Comm100

JUNE 26, 2018

With the World Cup in full swing, now is probably the perfect time to talk about one of the essential elements of any team – the Coach. Coaches are focused on improving performance during the moment, and the skills required for an excellent coach are very distinct. This is where a coach comes into play. Coaching Skills.

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Taylor Reach Group

MARCH 20, 2020

Mental health has long been stigmatized and many managers are uncomfortable dealing with this topic. Provide free or subsidized lifestyle coaching, counseling, or self-management programs. Create and maintain dedicated, quiet spaces for relaxation activities.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 10, 2023

Real-time guidance and NBA tools give agents the insights they need to elevate each customer interaction from an information-gathering and delivery exercise to a problem-solving and relationship-building session. The post Real-Time Guidance Is Key to a Great Service Experience appeared first on DMG Consulting.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 19, 2020

To summarize it, the book is about how Customer Experience exists within an ecosystem, and policies and procedures to manage it are not enough. To have happy employees, you need to manage stress, whether it’s yours or theirs. Dr. Mohan coaches leaders and mentors about their health, as well as the health of their teams.

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CX Journey

MARCH 21, 2018

By that I mean that they have no allocated financial resources for improvements to be made as a result of the learnings from surveys and other listening posts, journey mapping, and other customer experience strategy exercises that become the catalyst for onstage customer experience or behind-the-scenes process improvements.

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Callminer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Call centers that implement agent performance management solutions equip their agents with the ongoing coaching and training needed to perform at their best. On top of managing this delicate balance with prospects on each call, outbound call center agents must also mitigate compliance concerns with carefully planned interactions.

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Blueship Call Center

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Whether you are a first-time entrepreneur juggling many tasks at once or a seasoned executive managing a larger organization, you will need to increase your customer service efforts and hire more team members as your business expands. Do you have the resources to devote to ongoing coaching and training?

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 17, 2022

What are the benefits of managing and monitoring the AHT? Naturally, every manager strives to increase traffic flow and reduce expenses. However, caution must always be exercised; the concept of time must never take precedence over the quality of the solution offered. To put it another way? How do you address this as a leader?

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Taylor Reach Group

OCTOBER 31, 2021

First, why is it that corporate America, now that it has embraced the concept of remote contact center agents and hybrid work environments [1] , is so slow in adjusting its management processes to support these new deployment models? Attention to redesigning these processes goes hand in hand with revising how we manage and coach our staff.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 4, 2022

The most common personal resolutions are focused on being healthier – exercising more, eating better, improving fitness, losing weight, stopping smoking. I am struggling to manage multiple chatbots across different business divisions or departments. By Mandy Reed, Global Head of Marketing.

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NobelBiz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Enhance your customer strategy with insights from Brad Cleveland, a global authority on customer strategy and management, in this captivating podcast episode: Beyond Transactional: Taking Customer Service to the Next Level. Role-playing exercises, real-life case studies, and feedback sessions can be invaluable in this regard.

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Toister Performance Solutions

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

One study by contact center consulting firm, Services Triad , found a sharp drop off in forecasting for email and social media: Contact center leaders routinely tell me they struggle to keep up with demand in non-phone channels like chat, social, and particularly email. This exercise might yield some surprises!

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Social media contact Contact Center Scripts Accountability 111

Taylor Reach Group

AUGUST 26, 2020

The cause for lack of consistent results could be traced back to quality and can be improved by additional training, coaching and motivating agents (in order to promote higher consistency). A common error and observation in these exercise is to only focus on live contacts. IVR is part of the customer experience and the overall FCR.

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Analytics Interactive Voice Response Contact Center CRM 121

Russel Lolacher

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with transformation and culture change consultant Katie McLaughlin on why we need to introduce the principles and power of theatre into the employee experience. . She’s a speaker, executive coach and facilitator. The two biggest takeaways from a theatre exercise.

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360Connext

AUGUST 14, 2017

One exercise I’ve done with clients is to create a CX Punch List. This can be done through executive coaching, workshops, or as part of a more intensive Customer Experience Investigation™ program. Get in touch to schedule a coaching session with Jeannie or create a program that fits your situation. Tell Me More.

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Real estate Construction Automotive Coaching 77

Connecting the Dots

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A customer delight forumla must be measured, analyzed, trained, and managed. Companies spend boatloads on diffusion of anger training and tough-call monitoring and coaching. How much time does your company spend on training and coaching simple calls that could become delight calls or chats? Not too motivating.

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JustCall

OCTOBER 6, 2023

To do this, round up the key stakeholders and consult them. While one-on-one training led by support managers and leaders sounds like an impossible feat (and a resource drain), a data-driven AI-powered coach can personalize training for every agent and make it more impactful.

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Peter Lavers

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Laughlin Consultancy provides training, consultancy, mentoring & other services. Most important skills: (2) Stakeholder Management – inc. Almost as often requested, are improved skills in managing difficult stakeholders. Stakeholder management may sound too generalist to apply to technical roles like data scientists.

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Integrity Solutions

MAY 24, 2023

All the product knowledge, core selling skills, time and CRM management capabilities are far less impactful to the ultimate success of a salesperson than their core attitudes, beliefs, values and motivations. What role will managers play? The most important variable in the success of any salesperson is themselves.

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Russel Lolacher

APRIL 24, 2023

In this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with author, consultant and former WD-40 CEO Garry Ridge on how learning moments for leadership are integral to the success of culture change. So the third thing is enter a coaching moment. And so we had a coaching conversation. And I’m not done yet.

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Coaching Employee engagement Consulting Consulting 52

Russel Lolacher

APRIL 5, 2021

Bonus: Embrace customer-centricity – during a user experience (UX) exercise of our public service websites in our team’s early years, one of the feedback quotes was “you wrote this for yourselves, not for us.” Collaboration, coaching, inspiration, motivation… no contribution comes without connection to others.

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Customer Care Government Transportation Employee engagement 98

SharpenCX

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Whether it’s exercise, drinking more coffee, watching Netflix during our lunch break, we all have our efforts to decrease our stress. Consulting group Korn Ferry found that employee stress levels have risen nearly 20% in three decades. Where do you want to see improvement as a manager, and where do your agents want to improve?

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Hero Digital

JULY 9, 2019

As an athlete and ski and soccer coach – including for athletes bound for the Olympics – Cindy brought to life her personal experience of five principles that attendees could apply to their own career paths. Seeing the two sides of managers led her to want to make a change for her colleagues and peers. Cindy Zerger , Sr.

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JustCall

MARCH 13, 2020

The main purpose of coaching your sales team is to get them ready to face customers, take them through the product, and get more sales success. As a part of your sales coaching program, you need to lead your sales team through this sales process. This can be a great exercise to identify ways for improving.

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Taylor Reach Group

MARCH 26, 2019

There is no question that customers are the best source in providing such measurement but surveying customers could become a costly exercise. In case of Achievable, the emphasis would be on training and coaching. To find out more about how Taylor Reach can help your company with [TOPIC], CLICK HERE to schedule a free consultation.

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CX Journey

JANUARY 17, 2018

In either training or coaching, the need to "know your stakeholders" is a common one. Consider a stakeholder map for better stakeholder management. Creating a Stakeholder Map: Step 1 The first challenge, when seeking to manage your stakeholders better, is to identify them. This is where the exercise looks like a BCG.

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Global Response

JANUARY 31, 2024

Access to legal expertise and resources to ensure ongoing compliance : Being based in the same country, domestic call centers have easier access to local legal experts, consultants, and advisors. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems can be integrated with compliance tools to ensure customer data is handled correctly.

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Call Center Telemarketing Government Healthcare 62

Taylor Reach Group

AUGUST 23, 2017

We are all familiar with the maxim that “you can’t manage what you don’t measure”, and it is certainly true. Management and their immediate Team Leaders define what those performance standards are. Best practice is for management to be transparent regarding what the performance standards are and why they are important.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 11, 2020

This is a guest post by Jay Nathan , Founder & Managing Partner at Customer Imperative. Traditional product management and marketing teams tend to focus on win/loss analysis in the sales process. Would you be willing to reference as a former customer and participate in future product discovery/testing exercises?

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Even before pre-sales where possible, but I would definitely have your Customer Success team or manager introduced at the very beginning to be a customer advocate and track the customer experience along the way, even if they’re not directly owning the onboarding or implementation. A: You can do a lot of meaningful things.

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CX Journey

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Here are the highlights I still recall: First off, the always knowledgeable Prof Moira Clark from Henley Centre for Customer Management talked about generations and technology. Next, we had an excellent presentation from Ian Golding , an independent consultant who is passionate about customer experience.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 29, 2020

SmartBrief) In my coaching and consulting sessions with executives during the pandemic, we’ve discussed critical issues such as speed, agility, resilience, pivoting, adaptability, prioritizing, change, strategy, scenario planning, transformation, rebuilding, rethinking and much more. .” Take action on them!

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Toister Performance Solutions

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

You don't have the time or resources to quickly create something in-house, so you consider bringing in an external consultant. You shop around for a few consultants and realize you don't even have enough funds to cover their travel expenses. Timothy Chan, the team's manager, emailed me to follow-up on how it went. "I

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CX Journey

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Those inhibitors could include lack of coaching or training, inadequate or inappropriate tools and resources, and other barriers or frustrations that cause the employee to work inefficiently and ineffectively. When the effort employees put forth to do some task outweighs the benefit of completing said task, that's problematic.

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Journey mapping Customer Experience Surveys Airlines 49

SmartKarrot

MAY 3, 2021

Leaders of customer success as an outcome and not simply managers of customer success as a team. I’ve coached cohorts of leaders with nearly identical knowledge and skills yet seen them have wildly varying degrees of success in similar roles. Elevated leadership is the key to future performance. What’s Next.

Finance 19

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Comm100

JULY 9, 2019

to coaching each employee to success, measuring and providing feedback along the way. The development of new technology means that it is possible for HR and contact center managers to augment traditional training and onboarding processes to help employees learn and access information in better ways than before.

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Russel Lolacher

JANUARY 10, 2023

Yeah, well, one crucial experience I had professionally was watching emerging leaders being assessed the same way that I was assessed when I was hired at that consulting company. However, we have a lot of career coaches that use our same tools that work with mid career level professionals. Russel Lolacher. You know, is it connection?

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