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The Most Underrated Negotiation Tool in Collections
Most agencies believe negotiation strength comes from sharper rebuttals. Better scripts. Stronger objection handling. More aggressive payment asks. But if negotiation were really about talking, your highest talk-time agents would consistently collect the most money. They don’t. The most underrated negotiation tool in collections isn’t persuasion. It’s precision listening. Structured, measured, and coached. And most
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The Technology Divide: Why Some Industries Are Pulling Ahead
You can move money between banks in seconds. You can spin up a new software integration before your coffee cools. You can track a delivery in real time, down to the moment it turns onto your street. And yet, if you try to get your medical records, you might wait weeks. If you ask for
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How to Teach Coachability and Curiosity
You’ve just hired the dream candidate – smart, motivated, curious (or so the interviews suggested). They crushed onboarding, picked up tools fast, and seemed hungry to learn. Then three months in, something shifts. Feedback makes them defensive. New ideas get brushed off. When change comes, they freeze or retreat into silence. You start to wonder…
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10 Questions to Uncover What’s Really Holding an Agent Back
If your one-on-ones sound more like polite small talk than actual coaching… you’re not alone. Supervisor: “How’s everything going?” Agent: “Good.” Supervisor: “Okay, keep it up!” And just like that, another coaching opportunity disappears into the ether. The truth is, most underperformance isn’t due to laziness or lack of willpower. It’s often stress, confusion, burnout,
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6 Tips To Mastering Call Center Management
Call center managers are not just leaders, they are the backbone of keeping agents happy while trying to maintain high levels of customer satisfaction. Leading a call center team is no easy task, but effective management is crucial. To excel in this role, managers need a combination of leadership skills, problem-solving ability, and an understanding
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What You’re Missing When It Comes To Call Coaching Techniques
In the fast-paced world of customer service and sales teams, every phone call is an opportunity to make an impression on customers and prospects. One of the ways to improve these conversations is to take a look behind the scenes. AKA… what is happening with your call coaching sessions? An even better question is, “What
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Call Coaching Template for High-Performing 1:1s
Agent: Choose 3 to 6 calls that they want to review in the coaching session These calls will be sent to the manager the day BEFORE the session Manager: Keep a running doc of agenda items throughout the week and share it with your agent. Review the calls from the agent before the session BUT
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Contact Center Coaching Guide
Every team, whether it’s a professional sports team or high school mathletes, everyone has a “coach”. Contact centers are no different. The coach at a contact center is generally the supervisor or manager of the group. However, most people don’t think of themselves as a “coach”. This is why we created this contact center coaching
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Is Our Definition of Agent Coaching Broken?
As we begin exploring these differences, I think the better question would be “What is coaching?” One must first have a basic understanding of what coaching is before applying it to the art and science of the contact center world. I can personally think back throughout my professional career, my time playing sports, and my
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What Sales Coaching And A Dinner Date Have In Common
Here is what a dinner date with four personality types and sales coaching software have in common. Imagine you are a waiter at a high-end steak house in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Let’s say it is Kevin Rathbun Steak. The hostess just sat a group of four in your section. They look like young, successful professionals
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14 Secrets that Abstrakt has Revealed
GET THE 2023 MARKET STUDY Over the past six months, we’ve been able to clearly see a change in trends (which shouldn’t be a surprise). But instead of just telling you there has been a change, we’re going to reveal what words and phrases will get you results in today’s environment. 1. Integrations are coming
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Everything you need to know about real-time call coaching software
You’ve stumbled across this article for one of three reasons (at least we’re 90% sure)… No matter which group you fall into, hopefully, this article helps answer your questions. If not, feel free to chat or email us at sales@abstrakt.ai. Real-time call coaching software helps your team in real-time, just like a co-pilot with unlimited
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