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Contact Center Pipeline Top 5 Blog Posts

Top 5 Posts in January

In this month's most-read posts, our authors offer insights on how the contact center agent's role has evolved and become more complex, how best to engage with your WFH agents, how to improve your...
Contact Center Pipeline Top 5 Blog Posts

Top 5 Posts in December

As 2021 draws to a close, our readers are looking to improve their enterprise operations by promoting their value and visibility, harnessing the power of IVAs, and utilizing all the data the contact center...
Reflections of a Contact Center Leader

Reflections of a Contact Center Leader

Recently retired (OK, mostly retired), I felt the desire to reflect on a wonderful and challenging 40-plus-year contact center career. Numerous technological changes have taken place in the industry during that time. We have...
Communication Styles to Build Deeper Rapport

Communication Styles to Build Deeper Rapport

In today’s call centers, employers aren’t just looking for professional expertise or experience in team leaders. They’re also looking for other qualities like the ability to build rapport with customers, team members and other...
Avid Readers Make Better Leaders

Avid Readers Make Better Leaders

I have grown up (personally and professionally) over the past 30-plus years working in the call/contact center business. I began in the early ’80s when my husband David and I owned an “interconnect” telephone...
Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent Leader, Part 3

Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent Leader, Part 3

The world is changing at a very rapid pace. Societal demands, workplace and family demands are also evolving. With all these changes, we also must evolve and adapt to thrive! With a focus on...
Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent Leader, Part 2

Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent Leader, Part 2

As we all reflect on the changes, stresses and effects on mental health, corporate culture and employee engagement, we realize that the future of the workplace will require a focus and commitment to the...

Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent Contact Center Leader

We are now well into 2021, and I hope this year will be a much better year for all. It is interesting that, although 2020 was such a tough year with so many challenges, for...

Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent Contact Center Leader

We are now well into 2021, and I hope this year will be a much better year for all. It is interesting that, although 2020 was such a tough year with so many challenges, for...

5 Reasons You are Probably Missing the Greatest Opportunity in Our Industry

One of our most basic emotions is fear. It causes us to freeze, flee, fight or appease. When it comes to taking advantage of an opportunity, you will find these reactions are present. But...

Seven Contact Center New Year’s Resolutions for 2021

Congratulations! Your contact center made it through 2020. Last year compressed five years’ worth of digital transformation, work-from-home initiatives, and massive customer contact volumes into just nine months. However, the New Year brings new...
Leading with Empathy, November 2020 Feature

Leading with Empathy: Demonstrate Understanding, Care and Compassion for Customers and Employees

Everyone could use a little more empathy these days. The desire to feel heard and understood is a basic human need, and one that has a proven impact for companies. Numerous studies have linked...

Woe Is Me… How About You?

Woe is me” is defined as “an overdramatic, often comical way to express sadness or disappointment at an unfair situation.” Well, there you have it… the definition describes quite well what many of...
Leading with Empathy, November 2020 Feature

Why Empathy in Leadership Matters

A 2019 study conducted by Businessolver shows that, although 80% of employees believe that organizations need to be more empathetic, only 57% of CEOs believe empathy is essential to their success. As you can...

Leadership Insights: Rising Above COVID Challenges

More than six months ago, the world changed for everyone. In most places, people were sent home to work remotely. The contact center industry was expected to get their teams home while continuing to...

Open the Door… To Possibility!

The idiom “Open the Door” is defined by Merriam-Webster as “to make something easier.” Who isn’t interested in making something easier? Think back on the past couple of years and the push toward improving...

The Covid-19 Crisis: Do We Put Our Energy into People, Process or Technology?

COVID-19 has impacted everyone’s lives in so many ways. As we all learn to navigate our way through this global crisis, there are increasing demands on our contact center agents as well as the...

Women in Leadership: How to Succeed—and Lead—in the Contact Center Industry

In honor of women who inspire, influence and serve as role models, I’ve compiled leadership advice from five of the finest contact center leaders I know. All have held senior leadership positions at enterprise-level...

The Impact of Altruism on a Servant Leadership Culture

Servant leadership is the backbone of many leadership development programs today. While the leadership philosophy is too complicated and involved to learn by glancing over an article, it is possible to identify servant leadership’s...
10 Ways to Help Employees Cope with COVID-19 Coronavirus

Leading in Uncertain Times: 10 Ways to Help Employees Cope with the Pandemic

As the COVID-19 pandemic takes hold, we’re all being impacted in various ways, many of them pretty dramatic. Everyone is feeling more than a little fear and anxiety about the future. If you’re a...
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