CSM Magazine

MARCH 1, 2024

Importance of Employee Training and Development Practical employee training and development programs are essential for any company because they help individuals grow, innovate, and be productive. Training programs aren’t just an additional administrative job.

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Nicereply

JUNE 12, 2023

Good customer service training is one of the most important components of your support team’s success. And that means figuring out how to effectively train new customer service team members is mission critical. And that means figuring out how to effectively train new customer service team members is mission critical.

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SharpenCX

JUNE 9, 2020

Download Now: Develop your agents and lead a more successful contact center with these 29 tactics and facts. Career pathing and development is vital for employee retention and job satisfaction in any industry. Some 68% of workers say training and development is the most important workplace policy.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 5, 2021

Regardless of your industry, providing ongoing training opportunities can mean the difference between finding lasting employees and experiencing high turnover rates. The proof is in the statistics — a proper training strategy leads to more engaged employees. What are some common challenges that come with training remote agents?

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Integrity Solutions

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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. How to Determine Sales Training Metrics.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 18, 2024

In an ambitious stride towards enhancing support available for vulnerable customers, Helen Pettifer Training Ltd announces the launch of its new website. Along with the training and consultancy offered by Helen Pettifer Training Ltd, it can aid compliance with Consumer Duty.

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The Northridge Group

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Developing service excellence at the contact center management level is a critical enabler for a company’s long-term success. In a typical contact center, frontline managers are responsible for developing team members, but for a variety of reasons, they don’t always do it as well as they should.

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Playvox

APRIL 25, 2023

Let’s confess — we’ve all nodded off during on-demand remote training sessions. How can you spice up remote agent training at your contact center to make it the most engaging and effective it can be? This staying power means that those in charge of delivering customer experience (CX) need to rethink how they deliver remote training.

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CX Global Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Virtual Boot Camps provide a hands-on and action-based way for contact supervisor training to be more engaging and fun for the learner – and significantly more affordable than any other boot camp method. Even video-based learning or computer-based training (CBT) is not as appealing to modern learners as it once was. Please share.

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Integrity Solutions

MAY 24, 2023

What Is Sales Training? Sales Training – at its heart – should be about learning to uncover and identify customer needs, thus creating value and providing service. And this is where sales training should spend the largest proportion of its focus. Why are you doing the training? What role will managers play?

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Integrity Solutions

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In the past, getting top-level buy-in for virtual training was often an uphill battle. It wasn’t easy to convince leaders that training, particularly in soft skills areas like sales and service, could be conducted effectively without everyone being in the same room together. by Steve Schmidt.

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CCNG

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

While resilience relates to many aspects of business - organizational, economic, logistic, and technological, they are all predicated on the essential one: individual human resilience. The answer is to strengthen our capacity to be resilient as leaders and individuals to be collectively resilient as organizations and societies.

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Vistio

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

AI doesn't just offer automation; it can elevate the entire agent learning and development process, making training more aligned with real-world scenarios, more adaptive to individual agent needs, and more proactive in offering timely support and feedback.

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Integrity Solutions

AUGUST 10, 2020

Virtual training is here to stay, and to get the full advantages of it, your facilitators need to go beyond knowing the material and having classroom experience to develop an entirely different skill set (and mindset). Virtual training is finally stepping out from the shadows and onto center stage.

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JustCall

MARCH 28, 2023

To enhance productivity and client satisfaction, it’s crucial to train sales agents to work together effectively. Continuous learning Collaborative sales teams foster a culture of continuous learning and professional development. Sales success hinges on strong collaboration within the team.

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AWS Machine Learning

AUGUST 16, 2023

Satellite and aerial images provide insight into a wide range of problems, including precision agriculture, insurance risk assessment, urban development, and disaster response. Training machine learning (ML) models to interpret this data, however, is bottlenecked by costly and time-consuming human annotation efforts.

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Education Services Group

AUGUST 17, 2021

need to train and certify your CSMs? Even though we’re not training providers, per se, our team gets this question all the time. Because there are oh so many benefits to training and certifying your CS team. That means giving your CSMs the best training possible so their performance is at its peak. Do you really (really?!)

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VirtualPBX

MARCH 12, 2020

Want to learn how to create an employee training plan? In today’s blog, we’ll talk about developing a set of goals, creating tasks to engage employees, and iterating to keep everyone up to date, including mentions of our Business Phone System as an important tool in this process. Find time for training to take place.

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Integrity Solutions

MARCH 20, 2020

Benefits of Virtual Training. For clients, flexibility of delivery is a benefit of virtual training delivery. Other benefits of virtual training that our clients are seeing: Lower investment – 30-50% lower total costs, as travel and expenses for participants and facilitators are eliminated. This allows for business continuity.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

While product knowledge, scripts, and protocols are important parts of training your agents, neglecting call center soft skills can affect your call center’s performance. At your next training session, consider featuring some of these engaging activities to help your team sharpen those soft skills! How to Teach Soft Skills Training.

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Toister Performance Solutions

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Fortunately, my boss noticed my initiative and quickly trained me on a variety of functions: Women's department Shoe department Stock department Cashier New hire trainer All this training made me feel recognized for my hard work. My manager didn't train me for recognition. Training is fundamentally about problem solving.

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aircall

JANUARY 29, 2021

Most people tend to think of training as a “one-and-done” experience. For support agent training, that’s simply not enough training to really become experts in their field. Call center training encompasses many different areas. Call Center Training For Your Support Agents. Here are some of the common ones: .

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TechSee

MAY 9, 2024

These inaccuracies may be the result of LLM hallucination, inaccurate or inconsistent training data, or the logical limitations of LLMs. Propagation of Biases: If not meticulously managed, AI can perpetuate existing societal biases found in its training data, leading to potentially unfair customer treatment.

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Fonolo

APRIL 15, 2020

While training is vital, it isn’t enough to help employees grow professionally at your company or in their careers. If you’re just starting out or are building a new team, here are a few things to keep in mind when you’re training, supporting and coaching agents. Even the simplest training manual can be complex. Training Tools.

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Noble Systems

AUGUST 25, 2020

Banking and other financial services firms are continually challenged to train, motivate and retain employees in order to deliver consistent, high performance services and build consumer trust. Improve employee performance and productivity– sales, marketing, customer service, product development.

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CSM Magazine

MAY 2, 2024

Zenarate, a leading SaaS provider of AI-powered skill-based learning and development for customer-facing agents, today announced the next generation of their personalized AI Coach platform. ” Hundreds of global enterprises trust Zenarate AI Coach to develop confident, top-performing customer-facing teams. .

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JustCall

MARCH 9, 2023

Here’s taking a holistic look at the advantages of customer service training and why you should give it its due. Benefits of customer service training for employees Here’s how employees can benefit from customer service training. Increased confidence Trained customer service agents are more confident in dealing with customers.

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aircall

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Have you ever looked at a high-performing sales team and wondered what kind of sales team training empowered them to be the best? spend over $70 billion on sales training every year. As you develop your sales team training program, you’ll need to have a good understanding of the purpose and goals of the training.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As a contact center leader, the top agents you hire, train, and manage are the clutch players. Each group, or individual agent, may need a slightly different approach, but there are best practices for talent development initiatives that will deliver dependable benefits.

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TechSee

APRIL 24, 2023

A well-integrated support technology will increase agent productivity, reduce handling times, and lower training costs.Integrate your service technologies wherever possible, to ensure that agents are never more than a click away from the latest offerings. How did you demonstrate continuous learning?).

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COPC

MARCH 11, 2024

Notably, individuals with a job satisfaction rate of 89% are inclined to remain, whereas those expressing dissatisfaction, marked at 22% , are more prone to seek employment elsewhere Hiring Questions Leaders Should Ask The foundation of employee retention is precisely defining the role and giving an accurate job description. How do we know?

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OctopusTech

APRIL 18, 2024

In light of the growing interest among companies, agencies, and individuals in enhancing their contact centers’ customer experience , there’s a notable trend toward personalized and empathetic communication. Develop standards for training and regularly review training materials to keep everyone on the same level.

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CSM Magazine

MAY 13, 2024

Tailored Training Every client may have different expectations and SLA requirements. Performance Monitoring and Feedback Continuous monitoring of agent performance against SLA metrics allows coaches to provide real-time feedback and adjust training programs accordingly.

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AWS Machine Learning

AUGUST 3, 2023

Training ML algorithms for pose estimation requires a lot of expertise and custom training data. Therefore, we present two options: one that doesn’t require any ML expertise and uses Amazon Rekognition, and another that uses Amazon SageMaker to train and deploy a custom ML model. Both requirements are hard and costly to obtain.

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Taylor Reach Group

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The ongoing pandemic continues to impact on individuals, business and government. TRG) have been enlisted to help one US county with developing and deploying training for the county contact center supervisors. But they can be challenged due to “last mile” connectivity, lag in terms of technology, training, and general knowledge.

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Vistio

MARCH 18, 2024

A vital tool in our arsenal to tackle this issue is training—not just any training, but effective, confidence-boosting training techniques. What are these effective training techniques for agent retention? Because a well-trained, confident agent is the backbone of any successful call center.

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Kayako

AUGUST 27, 2015

There are quite a few things that limit the value of lesson-based training sessions: it’s a form of passive learning; it’s usually tailored to a group rather than an individual; and it doesn’t happen regularly. Even after plenty of training, many support reps still feel grossly underprepared to go out and handle customers.

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