Beyond the Accent

Beyond the Accent

In today’s global economy, call and contact centers handle inquiries from a diverse range of customers. This diversity reflects the richness of a global...
How to Build An Amazing Onboarding Experience

How to Build An Amazing Onboarding Experience

Making sure new employees have the best possible onboarding experience isn’t just nice: it’s crucial for keeping great people! A solid plan for onboarding,...
Dr. Joseph Riggio & Henrik Wenøe

Turning Customers into Advocates

How do you transform satisfied customers into loyal advocates? For businesses aiming to thrive in today’s competitive environment, it’s no longer enough to simply...
Rethinking Training and Coaching

Rethinking Training and Coaching

Contact center training and coaching methods and tools are undergoing both a technological transformation and a rethink of how best to help leadership and...
How to Defend Training in Turbulent Times

How to Defend Training in Turbulent Times

Since 2001, I have seen three major economic downturns affect my contact center clients: the tech-sector recession that year, the 2008 financial crisis, and...
Remotely Engaging

Remotely Engaging

The technology and best practices for contact centers have rapidly changed over the years. And one of the biggest was the rapid shift of...
Mastering Outbound Contact Center Management

Mastering Outbound Contact Center Management

Contact centers face a range of issues today. And with customer demands evolving as fast as new technologies, it’s safe to say there is...
The Irony of CX … Vision or Hallucination?

The Irony of CX … Vision or Hallucination?

Google defines irony as “Whenever a person says or does something that departs from what they (or we) expect.” It is often delivered with...
Conversation With the Coach

Conversation With the Coach

Mark Pereira is one of Contact Center Pipeline’s most prolific contributors. And for good reason. The author of our “Coach’s Corner” column, along with...
Unleash the Power of Your Team!

Unleash the Power of Your Team!

In a trend that is only increasing, call center managers are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to solve simple customer issues. This...
Bolstering Training With Microlearning

Bolstering Training With Microlearning

Developing a business on the strong foundation of excellent customer support is among the most effective ways leaders can help ensure an organization’s success...
Turn Training into a Competitive Advantage

Turn Training into a Competitive Advantage

Consumer choice in every single industry is at an all-time high, which means customer experiences are now where business is won and lost for...
The Re-Invention of the Telephone Center

The Re-Invention of the Telephone Center

“Change is the only constant in life.” —Heraclitus The above age-old adage came...
Meeting Today’s Coaching, Training Challenges

Meeting Today’s Coaching, Training Challenges

The key to contact center success is having a highly qualified, motivated, committed, and well-trained and coached workforce. But that is not always and...
Navigating the Training Maze

Navigating the Training Maze

Training is often a maze with many different and confusing branches that must be navigated to find one’s voice in the contact center. In...
Contact Center Pipeline Top 5 Blog Posts

Top 5 Posts in April

Starting off our Top 5 Blog Posts in April, in honor of CCP's 15th Anniversary, Verint reflects on the evolution in customer interaction over...
Using Data to Improve Performance

Using Data to Improve Performance

Contact centers share in common with sports like baseball and football that the actions of the players are highly visible and experienced. Like home...
The Upcoming Recruitment Crunch

The Upcoming Recruitment Crunch

My son said, “I can’t hear anything!” My wife had just handed her mobile phone to him, so he could hear a few words...
Top 10 Blog Posts of All Time

Top 10 Blog Posts of All Time

In honor of Contact Center Pipeline's 15th Anniversary, we have pulled together the Top 10 Blog Posts of All Time. These blog posts represent...
A Conversation on Coaching and Training

A Conversation on Coaching and Training

As a call center coach and trainer, I have had the honor of meeting, talking to, and sharing insights with and learning from many...