Employee Engagement: 5 Lessons from a Pandemic
How engaged people are in their work depends on a myriad of factors from corporate culture to manager behavior, from daily tasks to what’s...
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...
Leading the Virtual and On-Site Workforce: 10 Top Practices for Managers
Coronavirus has accelerated the virtualization of call centers worldwide, supercharging a trend that was already underway. Well before the pandemic, Gartner was forecasting that...
Change Your Work-at-Home Model to Fit Your Agents’ Needs
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a rapid and global shift of moving contact center agents and supervisors to a work-at-home model, giving rise...
How Intelligent Virtual Assistants Are Leading the Transition to the Intelligent Enterprise
Intelligent virtual assistants (IVAs) have proven themselves to automate the handling of customer and employee requests and tasks. They are quickly becoming a fixture...
Meet Janet LeBlanc: Our December 2020 Wall of Fame Honoree
Contact Center Pipeline’s
AUTHOR WALL OF FAME Janet LeBlanc is President of Janet LeBlanc + Associates, a consulting firm specializing in the design and delivery of...
Seven Ways the Pandemic Affected My WFM Role
2020 has been an unbelievable year. We’ve experienced a worldwide pandemic, a huge cultural movement, universal economic collapse, home-schooling and a shortage of toilet...
Contact Center Pipeline Magazine: Inside Our December 2020 Issue
As the year draws to a close, I extend wishes to you and your loved ones for the best of holidays and a very...
Score with Rapport!
Early in 2020, Pipeline published results from the 2020 Contact Center Challenges & Priorities survey and declared 2020 the “Year of the Agent.” The...
Secure at Home: Protecting Ourselves, Our Brand, Business and Customers
During the summer of the COVID pandemic, sudden urgency emerged to get everyone home safely. Massive amounts of on-site agents were suddenly sent home...
Wishing All of Our Readers a Safe and Happy Thanksgiving!
Today is Thanksgiving Day in the United States. We would like to take this opportunity to express our sincerest gratitude to all of our...
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...
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