Contact Center Management

Short-Term Forecasting & Scheduling

Do You Have a Short-Term Game Plan?

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Ensuring scheduling efficiencies while carefully considering the needs of associates is a difficult balancing act even for a sophisticated Workforce Management team.

When executed correctly, effective workforce staffing practices can have a long-term impact on a company’s competitiveness and sustainability.

Flexibility in staffing is crucial to ensure the right number of associates are available to handle customer contacts every half hour of the day, but it is also important to offer associates a consistent schedule. It’s essential to meet associate needs but not be too tight on the number of people scheduled.

Using Data to Optimize Workforce Management

Our Approach

The Northridge Group can help you ensure the right people are in the right place at the right time.

Every Contact Center needs a short-term game plan to operate efficiently. Short-term forecasting and scheduling should focus on daily and half-hourly staffing requirements to ensure the right number of associates are scheduled on any given day and hour to handle incoming contact volumes. It’s essential to plan for absenteeism, meeting and training requirements, offline time, and coaching sessions.

We can help you develop a monthly forecasting cadence that allows you to identify trends quickly and consistently and proactively adjust your hiring and scheduling plans to reflect current insights while developing an operational game plan to minimize risks. Short-term forecasting is essential for ensuring that the right people are in the right place at the right time. Creative scheduling can help balance customer needs with those of employees while improving employee engagement.

Our Solutions

The Northridge Group offers a broad spectrum of solutions that help Contact Centers optimize their forecasting and scheduling. Our services include:

Assessments

Creative scheduling ideas to improve employee engagement

Attainment of service level targets

Balancing efficiency with employee development goals

Design and implementation support for short-term forecasting and scheduling disciplines – including half-hourly optimization and improved accuracy

Using Data to Optimize Workforce Management

Northridge Success

Northridge Helps Large Credit Union Mitigate Risks and Reduce Costs with Data-Driven Workforce Management Models

Northridge was engaged by one of the nation’s largest credit unions to assess their current state customer service staffing and growth strategies to enable them to base future planning decisions on industry best practices. Northridge recommendations leveraged data-driven workforce management planning to mitigate performance risks and reduce the costs associated with contact center understaffing.

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Northridge Perspectives

Additional Contact Center Management Services

Workforce Management & Audit Benchmarking

Workforce Management Assessment

Resource Utilization Strategy

Contact Center Capacity Planning

Real-Time Contact Center Management

Contact Center Attrition

Labor Strategy & Performance Optimization

Training & Coaching Assessment

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It takes strong analytical expertise and some creativity to develop schedules and coverage that meet the needs of the business, customers and associates.  Northridge can help!

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