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Call Centre Workforce Management Training


To "wing it" implies nothing; except that there is a lot of useless data lying around.

The call centre workforce management (WFM) team of an organisation is central to efficient administration, ensuring service level standards are met and productivity is maximised.

  • Effective call centre WFM demands consistent knowledge of what should be done.
  • Efficient call centre WFM entails knowing when and how something should be done.
  • Intelligent call centre WFM requires knowledge of where and why something should be done.

In reality South African call centres often struggle with one (or all) of the following problems:

  • All call centres are heavily reliant on statistics, data and the Principles of Probability to achieve their purpose.
  • Staff numeracy skill levels don’t always meet the challenges of daily call centre operations.
  • Constant yet unpredictable change in the call centre environment demands strong decision making skills based on correct, clear and concise data.

Siyandza Workforce Management Training Course


The Workforce Management Training Course is designed to cover the essentials required to effectively plan within a call centre: utilising historical data, forecasting, calculating workload, determining staffing needs, and creating schedules. The aim of the course is to optimise the efficiency of your call centre workforce management.

As with the other corporate training courses available from Siyandza, the Workforce Management Training course is customised around your company needs and culture. By integrating your environment into our training strategy we are able to align the theory to the practical, ensuring better understanding and end delivery by the learner.


Workforce Management Training Course Modules


Significant Statistics

Workforce Management Training introduces learners to the use of statistics as they are used in everyday life. They will cover the DIKW hierarchy and gain an understanding of the importance of accurate statistics in the call centre. The final session will cover common terms and words used in the science of statistics, as well as some basic mathematical rules.


Pertinent Probability

Learners will discuss the principles underlying Probability, and then through a series of practical exercises discover how to discern the relative importance and relevance of groups of data as found in the call centre.


Excelling at Excel

Workforce Management Training teaches the basics of the Microsoft Excel software program, as this remains the most commonly used software system to store and retrieve data quickly. Should any other software system need to be trained it can be done in this module.


Presentable Pictures

Learners will cover how to read graphs, tables, pie charts etc. They will also cover the principles of designing and “drawing” a graph to carry meaning effectively and efficiently.


Telling the Story

Workforce Management Training covers the fine art of writing a report in this module, teaching learners to compile the statistical data available, so that the numbers, data, graphics and tables all link together to create a single meaningful document.


Return on Investment

This module will focus on the importance of being an agent of efficient change in the call centre, by the timely collection and presentation of data to the call centre workforce management.