early and bank the time back for planned busier periods rather than using overtime, staff love the surprise early finish on nice days.” thanks to Mark.

All the tips from the audience have now been turned into an article 5 quick tips for flexible scheduling.

• Interactive Q&A – Live questions from the audience

Topics to be discussed

• How best to deal with overtime
• Hitting daily service level targets
• Getting the right shrinkage factors
• Calculating the correct staffing requirement
• Obtaining consistency in schedules
• The best ways to use and deploy WFM software
• Top tips from the audience
• Interactive questions and answers

This webinar is brought to you by Call Centre Helper and is sponsored by injixo.

Original Webinar date: May 2013

Author: Jo Robinson