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Expert insights on customer experience, employee engagement, and service leadership. Stay ahead with Brad Cleveland’s blog—featuring CX trends, actionable strategies, and real-world solutions to help you improve customer satisfaction, streamline operations, and drive business success.
Maximize Contact Center Impact and Value
Successful contact centers have transitioned from a rote focus on handling contacts to becoming powerful engines of customer loyalty and strategic value. Find out more about the three levels on which contact centers can create value in a recent Lynda.com course video...
You’re Lookin’ (Too?) Good…
Reporting the contact center in the best possible light can undermine success. There are a lot of ways to produce reports so that the center looks as productive as possible to senior management. However, if you mask serious resource deficiencies or process problems,...
Motivation and Engagement: Your Leadership Matters
Tighten Up Your AHT Projections
Average handling time, like the volume of contacts, must be incorporated into planning by the half hour. Assuming the same average handling time all day for forecasting purposes will not reflect the environment accurately. Some relatively simple analysis can go a...
Common Pitfalls in Service Metrics
"Not everything that counts can be counted," and "not everything that can be counted counts." This quotation is sometimes attributed to Albert Einstein and though the source is not entirely clear, the message is. And it's fair warning. We've got to be mindful about...
Traits of Engaged Employees
The National Business Research Institute (NRBI) identifies six traits engaged employees have in common, including: They believe in their organization. They have the desire to work to make things better. They understand the business context and big picture. They are...
Interpreting Benchmarks
Putting Abandonment in Perspective
In many contact centers, abandonment rate is viewed as a key measure of how adequately the center is staffed. I often get questions like, what is an acceptable rate of abandonment? What is abandonment in such and such an industry? Are there any studies on how long...
Bring Quality Standards to Life with Calibration and Coaching
Quality standards come to life when they guide behavior and enable us to deliver consistent high-quality service. Calibration is an important tool for ensuring consistency in interpreting performance. It also makes coaching far easier. It allows the coaching process...
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