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Advanced Workforce Management

Advanced WFM course
Course Description

Want to expand your knowledge of Workforce Management beyond the basics?

ICMI’s Advanced Workforce Management course looks at moving your skills to the next level by strategically and tactically considering drawing conclusions from trend analysis, special scenarios that make scheduling and forecasting more difficult, the best ways to improve your planning processes, the role of metrics in driving behavior, and effectively partnering and communicating with operations. We will also consider scheduling and forecasting for non-phone workload. You don’t need to have been through boot camp to attend this course, but you do need to know more about Workforce Management than just the basics.



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Course Outline

Introduction

Gathering WFM issues from participants to incorporate into course topics or handle at the end of the course.


Module 1: Trend Analysis

  • Steps for detecting and analyzing trends
  • Trend analysis tips
  • Trends to look for
  • 6 step process for holiday planning
  • Holiday scheduling policy


Module 2: Planning Processes

  • Shift selection
  • Vacation bidding
  • Determining time-off alotments
  • Time-of requests
  • Ranking of agents
  • Shift differential


Module 3: Special Situations

  • Carryover forecasting
  • 24/7 scheduling
  • Disaster recovery and business continuity
  • Non-phone workloads


Module 4: Performance Measures

  • Schedule efficiency
  • Forecast accuracy


Module 5: Other Processes

  • Effective planning and communication meetings
  • Advanced long-term planning
  • Participant issues that have not been covered


Conclusions


Who Should Attend
  • Workforce Management Analysts
  • Workforce Managers and Directors
  • Graduates of Workforce Management Bootcamp who want to extend their learning

What You Will Learn
  • Conducting and drawing conclusions from trend analysis
  • How to schedule and forecast a holiday process
  • Handling special situations that cause issues
  • Forecasting and scheduling non-phone workload
  • Better ways to determine time-off allotments
  • Using vacation and schedule bids to improve planning processes
  • Metrics that drive bad behavior and how to avoid them
  • What forecast accuracy is all about and what to do with it.
  • How to measure schedule efficiency
  • Selling the staffing plan
  • Effectively communicating and partnering with operations

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Course Duration: 2 Days

This is a 2 day instructor-led course delivered by ICMI Certified Associates. If you have questions about which course is right for you, an ICMI Account Manager is available to help. Complete the Request Information form to speak with your Account Manager.

 

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