Susan Hash
Managing Through COVID-19: A Roundup of Tips, Tools and Tech for Contact Centers
We are finally at the end of a turbulent 2020. It has been quite a journey—with many more months of market uncertainty and workplace...
Reducing Customer Service Friction
It has been months since the COVID-19 crisis suddenly shifted entire frontline teams home to work. Customer service operations in the hardest-hit industries are...
Inside View: Sweetwater Founder & CEO Chuck Surack
In 1979, when musician and entrepreneur Chuck Surack founded Sweetwater Sound, a mobile recording studio in the back of his VW bus, he never...
Inside View: PFS
Like so many companies, PFS’ customer care team had to make the quick shift from a fully on-premise operation to a work-from-home model during...
Top 5 Posts in October
As we entered Q4 of a uniquely challenging year, our most-read posts in October reflected that contact center management are well into their annual...
How to Apply Predictive Analytics to Post-COVID Recovery, Part 2
As contact center leaders plan for the post-pandemic recovery—both short- and long-term—where can they turn for reliable insights for informed decision-making? Contact centers that...
How to Apply Predictive Analytics to Post-COVID Recovery, Part 1
We are now into the final quarter of a year that will surely be remembered as one of the most chaotic in history. Many...
Customer Service Week 2020 Wrap-Up
We’re wrapping up Customer Service Week 2020 with themes, activities and comments from Fara Haron of Majorel, Mark Pereira of Briljent, and Centrical’s Gal...
More Customer Service Week 2020
In our second post on Customer Service Week 2020, Sitel Group’s Olivier Camino and Sweetwater’s Jeff Ostermann provide insights into their companies’ employee experience...
Customer Service Team Appreciation 2020
This has been a grueling year—a marathon of fear, uncertainty and constant course-corrections. Throughout it all, frontline customer service staff across industries have stepped...
Top 5 Posts in September
The round-up of most-read blog posts in September offer telling clues about what’s top-of-mind for contact center leaders these days. At the No. 1...
Preventing Contact Center Agent Burnout
Employees everywhere are struggling with severe increases in stress and anxiety brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. Fear of being exposed to the virus...
COVID-19 Impact: Recalibrating Human & AI Roles, Part 3
In this final installment of our three-part series on COVID-19’s impact on contact centers, our panel discusses how the rapid move to adopt or...
Top 5 Posts in July
There has been quite a bit of activity on the Pipeline blog in July. Understandably, articles related to pandemic-related customer service issues continued to...
COVID-19 Impact: Recalibrating Human & AI Roles, Part 2
Our three-part series on COVID-19’s impact on contact centers and the shift to more flexible human and automated models continues with a look at...
COVID-19 Impact: Recalibrating Human & AI Roles in the Contact Center, Part 1
As the global economy gradually reopens under evolving guidance and safety protocols for companies, employees and customers, business leaders are contemplating a vastly altered...
Inside View: Ian Stokol, CCXP
The Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) defines an outstanding CX practitioner as someone who “inspires excellence in all aspects of the CX discipline and...
Caring for Customers During a Pandemic
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been multilayered, creating widespread fear and stress over health and safety, income, finances, child care, elder care...
Top 5 Posts in June
More contact center leaders have begun to turn their thoughts from crisis mode to planning for next steps. Operating during a pandemic has underscored...
Upskilling the Contact Center: Planning for Your Agents’ Future in an Era of Uncertainty
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold, shifting last quarter’s priorities to the back-burner. As more communities around the world go on...