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How to Meet Changing Customer Expectations
How to Boost Your Contact Center’s Value to the Organization
Contact centers have enormous potential to provide departments across the organization with valuable insight and support. This can include input on customers, products, services, and processes—information that, when captured and used, can transform your organization's...
Putting Yourself in Your Customers’ Shoes
Many of the best decisions you make as a customer service leader will come by putting yourself in your customers' shoes, really seeing things as they do. In a recent LinkedIn Learning Course that I recorded, Customer Service Leadership, I include some suggestions for...
The Measures Every Contact Center Should Have
Establishing the right measures and objectives is one of the most important responsibilities in leading and managing a contact center successfully. But there’s a significant inherent challenge, which has only become more difficult with the introduction of new channels...
Communicating Access Alternatives to Customers
Tools for Your Next Team Meeting
Looking to generate substantive conversation at your next team meeting? Try one of these worksheets on customer expectations, metrics and customer access strategy. It can be helpful to take a step back from the day-to-day, urgent issues to think about the bigger...
The Nature of Contact Center Work
People who are new to contact centers are often surprised at how different they are compared to other work environments. The workload is so variable and timing is so critical. This is all true, so it can be helpful to better understand the nature of contact center...
12 Principles for Building Profitable Customer Relationships
Over the past decade, ICMI has studied, codified and periodically published a summary of the most important principles behind building strong, profitable customer relationships. Lately, I’ve been asked, are these principles less important? Have evolving customer...
TEDx Talk: Thriving in an Always-on World
September is in full swing and for many of us that means the beginning of another busy season. How do you stay connected with family, friends, co-workers and clients without being a slave to your smartphone? Is being "always connected" a blessing or a curse? This TEDx...
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