Integrity Solutions

APRIL 8, 2024

Exacerbating this issue is the fact that sales training and coaching doesn’t always help salespeople with these internal motivation issues. Lately, though, it’s as if those pressures have been magnified times ten. Many begin to question whether this even a profession they still want to be in.

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Integrity Solutions

APRIL 8, 2024

Exacerbating this issue is the fact that sales training and coaching doesn’t always help salespeople with these internal motivation issues. Lately, though, it’s as if those pressures have been magnified times ten. Many begin to question whether this even a profession they still want to be in.

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Integrity Solutions

AUGUST 24, 2022

And are there specific sales training strategies behind that critical investment to help ensure its success and strong ROI? The introduction of new technology and tools, combined with a shift away from face-to-face and drop-in visits to tightly planned Zoom meetings, has permanently changed the selling landscape.

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Integrity Solutions

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Is it something needed or that people even want to do? Just leave it to the algorithms, the AI and other online and self-serve tools. In fact, talented, professional salespeople have never been more necessary. This is one of the reasons Mike Esterday and I were motivated to write our new book, Listen to Sell. There is a catch.

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Integrity Solutions

AUGUST 13, 2021

Great sales team coaching takes specific knowledge and functional expertise to build a successful team. By adding Emotional and Social Intelligence to the coaching model, sales team coaches can discover amazing success. And this is particularly applicable when we’re talking about the effectiveness of team coaches.

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Integrity Solutions

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Let’s explore why that distinction is so fundamental in sales, and what you can learn about active listening in sales from the best sales coaches. Let’s explore why that distinction is so fundamental in sales, and what you can learn about active listening in sales from the best sales coaches. So often, we listen to respond.

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Integrity Solutions

JULY 22, 2021

When you hear the word “coach”, what comes to mind? We often associate “coach” with a sports analogy. Historically, a coach was a horse-drawn carriage that transported important people from where they were to where they wanted to be. Isn’t that what you want to do when coaching? The Business Case for Coaching.

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Playvox

MARCH 5, 2024

This definitely applies to customer needs and preferences, and contact centers are constantly striving to stay one step ahead of evolving customer requirements. A desire for instant-access self-service options is shifting how customers want to engage.

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LiveVox

AUGUST 26, 2022

Contact center agents rely on a continuous loop of coaching, evaluation, and feedback proactive performance management. The post Proactive Performance Management: 5 Ways to Leverage Automated Alerts in your Contact Center appeared first on LiveVox.

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CSM Magazine

APRIL 20, 2023

Zenarate, the leading Simulation Training solution, today announced that Startek, a global customer experience (CX) solutions provider, is using its AI Coach to provide immersive training to its contact center teams. Zenarate AI Coach is the “flight simulator” for customer and prospect engagement.

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Customer Service Life

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Image by Mikko Koivuneva from Pixabay Whether it’s called a one-on-one meeting, or a coaching conversation, or a performance check-in, this regular conversation between a supervisor and an employee is essential to an effective and high-performing contact center. This is one of the reasons consistent conversations with agents are so important.

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Integrity Solutions

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Coaching is what makes the culture transferable and sustainable. Let’s take a look at the scope of the issue banks and credit unions are dealing with when it comes to employee engagement, motivation and turnover and how coaching can serve as the catalyst for long-term culture change. Are Disengaged Employees Really A Concern?

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Integrity Solutions

JUNE 14, 2021

Saying there’s no time for coaching or that someone has already reached their potential are just two of the prominent misconceptions around sales coaching. Whether in sports, in sales or in life, a great coach helps people reach their full potential. Sales Coaching Myths Debunked. Fact: Coaching benefits all performers.

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COPC

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In last month’s article , we looked at how coaching customer satisfaction (CSAT) to a number may lead to wasted time and effort, employee dissatisfaction, and difficulty improving CSAT results. This month, we will talk about what we should be doing instead, uncovering the key drivers of CSAT.

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JustCall

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Every company needs a diligent performance coaching model to hone the skills of new and experienced salespeople and introduce them to the company’s core sales skills, goals, and culture. Coaching and mentoring of salespersons enables organizations to develop the sales team. Relevance of Sales Coaching Programs – Facts.

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Call Design

AUGUST 30, 2022

Intelligent automation solutions are increasingly being applied throughout the contact centre industry to help you deliver a better customer experience and improve processes, as well as seamlessly support agents. Automating the manual tasks, allows team leaders and managers to spend more time coaching and developing their teams.

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Call Design

JANUARY 19, 2021

Use your Workforce Management tool’s mobile app to enable your staff to see how they are performing and apply for coaching, training, and annual leave. When you work on engaging your contact centre agents , you are more likely to see higher customer satisfaction rates. But how exactly can we improve the satisfaction of our agents?

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SharpenCX

APRIL 28, 2021

What a good manager can do to apply this lesson: Some 83% of people say finding meaning in their day-to-day work is a top priority in their role. Coaching your team leads to better business results. At the start of the pandemic, I, like many people, needed a feel-good show to binge. So, I’m here for a quick philosophy seminar.

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Integrity Solutions

MAY 1, 2023

This simple truth goes a long way toward explaining why it takes more than just intellect and know-how to be a high-performing salesperson. Just as emotions can affect a salesperson’s behavior, they also affect a customer’s buying behaviors. The good news is that, while your IQ is fixed, your EQ can be developed.

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Integrity Solutions

APRIL 20, 2023

In fact, in every Integrity Coaching workshop I facilitate, I’ll ask coaches, managers and leaders this simple question: Elisa Matthews “Have you ever asked someone to try something new, clearly articulated a goal or provided training in a particular skill, and yet the person just doesn’t do it ?

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JustCall

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Training and coaching are not just boxes to tick; they’re the heartbeat of employee growth and a company’s journey to success. In this blog, we’ll explore the challenges of agent training and coaching and how call recording makes a difference. year-over-year — the focus is clear. The disconnect is immediate.

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Connect

APRIL 18, 2024

Applying artificial intelligence (AI) in the contact centre has emerged as a prolific trend as the hype around Generative or Gen AI – the next iterative advancement in the technology – gathers pace. By Martin Cross, CTO at Connect. However, Gen AI is not a plug-and-play solution.

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Vonage

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Whisper coaching” enables managers to listen in on agents’ calls, and when it’s appropriate, they can share advice with the agents, coaching them in real time. But there’s one major limitation to whisper coaching: you need people to do the whispering.

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Integrity Solutions

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Great sales managers are required to become great coaches. In many sales organizations, managers who rise up through the ranks view themselves as “super reps”—but they would do better to become super coaches instead. At the companies that do this best, managers can spend close to 60% of their time on coaching.

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DMG Consulting

OCTOBER 6, 2023

These models use neural networks to find the patterns and structure in the data and apply it to generate original content which is intended to appear as if it has been created by a human being.” text, images, computer code, workflows, models, audio/music, and more). GPT-4), Google’s PaLM, Anthropic’s Claude, Cohere, Hugging Face, and others.

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Tethr

JULY 22, 2020

Exceptional call center leaders use a coaching philosophy to manage their teams. When coaching a remote team, leaders must learn to help their agents maximize their performance by giving them the skills they need to become stronger learners. Quality in a service or product isn’t what you put into it, but what a customer gets out of it.

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Playvox

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

But with Playvox’s automated scorecards, evaluation, and coaching templates, as well as its workload management tools, contact center leaders have confidence that agents are participating in regular evaluations and receiving timely feedback to ensure they’re delivering the desired customer experience – even when remote.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 19, 2024

With a prize of £2000, any woman working within a relevant industry is eligible to apply and nominations can be made by either the nominee themselves or on their behalf with prior approval. Job management software provider BigChange used International Women’s Day as a springboard to unveil a series of new awards.

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Integrity Solutions

JUNE 13, 2023

After all, employee engagement is rooted in emotional factors, and managers, their coaching effectiveness and the coaching culture they create can make or break those emotional ties. It would follow, then, that increasing employee coaching effectiveness is one of the major tools in the toolbox to help solve these problems.

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Tethr

JULY 23, 2020

Innovations in AI and machine learning can help identify specific agent behaviors that need coaching. Powering agent coaching opportunities. A Fortune 1000 retailer is using AIS to power agent coaching opportunities. When it comes to the contact center, agent performance is always top-of-mind.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Calabrio, the customer experience intelligence company, today announced its new coaching solution for agent performance management, Calabrio Performance Coaching. Identifying individual or team skill gaps allows leaders to better offer coaching and support to agents that need it.

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Playvox

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Coach And Develop Your Customer Service And Support Team. In any support center, team leaders and supervisors have an essential role to play: coaching and developing agents so that they can become even more efficient and effective. Research by Nucleus found that workforce management solutions pay back an average of $12.24

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Balto

MAY 23, 2022

Ugh, Call Center Coaching…Let’s talk about it. . Ok, Call Center Coaching…what is it? Such gripping narratives use exhilarating phrases like “annual performance review,” “call center coaching tools,” and “telephony integration.” Defining the Challenges with Call Center Coaching. Coaching doesn’t scale.

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JustCall

JULY 29, 2021

It involves a continuous practice of coaching sales teams. In fact, sales coaching plays a role in raising a high-performing team of sales reps. But statistics show that with sales coaching, sales teams are able to attain 91% attainment of sales quota. So, are you tapping into coaching for your sales reps?

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Integrity Solutions

JULY 20, 2021

In many ways, building sales confidence is about expanding belief boundaries, addressing some underlying perceptions and providing the type of sales training and coaching that maximizes strengths, encourages risk taking and helps your customers think differently. This same concept applies to personal branding as well. You bet it does.

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Integrity Solutions

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Some of the common issues we hear involve: Providing consistency across channels Overcoming employee complacency Finding new ways to connect with customers and accelerate service delivery Time and cross-training Consistent, effective coaching on customer-centricity. Are your customers truly at the center of your business universe?

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Integrity Solutions

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

While investing in sales training can produce a range of benefits, all of us in sales know it all boils down to the bottom line. Here are the sales training metrics you should be using to measure your success. There are a number of factors contributing to this dismal return rate. And that can jeopardize future budgets.

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