Call Center - Brad Cleveland

The Best-Managed Contact Centers: #1 – They Produce High Levels of Value

Dec 17, 2015 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Service, Leadership

In some organizations, you can feel the energy as soon as you walk in the door. It takes many forms: pride of workmanship, a feeling of community, good planning, coordination and the willingness to make the “extra effort.” Everybody knows what the mission...

Encouraging Customers to Use Self-Service Channels

Dec 15, 2015 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Access Strategy, Customer Service, Multi-channel Support, Self-service, Videos

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...

Should We Have Objectives for Abandonment?

Dec 8, 2015 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Access Strategy, Customer Service, Videos, Workforce Management

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...