Coaching components in Workforce Optimization for ITSM
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Summary of Coaching Components in Workforce Optimization for ITSM
Workforce Optimization for ITSM enhances service management by enabling structured coaching through defined roles, opportunities, and surveys. When the plugin (snwfocfgitsm) is enabled, it installs essential components that facilitate coaching and training for IT service management professionals.
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Key Features
- Roles: Several roles are defined, including Coaching Admin, Coaching Coach, and Coaching Trainee, each granting specific permissions for managing coaching opportunities and assessments.
- Coaching Opportunities: Triggers coaching actions based on specific incidents such as SLA breaches or prolonged interactions, ensuring timely and relevant coaching.
- Coaching Surveys: Surveys like Phone Quality, Chat Quality, and Walk-up Quality are utilized to assess agent performance following interactions.
- Coaching with Learning: This feature, enabled via the Coaching with Learning plugin, incorporates additional roles and tables for managing learning content and tasks, enhancing the coaching process.
- Learning Task Management: Users can create learning tasks and track course activities, including external content sourced from third-party systems.
Key Outcomes
By utilizing the Workforce Optimization for ITSM, customers can expect improved coaching processes that directly impact agent performance. Key outcomes include:
- Enhanced agent skills through structured learning and assessments.
- Increased efficiency in managing and tracking learning activities.
- Tailored coaching based on specific performance metrics and user activity.
- Improved service delivery through targeted training interventions.
Overall, the integration of coaching components within Workforce Optimization for ITSM allows organizations to foster a culture of continuous improvement in IT service management.
Workforce Optimization for ITSM installs the roles and tables when you enable the Workforce Optimization for ITSM plugin (sn_wfo_cfg_itsm).
Roles
| Role title [name] | Description | Contains roles |
|---|---|---|
| Coaching Admin [sn_coaching.admin] | Grants administrative rights to create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) coaching opportunities, assessments, training, and skills. |
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| Coaching Coach [sn_coaching.coach] | Grants administrative rights to create, read, or update coaching opportunities, assessments, training, and skills. |
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| Coaching Trainee [sn_coaching.trainee] | Grants access to add training, assessments, and skill records. |
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Coaching Opportunities
| This coaching opportunity | Triggers when |
|---|---|
| Coaching on Incident SLA Breach | An SLA is breached. |
| Coaching on interaction long call time | A phone call lasts longer than 10 minutes. |
| Coaching on interaction long chat time | A chat interaction lasts longer than 30 minutes. |
| Coaching on interaction long walk-up time | A walk-up interaction lasts longer than 60 minutes. |
Coaching surveys
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Phone Quality Survey | Survey associated with the Phone Interaction coaching opportunity. The coach assesses the agent using this survey after the agent completes a phone interaction. |
| Chat Quality Survey | Survey associated with the Chat Interaction coaching opportunity. The coach assesses the agent using this survey after the agent completes a chat interaction. |
| Walk-up Quality Survey | Survey associated with the Walk-up Interaction coaching opportunity. The coach assesses the agent using this survey after the agent completes a walk-up interaction. |
Business rule
| Business rule | Table | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Calculate coaching survey score | Assessment Instance [asmt_assessement_instance] | Sets the feedback rating based on the survey score. |
Coaching with Learning
Roles in Coaching with Learning
| Role title [name] | Description | Contains Roles |
|---|---|---|
| Learning admin [sn_lc.learning_admin] | Grants administrative rights to create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) catalog, learning content, roles, and configure learning source. |
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| Learning course catalog admin [sn_lc.learning_course_catalog_admin] | Grants administrative rights to create, read, or update learning course catalogs. | |
| Learning catalog manager [sn_lc.catalog_manager] | Grants administrative rights to create, read, or update learning libraries. |
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| Learning catalog group manager [sn_lc.catalog_group_manager] | Grants administrative rights to create, read, or update learning libraries based on groups. |
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| Learning content writer [sn_lc.content_writer] | Grants read or write access for learning courses. | sn_lc.content_creator |
| Learning content advisor [sn_lc.learning_advisor] | Can assign learning tasks. | |
| Learning task creator [sn_lc.task_creator] | Grants read or write access for learning tasks. |
Tables in Coaching with Learning
| Table | Description |
|---|---|
| Learning External Content [sn_lc_external_content] |
Stores details of external course items that are pulled from third-party systems. |
| Learning User Course Activity [sn_lc_user_course_activity] |
Stores details of learning course activities such as user to whom the course is assigned, status, due date, and name of the learning course. |
| Learning Content [sn_lc_content] |
Stores details of internal learning content such as knowledge articles, videos that are created in ServiceNow. |
| Learning Course Item [sn_lc_course_item] |
Stores details of learning course items, such as the source to which the learning course belongs. |
| Learning Catalog [sn_lc_catalog] |
Stores details of learning catalog items with its course items. |
| Learning Task [sn_lc_learning_task] |
Stores details of learning tasks, such as user to whom the learning task assigned, and due date by when the learning task must be completed. |
| Learning System
Configuration [sn_lc_learning_system_configuration] |
Stores configuration parameters of sources (third-party learning management systems). |
Properties in Coaching with Learning
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| glide.ui.sn_coaching_assessment_activity.fields | Edit coaching assessment activities.
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| sn_coaching.recommended_learning_deprecated | Coaching Recommended Trainings is being deprecated and replaced with the
Learning Tasks and course items from Coaching with Learning.
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| sn_coach.lrn.exclude_weekends_on_learning_task_due_date | Enable property to exclude weekends while setting the due date for learning
tasks.
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| sn_coach_lrn.learning_list_menu_props | Data array properties for the now-list-menu component on the Learning Tasks
tab, coaching module.
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| com.glide.transform.json.max-partial-length | Transforms JSON objects to internal objects and sets the word limit for
records fetched through an API call.
Note: You must Add this system property to set the desired value. When you synchronize third-party learning content with your ServiceNow instance, if the word count of the content being pulled into your instance exceeds the value set for this property, the synchronization will fail. |
| com.snc.process_flow.reporting.serialized.val_size_limit | Specify the number of bytes allowed for runtime values in each step in the
flow execution details. To prevent truncation, set the value to an integer equal
to or less than zero.
Note: When you synchronize third-party learning content with your
ServiceNow instance, if the word count of the content being pulled into your
instance exceeds the value set for this property, the synchronization will
fail. |
| sn_coach_lrn.learningpath_detail_viewmore | Number of course item records on learning path
page that will display in Service Operations Workspace.
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| sn_coach_lrn.sn_lc_enable_discover | Enables the Discover
tab in the Service Operations Workspace learning application.
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| sn_coach_lrn.sn_lc_enable_recommendations | Enables learning path recommendations in the
Service Operations Workspace learning application.
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Surveys in Coaching with Learning
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Phone Quality Survey | Survey associated with the Phone Interaction coaching opportunity. The coach assesses the agent using this survey after the agent completes a phone interaction. |
| Chat Quality Survey | Survey associated with the Chat Interaction coaching opportunity. The coach assesses the agent using this survey after the agent completes a chat interaction. |
| Walk-up Quality Survey | Survey associated with the Walk-up Interaction coaching opportunity. The coach assesses the agent using this survey after the agent completes a walk-up interaction. |
Recommendation grouping
| Recommendation group name | Recommendation provided based on this criteria |
|---|---|
| Based on your work items | The work you’ve done in the past. |
| Based on your team's activity | The activities from the teams to which you belong. |
| Based on your previous courses | Courses you’ve completed in the past. |
| Most popular in your team | Courses that are considered the most popular by your team. |
| New from your library | Courses in your learning library. |
| Most popular in your organization | Courses that are most popular in your organization. |
| New from your catalogs | New courses in your course catalog. |
Deleting course activity records
- In the application filter navigator, enter sys_auto_flush.LIST and press Enter. The Auto Flushes list displays.
- In the Tablename column, select the Learning User Course Activity [sn_lc_user_course_activity] table.
- In the Age in seconds field, change the value to the time you desire to retain the records.