Are you endlessly trying to get agents to improve their customer service? There might be a culprit you’ve never considered. Discover hidden and counterintuitive obstacles that hurt agent performance. Are you endlessly trying to get agents to improve their ...
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Does your contact center struggle with getting agents floor ready – you won’t want to miss this episode! Ever have a bad experience with a contact center agent? Why do you think this happened? One answer may be poor training or poor coaching – either way ...
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If you understand the science and principles of Engagement, Gamification, and Incentives, you have the power to change an organization. You can improve morale, increase tenure, see metric improvements of up to 40%, all of which promotes a healthy organization ...
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Are you a member of a contact center industry association? If not, are you thinking about it? This episode of CallTalk will tell you what to look for and how to get the most from your membership.Contact center industry associations can contribute a lot to the ...
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"Conversational Virtual Agent (sometimes known as chatbots) are all the rage. There has been an explosion, with easily accessed and low-priced conversational frameworks from the likes of Amazon and Google. However, while it’s easy to put together a bad ...
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Technology is impacting every aspect of our lives from home shopping, home deliveries, video streaming, voice activated home hubs, to kids paying to watch their favorite gamers … well play Video Games. Technology developments in the Customer Care world are ...
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The Call Center industry can be full of drama that can be a poison to the customer experience, employee satisfaction, agent retention and your overall center performance. In this episode, we will learn how to identify different types of drama and discuss ...
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Has the collections industry taken a few black eyes through the years? Yet, your specific company was not at fault? Does your company get “stereotyped” unfairly Our guest today, owns a collection agency that is intent on changing the way collection ...
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Contact centers are under increasing pressure to become profit centers and leverage new channels of engaging customers. Live chat is growing in use--especially among millennial customers--and chat communications can be optimized using machine learning in ...
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Workforce Management is both science and art. Hear the voice of experience as Rick Lee, Workforce Manager for Convergys, is interviewed by host Bruce Belfiore on his WFM best practices tips. Practitioners who are looking for a deeper level of WFM insight ...
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Nowadays you hear a lot of companies who are doing ‘something’ with Automation (RPA) or Artificial Intelligence (AI), however, what is the real story behind it, is it truly as easy as the vendors pitch it or does it require effort?
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Information feedback is the lifeblood of continuous improvement for contact centers. However, most centers don't employ a structured approach to originating, processing and acting on feedback. In this session, guest Pam Wilson explains the 4 stages required ...
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Join Bruce Belfiore and Mike Dershowitz, CEO and Managing Director of Rethink Staffing, as they discuss a novel approach to managing call centers for outperforming results and creating social and economic impact at the same time. Mike shares his philosophy ...
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Legal cannabis is becoming a reality, in one form or another, across the country. It brings with it numerous issues, both legal and practical, which managers should know about (there's no hiding from this one!). Christine Cunneen is an expert and speaker on ...
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How contact centers can leverage agent knowledge to improve the products they support. Design for improved Customer Experience while sharing valuable input with other departments: marketing, product development and sales. Information gathering, analysis and ...
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Join CallTalk host Bruce Belfiore as he talks with author and speaker Mitchell Levy about ways to bring thought leadership into your life and your organization. Hear the tips he shared with his Ted Talk audience about listening, hearing, connecting and ...
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Lets face it, finding the right work-life balance in a contact center isn't easy. It takes guts to make changes in your center that allow agents to balance their personal life with the company's needs. Unfortunately for contact centers, ignoring an agent's ...
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Join Bruce Belfiore for a timely interview with Bob Kobek, President of Mobius Vendor Partners and CustomerCount. Bob will address items of interest to both outbound centers and inbound centers, focusing on ways to get to the prize of customer loyalty by ...
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Maureen Lewandowski of Delta Dental of Wisconsin shares tips on how to get buy-in from your people for major initiatives. She illustrates the roles of well-structured processes and carefully chosen technologies to empower and incentivize employees to improve ...
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Change surrounds contact center managers: mergers, systems changes, organizational changes are all high-impact events that present managers with huge challenges. Join us for the final CallTalk episode of 2017 as we explore these issues with our Change ...
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Excellent customer service requires excellent training - - and a culture that supports learning and doing. You need to articulate the results you hope to obtain in order to determine the training you need.
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Huddles can be the team’s daily opportunity to communicate and plan. A Huddle Board is the team's tool to record important information and memorialize decisions and goals. If there is a special focus on a particular metric or initiative, the Huddle Board can ...
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Contact center managers know that a strong, positive, can-do culture will improve their metrics and make their customers satisfied. However, culture can seem like a complex, difficult thing to turn around, to build, and to maintain. There are some important ...
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What do Google, Netflix, Apple, Uber and Amazon have in common other than rapid growth and amazing profits? They all are considered among the most innovative companies, perpetually seek ingenious ways to delight their customers. Remarkable service for today’s ...
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Agents are the heartbeat of every Call Center and are every manager's greatest challenge. We will explore how to optimize agent engagement and get the viewpoint of a long time Call Center Pro, Michael J. Tamer. Guest Speaker: Michael J. Tamer, CEO and ...
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Getting it right, right from the start! Hear about:
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Joe LaTorre, Director of Innovation at Employment Technologies, will talk with host Bruce Belfiore about emerging practices that every contact center manager should know about. Focus will be on giving you take-aways that will make your recruiting and ...
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Have you considered hiring disabled workers for your at-home or brick-and-mortar contact center operations? Bruce Belfiore interviews Michael Sanders on his efforts, with the non-profit NTI, to help Americans with Disabilities and Disabled Veterans back into ...
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Air Date: Friday, February 17, 2017 - 10AM/PT Host: Bruce Belfiore, CEO & Senior Research Analyst, BenchmarkPortal Guest Speaker: Mark Coudray, DScisive Season: 8, Episode Number: 2
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A thoughtful review of employee rewards and recognition programs will provide you with ideas for improving your operation. These programs do not have to be expensive - many motivational techniques cost little or nothing. Applying latest best practices to your ...
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Your own kids, the team you coach and the people you lead at work. How much do you reel them in by rules, and how much do you let them run on trust? It’s often a struggle to figure out how to get the balance right, and many managers have been hurt by ...
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Lots of talk about employee engagement, lots of talk about inclusion in decision making.
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Agent turnover is one of the costliest issues for Contact Centers and when the agent is heading out the door, it’s usually too late to save the agent or the day.
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Intentional Coaching: Everybody wins when you give Agents what they want. "Intentional Coaching is an innovative coaching approach in which supervisors are out on the floor with their agents, reinforcing what’s right and helping them go beyond fast, efficient ...
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Do Happy Leaders Lead Better? In this special episode of CallTalk, our guest argues that, in today's business organizations, great leaders usually are truly happy leaders. Does this reflect you and your contact center?
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In this episode, you will learn “Five Keys To Call Center Consolidation”. Consolidation is an important and complex process that needs to be approached and executed carefully. It is crucial that you fully consider the impacts on your operations, including on ...
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Knowledge Management tools and resources are the brain of your contact center, providing your agents with the information they need right when they need it…when developed effectively and working properly. The effectiveness of your Knowledge Management tools ...
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Leadership Perspectives: Have you ever wondered why some people are more difficult to work with than others? No matter how hard you try, it seems impossible to see eye to eye with the other person. Believe it or not, there is a quick way to figure out why the ...
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How can an organization increase the customer satisfaction by providing a positive experience and reducing the customer’s effort? Is your organization thinking of, or looking into, more effective and less expensive says of interacting with customers?
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There have been astounding changes to the outbound calling process over the years. If your company uses predictive outbound dialing or your agents are spending time performing outbound calls, you need to hear about recent federal and state changes.
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Lately, Bill has begun to detect some striking changes emerging in the contact center industry. Something that has always mystified Bill Durr is the absence of change in the industry. He sees that contact centers really don’t want to buy software, they want ...
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Almost 70% of Fortune 1000 companies have Big Data initiatives. But even smaller companies are using Big Data techniques to find competitive advantages. Learn how Big Data is transforming call center operations, and why your company should be planning Big ...
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The inbound sales process is changing. In the old days, the consumer would do about 1/3 of the sales process in advance of reaching out to the call center; now this fraction has more than doubled in many cases – with important implications for sales ...
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Leaders play a vital role in the call center, they are an important reason why people stay or leave, engage or not engage. Research shows the relationship agents have with their lead, supervisor or direct boss are key. Have your leaders gone into their ...
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Employee engagement and retention are core talent management building blocks. Staying abreast of key trends and new approaches is important for HR professionals across disciplines. TalentKeepers’ annual Employee Engagement and Retention Trends Survey is the ...
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Survey Design Surveys are an important tool for measuring your customers’ and agents’ satisfaction along with identifying areas needing improvement. While a survey seems deceptively simple — it’s just a bunch of questions — getting good, valid data for ...
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Leveraging Industry Benchmarks to Build a Business Case for a Technology Investment. Technology is a crucial component of a good contact center. Drew Wright will share his experiences as a problem solver and business case builder. He will shed light on how ...
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A Success Formula – How to Coach and Develop Discretionary Effort Learn how each employee is unique and valuable when properly mentored. As a coach use this knowledge to guide them through important transformations toward top performance.
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Customers are demanding more efficient and effective service from Contact Centers throughout all industries. Host Bruce Belfiore chats with veteran manager Walt Sweeney about a Lean Six Sigma approach to Contact Center process improvement that Contact Center ...
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Many of us describe our strong culture and its impact on our organization as a “secret sauce”. What are some factors that can serve a barriers to creating a strong and healthy culture?”
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Listen to host Bruce Belfiore interview Dayne Petersen in an illuminating discussion on Quality Assurance best practices.
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Cost of caller identification: Even though it’s been around for decades, caller ID continues to pose problems for your contact center. Today, we’ll be talking about why those problems are actually getting worse, and discuss some ways your contact centers can ...
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After another amazing Call Center Campus event in Las Vegas this November 2014, Bruce Belfiore and Amy Novak review some of the highlights from the event. Listen as they review best practices shared in our Round Tables and Panel Discussions, as well as ...
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Listen now on demand to our latest CallTalk Show on Quality Transformation. Toni Roberts, Director of Delta Dental of Michigan, will share tips on breathing new life into quality at your center. This includes changing the perception of quality ownership by ...
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Listen now on demand to our latest CallTalk Show on Call Center Law. Adam Losey, Esq., an attorney with Foley & Lardner, will share tips on monitoring communications as well as other legal issues important to contact centers. As privacy counsel for call ...
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Why are so many people talking about Employee Engagement? We’ll find out a few tips on the effectiveness of employee recognition and how it can potentially provide financial success to your company. Zane Safrit, CEO, Business Consultant, and Author will share ...
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