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HOW TO PREVENT AGENT APATHY

CCNG

You know that preventing these types of scenarios is key to keeping morale high and productivity consistent—but how? LOW MORALE Providing agents with the opportunity to give honest feedback can do wonders for addressing employee apathy that is the result of low office morale.

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The Hiring Game Has Changed: Strategies for Solving Staffing Issues

CCNG

It also causes decreased productivity and poor morale among associates who do show up and must fill in for absent coworkers. Vickie Schutze serves as the Director of the Contact Center and Customer Experience Practice at The Northridge Group, a CCNG member company. This has led to an industrywide decrease in absenteeism.

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Agent Experience (AX): The Next Frontier for Elevating the Customer Experience (CX)

CCNG

Agents who are unsupported by “the cubicle next door” and by their knowledge systems are clearly going to provide lower-quality and slower service – and will suffer in terms of morale themselves. Bruce Belfiori is CEO of Benchmark Portal LLC, resource partner to CCNG providing content, studies, insights and more for contact center leaders.

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Agents Will Be Empowered Only If They Feel Valued — And You Must Continuously Prove It to Them

CCNG

The result can be higher turnover and lower morale. Robert Bradshaw is Founder / President at WiserOwl LLC and a CCNG colleague and advocate. It leaves a lot of good agents and new hires to struggle with demonstrating their commitment and hard work. One way Contact Centers try to overcome feelings of inequality is culture building.

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Customer-Centric Cultures are Made of This

Beyond Morale

Two of my most active associations are the Customer Experience Professionals Association ( CXPA ) and the Call Center Network group ( CCNG ). I participate in various events with different associations.

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Leadership that Engages in Contact Centers: Top Experts Reveal Secrets

CX Global Media

David Hadobas CEO, CCNG. About David Hadobas : David started CCNG in 1991, recognizing limited resources for information among contact center /customer care management. CCNG’s mission to provide a community for member-driven agendas, topics, events and conversations provides true peer learning for contact center management.