Tag: contact center
Four Ways to Show Appreciation to Frontline Staff Beyond Customer Service Week
Why should you go out of your way to show your appreciation to employees beyond Customer Service Week? I can give you three good...
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...
Meet Dick Bucci: Our October 2020 Wall of Fame Honoree
Contact Center Pipeline’s
AUTHOR WALL OF FAME Dick Bucci is Principal of Pelorus Associates, a market research and marketing communications company that assists developers of contact...
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...
The New Digital Customer Engagement for the New (Ab)Normal
COVID-19, aka Coronavirus, has changed everything. Consumers are still very wary of exposure to the virus and want to get more things done digitally....
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...
Contact Center Pipeline Magazine: Inside Our October 2020 Issue
I love Customer Service Week. Our frontline staff represent our organizations and they make such a difference in our customer’s experience. Regardless of our...
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...
Changes in Contact Center latitudes, Changes in AI Attitudes
In 1977, singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffet released his seventh studio album, entitled Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes. The album, which featured a song by...
Contact Centers Today… A Management Balancing Act
The idiom “balancing act” is defined by dictionary.com as “a circus act in which a performer displays his or her balancing ability.” From where...
Roll with the Changes
In 1978, the band REO Speedwagon released its seventh studio album. Called You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can’t Tuna Fish, it was...
Meet Verint: Our September 2020 Sponsor Wall of Fame Honoree
Contact Center Pipeline's
SPONSOR WALL OF FAME Company name:
Verint CEO:
Dan Bodner, President, CEO and Chairman of the Board When Founded:
1994. We just celebrated our 25th year. Describe your company:
As...
Four Proven Practices to Elevate the Impact of Your Online Training
In the mad scramble to move more than 90% of our nation’s contact center agents to work at home, the focus was on technology—keeping...
Maintaining Customer Support in a Crisis
For contact center businesses, unexpected changes such as unplanned downtime, massive call volume increases, facility closures or other issues can wreak havoc on a...
How to Get the Best Headsets for Amazon Connect
If you’re looking for the best headsets for your call center agents working on Amazon Connect, here are our top picks. The type of...
Contact Center Pipeline Magazine: Inside Our September 2020 Issue
I think Greek philosopher Plato said it correctly: Necessity is the mother of invention. Just a few months ago, many contact centers had not...
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...
Outbound Call Centers: Finding the Right Mix of Tools, Processes and People
Selling a product or service over the phone isn’t easy—ask anyone who’s ever done it for a living. But businesses of all types and...
Working From Home—A Growing Necessity
When you think of working from home, several benefits come to mind. The savings in both time and money to commute back and forth...
The New CX Imperative: Serving the Values-Based Consumer with a Heaping Helping of Digital...
There’s a lot of talk about the values-based consumer today—the preference for brands that do business in ethically positive ways or take a stand...