Here we are again - with the last blog article of our Contact Center Forecasting Fundamentals series. As a refresher, part #1 focused on 'how to forecast workload' and part #2 dealt with 'how to master workforce forecasting'. So, now that you’ve forecasted your demand and the supply of agents, you’re ready to start incorporating best practices to closing the staffing gaps. In this final article of the series, we’ll cover techniques for efficiently aligning staff to demand both short and long term. We’ll also look at how to determine the best method to cover staffing needs for a few weeks or several months. To do this, we'll walk you through a simple scenario case step by step. 

In the first blog article of our Contact Center Forecasting Fundamentals series, we covered different methods to forecast workload. That is, in fact, the first step in the process. However, despite workload forecasting, it’s equally important to invest time in forecasting the workforce required to staff against the demand you’ve identified in the first step. Ultimately, the objective is to not determine the mere requirement, but to uncover the gap of actual vs requirement in staffing. The work you do in forecasting the workforce will then drive a more accurate picture of existing staffing gaps and helps you to cover each of them to increase efficiency in Workforce Management.

injixo announces today that it was again voted the Best Workforce Management (WFM) Solution in the Top 10 Contact Centre Software and Technology Awards 2018 by readers of Call Centre Helper.

This article is the first part of an upcoming 3-part series on Contact Center Forecasting Fundamentals with everything you need to know to excel in workforce management. In fact, one of the biggest challenges in contact centers today is getting the forecasting and planning right. If you do that well, the rest is much easier.  Over the next 6 weeks, we’ll have a 3-part series to help you incorporate some of the best techniques in the industry to forecast and plan smarter. We hope these tips and tricks help turn you into a forecasting hero!

The Net Promoter Score (NPS) was introduced in a Harvard Business Review article titled ‘One Number You Need to Grow’. Just like the NPS, the Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS) asks one simple question. For the eNPS, it’s "how likely is it that you would recommend our company as a place of work to a friend or acquaintance?" In this article we'll cover how contact centres can positively influence the answer to that question by using the Workforce Management (WFM) function to upgrade Employee Net Promoter Score sustainably.