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Putting Humanity in Contact Centers

Customer Relationship Metrics

Ownership over Accountability. When your focus is on how to hold people accountable, it takes your focus off an important question: “Why do we need to hold people accountable in the first place?”. She states that if you believe people need to be held accountable, what is YOUR underlying belief? Why is that? Ownership.

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It's So Hard To Say Goodbye (But It Shouldn't Be)

Contact Center Geek

Call centers learned this many years ago when we created incentive plans based solely on Average Handle Time without a quality metric to counter it. In 2006, a representative at AOL did nearly the same thing Even after a 2004 settlement accusing the company of not properly canceling customers’ accounts.