Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. Here we’ve identified the 13 most essential qualities to consider when hiring a CS manager. What Is a Customer Success Manager (CSM)? What Is a Customer Success Manager (CSM)?

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Global Response

MAY 1, 2023

Is workforce management really necessary for call centers? The short answer is yes, but if you’re currently swimming in a sea of workforce management softwares, or looking for ways to make your call center processes more efficient, it might seem overwhelming. But first, what exactly is workforce management (WFM)?

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Balto

JULY 12, 2022

As we continue our series into Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for contact centers, we’re turning our attention to managers and supervisors. But what about our managers? These are the folks that keep our operations running smoothly: training and coaching our agents, and working to improve overall customer satisfaction.

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SharpenCX

DECEMBER 12, 2018

All that cheer and joy comes jam-packed with lofty time management expectations and an added dose of expenses. Everyone has too little time and too many priorities. The post A Coaching Framework to Sail Through the Holidays appeared first on Sharpen Contact Center Software. I blinked and we’re half-way.

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Integrity Solutions

OCTOBER 16, 2018

To develop your sales coaching strategy, you first need to understand where your organization’s level of coaching is right now. Figuring out your sales coaching strategy has become a hot topic in business today, and for good reason. Many organizations now recognize that coaching is critical for building skills and capacity.

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LiveVox

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The contact center industry’s transition to flexible work arrangements has introduced new complexities for frontline managers. With agents working from home, full or part time, it can be difficult to monitor their interactions with customers, track their productivity, provide timely feedback and coaching, and do so in real time.

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CCNG

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The warp-speed migration to work-from-home complicated things further—IT and operations management continue to augment processes and technologies to support an evolving landscape of remote and hybrid teams. Use game mechanics as a core component of your performance management and employee engagement strategy.

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Playvox

MARCH 29, 2022

As one of the newest terms to enter the contact center space, workforce engagement management (WEM) is much more than a simple change in the words we use. So what is workforce engagement management? Why Workforce Engagement Management Matters. Workforce engagement management products get to the heart of human motivation.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Are you a call center operations manager striving to enhance your team’s productivity and deliver hyper efficiency in your daily operations? The Need for Hyper Efficiency in Call Centers As a call center operations manager, you need to stay on top of the latest trends in hyper efficiency to ensure that your organization is successful.

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Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

Are you taking the right steps to evolve toward workforce engagement management? Operational costs – Agents who aren’t invested or lack training, feedback, or coaching tend to be inefficient, ultimately costing your business financially. However, the two main components are Quality Management and Workforce Management.

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Playvox

JUNE 7, 2023

When I worked in contact centers, people would ask what I did for a living, and I would say Workforce Management. While workforce management on the whole can sound boring, high-tech, and at times confusing, there is logic to the madness. A workforce management solution is a must in a successful customer service center.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 23, 2016

There is not a manager out there, that doesn’t have a story to tell about the lessons they learned in their first roles of managing people and teams. Many first time leaders are promoted into their first roles, based on competence or technical skills. 7 Downfalls of First Time Managers. Rely on Title.

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Connect First

MAY 1, 2018

Call center supervisors juggle a multitude of responsibilities including expert service provider, coach, trainer, mentor, motivator and often times manager.

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Peter Lavers

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

When you’re providing training on hard skills, look to also teach your reps to manage customer expectations. Provide continuous coaching. Like any other employee, reps need time, practice, and professional development to hone their craft. That’s where coaching comes in. That’s where coaching comes in.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A related term, workforce engagement management (WEM), recently coined by Gartner, has rapidly become the business strategy, processes, and related technologies of choice. AI-driven tools and platforms are shaping the way contact centers engage with and manage their workforce. But it goes beyond enabling automation.

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SharpenCX

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Download Now: Master your manager skill set with 29 tactics and strategies to better coach agents. These are skills like time management and organization, oral and written communication skills, or the willingness to collaborate. As a manager of a contact center, your role is essential to the care of your customer base.

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Integrity Solutions

JUNE 29, 2018

Sales Effectiveness Often Starts by Understanding Why Your Sales Managers Still Aren’t Coaching Their Teams. It’s about sales coaching- and sales effectiveness. Sales managers have a stressful job. If it’s so important, why aren’t more sales managers in your organization coaching their people?

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CX Accelerator

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Other Actions: Coach your leaders to use the leadership behaviors you'd like to see, taking care to model how you want them to coach their direct reports.Ask your leaders to emulate the service vision when working with employees. From Jeremy Hyde: How do your leaders calibrate on what they “coach” on and how/when they approach it?

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Monet Software

APRIL 24, 2020

Management and motivational techniques are also required to overcome these new challenges. And they should take into account that remote work generally requires more independent time management skill and tech savvy than on-site employment. Manage to the Metrics. So let’s get started! The Rules Still Apply.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Shep Hyken interviews Judy Hoberman, President of Selling in a Skirt – international speaker, trainer, coach, mentor, and author, who has a passion for customer experience. T – Time Management – It doesn’t matter who you are, everyone struggles with some sort of time management. Then you are in the right place!

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Call Design

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

If you’ve been in the contact centre space for more than a few hours, you’ve likely heard some version of the unofficial motto “Connecting the right interaction, to the right agent, at the right time.” We define our agents as “top producers” or “needs coaching”. DIRECTOR OF WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT AND ANALYTICS AT WORLD TRAVEL HOLDINGS.

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Virtual Live Labs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Leaders and employees noticed that the processes of engagement, like training and coaching, just didn’t work anymore. As the weeks and months wore on, many people felt increasingly disengaged with their managers and companies. It’s no wonder contact center managers, supervisors and team leaders are nervous about losing their jobs.

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Virtual Live Labs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Leaders and employees noticed that the processes of engagement, like training and coaching, just didn’t work anymore. As the weeks and months wore on, many people felt increasingly disengaged with their managers and companies. It’s no wonder contact center managers, supervisors and team leaders are nervous about losing their jobs.

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NobelBiz

JUNE 19, 2023

. – Brad Butler, Contact Center Software Consultant @ NobelBiz Mastering the Art of Real-Time Monitoring as a Call Center Supervisor Real-time monitoring is an art that, once mastered, opens a new dimension of customer service management. It enables managers to take swift actions for process optimization.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 6, 2024

This software gives managers peak productivity times and lesser-known bottlenecks that slow down processes. Improved Time Management Efficiency is key to managing time better. It’s all about using time wisely. Employees can show off their self-discipline and time management skills.

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JustCall

OCTOBER 19, 2023

About 63.37% of leaders feel making WFH a permanent option should be essential: However, maintaining employee productivity for any contact center manager is near impossible, no matter how much they micro-manage. Time Management Problems: Your remote workers may have gotten used to working in more flexible schedules.

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Serenova

AUGUST 25, 2020

For this reason, workforce management has become a core focus of discussion amongst leaders looking to take their contact centers to the next level. However, a recent study highlighted that more than 69% of businesses still have no cross-channel workforce management solution in place. What is Workforce Management?

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Integrity Solutions

MARCH 9, 2022

Against the backdrop of The Great Resignation, it’s something sales leaders and talent management leaders have to address head on, especially since burnout is now the number one reason people are quitting. It could be a problem with the sales process or time management skills. Prioritize Coaching.

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JustCall

MARCH 6, 2023

Implement time-management techniques Here are some popular time-management techniques that you can experiment with and implement for improving agent speed of working: Prioritizing tasks: Make a to-do list and prioritize tasks based on their importance and deadline.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 8, 2022

The capacity to forecast that a specific customer is at a high risk of churning while there is still time to do something about it is a major new possible revenue generator for any company. We, at CustomerSuccessBox , spoke to some of the Top Customer Success Influencers to know how they manage churn! Q: Please introduce yourself.

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Etech GS

JANUARY 7, 2020

Coach John Wooden of UCLA won 11 national championships in 12 years, yet he never stopped searching for ways to learn more, improve himself, and improve his teams. He leveraged the knowledge of basketball from his experience as a player and the wisdom of his coaches (Earl Warner, Glenn Curtiss, and Piggy Lambert). General knowledge.

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CSM Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

In this workforce wellbeing management series, we’re bringing a magnifying glass to the current state of the contact centre, the rising stress levels in contact centres, and the action plan required to address them. Performance coaching – ‘out of sight’ should definitely not mean ‘out of mind’.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2023

These skills gained through comprehensive call center coaching equip them to better understand client needs and articulate solutions. Improved Customer Satisfaction Enhancing versatile skills in customer service leads to improved satisfaction as it allows representatives to effectively handle a variety of customer issues.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In tandem, reporting and analytics help managers make data-driven decisions that improve a contact center’s performance and reduce costs. By tracking the relevant metrics, contact center managers ensure they are on the right path to reaching their objectives.

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Robert Davis

AUGUST 11, 2020

For Supervisors: Coaching Your Work-From-Home Agents for Maximum Results. Davis and Associates ( [link] ) is excited to present three online courses designed to maximize the performance of supervisors, leaders at all levels, and contact center agents in the work-from-home environment. For Leaders at Any Level: Proven Leadership Tactics.

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Integrity Solutions

JANUARY 18, 2021

If you’re a sales leader, make a plan to devote some of your coaching time to discussing with your salespeople the lessons of 2020 and how they will apply those to grow their book of business and reach their goals in 2021. Here are some key areas to look at: Sales Rep Time Management.

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Integrity Solutions

MAY 24, 2023

All the product knowledge, core selling skills, time and CRM management capabilities are far less impactful to the ultimate success of a salesperson than their core attitudes, beliefs, values and motivations. What role will managers play? The most important variable in the success of any salesperson is themselves.

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