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The Strategic Value of Customer Service
There are three levels on which effective customer service creates value: efficiency, customer satisfaction and loyalty, and strategic value. Only a small percent of organizations harness the true strategic potential of the insight that comes from customer service. In...
The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 28: Motivation: Removing the Barriers
Dave Koz, the recognized jazz saxophonist and composer, has received nine GRAMMY nominations and has had nine No. 1 albums on Billboard's Current Contemporary Jazz Albums chart. He's played for several presidents, hosts two popular radio shows, and is a successful...
The Best Managed Contact Centers: #8 — They Leverage Technology to Support and Further Their Mission
New technologies are not passive — they are changing customer expectations, causing reallocations of resources, creating power shifts in organizations, and changing the responsibilities of agents and managers. The best contact centers identify the technologies that...
5 Secrets of Accurate Scheduling in Today’s Contact Center
The Best Managed Contact Centers: #7 – They View the Contact Center as a Total Process
Contact centers that consistently get the best results view the operation as a total process. This viewpoint takes many forms: Ensure that everyone in the contact center, and those with key supporting roles outside the center, have a basic understanding of how contact...
Establishing an Overall Objective for Quality Service
Is it a good idea to establish an overall measure of quality service? I believe so, but there are some cautions, and some traps to avoid. Learn more about how to best choose an overall objective in the video below from my LinkedIn Learning course "Quality Standards in...
Leaders Need to Spend Time on the Frontline
The Best-Managed Contact Centers: #6 – They Leverage the Key Statistics
Contact center measurements are plentiful and it's easy to get buried in information. The contact centers that get the best results from using their reports and information have several things in common: They focus on a relatively small number of measures and...
The Best-Managed Contact Centers: #5 – They Have an Established, Collaborative Planning Process
Effective planning is a central theme in the best contact centers. A major objective of good planning is to get the right number of skilled people and supporting resources in place at the right times, doing the right things. But systematic planning accomplishes more...
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