Author: Greg Reffner – CEO & Founder
As one of the very first power users of Conversational Intelligence as an Account Executive, Greg fell in love with how technology enabled his success. As Abstrakt’s leader, his vision and “why” is to help leaders and reps/agents stop being reactive.
Greg has gone from SDR to AE to Director of Sales to VP of Sales, and now CEO in just 8 years.
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Top 5 Compliance Requirements with Tonia Brown
Tonia Brown, VP of Compliance at First Credit Services joins the Contact Center KPI Podcast to talk all about compliance. With a background in first-party, third-party, deby buying, and debt brokering, Tonia has seen a little bit of everything in the compliance world. She gives you five requirements you must have when it comes to…
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Things To Consider When Implementing Real-Time Agent Assist & Automated QA
First, let us begin by breaking down any decision related to the implementation of new technology into three phases. People. Process. Technology. Usually, we’ve found organizations take these in the reverse order. For this post, we are going to focus on the technology piece as it relates to the process that people will go through…
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Dream Outcomes with Adam Saad
Adam Saad, Founder and CTO of Tech Stack Advising, is passionate about dream outcomes. He says, “Goals are great. KPIs are good. But words matter. Dream outcomes should be on a different level.” Let’s dive in and learn all about the difference between standard goals and your dream outcomes. 1. Where to start? Divide and…
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Outbound Contact Rate with Daniel Foppen
Daniel Foppen, Head of Product & Product Marketing for Convoso, has over 20 years of CX experience and joins the Contact Center KPI podcast to share his predictions about outbound contact rate. While other KPIs matter, contact rate should be a priority according to Daniel. If your contact rate continues to decrease, that means you’re…
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Leadership Principles with Mike Cowguill
Mike Cowguill, Director of Consumer Engagement & Strategy at Capio, joins us on the most recent Contact Center KPI podcast episode to dive into leadership principles. Mike shares some valuable lessons he’s learned along the way and we promise they will help you become a better leader. 1. The most valuable thing a leader can…
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QA Scores with Hannah Steiman
Hannah Steiman, President & Chief Strategy Officer at Peak Support, joins up to discuss QA scores and quality as a whole. Quality starts with the best agents and people. But you still need processes and technology to achieve those high scores. 1. Perform a root cause analysis of all unsatisfied customer calls. At Peak Support,…
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Foundation of Company Culture with Peter Ryan
Peter Ryan is the Founder & Chief Analyst at Ryan Strategic Advisor and has over 20 years of experience in the contact center consulting world. Company culture discussions seem to be missing within the contact center community and Peter is here to help you set the foundation to help you get it right. 1. Start with internal…
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3 Parts of Agent Attrition with Berny Miller
With over 20 years of contact center experience, Berny Miller joins us to dive into agent attrition and broke it down into three things. When it comes to agent attrition, there is no one size fits all. But Berny has a solid method that can help you turn things around starting today. 1. Step back…
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AI First Resolution with Jon Ellsworth
Jonathan Ellsworth, Chief Revenue Officer at ApexCX and over 25 years of experience in the call center space, joins us on the latest episode of the Contact Center KPI podcast. And we dove head first into AI with a new KPI called AI First Resolution. 1. Change management is hard. People want to be told…
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Agent Performance with Jordan Fleming
Jordan Fleming, CEO of smrtPhone, joined us on the Contact Center KPI podcast for a phenomenal episode on agent performance and his steps to coaching & training. It’s easy to fall into the trap of training and coaching too quickly. But Jordan says you need to think of coaching as time that is needed if…
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Gig Economy for Contact Centers with Nate Nammour
Nate Nammour, Director of Partnerships at ShyftOff, joined the Contact Center KPI podcast to discuss a gig economy for contact centers and why the traditional W2 employee isn’t the only way. GigCX is a recent trend that utilizes gig-based workers to handle a company’s customer service efforts. This model can be deployed in a variety…
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Agent Attrition with Oliver Catt
Today’s guest is Oliver Catt, Founder of The Cattalyst and we’re diving into agent attrition. A touchy subject in the contact center world. But it’s something that needs to be addressed as the old way of mass hiring, hoping 50% of the agents stay more than 6 months is not working anymore. 1. Understand the…
