SWPP is proud to provide books on various topics around workforce management. All our books are listed on this page and are available in our online store.

Team WFM: Building A Collaborative Process for Contact Center Staffing
By Maggie Klenke

This book is designed to communicate the importance of contact center staffing to the entire enterprise. Every department within the company has a role to play in getting the right number of people in place to handle the customer contacts in a timely and quality manner. And each department will be affected when the center is understaffed. It takes a united effort to achieve the organization’s goals.

Paperback: 67 pages
Dimensions: 5.5″ x 8.5″

Price: $19.95 plus shipping and handling

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A Supervisor’s Guide to Workforce Management
By Penny Reynolds

This book is designed to help contact center supervisors understand the workforce management process and their role in supporting the overall staffing plan, including how to effectively communicate and coach frontline staff on schedule adherence and the importance of individual contributions to service delivery.

Topics include:

  • Introduction to Workforce Management
  • Contact Center Staffing Tradeoffs
  • A Supervisor’s Role in WFM
  • Coaching for Schedule Adherence
  • Communicating Power of One Concepts
  • Power of One Activities

Paperback: 51 pages

Dimensions: 5.5″ x 8.5″

Price: $19.95 plus shipping and handling 

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Hiring and Developing the Workforce Management Team
By Maggie Klenke

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This book is designed to assist in the recruiting, hiring, training, measuring, and management of a workforce management team that contributes to overall enterprise success and the effective management of the contact center.

Topics include:

  • Organizational Structure
  • Developing Hiring Criteria
  • Screening WFM Candidates
  • WFM Training and Development
  • WFM Performance Measures

Paperback: 39 pages
Dimensions: 5.5″ x 8.5″

Price: $19.95 plus shipping and handling

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Workforce Management Essentials:
Principles & Programs for Call Center Staffing
By Penny Reynolds

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This book is designed to help call center workforce management professionals plan the right number of staff and communicate the important principles of staffing to all call center stakeholders.

Topics include:

  • Introduction to Workforce Management
  • Calculating Staff Requirements
  • Understanding Staffing Tradeoffs
  • Creating Staff Schedules
  • Managing Daily Staffing and Service
  • Maximizing Schedule Adherence
  • Communicating Power of One Concepts
  • Power of One Programs and Activities

Paperback: 47 pages
Dimensions: 5.5″ x 8.5″

Price: $19.95 plus shipping and handling 

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Workforce Management Expert Solutions:
Best Practices from SWPP’s Workforce Wizard Series
Second Edition

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Don’t miss the second edition of this great book, which is a compilation of the knowledge of SWPP, the world’s largest membership association for workforce management professionals in the call center. In each SWPP newsletter, there is a column titled Ask the Workforce Wizard. All of the questions in the column come from workforce management professionals, each of them struggling to do the same thing: get the exact right number of “bodies in chairs” for each period of the day. All of the answers come from other workforce management professionals and a few consultants and experts in the field who are kind enough to share their experiences with their colleagues.

The second edition of this book includes even more great workforce management information! You will find many different topics covered in this book that you likely face in your day-to-day struggles with call center staffing, including information on the following:

• Forecasting
• Scheduling
• Managing by the Numbers
• Workforce Management Team Organization
• Workforce Management Automation

This book is one of the many tools provided by SWPP to support workforce planning professionals around the world.

Paperback: 83 pages
Dimensions: 6″ x 9″ x .25″

Price: $19.95 plus shipping and handling 

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Essentials of Call Center Coaching
Supervisory Strategies for Guiding Performance Improvement
By Penny Reynolds

This book is designed to help call center supervisors and quality specialists interact with frontline staff in the most effective way in order to improve workforce performance.

Topics include:

• Introduction to Call Center Coaching
• Steps of Performance Management
• Defining Desired Performance
• Basics of Quality Monitoring
• Diagnosing Performance Problems
• Recognizing Good Performance
• Fundamentals of Coaching
• Common Coaching Mistakes

Paperback: 48 pages
Dimensions: 5.5″ x 8.5″

Price: $19.95 plus shipping and handling 

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