Contact Center Management

15 steps to Improve your Contact Center

Posted on May 11, 2023 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Technology • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Leadership • People management • Planning • Quality • Quality Assurance • retention • Strategy • WFM

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by Colin Taylor I was in Las Vegas last week attending and speaking at Call & Contact Center Expo US and it was a great time. I got to see a number of familiar faces and meet a bunch of new friends. I also saw a lot of very interesting technologies. I was particularly impressed […]

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Coaching Through Questions

Posted on October 20, 2022 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Education • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • People management • Quality • Training • WFH • WFM

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By Peg Ayers As Supervisors and Managers, we often feel we must have all the answers. We need to share our great experience and knowledge with those on our teams. We’ve been promoted for our skills, and we need to make sure everybody understands that. This can lead to coaching conversations where we spend more […]

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Evolution of Contact Center Scripts

Posted on September 28, 2022 in AHT • Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact Center Technology • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Mirrors • Help Desk • Quality • Quality Assurance • Training

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By Colin Taylor [This post was adapted from a webinar that Colin Taylor delivered for Customer Contact Central on September 8, 2022. You can see the replay here while available: https://www.customercontactcentral.com/frs/22041151/top-industry-secrets-for-successful-contact-center-scripting/email] There has been a continuous evolution in scripting since we were taping printed copies onto cubicle walls. There are primarily 4 different types of […]

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Top Industry Secrets for Successful Contact Center Scripting

Posted on September 26, 2022 in Agent Experience • Best Practices

Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• Call Center Assessment• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Customer Experience• scripting• service level

By Colin Taylor [This post was adapted from a webinar that Colin Taylor delivered for Customer Contact Central on September 8, 2022. You can see the replay here while available: https://www.customercontactcentral.com/frs/22041151/top-industry-secrets-for-successful-contact-center-scripting/email] When we think of a script a number of things can come to mind: The Cambridge English Dictionary defines it as both ”the words […]

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Contact Center Training Isn’t Buddy-Buddy

Posted on February 11, 2022 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Contact Centre Ops • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • People management • Training • WFM

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By Colin Taylor A lack of agent training is a sure-fire way of ensuring customers are disappointed. Learning a new skill or capability provide both enjoyment and a break from the mundane, and brings with it the opportunity to increase earnings. But to be effective, organizations need to ensure that they take a measured and […]

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Make 2022 the Best Year Ever for Your Contact Center!

Posted on January 07, 2022 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Blog • Business continuity • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call center Humor • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Center Industry Statistics • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Forecasting- WFM • Incentives • Leadership • Opinion • People management • Success • Supervisor • Training • WFH • WFM

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By Peg Ayers As the New Year begins, many of us turn to thoughts of self-improvement, swearing off sweets, resolving to run three miles a day or promising not to spend hours in front of the television every weekend. But how many of us look at our contact centers and think about making this New […]

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

Posted on September 03, 2021 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Hiring a call center consultant • People management • Turnover • Virtual Call Center • Vrirtual Contact Center • WFH • WFM

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by JD Fairweather After several months of remote working – a workstyle many contact center leaders would have deemed impossible to implement a year and a half ago – employers are finding it difficult to lure staff back into the office. The Delta variant notwithstanding, it seems that employees are far too settled into the […]

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Gratitude: Now’s the Time to Show It!

Posted on December 21, 2020 in Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Incentives • Leadership • People management • retention • Turnover • WFM

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By Peg Ayers With the holiday season upon us and New Year’s Day coming up, it’s easy to say, “Let’s just get out of this ridiculous year!  I don’t want to give 2020 another thought!  I’m looking to the future.” Focus on the future is great, but let’s not forget the lessons we’ve learned this […]

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Finding Real Experts in the Age of LinkedIn

Posted on October 14, 2020 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Expert round-up • Hiring a call center consultant

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By Colin Taylor In the age of Linked In, everyone claims to be an expert and the challenge for most people is how do you tell the real experts from the self-appointed? I would humbly suggest that there a few factors to consider; What have they done and where (locations and verticals)? In short, what […]

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Where are My Friends? Adjusting to Life as a Leader

Posted on September 01, 2020 in Agent Experience • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Leadership • WFM

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By Peg Ayers A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. John C. Maxwell In my years in contact center leadership, my team and I debated many topics and searched for answers to such burning questions […]

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