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Meet Customer Needs Without Overwhelming Your Agents: 6 Workforce Management Strategies to Engage your Team and Still Surpass High Customer Expectations

SharpenCX

Once you have these predictions on deck, you can use WFM tools (like Sharpen + Community WFM ) and additional service-level metrics to figure out how many agents you need to take care of incoming customer needs. Build in time for agent coaching. Often, WFM will cancel scheduled agent coaching sessions when volume spikes.

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25 Call Center Leaders Share the Most Effective Ways to Boost Contact Center Efficiency

Callminer

Make onboarding & ongoing coaching as stellar as possible. James Pollard is a marketing consultant who works specifically with financial advisors over at The Advisor Coach. If someone is making a mistake for two months waiting for his/her quarterly coaching session, thousands of dollars can be lost. James Pollard.

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17 Must-Read Books for Support Managers

Nicereply

This highly entertaining book will help you to polish and perfect this crucial skill. It covers every aspect of call center management―service level, forecasting, scheduling, resource calculations, metrics, quality, budgeting, reporting, and strategy―in a well-organized and easy-to-understand format. Books on business acumen 3.

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Forgotten Facts & Fantasies of Customer Delight

C3Centricity

Again not the automatic response upon the completion of a job, but a real desire to provide more than just satisfactory service. The lowest acceptable service level at the highest price possible? You could take the luxury coach service from Puno to Cusco and arrive four hours earlier. And the seats, oh the seats!

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The SaaS Industry Needs a Customer Relationship Revolution!

Amity

The value a Disneyland customer receives is entertainment, and entertainment is clearly experiential. However, what Disneyland sells is a service and they manage the delivery of that service extremely well. In a very real way, all of Disneyland is a service. Service Level. Touch Points. Static, Dumb.

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Jul 29 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Engage in the direct support, coaching, and development of direct reports. Identify and implement technology and processes to scale implementations and channel partnership development. Remain current on industry trends and technical information, as well as the competitive landscape. Manage the renewal process for channel partners.

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Do your Reports Spark Joy? Tidy up your Reports to Reduce Call Center Stress and Boost Agent Engagement

SharpenCX

As a call center manager, not only do you deal with high-stress customer situations, but you’re also responsible for team strategy, performance goals, management of budgets, employee satisfaction and coaching. Maybe you wanted to check on your Service Level, but caught a glimpse of Average Handle Time.