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5 Coaching Must-Have’s for At-Home Customer Care Agents

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But of course, there are longer-term factors to consider – and conquer – in order to lead high performing customer care teams capable of delivering superior customer and patient experience. In today’s post, I’d like to highlight how your coaching process will need to change. They have to be planned. Skybridge Americas.

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The Rising Risk of Call Center Agent Burnout in the Age of COVID-19

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The truth is, while there had been a growing trend of call centers moving their staffs out of office buildings and into at-home workspaces, that trend was moving pretty slowly. How are your agents doing during this unprecedented, often confusing, sometimes painful time? Your at-home agents haven’t just been staying home for their jobs.

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Stop Believing These 5 Common Myths About Working From Home

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Somehow, this erroneous assumption, (that, if left to their own devices at home, your customer care agents will be start slacking off) has been accepted as fact. It demands a continuous, long-term investment in monitoring best practices, technology upgrades, and ongoing agent and management training.

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COVID-19 Rapid Response: Switch To Work-At-Home 8 Critical Questions to Assess Your Technology Readiness

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In my most recent post, I talked about how COVID-19 has created a new urgency among customer care leaders. Many of you are looking for ways to accelerate current plans to transition from on-site to at-home agents. Many more are trying to determine the feasibility of a first-time, rapid deployment of at-home operations.

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DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report

DMG Consulting

It looks to the future and provides best practices for post-pandemic disaster recovery/business continuity (DR/BC) planning, as well as for the management of work-at-home agents. This year’s Report discusses the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the short- and long-term future of this increasingly important sector.

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7 Strategies for Embracing the Work From Home (WFH) Call Center

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Forrester has observed that following the pandemic and the move to remote work, companies have had success using “online video game leagues” to “improve social cohesion for at-home agents.” Be sure to communicate that coaching is a tool to identify where they need help, give them the resources they need, and make them more successful.