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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Brian Jeppesen, Director of Contact Center Operations at Landry’s, has over 30 years of contact center industry experience. Today he is sharing that experience with you. We’re focusing on the customer experience and the return on experience. 1. Return on experience – How easy do we make it for our customers to do business with…
Clayton Drotsky joins us on the latest episode of the Contact Center KPI podcast! With 18 years of contact center leadership experience, Clayton takes a different approach in today’s episode. We’re discussing the big picture and how leaders should approach KPIs! 1. KPIs are usually decided on at the higher levels and then are communicated…
A QA feedback form is simply a list of questions that helps you evaluate whether or not your agents are following their scripts, being professional, and representing your company correctly. While there are a variety of forms you can use, our customers have seen the most success with these three (plus or minus some of…
Dan Smitley is a 20 year workforce management industry expert and knows the difference between focusing on both service level and occupancy can make versus just one of the two KPIs. It provides a baseline for both the customer experience and the agent experience. Without one, you can’t have the other. 1. Service level is the…
Aaron Slavin, a compliance call center expert with over 10 years of experience, joined us on the Contact Center KPI podcast to share his secrets on balancing employee safety with operations. The compliance world is not always the “fun” thing to talk about, but ensuring employees are safe while maintaining a profitable business is important.…
In the recent past, the commitment to enduring work from home setups appeared as an unstoppable trend, something that would last forever. Today we see a mirroring of the widespread belief that artificial intelligence (AI) will imminently make numerous contact center job roles redundant. However, there is a noticeable parallel emerging in the initial enthusiasm…
Eric Sims, CX cowboy at Leading Edge Connections, joins us on the Contact Center KPI Podcast to discuss the highly requested topic – customer retention and churn. He wanted to take a step back and look at the bigger picture when it came to KPIs and that’s customer retention and churn. 1. Your agent’s happiness…
We’re going to dive into the transformative power of agent assist software, but from a different perspective than you’re used to reading. Agent assist has shaped the future of the front lines at contact centers, but most companies are still missing something. But before we jump into that. We need to talk about the distinction…