Laura Krajewski September 5, 2021 As a hiring manager, there’s a lot riding on your ability to have a productive interview and find the right agents and supervisors for your call center. If taken too lightly, interviews can end up being a formality that wastes time and doesn’t help you find the right person for … Continue reading Asking the Right Questions: 5 Questions to Use in Your Next Call Center Interview
Laura Krajewski June 28, 2021 Designing an effective training program in a call center is no easy task. Sure, your onboarding may be sufficient for new hires. But as those new hires become seasoned employees, their initial training fades, and you need to supplement it with new knowledge. Why? Well-trained call center agents are essential … Continue reading 4 Steps to Build a Call Center Training Program that Works
Veronica Krieg May 17, 2021 When contact centers turned on disaster recovery mode last year, it was next to impossible to send agents home with a clear strategy for helping customers. Customer demands heightened as anxiety engulfed the population. And agent attention was split between a home filled with pets, kids, spouses, roommates and everything … Continue reading How to Fix Your Top Work From Home Call Center Challenges (Advice from 16 CX Experts)
Veronica Krieg October 12, 2020 Almost 80% of your agents show up to work without knowing what’s expected of them. Too many business leaders see the contact center as a cost center, so developing and investing in agent performance falls off the radar. The less money you spend in the contact center, and the more … Continue reading How Managing and Coaching to Agent Performance Metrics Amplifies Your Call Center’s ROI
Suzanna Colberg — May 6, 2020 No company wants its worst performers to stick around for a long time. However, for many call centers, this “reverse attrition” problem is exactly what happens. Employees who execute interviews beautifully leave you with the kind of buyer’s remorse even your most bitter customers could only dream about. Sometimes … Continue reading Curb Call Center Attrition by with Dealing Poor Performers
Learn how A.I. in call analytics can help you predict caller intent, measure caller tone, and drive more revenue from inbound calls. Marc Sirkin on April 16, 2020 Marketers are using call analytics platforms to identify the rich data and consumer insights hidden in the growing volume of inbound calls. Call analytics platforms are … Continue reading Are you effectively monetizing, measuring and maximizing your inbound call volume?
Leonard Callejo — April 14, 2020 When you have a cut or scrape, you ask for a Band-Aid. You don’t ask for an “adhesive bandage” to cover a wound. Band-Aid is a catchall term that we all use, even if we aren’t asking for that particular brand of adhesive bandage. In the team collaboration tools … Continue reading 4 Ways to Evolve Beyond Conference Call Collaboration
Laura Krajewski — March 20, 2020 In just the last few days, the way we work as a nation has had to shift dramatically. Before this week, I hadn’t even heard of social distancing. But now, schools closing, large events canceled, and entire companies moving to remote work, everyone has felt the effects of COVID-19 … Continue reading Prepping your Team for Unique and Complicated Workplace Scenarios: How to Orchestrate a Call Center Business Continuity Plan
Laura Krajewski — March 15, 2020 Stop me if you’ve heard this story before: You start your job as a new customer service agent at your company. You go through training, get coached to use the company software, and learn to de-escalate situations with angry customers. You learn the products, services, and you know how … Continue reading The Anatomy of a Successful Call Center: A How-To Guide for Managing a Call Center Team Full of Stellar Agents
Veronica Krieg — March 9, 2020 Have you ever heard of Flashbulb memory? Flashbulb memory is our tendency, as humans, to only remember experiences where our emotions run high. The thrilling time we went skydiving. The upset we felt when we didn’t get that promotion. Or, the infuriating call we had with a red-hot customer … Continue reading Call Center Improvement Strategies that Work: 4 Ways to Offer Your Agents Instant Feedback and Finally Deliver on Your Customer Experience Promises
