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How Investing Time in Your Team Drives Operational Success
Call center and operations leaders are often tasked with optimizing efficiency and hitting KPIs, but one critical factor is frequently underestimated: the power of time invested in your team. Research from Gallup indicates that organizations with highly engaged teams are 21% more profitable than their disengaged counterparts, underscoring the significant impact of leadership involvement on…
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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Technology Adoption
Adopting new technology can revolutionize your business, boosting efficiency, enhancing customer experience, and solidifying your competitive edge. However, when poorly executed, technology implementation can lead to wasted resources, frustrated teams, and unmet expectations. Industries such as call centers, financial institutions, debt collections, and insurance companies are particularly dependent on technology to handle high customer volumes,…
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Solving Agent Attrition: Practical Strategies for the Modern Company
Agent attrition is a pervasive challenge in the contact center industry, with turnover rates reaching as high as 30-45% annually in some areas. While many organizations view this as an unavoidable aspect of doing business, high attrition’s financial and operational repercussions are far too significant to ignore. This post explores the staggering costs associated with…
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Scaling Your QA Process Without Adding Overhead
If you’re managing quality assurance (QA) in any industry, you’re probably feeling the pressure. Compliance regulations are only getting stricter, customer expectations are rising, and interaction volumes are growing. Meanwhile, your QA resources remain the same, or worse, you’re being asked to do “more with less”. Sound familiar? So how do you scale your QA…
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Top Leadership Mistakes to Avoid: Insights for Contact Center Leaders
Leadership is as much about self-awareness as it is about guiding others. For instance, consider a leader who regularly seeks feedback from their team and adapts their approach based on that input. This fosters trust and sets the stage for a collaborative environment. However, even the best leaders can fall into traps that hinder team…
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The Human Side of Call Centers
When you think about call centers, you might imagine rows of agents answering calls, navigating software, and chasing numbers like key performance indicators (KPIs) or service level agreements (SLAs). While metrics are essential for measuring efficiency, they don’t capture the heart of what truly drives call center success: people. Call centers are fundamentally a people…
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The Three M’s of Agent Retention
Agent retention is one of the most critical challenges facing companies today, particularly in high-turnover roles like customer service, sales, and support. Losing agents is costly. Not only in terms of recruitment and training but also in lost productivity and institutional knowledge. To combat this, organizations need a strategic framework to foster loyalty and engagement…
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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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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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20 Call Center Cheat Codes
It’s not always possible to be at the top of your game 100% of the time. That’s what cheat codes are for. Just like in your favorite video game, cheat codes give you life! But remember, you can’t use all of them at once. We suggest focusing on one or two at a time. Once…
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