Category Archives: Customer Service
Does Your Executive Team Understand Staffing Tradeoffs?
Are you working through difficult discussions related to resources and budget? Just remember, contact centers must handle most customer-related work as it happens, so resource...
Read More >>>Improving ROI on Quality Monitoring
Boosting Quality and Innovation
Every customer interaction your organization handles provides implicit and/or direct insight into processes, products, policies, services, customers and the external environment. You have the opportunity...
Read More >>>Don’t Leave Culture to Chance
Innovative Hiring Practices
Here are samples of things different organizations are doing to find, attract and hire the people they need: Zappos offers new employees payments equivalent to...
Read More >>>Recent WebTV Interview on Contact Center Measures
I recently appeared on Laura Sikorski’s WebTV show Sikorski’s Think Abouts. In this interview-style 15-minute video, we discuss 7 measures every contact center should use...
Read More >>>Hiring Statistics
73% of contact centers say the complexity of customer contacts is increasing. (Source: ICMI) 73% of recruiters have hired a candidate through social media. (Source: Jobvite) Job posts get 36% more applications if accompanied by...
Read More >>>New ebook (free), ICMI’s Guide to Contact Center Metrics
I recently co-authored an eBook with Justin Robbins for ICMI and Five9. ICMI’s Guide to Contact Center...
Read More >>>The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 14: Hiring for Service: It’s Time for a Rethink
The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 14: Hiring for Service: It’s Time for a Rethink...
Read More >>>Building a Customer Service Ecosystem
Customer experience is not a program, a department, a contact center, self-service capability, or CRM system—it’s much more. It’s an ecosystem, comprised of many components...
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