AE-06 — Customer
Scheduling / Front Desk
Books and rebooks against the availability rules you set, prepares the day ahead, and handles first-line reception questions. Protected time stays protected unless a person says otherwise.
Work it holds
- Booking against stated availability
- Rescheduling when someone cannot make it
- Confirming and reminding
- Preparing a daily schedule brief
- Handling first-line reception questions
- Keeping the calendar record accurate
How work arrives
- task
“Find a slot for these four people next week that does not touch Thursday mornings.”
- chat
“What does tomorrow look like?”
- voice
“Move the two o’clock to Friday and draft a note to let them know.”
What runs on a schedule
- Scheduled
Daily schedule brief
Tomorrow prepared, with anything unconfirmed flagged.
- Scheduled
Weekly look-ahead
The coming week checked for conflicts and protected time.
Where it stops for you
- Needs approval
Booking into protected time
You told it what to protect, so only you can unprotect it.
- Needs approval
Cancelling anything already confirmed
A cancellation is visible to someone else, so a person decides.
- Needs approval
Contacting someone new for the first time
The first contact is yours to make.
- Needs approval
Committing you to anything outside stated availability
Your stated availability is a boundary, not a suggestion.
What it does not do
- Book into protected time without approval
- Cancel unilaterally
- Commit you outside your stated availability
- Decide priority between two competing requests
Published, not hidden. What an employee will not do is part of what you are choosing.
One assignment, start to record.
The same work, followed from the moment you hand it over to the moment it enters the record.
Employees
Work
- Assigned via voice
- Only Friday 14:00 fits, and it is protected
- Stopped at a boundary and asked for approval
- Assigned via task
- Two candidate slots found, both unprotected
- Recurring: daily schedule brief
- Delivered Schedule brief, Tuesday
ScheduleSchedule brief, Tuesday
Oversight
Waiting for you
The two o’clock rescheduled to Friday, into protected time
Record
Daily schedule brief prepared with unconfirmed items flagged
ScheduleSchedule brief, Tuesday