Resource Planning for Team Leaders

Improve the interaction between Resource Planning and Team Leaders and empower your leaders through a greater understanding of how the operation impacts forecasts and schedules.

After this virtual training course Team Leaders will be able to raise awareness in their centres of how they and their team’s actions and behaviours impact the forecasts and schedules.

They will also understand how schedule adherence, correct use of activity codes and managing holiday allocations determine the planning outputs, and how their actions could reduce the pressure of work.

Course Description

This course will highlight the key areas of the planning process that Team Leaders and advisors influence, raising awareness of how their actions determine the planning outputs.

This virtual training course provides information and tools for delegates to educate advisors in your centre on the impact their behaviour has on shift patterns, time off the phone and how busy they are when logged in.

Learning outcomes

An overview of the outputs of Resource Planning
How Advisors and Team Leaders impact these
Appreciation of the influence of Advisor behaviour on planning outputs
How working closely to the plan can give them a better workload balance and work-life balance
Identify what needs to improve in your centre, including data analysis and reporting, as well as advisor awareness and behaviours
Prioritise the issues you have identified

Benefits to your business

Resource planning and workforce management are difficult enough arts to get right even when the information coming from the frontline managers and staff is accurate. If the planning team doesn’t get timely and correct information they cannot make the best use of resources, which costs the business money in lost productivity. Even worse they can under-resource which means customer calls and other interactions don’t get answered quickly enough, leading to dissatisfaction.

Finally, from the point of view of the frontline managers and agents, it’s the resource planning team that delivers them the flexible working schedules they want to maintain acceptable workloads and a good work/life balance. So working together is in everyone’s best interests.

Course content

Operational perspective on:

The possible causes of perceived poor forecasts
The impact of not adhering to schedules and holiday allocations
The importance of using the correct aux/activity codes and how this can impact schedules produced
The benefits of flexibility to advisors
What occupancy is and why it is important to advisors
What Resource Planning does to optimise service levels and advisor work-life balance

About the trainer

Christine Chapman is a seasoned resource planning trainer. Back in 1998 she was promoted at Nationwide Building Society to Resource Planning Manager supporting 450 colleagues in the contact centre. Since then she has gone on to deliver WFM best practice and training projects across the world.

What delegates say

“I was able to further my understanding of resourcing terminology and subjects that I can then overlay into my day to day role. It will help me identify areas to focus on further that has not had enough attention to help our resource planning.”

Upcoming Dates

Pick a date below and fill in the booking form to reserve your place and places for colleagues. We will raise an invoice, so if you need to provide a purchase order number, please do so in the form or email it to info@ccma.org.uk.