The idea of empowering employees to be customer advocates sounds great to many leaders—in concept....
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The Enablers: 3 Essentials for High-Quality Customer Service
Some managers assume that quality standards are primarily for individuals, those actually delivering the service. But don’t miss half the fun and half the value....
Read More >>>Transform Service Efficiency with Forecast Accuracy and Schedule Adherence
An important part of delivering effective and efficient service is anticipating customer demand, or put...
Read More >>>The Psychology of Queues
From a customer’s perspective, there are two basic types of queues. (And I don’t mean long ones and short ones.) Queues are either visible or...
Read More >>>Don’t Guess at Staffing: Proven Methods for Your Contact Center
How many people do you need to handle the customer workload on a Monday morning...
Read More >>>Managing Perceptions When Capacity Is Limited
What do you do if customer demand outstrips supply? What if there are more customers than the capacity that you have? After all, you can’t add more seats...
Read More >>>What Do Customer Service Leaders Need to Know About Customer Queues?
Queues are something we would all rather avoid. Yet, as customers, there we are standing...
Read More >>>Be Bold in Doing What’s Right
When you think about innovation and growth in the future, what’s your role as a leader? Are there steps you need to take that are a little bit...
Read More >>>Can agents get work done between customer contacts?
I know, I know. It’s busy out there. The demand for agent-assisted service is relentless (wasn’t that AI-driven chatbot going to reduce workload?). Your team...
Read More >>>Forecasting the Contact Center Workload
Everything to do with getting resources right in a contact center begins with forecasting, predicting what the workload will be. Workload is what leads to how many agents...
Read More >>>Will Contact Center Fundamentals Change?
The technologies powering today’s always-on world, along with fast-evolving customer expectations, are dramatically changing the nature of how products and services are provided and supported....
Read More >>>The Psychology of Queues
Queues are a fact of life—especially now, given staffing shortages and growing workloads in many organizations. All contact centers—even emergency services—queue customers some of the...
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