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Making Virtual Training Engaging

Contact Center Pipeline

Virtual training is here to stay! With many contact centers going hybrid or staying fully remote, how do you ensure training keeps people engaged, encourages interactivity, and effectively improves their skills? To find out, I interviewed five contact center training experts.

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Guest Post: Cultivate a Customer Service Online Training

ShepHyken

He shares the importance of developing online training resources for your customer service team and how to implement one for the success of your business. However, this is only possible if they are trained the right way. . Why Your Customer Service Needs Online Training .

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Top 3 Trends for the Future of Contact Center Training

Contact Center Pipeline

The world of contact center training is complicated. Trainers are responsible for helping the onboarding process run smoothly for new agents by delivering the best possible training program tailored to the training class and industry.

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Customer Service Training is Not What You Think it is

ShepHyken

They do customer service training during the onboarding process. Communication is a big part of keeping the “magic” going, and to do that you must consider ongoing training. By ongoing training—and this is important—I’m not referring to pulling everyone away from their normal responsibilities for a half-day or full-day (or more) once a month or once a quarter—although some companies do that. Customer service training doesn’t have to be so formal.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enhance your professional development and lifelong learning.

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Sales Training Metrics That Matter

Integrity Solutions

While investing in sales training can produce a range of benefits, all of us in sales know it all boils down to the bottom line. Here are the sales training metrics you should be using to measure your success. How to Determine Sales Training Metrics.

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The Secret to Training Seasonal Agents

Contact Center Pipeline

Training & Development call center contact center seasonal staff seasonal training staffing temporary staff training“They are just temps,” said one contact center manager describing his seasonal agents. They will be gone in a couple of months!” That condescending attitude was reflected in the seasonal team’s environment. They were crammed into an abandoned conference room filled with computers, phones and wires.

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The Ultimate Guide to Call Center Training

Fonolo

Call center training has always been one of the key pillars of running a successful call center. A strong call center training program should not just be part of your onboarding process. Still have questions about call center training? What is Call Center Training?

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De-escalation Training for Customer Service Professionals

Myra Golden Media

During the training, I go over what causes situations to escalate and share practical steps you can take to prevent them. Nearly every customer service professional has encountered a livid customer.

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Choose your battles wisely – Conflict Resolution Training for Managers

Myra Golden Media

For Jack Cooper University , I produced a ten week conflict resolution training. Here’s our week eight video training. I loved every minute of this interactive training project! Jack Cooper’s managers are ready to preempt escalations and manage conflict.

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The Why, What, & How of Transitioning to Virtual Training

In this guide, we’ll explore the key characteristics of on-demand training and delve into the benefits of this method for students.

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5 Reasons Call Center Agents Aren’t Learning Enough in Remote Training

ScreenSteps Call Center

Have you noticed that your virtual trainings haven't gone quite as well as your classroom trainings did? And when reps get on the call with an actual caller, they're either getting physically ill or going completely blank — like they haven't just spent 6 weeks in training?

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Guest Blog: Customer Service Training Ideas to Help Build Brand Advocacy

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Kristin Erikson writes shares great customer service training tips and ideas that will help your company build brand advocacy. Remember customer service training is not something you di, it’s something you do. – Shep Hyken. Customers service training ideas for better brand advocacy. Train your sales team using the right technology.

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Free Call Control Online Training

Myra Golden Media

The outcome of this training is employees who possess the soft skills to make customers feel heard and understood, politely lead conversations and assertively bring calls to closure. Take my Call Control Online training for free, and then share it with your employees. Learn more about my online customer service training. Studies show the average business call lasts 2 minutes longer than it needs to.

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Upskilling Contact Center Agents with Simulation Training

Contact Center Pipeline

Artificial Intelligence Customer Experience Sponsored Posts AI artificial intelligence Csat customer experience CX simulation training speed-to-proficiency upskillingAt contact centers, human interactions matter.

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6 Ways to Secure (More Of) a Budget for Your Customer Education Program

Whether you’re looking to kickstart or expand your customer education program, you need access to a budget. Learn how you can demonstrate the positive ROI of customer training and make the case for securing a larger budget in our latest eBook!

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How to Train and Support Remote Customer Service Employees

Myra Golden Media

When we moved to Q & A, Sherry asked a question about training and supporting remote agents: Our contact center agents will work remotely for the foreseeable future. I’m concerned about training my agents and supporting them.

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Who Desperately Needs De-escalation Training?

Myra Golden Media

That’s right… you NEED DE-ESCALATION training like the Sahara Desert needs a rainstorm! Like water is to a desert, my De-escalation Academy is to customer support teams who serve challenging customers. Need I say more? . Head over to De-escalation Academy to learn more!

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Transparent BPO Appoints Heather Sandusky As Vice President of Training

Transparent BPO

8, 2022 – Heather Sandusky is joining Transparent BPO, a global contact center and business process outsourcer, as vice president of training. The post Transparent BPO Appoints Heather Sandusky As Vice President of Training appeared first on Transparent BPO.

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Simulation Training: The Time is Now

CCNG

If simulation training isn’t part of your training regimen now, it will be soon. Today I’m going to show you why I’m so confident that simulation training is in your future and how you can approach the process to gain the most benefit for your call center.

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Just launched! 2020 Customer Education Benchmarks and Trends Report

Based on a survey of more than 250+ external education teams, Skilljar has compiled this report on current trends including budgets, integrations, team structure, and more. In this report, see how companies across a variety of industries are building, optimizing, and measuring their training programs.

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Why Are Contact Centers Cancelling Supervisor Training?

CX Global Media

So, they are not eliminating supervisor training, they are just cancelling supervisor training classes and implementing a more modern approach of blended learning. I got a chance to learn more about the “training class” topic with Master Contact Center Trainer Penny Reynolds on the webinar How Do Your Call Center Supervisors Measure Up? While I would love to go out and stand for two days and interact and do the classroom training – you know I missed it actually.

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Four Proven Practices to Elevate the Impact of Your Online Training

Contact Center Pipeline

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Training and Development as an Employee Retention Strategy 

COPC

Training and development functions exist in most contact center operations. Some organizations focus primarily on new hire training, while others also provide ongoing training. Global Benchmarking Series, Contact Center Training and Development. New Hire Training.

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How to Get the Greatest Agent Training ROI

CX Global Media

Contact center agent training can be a very big expenditure for a lot of organizations. Regardless of your turnover situation, one thing is certain, the ROI (Return on Investment) on agent training is very important. Because of the importance of agent training ROI you will find a large variation of ways that organizations actually conduct their initial or on-boarding agent training strategy. This is going to make training ROI and even bigger issue.

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Badges, Certificates, and Certifications: A Comprehensive Guide to Credentialing

Certifications can be a huge pillar of Customer Education programs, but they can also be really daunting. In this guide, we will explore the world of credentials in-depth and how they relate to customer and partner training programs.

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Four Reasons Why Training Today Is Failing Employees

Contact Center Pipeline

Today’s model for training, educating, and preparing our workforce is broken. Training & Development gamification training turnoverThe rapid acceleration of technology and changing workforce calls for something new. Workers today are disengaged and unprepared for work.

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Learning the Benefits of Virtual Training

Integrity Solutions

Benefits of Virtual Training. For clients, flexibility of delivery is a benefit of virtual training delivery. Less time out of the field – Virtual training reduces time out of the field by 50% (to/from traveling). So, virtual training has many benefits.

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ALERT: Leadership Training for Supervisors Is Being Disrupted

CX Global Media

To be intentional and proactive in their response, executives are investing in the transformation of their training courses in leadership for supervisors because the frontline is where the customer-centric battle will be won. If leadership training is provided, it’s typically provided via traditional classroom workshops or seminars that are known to deliver very low return on investment for leadership development, impact and learner interest. Supervisor Training Reset.

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How do you train artificial intelligence?

TELUS International

Every AI and machine learning project requires training in order to excel. Learn what AI training is, how it works and discover some tips for success. Next-Gen Technology

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Benchmark Survey: Employee Training in a Virtual World

Share your experience and we’ll send you a free copy of the results so you can see how you compare to your peers. To view the survey, click the “View Now” button below:

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Customer Service Training: When you’re done… you’re not done!

ShepHyken

So, I took a few minutes to talk to several people about how they were trained. I asked them what kind of customer service training they received from the companies they worked for. It turns out that when she was hired, she went through training. Part of that training included a good amount of time spent on how to deliver good customer service. She went on to say that in the 18 months she had worked at the store, she received no additional customer service training.

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Scaling distributed training with AWS Trainium and Amazon EKS

AWS Machine Learning

Although larger models tend to be more powerful, training such models requires significant computational resources. Today, we are excited to announce official support for distributed training jobs using Amazon EKS and EC2 Trn1 instances.

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The need for excellent customer service training

Peter Lavers

Amongst all the hype of customer experience, AI, chatbots and real-time personalisation, don’t forget that staff still need excellent customer service training – no matter how successful your company is right now! When customer support representatives start at a company, they usually get a bit of training upfront. All this upfront training serves to give employees a great leg-up to start their jobs feeling prepared to solve problems and provide the best support possible.

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How to Make Remote Training Work for New-Hires

Contact Center Pipeline

Our face-to-face new-hire training session, with a median class size of six to seven trainees, typically takes about a month to complete. Training & Development agent development call center contact center COVID-19 new-hire training remote training virtual training

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Need to More Effectively Manage Your Call Center?

TASKE shares how you can rewind your real-time dashboard and watch agent and time activities in the past. Download the infographic here!

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10 Takeaways Your Employees Get From My Telephone Skills Online Training

Myra Golden Media

This training is about never having your customers hang up with negative feelings about how you talked to them. Here are 10 Takeaways Your Employees Get From My Telephone Skills Training. This training includes Knowledge Checks. 20 WOW Telephone Techniques Customer Experience Design Telephone Techniques Telephone Techniques TrainingMaya Angelou once said, “People will forget what you said. They will forget what you did.

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Planning for Disaster: 5 Tips for a Bulletproof Virtual Training Plan

Contact Center Pipeline

Training & Development call center contact center online training training plan training technology troubleshooting virtual trainingNothing can short-circuit an online class faster than “technical difficulties.” I’ve seen so many talented facilitators prepped and ready to deliver their carefully planned content—only to lose control of the classroom due to a glitch.

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Come Join My Telephone Skills Online Training

Myra Golden Media

I try to make my training easy – for you, your employees, and even for me, by offering it online. I still do onsite training, of course, but online training saves time and money. If you’re serious about making 2018 better than 2017, my o nline customer service training is for your team. Look through course outlines and take a test drive of the training right here. Start training your employees today with a 30% discount and my compliments.

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Training vs. Coaching: Which Is Better?

Contact Center Pipeline

Training and coaching are two different approaches, but people often use the words interchangeably—and even worse, they use the tactics interchangeably. To train means to provide the learner with the tools he or she needs to function. Training & Development agent development call center coaching contact center training

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The Conversational AI Journey: What to Expect from Start to Finish

Speaker: Gary Davis, SmartAction CEO

Join us for this webinar as Gary Davis, SmartAction CEO, shares insights and best practices for implementing AI virtual agents in the contact center.