Episodios

  • WFM Analytics: Your Competitive Edge - WFM Analytics in Outbound Sales
    May 23 2025

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    If you tuned into our last episode where we explored "Applying WFM in Outbound Contact Centres," then you're going to love today’s deep dive — because now we're taking it one step further: what if we could measure and prove the real financial gains of smart WFM Analytics?
    In this episode I cover:
    1: The Productivity Sweet Spot.
    2: The Myth of Headcount Cuts.
    3: R58,000 Without Spending a Cent.
    4: WFM Analytics: Your Competitive Edge.

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    3 m
  • WFM as a Strategic Weapon - Service Levels: Beyond the basics
    May 15 2025

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    Managing Service Level is like steering a car — you can't wait until after the crash to turn. In this episode I cover:
    1: Forecasting vs Guessing
    2: Real-Time Agility
    3: Excuses vs Reasons
    4: WFM as a Strategic Weapon

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    4 m
  • Why Most Outbound WFM Plans Fail - Getting WFM to work in Outbound Sales Teams
    May 8 2025

    If you’re using agent call volumes to forecast outbound workload… you’re doing it wrong.
    What you're really forecasting is past 'agent behaviour' and not future 'business demand'.
    And that’s why your schedules don’t work—and your team ignores them.
    In this episode I cover:
    1: The Forecasting Trap
    2: Why Most Outbound WFM Plans Fail
    3: WFM Isn’t Just Scheduling
    4: One Simple Change = 38 Extra Sales a Day
    5: You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Understand

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    4 m
  • Absence Insights from WFM
    Mar 25 2025

    Can WFM provide more usable insights into absence trends?

    Yes, provided there is collaboration with HR. Using the reason codes for the absence, together with the numbers, the WFM team can drill down further into better understanding the fluctuations in the absence percentage.

    Instead of planning for a flat shrinkage, with a flat absence percent, here are some ways we can be creative with the data from HR, to improve how WFM supports the business in controlling this metric.

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    11 m
  • Trust me and you will trust Workforce Management
    Mar 7 2025

    Hi there!

    In this episode I spend a few minutes talking about who I am and where I’ve been for the past almost 20 years so that you can get to know me better and why my WFM content is created in this way.

    Its just a quick into to who I am as a person and where I’ve worked and my experience to build trust between us.

    Please feel free to reach out and connect on LinkedIn!

    Thanks.


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    9 m
  • The Mars Outpost - Series Breakdown
    Mar 4 2025

    In this breakdown of the series ‘The Mars Outpost’, I do a walkthrough of the entire series and relate them back to the real world.

    This episode highlights the importance of the concepts of WFM and how essential it is, to have some or all of the concepts of WFM working in your business to identify risks and use them to plan for similar events that could happen in the future.

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    35 m
  • The Mars Outpost - Journal Entry 6
    Mar 1 2025

    The last transmission recording of the specific set-up challenges faced by the WFM team on Mars.


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    2 m
  • The Mars Outpost - Journal Entry 5
    Feb 28 2025

    The WFM didn’t just do the same thing over again expecting a different result, they analysed their data which included the decisions and impacts of those decisions to improve their planning for the second arrival.

    With the arrival of the second group, the workforce has grown but now has a mix of skilled and unskilled resources. The question of efficiency and effectiveness comes into play - it isn’t one or the other, our WFM used shrinkage and speed to production concepts to overcome this challenge.


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    4 m
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