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Planning for Peak

Black Friday, Christmas and the seasonal surge — back-planning the people, the hours and the plan B.

The single most common capacity failure is realising in November that you are short for December — when the pipeline can no longer deliver trained people in time. Peak is not just “busier”; it is where the patterns compound and where the plan needs a plan B. This masterclass covers forecasting the peak, back-planning recruitment, flexing capacity, protecting your people, and the surge playbook for when the forecast breaks.

Cover of the ccplanning.net white paper: Planning for Peak

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What’s inside

  • Why peak demand compounds rather than adds
  • Forecasting the peak — last year, adjusted, plus the known step-changes
  • Back-planning the autumn hire for the Christmas peak
  • Flexing capacity — overtime, annualised hours, temps and the part-time layer
  • Protecting service and people through the surge
  • The plan B — a surge-and-escalation playbook
  • The post-peak review that makes next year easier

In the ccPlanning white-paper series. Pair it with Peak season planning, Planning for Christmas, Black Friday & Cyber Monday.