Seven Ideas to Deliver a Great Customer Experience During a Recession
Customers typically leave due to price, product or service issues. As a contact center leader, you may not have direct control over price setting...
Healthcare Access Centers… Past, Present and Future
Healthcare and PowerHouse have a very long and rich history. We have had the privilege of working with some of the best systems in...
Contact Center Pipeline Magazine: Inside Our February 2021 Issue
Our Contact Center Pipeline family was saddened recently by the passing of long-time friend and colleague, Frank Priola. Those of us who have been...
Moving Forward: What Will 2021 Bring for Contact Centers?
Welcome, 2021! The new year always brings hope for new beginnings. Although COVID-19 is still the central focus of our everyday lives, the contact...
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...
Get the Ball Rolling… 2021 Here We Come!
Get the ball rolling” is an idiom that means to start the action, to make the opening move.” Its origin gives America credit for...
The New World for Contact Centers May Be Where We Were Already Headed
2020 was nothing short of challenging for businesses. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March, we all scrambled to adjust to the new state...
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...
Unexpected Lessons from the 2020 Contact Center
About a year ago, I tried something that we would all agree now was a bit foolish: predict what the 2020 contact center would...
Legal and Regulatory Developments in 2020—and What to Expect in 2021
Think about this. 2020 has (thankfully) come to an end, but the rapid and largely unrestrained spread of COVID-19 has upended our normal way...
8×8 and Aryaka: Bringing the World Closer, Together
Introducing your power team to enhance cloud communications and contact center performance across SD-WAN. 8x8 and Aryaka cloud-based services deliver the flexibility, simplicity, and scalability...
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...
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...
Goodbye 2020… Lessons Learned
I wish I could say, “Hate to see you go,” but that is definitely not the case. I believe that each of us has...
Contact Center Pipeline Magazine: Inside Our January 2021 Issue
Welcome to 2021 and the January issue of Contact Center Pipeline. I hope the new year brings much health and happiness. This is an exciting...
I’ve Looked at Clouds from Both Sides Now
In 1969, Canadian singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell released a folkie-sounding album called Clouds. Featured on the album was a song called “Both Sides, Now” that...
Happy Employees Don’t Just Happen: Here’s How to Create Them
Happy employees are the best kind. They work hard, keep customers loyal, and stick around to help your organization accomplish its mission. You definitely...
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...
Happy Holidays!
Wishing all of our readers a safe and happy holiday season, and warm wishes for the New Year!
How to Make Work Work Again
It’s mind-numbing how much is being written about COVID-19. Too much to absorb, much less process. Yet amid the lockdowns, layoffs and reopenings, we’re...
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