Steve DiGioia

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Guest Post by Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Today’s guest post is by Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™, Founder & President CAS, Inc. Yet so many customer service managers and teams focus on checklists and procedures above listening and adapting to customers.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Are you a call center operations manager striving to enhance your team’s productivity and deliver hyper efficiency in your daily operations? The Need for Hyper Efficiency in Call Centers As a call center operations manager, you need to stay on top of the latest trends in hyper efficiency to ensure that your organization is successful.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 31, 2023

Instead, it’s helpful to think of it as regular part of your workforce management. Simply put, call center training is any course, seminar, video, coaching session, or other activity that teaches the skills and behavior required for success in a call center. Include workshops and group activities as much as possible!

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This article outlines techniques and best practices for human resource (HR) managers to use to effectively onboard customer service employees. Develop an Onboarding Plan: Before you start onboarding new customer service employees, the HR manager should develop a well-planned onboarding program.

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Integrity Solutions

AUGUST 24, 2022

While online training and workshops can be effective delivery mechanisms for information and knowledge, the real impact only comes when you’re able to turn that knowledge into daily behaviors. What they don’t always recognize is that it’s something that can be developed through effective training and coaching.

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Myra Golden Media

JULY 16, 2019

After I deliver a customized, engaging customer service workshop, I help my clients reinforce the main ideas. Monitoring Sans Coaching. Calibration keeps everyone who monitors and coaches consistent and fair. Expecting Coaches to Coach Without Training. Overwhelming Those Who Monitor and Coach.

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Toister Performance Solutions

APRIL 28, 2022

I once delivered the same customer service workshop over 200 times in a two-year period. The big variable was the manager. The motivated employees all had a manager who did three specific things that the other managers didn't do. We had a few moments before the workshop began, so I spent some time talking to her.

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SharpenCX

MAY 31, 2023

Encourage ongoing learning through regular skill enhancement workshops and access to relevant resources. Provide Continuous Feedback and Coaching: Regular feedback and coaching sessions are vital for agent growth and improvement. Offer constructive feedback on agent performance and provide suggestions for enhancement.

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SoliCall

AUGUST 2, 2023

2 – Performance Feedback and Coaching. Regularly evaluate their performance and provide individual coaching sessions to address areas of improvement. Offer opportunities for additional training, workshops, and certifications to enhance their expertise. 3- Clear Performance Metrics. 6 – Continuous Skill Development.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

In the hotel handbook I noticed a letter from the Hotel Manager saying their “customer service policy is to do everything they can to maintain the relationship with that guest long after they leave.”. She is a Conference and Workshop Presenter, Executive Coach and Author based in Australia. Gotta love this business!

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Call calibration sessions A calibration session is an activity used to unify management ratings and metrics. This workshop brings together at the same table the management of the contact center and the ordering client. A calibration session brings together all call center supervisors and managers.

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Customer Service Life

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Customer service and experience leaders are line dancing between taking care of their team and checking off the pile of projects with a flying unicorn from their favorite project management to-do list. 1:1 Coaching . I’m giving away free 60-minute coaching sessions. Self-care sounds much too exhausting at this point.

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JustCall

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The need of the hour is for managers of work from home call centers to assist, interact and engage with their home agents using a range of reporting, monitoring and management tools. Call Center Online Management Tips. It can be difficult to manage remote call center agents. Identify The Goals And Percolate Effectively.

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TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2023

Adrian Swinscoe, Customer experience advisor, author, speaker Adrian is a huge fan of organizations that do great things for their customers and has been helping many achieve their own level of greatness for over 25 years via consulting, writing, speaking workshops, and advisory work.

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CX Journey

MARCH 21, 2018

Consultants Yes, you may need to engage with consultants to assist you along the way - whether they are there to coach and advise or to actually conduct a chunk of the work. Design thinking workshops: again, even if you don't hire a consultant, you'll probably want to factor in some location, materials, and food and beverage costs for this.

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Balto

JUNE 7, 2022

Balto’s product suite of Real-Time Guidance , Real-Time Coaching , and Real-Time QA empowers agents with the information they need at their fingertips while also allowing managers to rapidly scale best practices with the press of a button. “It’s The market is finally starting to view real-time guidance as a must-have.”.

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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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CX Global Media

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Coaching is the #1 agent experience focus for 2018. He’d put people through workshops and help them individually learn the skills of change but they get back to the organization or get back to the team and they’re not changing and so their motivation runs out. The inside-out and the outside-in approach. But which one?

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Monet Software

MARCH 26, 2020

Who will manage my cloud move? Additionally, you’ll need to consider your reliance on data, such as which telecom source(s) you integrate with for your Workforce Management (WFM) , Performance Management (PM) , Recording, and Payroll integrations. Or consider moving your workforce management tools to the cloud.

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NobelBiz

JUNE 19, 2023

. – Brad Butler, Contact Center Software Consultant @ NobelBiz Mastering the Art of Real-Time Monitoring as a Call Center Supervisor Real-time monitoring is an art that, once mastered, opens a new dimension of customer service management. This enables them to identify areas for improvement and provide timely feedback and coaching to agents.

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The Northridge Group

JULY 20, 2023

Through workshops, practical trainings, and mentoring initiatives, Northridge helped leadership shift the contact center and training culture to focus on behavior-based coaching that produces a better CX. Not only did this approach build more confidence and improve the employee experience—resulting in a 26.2%

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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

JULY 31, 2023

In the contact center world, it’s a carefully designed process that efficiently manages incoming calls, keeping customers engaged with informative on-hold messages while automatically routing them to the most suitable agent. However, with growth come challenges, especially in managing increasing call volumes.

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Integrity Solutions

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Management Attitudes. To us, having a coach is more important than having a manager. How well-equipped are your managers to meet this growing demand for coaching? Managing to activities will always be important, but having a culture of coaching will help elevate your organization as a desired place to work.

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Toister Performance Solutions

JULY 8, 2021

The manager wondered if this was too much, or too little time. I suggested the manager follow this plan: Have employees watch the video on their own. The tellers who excelled after training had managers who set clear expectations, gave regular feedback, and reinforced what was learned in the formal class.

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Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Jenny Dempsey is a Social Media and Customer Experience Manager at NumberBarn and a health coach at Jenny Dempsey Wellness. Now, in addition to her position at NumberBarn, she hosts wellness workshops, where she tells busy professionals how and why they need to take better care of themselves.

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Calabrio

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Being a cloud-first company in a modern workforce management system allows us to quickly adjust our own transition and adjust our product functionality to further meet the needs of our customers. We also strive to make virtual workshops as valuable as possible for customers going through new training and implementations.

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COPC

MARCH 11, 2022

Explore emerging ways to create candidate interest & employee retention with Rick Zayas, COPC VP, in a pre-conference workshop at Execs In The Know’s Customer Response Summit (CSR) in Clearwater, Florida, on March 28, 2022. Managing/leveraging outsourced service providers. Key drivers affecting labor markets.

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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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Balto

AUGUST 24, 2022

Agents should be encouraged to jump on educational opportunities, workshops, certifications, etc., Coach in Real-Time. However, in an evolving industry like healthcare, with so many intricacies, it’s vital to have real-time prompting and coaching. So, they’re only alerted to coaching moments or infrequent escalations.

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Steve DiGioia

DECEMBER 5, 2016

an independent research and publishing firm focused on customer-centric business management, and Founder/Editor-in-Chief of CustomerThink.com, the world’s largest community dedicated to customer-centric business. Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ & President of CAS, Inc. Go to katenasser.com for more workshop information.

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CX Global Media

JULY 8, 2019

Having recently hired and reconstructed hiring process for call center agents, Operations Managers, Operations Directors, and HR Managers, Best Practices in Contact Center Hiring is relevant for everyone in the customer care industry. Harris Country Manager Brazil With Allergan PLC, Author. EXPERT SESSION – W.H.O.M.:

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Kayako

AUGUST 27, 2015

Tim Dobson , Community Manager at Bytemark, remembers his most difficult moments in support were from teachable moments that came too late. These are methods worth highlighting: Hold team workshops and role playing sessions. It’s coaching that sticks while things are still fresh in your mind. Click To Tweet. says Joshua.

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Call Center Weekly

OCTOBER 5, 2018

So don’t include the ones that come standard with every other “Core Values Workshop” mindset. How well your staff lives by and exemplifies the core values of your company should be coached and rewarded. Get to the Core Values that really mean something in a truly non-generic way. Let’s assume those as a given.

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SharpenCX

JUNE 16, 2021

As a manager, you aren’t just around to keep business going and guide your employee’s professional development. Consider some of these actionable steps you should take as a manager to create equality in your call center for new hires and loyal employees. Read Next]: Build Trust on your Call Center Team With These 10 Coaching Methods.

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Peter Lavers

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

One option for doing so is this workshop, part of DataIQ’s excellent Leaders package. 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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