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Coaching Effectively: Curbing the ‘Principal’s Office’ Mentality

Call Center Weekly

The coaching session has yet to even begin and their defenses are already up. How can you effectively coach when an employee is focused on defending themselves and not in the most receptive state? There is no simple answer, considering that most of us have been programmed since grade school to feel that coaching is a four-letter word.

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Trends shaping The Forrester Wave™: Customer Success Platforms report

Totango

Analyzing extensive datasets to forecast trends. CSMs can then embrace their strategic role as a consultant, devoting more time to coaching customers on how to achieve their business outcomes by maximizing product value. Predicting customer churn or potential customer issues to inform corrective steps to optimize the customer journey.

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3 Contact Centre Trends for 2021

Call Design

Now is the time to shake ourselves free of the challenges from 2020 and embrace new trends and technologies for the new year. While AI won’t replace the human element of your contact centre, it can be used to gather data and information that can help your management team improve daily operations and coach agents on their performance.

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Transitioning from agent manager to coach

Tethr

But in today’s bustling work environment, supervisors are struggling to find the time needed to effectively coach staff for continual performance improvement. Coaching is more important than ever before in today’s call center environment, as calls continue to increase in complexity. But are you really coaching?

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60-Day Plan: Practical Upgrades for Your Remote Contact Center -- a Webinar Replay

Speaker: Roger Lee, VP Customer Success, Gridspace

Monitoring calls for trends and KPIs in real-time. Providing data-driven coaching in live calls. During this conversation, Roger Lee, VP of Customer Success at Gridspace, will share practical tips for how software can solve these problems in less than 60 days, e.g., Automating internet and audio quality checks for remote agents.

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COVID is Creating a Surprising Contact Centers Trend

Fonolo

Read the Full Industry Report Here: Contact Center Trends 2021. And that’s the driving force behind most of this year’s trends. ” — Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach ™ , Author of Leading Morale , Customer Service & Leadership Consultant. Read the Full Industry Report Here: Contact Center Trends 2021.

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Zenarate Enhances Call Analyzer with New Call Insights to Surface Customer Call Trends and Drive Proactive Agent Training

CSM Magazine

Zenarate AI Coach is the first training platform that virtually improves itself from live call trends and intelligence delivered by the new Call Insights actionable data. Over time, these trends and intelligence inform simulation training topics and skills to ensure agents are always on the cutting edge of customer needs. .

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60-Day Plan: Practical Upgrades for Your Remote Contact Center

Speaker: Roger Lee, VP Customer Success, Gridspace

Monitoring calls for trends and KPIs in real-time. Providing data-driven coaching in live calls. During this conversation, Roger Lee, VP of Customer Success at Gridspace, will share practical tips for how software can solve these problems in less than 60 days, e.g., Automating internet and audio quality checks for remote agents.

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Executive Report: The Customer Data Too Often Overlooked by the C-Suite

A recent Calabrio research study of more than 1,000 C-Suite executives has revealed leaders are missing a key data stream – voice of the customer data. Download the report to learn how executives can find and use VoC data to make more informed business decisions.