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Supporting Contact Center Associates to Reduce Burnout and Impact Patient and Member Experience

The Northridge Group

Thus, it comes as no surprise that we are seeing it trickle down to healthcare contact center associates, causing them to leave their jobs, with both payers and providers, at increasing rates since the onset of the pandemic. Contact Centers in Crisis. Empowering Contact Center Associates.

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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. It took me about six miles, in one session, on the treadmill to read the book filled with Sonny’s rules for life.

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

The Northridge Group

In the early days of customer contact centers, associates might typically have found that 50 out of 100 incoming calls could be easily resolved with a few simple steps. In a “digital first” customer service environment, associates should expect simple calls to be scarce.

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Best Practices of Great Coaches

The Northridge Group

Coaching contact center associates to drive a differentiated customer experience that delights customers is a tall order for their managers, who must continually strike a balance between associate development and sustained business outcomes. Recalibrating the team on current vs. desired future state performance.

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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.

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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.

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Proper Contact Center Training Benefits Employee Experience

The Northridge Group

The Northridge Group helped put this into action when we worked with a leading financial services company on a sales contact center transformation project that spanned recruiting, training, quality monitoring, workflow management, and performance metrics.