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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of November 26, 2018

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Busting 3 Massive Myths About Employee Engagement by Christine Comaford. Forbes) There’s a lot of buzz about employee engagement these days. But the sad truth is that engagement stats worldwide are still dreadfully low. To Improve Customer Experience, Start With Morale, Not Technology, Feds Say by Tom Shoop.

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7 Ways to Drive Cultural Change that Boosts Agent Morale

Playvox

Increasingly, company culture is one of the most important factors in attracting and retaining employees, boosting agent morale and in promoting higher levels of productivity. Legendary management consultant Peter Drucker is credited with saying, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” What is Culture?

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Multiple Workstyles May Signal the Need for New Compensation Plans at Many US Contact Centers

Taylor Reach Group

This way, wages are fair across the board, consistent, and avoid future morale issues among peers. It’s easy for managers to justify lower wages for remote employees: no commute time or travel expenses, reduced stress, and improved work-life balance. Reduced wages ultimately creates workforce friction.

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To Get Loyal Customers, Start with Loyal Employees

Beyond Philosophy

Start by engaging the employees. In our customer experience consultancy, we’ve found that there’s often little connection between the concept of employee loyalty and customer loyalty, and that’s a big mistake. Researchers have found that an engaged employee is essential to success in the global economy.

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Customers Have Life Cycles. Guess What? So Do Employees! Here’s Why That’s So Important

Beyond Philosophy

Career Development : In this stage, the employee matures in his/her role in the organization. The challenges in this stage are employee engagement and retention. Termination : In this final stage, sometimes referred to as “transition,” the employee leaves the organization.

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5 Myths about Employee Engagement Most Bosses Believe (and How to Break Them)

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Employee engagement definition can be explained in simple words: it’s the emotional commitment that employee has to the organization and its goals. It means that emotionally engaged employees care about their work and their company and they don’t just work for a paycheck. High paychecks equal employee retention.

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Two Surefire Mistakes to Avoid

Taylor Reach Group

When agents recognize that their income and/or upward mobility is threatened, their morale, engagement and employee satisfaction will drop, as will their commitment to helping customers. Happy employees are required to create happy customers. Make your employees unhappy at your peril.