Toister Performance Solutions

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Accountability is difficult. For a few managers, accountability discussions feel like the first step towards inevitably losing an employee. A LinkedIn post asked managers to share what they find most difficult about holding customer service employees accountable. What is employee accountability? It's hard.

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Myra Golden Media

JANUARY 16, 2019

One of the things I’m working on for you in 2019 is giving you tools to help you coach your employees and hold them accountable, so they’re positioned to deliver the best possible customer experience. Eliminate Your Fears and Doubts About Coaching. It’s time to get over your fears about coaching.

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Kapta Customer Success

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Key account management can be overwhelming if you don’t have a process and plan to keep you on track. There are so many tasks and elements to juggle and navigate each day, it sometimes feels like a miracle when you’ve completed even one thing you set out to accomplish in a given day.

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Kapta Customer Success

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

So, to ensure retention, your key account managers need to be at their best to shore up these VIP customers. Retention is essential to meeting your growth numbers. Otherwise, it becomes less attainable with approximately 70% of annual revenue coming from existing clients. Then they can not only retain but grow revenue from this base.

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Integrity Solutions

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Effective sales coaching yields results, and sales leaders intuitively seem to understand this. You don’t have to look far to find another article or blog post talking about the importance of coaching in the workplace. In the world of sales, coaching is seen as critical for driving growth and developing excellence within sales teams.

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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

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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Kapta Customer Success

DECEMBER 27, 2022

There’s been a lot of talk about an economic downturn for months and Bloomberg is now saying that there’s a 70% chance of a recession in 2023. This is when companies do whatever is necessary to secure their future by cutting costs, downsize their teams, and retain their client bases.

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Kapta Customer Success

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It’s essential to understand what the world looks like through the eyes of your customers if you want to become their trusted advisor. That’s why you need to have radically authentic conversations with your customers where you show up as a peer when you’re talking to executives.

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Call Center Weekly

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

By Celia Pagliughi Let us first define who coaches are and what coaching is. W ho is a coach? It is very simple; we are all coaches. When we walk into our call centers we are all coaches. W hat do coaches do? A good way to start the coaching relationship is to set up a team meeting and do a quick exercise.

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Playvox

JUNE 10, 2022

Coaching your contact center agents on their performance can either fill everyone with dread or be a productive activity that you and your agents look forward to. Either way, it needs to be done, and arming yourself with a full set of coaching tips for contact center agents will ensure the sessions are productive.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 15, 2024

Extreme accountability is seeing beyond the current circumstances and committing no matter what. Accountability isn’t about assigning blame. Instead of holding others accountable with blaming questions, invite accountability by asking employees questions to reveal the choices that were made and their consequences.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 27, 2023

With Zenarate AI Coach, customer and prospect-facing agents master the skills necessary to succeed in their role before their first live interaction. Just like human-to-human role play, Zenarate coaches agents on tone, soft skills, and best and required practices throughout their role-play simulation.

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Kapta Customer Success

MARCH 11, 2019

It doesn’t matter if you’ve been a key account manager for a decade or two or are new on the job; everyone can improve. To be a successful key account manager well into the future, you need a proven track record of helping your customers grow their accounts through the products and services your company offers.

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JustCall

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Soon after the SDRs or Sales Development Reps have done their job, AEs or Account Executives are sales professionals who are the first ones to interact with prospects. Account Executives, often called Sales Managers, are responsible for closing company sales and are directly responsible for generating revenue for your business.

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CallSource Insights

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Sure, call coaches help you improve phone skills – but the lingering effects can also make it well worth your time, too. If you’ve been keeping up with our blogs, you know we truly believe in the benefits of your business working with a third party call coach to improve call handler phone skills. Accountability. More confidence.

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JustCall

MARCH 13, 2023

For many sales managers, sales coaching techniques are either too difficult to execute or too complicated to achieve. Whether you need to coach customer service teams right or coach newbies during the first call, using the right sales coaching methods is key. Here are 5 sales coaching techniques worth a try.

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CCNG

APRIL 26, 2023

Lisa Hammett is a new CCNG contributor, a Wellness Coach helping thousands of members achieve their health and wellness objectives. I completed an intensive coaching program with High Performing Coach and am completing my Positive Intelligence certification. If this is resonating, let’s chat.

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Integrity Solutions

APRIL 23, 2024

High-performing Sales organizations go beyond hiring for “measurables” and have well thought out plans, processes, coaching and salesperson development strategies in place. And are they accountable to themselves and their teammates? The annual NFL Draft is always full of intrigue for many reasons. What drives them?

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Tethr

MAY 19, 2020

Building a coaching culture is a continuous and active process. Coaches must lead by example, provide timely feedback specific in language and tailored to the individual, while working to improve the agent’s ability to drive positive CX outcomes. Coaching is a lot more complicated than simply managing agent performance.

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ShepHyken

JULY 15, 2022

This week we feature an article by Michael Becker, founder of Abundance Accelerators , a growth agency for coaches. I’m in the coaching space so let me dive into what a 10x customer onboarding process may feel like. Michael Becker is the founder of the growth agency for coaches, Abundance Accelerators. Conclusion.

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Integrity Solutions

MARCH 6, 2019

Here’s how coaching can help them get back on track and hit their numbers again. Coaching your people around these two areas can help them release their inner achievement drive so they can get back on track and hit their numbers again. It’s your job as a coach to help them recognize their self-talk is just talk.

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Integrity Solutions

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

When you have the confidence, comfort level and commitment, it’s a lot easier to make coaching a priority. The session focused on Developing a Coaching Culture for Higher Performance and offered a deep dive into our new research on coaching. Establishing a Coaching Culture. Clearly coaching is important.

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Voxjar

APRIL 9, 2020

This guide will show you how to make the transition to remote call coaching and quality assurance. How to overcome the biggest challenges of remote call coaching and QA. What tools are the most effective for remote call quality assurance and coaching. 3: Delivering QA and Coaching Feedback from Home. You’ll learn.

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CCNG

APRIL 19, 2023

They are a careless and lackluster team with a sarcastic coach who grows frustrated with the responsibility to produce a respectable team. It should not be, and will not be, a quick fix to move challenging employees to another team because that supervisor may have solid coaching or interpersonal skills.

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Calltools

MAY 27, 2020

Call scoring is like an NFL game, where your sales agents are players and you’re the coach. Like linebackers or wide receivers, each agent has a unique role to play in winning the game; you are the coach that helps your team grow and function well together. Call scoring metrics shouldn’t be “set in stone.”

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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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Robert Davis

JANUARY 13, 2020

Let’s talk about the value of a coach in someone’s life. A coach can do that. At every level of sports, we see coaches who help the team perform and do what they can. Individuals are searching for coaches as personal trainers or as life coaches. It is clear that the coach’s role is important.

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CallSource Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Implementing CallSource call coaching improved new employees’ onboarding experience, creates a culture of transparency, accountability, and acts as a motivational tool to improve career skills. The implementation of the call coaching program was well-received by current and new Customer Communication Specialists.

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CCNG

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Integrate holistic coaching, intelligent workflows, gamification, performance-based compensation and other capabilities to engender teamwork, accountability and collaboration. Create an environment of trust, transparency and accountability. Engage employees continuously via coaching, polls, surveys and informal check-ins.

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Integrity Solutions

MARCH 6, 2019

Here’s how coaching can help them get back on track and hit their numbers again. Coaching your people around these two areas can help them release their inner achievement drive so they can get back on track and hit their numbers again. It’s your job as a coach to help them recognize their self-talk is just talk.

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CallSource Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Last week, we began talking about some issues that managers who want to coach their own employees may face. Now, let’s finish up what may be challenging for managers when trying to successfully coach their own call handlers. What is the top reason that it is difficult for managers to coach employees internally?

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OrecX

JANUARY 29, 2019

Coaching agents at scale is no easy feat. Instead, leaders resort to fly-by coaching, whisper/barge, and the ol’ trusty headset splitter to give agents feedback. This is why asynchronous call coaching is the ideal method for driving agent performance improvement. Step 1: Getting Started with Asynchronous Coaching.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 25, 2021

Customer Success is an emerging industry, and so it’s understandable that there’s some confusion around how it differs from the longer-standing functions of Customer Support, Account Management, and Professional Services. Customer Success vs. Account Management. Customer Success acts as a proactive coach to the customer.

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Myra Golden Media

JANUARY 15, 2019

One of the things I’m working on for 2019 is giving you tools to help you coach your employees and hold them accountable so that they are positioned to deliver the best possible customer experience. On Friday, February 1st I’m facilitating a 45-minute webinar on How to Solve Your Biggest Problems with Coaching Employees.

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Integrity Solutions

AUGUST 13, 2018

Few activities are considered as important as sales coaching. So why do so many companies still struggle to make coaching pay off? Coaching is pivotal to maximizing sales potential. It’s now well-established that a strong coaching culture is something high-performing companies have in common. By Mike Esterday.

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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. This is a hallmark of effective coaching, and the same concept applies to selling. Successful sales coaching hinges on powerful questions, just like successful selling does.

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