Tag: WAH
How to Retain and Engage Your Best Contact Center Agents
Can you ever have enough high performers? Do you wish you could clone your best agents and make their outstanding performance the norm? Do...
Avoiding Work-at-Home Virtual Shock
The business world was turned upside down as thousands of companies were suddenly forced to send their employees home to work virtually. IT departments...
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...
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...
Tips for Onboarding New-Hires Remotely
I’m no stranger to remote work. I’ve been onboarded remotely and have onboarded remote employees before. But I have to say I’ve never been...
Coaching During Covid-19: Six Remote-Coaching Tips For Contact Centers
Now that call centers have transitioned to working from home, many managers and supervisors are finding coaching remotely to have its challenges. Managers often...
Leadership Insights: Rising Above COVID Challenges
More than six months ago, the world changed for everyone. In most places, people were sent home to work remotely. The contact center industry...
Home, Sings Me of Sweet Things
My blog series co-author, Paul Stockford, and I both lobbied to lead this one off. Paul, thanks for letting me set the stage—plus I...
Hiring Work-at-Home Agents After the Coronavirus Crisis: What’s Next
Chances are you have pivoted toward remote agents, and maybe not by choice: Most organizations were forced into work-from-home situations. You scrambled and had...
Three Things Seasoned Work-From-Home Leaders Always Get Right
I have the privilege of knowing dozens of seasoned U.S. work-from-home (WFH) leaders in financial services, health care, retail, travel, professional services and utilities...
On-Trend: At-home Agents
You know something is pretty important or interesting these days if it’s referred to as being on-trend, or trending. It’s not the same as...