Leadership - Brad Cleveland

Building Cross-Functional Processes

Dec 11, 2015 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Access Strategy, Customer Service, Leadership, Organization and Culture

Many centers have charged a person or a group of people with essential planning responsibilities, i.e., forecasting, staffing and scheduling. As a part of their job, they are given the task of collecting information required for these activities. But if they...

Does Your Executive Team Understand Staffing Tradeoffs?

Dec 4, 2015 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Service, Leadership, Workforce Management

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 mismatches quickly results in big problems. It’s essential that those making decisions have...

Improving ROI on Quality Monitoring

Dec 1, 2015 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Service, Leadership, Quality Management, Videos

Boosting Quality and Innovation

Nov 19, 2015 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Service, Leadership, Organization and Culture, Quality Management

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 to play a central role in building a stronger organization with...

Don’t Leave Culture to Chance

Nov 17, 2015 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Service, Leadership, Organization and Culture, Videos

Innovative Hiring Practices

Nov 12, 2015 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Service, Leadership, Organization and Culture

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 one month’s salary to leave. This helps ensure that those who stay truly want to be there. In...