Tag: contact center

Given the importance of the supervisor-employee relationship, what steps can companies take to ensure that frontline managers support new-hires through this critical period and...

When it comes to running a contact center, it would be hard to find someone with more know-how than TIM HEIDEMANN. With a long...

Generally speaking, many contact centers do an excellent job of discovering and rewarding great performance. Whether through reports, monitored calls or customer satisfaction surveys,...

Do contact centers derive value from their analytics tools? In our 2014 Contact Center Analytics Survey, conducted by Strategic Contact and Contact Center Pipeline,...

We’ve all been rooting for the U.S. economy to recover, but as it improves, it’s getting harder to attract and retain agents. In an...

Any contact received from a customer comes with a set of expectations, and one of those is that the issue will be completely resolved...

If you are a WFM Scheduler and need a quick way to boost employee morale, try out a test-run of offering three 10-minute breaks...

Have you heard of The Golden Rule? It’s common English phrasing is: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. The Golden Rule,...

“Flying by the seat of your pants” is an expression coined by World War II fliers. It was used to describe flying when instruments...

Training can be one of the biggest costs in any contact center. If you take several hundred (or thousand) agents and multiple that by...

If you feel like your WFM system just doesn't give you the right net staffing, here is the approach I take to fixing it....

While sitting on the panel during a town hall meeting of contact center leaders, I was asked by Mary, one of the attendees, “I...

Have you ever tried to calculate how many people you’d need to answer 100 calls with a 30-second ASA and a 3-minute handle time? ...