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Leaders Need to Spend Time on the Frontline
The Best Managed Contact Centers: #12 – They See the Possibilities
The contact center profession has come a long way in recent years. Customer expectations are high, and for good reason. For the most part, contact centers have learned how to deliver. Collectively, they have invested billions in equipment, networks and software. They...
Focus on the Next Three Hours
Recently, I was invited to participate in Jim Rembach's FastLeader Show Podcast. It was a great experience and gave me the opportunity to reflect on what has mattered most over the years. One bit of advice that has made an impact on my career is to focus on the next...
Interpreting Benchmarks
The Best Managed Contact Centers: #11 – They Are Willing to Experiment
The most successful contact center teams continually review and reassess how they do things and the results they are achieving. What can be improved? What should be scrapped? What assumptions no longer make sense? What can be done differently? They would agree with...
The Essential Role of Today’s Front Line Managers
Rewind the clock about ten years, and you’d find top level managers in many organizations, along with most industry pundits, predicting that front line managers (a.k.a. supervisors) would become less important in contact centers, and that their numbers would begin to...
Boosting the Strategic Value of Your Customer Service Operation
The Single Customer View – Myth or Reality
“Is the Single Customer View a realistic ambition or just a pipe dream talked about at conferences?” That’s the question asked in the latest CCE Board of Experts “ask the experts” article by Hannah Brewer. Note: This article is no longer available. You can find...
The Best Managed Contact Centers: #10 – They Build an Effective Organization
Successful contact center leaders design an organizational structure that facilitates collaboration among and across job roles and business units. They tap into the principles of good organizational design and revisit their structure often. They continually work on...
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