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Workforce Management's Impact on Customer Service

Call Center Weekly

Workforce Management drives CX A biker friend of mine recommended a book to me called “Freedom” written by Sonny Barger – yes “that” Sonny Barger – a founding member and former Oakland Chapter President of the Hell’s Angels. Those feelings set the tone for the human interaction and inform the customer experience.

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“Digital First” and Transforming the Contact Center Associate’s Role

The Northridge Group

With companies across nearly every industry scrambling to create exciting “digital first” customer experiences , it’s easy to imagine that human associates in traditional customer service contact centers could be left behind. Yet nothing could be further from the truth.

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Best Practices of Great Coaches

The Northridge Group

Customer loyalty is earned by being great and consistent at the basics and finding ways to delight your customers in unexpected ways. Frontline excellence training instructs managers in the following best practices of great coaches : Providing dedicated coaching with role modeling for the supervisors.

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How Contact Center Quality Monitoring Benefits the Healthcare Industry

The Northridge Group

The Contact Center is increasingly serving as the face of a company for customers. Contact center associates are often the only people within a company that most customers will ever get the chance to interact with. There were numerous instances of call avoidance identified.

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Redefining Contact Center Productivity for the Modern Associate

The Northridge Group

Contact centers are in a state of flux, with many contact center associates (and workers in general) hesitant to return to the office full-time and forgo the flexibility that comes with a work-from-home (WFH) or hybrid environment. At-Home or In-Office Work So which environment is better for work productivity?

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The Transformational Power of Quality Monitoring

The Northridge Group

This article was originally published on Contact Center Pipeline and can be viewed here. As customer expectations and channels for outreach continue to evolve, the contact center is becoming more and more complex and critical. The Role of QM in the Contact Center. TENURE-RELATED PERFORMANCE DECLINE.

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Proper Contact Center Training Benefits Employee Experience

The Northridge Group

In the recent 2023 State of CX report by The Northridge Group, 92% of business leaders surveyed said they would like to provide additional training to their customer service representatives. If your training program isn’t ready to support this shift your customers will suffer.