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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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2022

Simulation training is one of the fastest-growing training approaches for customer service agents. Many of the leading contact centers in the world are leveraging simulation training to provide customer service agents with an automated role-play partner. Simulation Training for Better Human Engagement and Performance.

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Integrity Solutions

AUGUST 24, 2022

If you’ve implemented sales training this year, you’re not alone. Studies have shown that upwards of $15 billion is spent annually on sales training in the United States alone. And are there specific sales training strategies behind that critical investment to help ensure its success and strong ROI?

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Integrity Solutions

MAY 24, 2023

What Is Sales Training? Sales Training – at its heart – should be about learning to uncover and identify customer needs, thus creating value and providing service. And this is where sales training should spend the largest proportion of its focus. Why are you doing the training? What role will managers play?

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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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Integrity Solutions

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Nor will they put themselves through the wringer and sacrifice their health and well-being (mental and physical) to take up the slack for understaffed and poorly managed organizations. The Manager’s Role in Employee Engagement and Job Satisfaction. You hear it all the time: People don’t leave jobs, they leave managers.

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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. He shares how organizations can gain loyal customers by providing an experience that exceeds expectations. Conclusion.

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Playvox

APRIL 25, 2023

Let’s confess — we’ve all nodded off during on-demand remote training sessions. How can you spice up remote agent training at your contact center to make it the most engaging and effective it can be? This staying power means that those in charge of delivering customer experience (CX) need to rethink how they deliver remote training.

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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. This approach will allow supervisors to effectively and efficiently manage their teams. The team will have confidence their supervisor is managing with integrity and fairness.

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Playvox

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For contact center managers, this phrase rings in their heads each time they create a forecast, build a schedule, or track schedule adherence. . In this environment, investing in a workforce management (WFM) solution becomes key, particularly if your support center has been using spreadsheets or trying to get by with subpar solutions.

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Callminer

APRIL 21, 2020

The role of a call center manager is complex and challenging. Call center managers may be involved with hiring and training call center agents , monitoring call center metrics tied to agent performance , using speech analytics tools for ongoing quality monitoring , providing ongoing feedback and coaching, and more.

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SharpenCX

MAY 12, 2020

Download Now: Help your agents get the hang of working in a call center with these 29 coaching techniques and facts. . The training it takes to get to that level of expertise takes more than just a week or two. To help your agents support a positive customer experience, training has to extend past initial onboarding, too.

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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. Create an environment of trust, transparency and accountability. Maintain the accelerated pace of digital transformation.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

However, managing remote teams effectively comes with its own set of challenges. While there are many benefits of remote teams, managing remote teams effectively comes with its own set of challenges. And, it’s forced companies to get creative in their management practices to figure out how to best manage remote teams.

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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. But if executed strategically, they can turn out to be the difference between an average sales manager and a high-performing one. Here are 5 sales coaching techniques worth a try.

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Playvox

JULY 31, 2023

When thinking about workforce management (WFM), often people think of forecasting and scheduling. Much of a team leader’s time is taken away from their key role of providing coaching and development to their people when they have to get involved in manual, immediate, repetitive, and cumbersome tasks like leave approval and shift swaps.

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Balto

JANUARY 9, 2023

Proper contact center training methods show agents the ropes during their onboarding, and supports them as they grow in their role in the following years. The best kinds of training tools leave agents confident in their skills and energized to create value for your organization. So, what does a strong training program look like?

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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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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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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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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. Enhance training. Don’t drop the ball! Identify problems.

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Integrity Solutions

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The question is, are sales training efforts keeping up? In the past, it’s possible that you could have gotten away with putting new salespeople through an onboarding process over the first few weeks or months, and maybe a sales training course or two, and that would be it. Sales Training and the “Soft Stuff”.

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Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

Are you taking the right steps to evolve toward workforce engagement management? Hiring, training, upskilling, and retaining agents are activities critical to your success. Operational costs – Agents who aren’t invested or lack training, feedback, or coaching tend to be inefficient, ultimately costing your business financially.

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COPC

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

A balanced scorecard is ultimately a shorthand name for a particular performance management tool. 2022, Employee Engagement Research Series, Global Report Figures show Top-Two box job satisfaction on a five-point scale, bucketed by frequency of coaching. These benefits may well materialize both quantitatively and qualitatively.

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Toister Performance Solutions

JULY 8, 2021

What is the right amount of time to spend on training? He had contacted me with some questions about lesson plans for a training class he was running with his team. The manager wondered if this was too much, or too little time. My answer surprised him because I suggested he spend less time on training, not more.

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Integrity Solutions

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

This fact has been consistently reinforced by the contact center leaders, managers and supervisors we’ve polled at the two most recent Customer Contact Week (CCW) events. Time spent in contact center training learning new tools could be coming at the expense of strengthening their relationship-building skills.

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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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Nicereply

MARCH 14, 2023

Being a support manager is a demanding job that requires constant learning. These 17 books contain critical lessons that every support manager will benefit from. Every customer support manager has a busy life. From strategic plans, to presentations, to customer emails, to training material for their team—the writing never ends.

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JustCall

MARCH 21, 2022

Sales training isn’t just about having the right tools and tricks up your sleeve. It’s about being trained to leverage them right. That’s why you need sales training to ensure that the behaviors that help win deals can be codified and shared with new hires and trainees. Sales Training Program.

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SharpenCX

JUNE 22, 2021

Designing an effective training program in a call center is no easy task. But as those new hires become seasoned employees, their initial training fades, and you need to supplement it with new knowledge. Well-trained call center agents are essential to your customer loyalty. Step 1: Incorporate storytelling in your training.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 3, 2023

Call center quality management (QM) is an essential process that helps businesses ensure their call centers are meeting customer expectations and delivering quality services. This comprehensive article will dive deep into call center quality management. Why is Call Center Quality Management Important?

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The Northridge Group

APRIL 8, 2024

We have a long-held belief (rooted in fact) that it’s nearly impossible to have effective processes and robust technology without trained people to manage and use them. Industry: Mid-market E-commerce company Use Case: Order Management Top Question: “When will my order ship? A potential replacement for “creative labor.

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JustCall

MARCH 9, 2023

Here’s taking a holistic look at the advantages of customer service training and why you should give it its due. Benefits of customer service training for employees Here’s how employees can benefit from customer service training. Increased confidence Trained customer service agents are more confident in dealing with customers.

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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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SharpenCX

JUNE 23, 2020

Download Now: Unleash your agents’ strengths and talents with 7 methods to get real about coaching. Millennials account for more than half of all employees in the U.S., Managing a workforce composed of different generations introduces a myriad of cultural difficulties, along with unique challenges for each group of workers.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2023

In today’s economic environment, effective account management is essential for building and maintaining strong client relationships and achieving growth. From podcasts and webinars to blogs and social media posts, these influencers are using a range of channels to help other account managers learn, grow, and succeed.

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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? Originally published on The Sales Management Association. Coaching is pivotal to maximizing sales potential. So why do so many companies still struggle to make coaching pay off for them?

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