Organization and Culture - Brad Cleveland

Empowering Your Customer Service Team

Sep 18, 2020 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Leadership, Organization and Culture

Many organizations want to do the right thing for customers, but too often put a multi-layered, time-eroding approval process in place to get there. By then, the customer is gone, or the loyalty that could arise from their experience has dwindled. That’s not effective...

The Stay Interview: A Powerful Retention Tool

Sep 3, 2020 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Service, Leadership, Organization and Culture

The best contact centers continually work on the root causes of turnover. There are many common causes of turnover, such as insufficient development opportunities, pace of effort required, feeling of not being appreciated, the list goes on. What is most important in...

Enabling a Supporting Culture

Jul 3, 2020 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Service, LinkedIn Learning, Organization and Culture

Studies show a strong link between engaged employees and higher levels of productivity and profitability. In one example, Gallup found that companies ranked in the top quartile for employee engagement are 18% more productive and 12% more profitable than those in lower...

Empower Your Workforce to Fix Things for Customers

Jun 23, 2020 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Service, Organization and Culture, Workforce Management

Real-time management is often viewed as a matter of responding to workload quantities. What’s often missed in these discussions is how to respond to the nature of the workload. If it’s heavy, there usually are underlying issues driving it. You can throw all the...

The Power of One: Every Agent Matters

Mar 27, 2020 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Service, Organization and Culture, Workforce Management

In these extraordinary times when many of us have had to transition our customer service agents to work at home, it is more important than ever that all agents understand their individual contribution to servicing customers. And that they understand how much they are...

Building a Cohesive Virtual Team

Mar 11, 2020 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Service, Leadership, Organization and Culture

Information and communications technologies have created organizations that span geography and time. Multi-site environments, cross-functional teams, and extended-hour or 24/7 operations are common contact center examples. If you are a manager or director, you may...