Tag: WFH
Evolving Challenges Require Evolving Solutions
Many articles written toward the tail end of 2019 pegged 2020 as a year of big change for the contact center industry. Predictions from...
Are There Better Ways to Staff the Contact Center?
Executives regularly ask contact center leaders to explore new operational paradigms that could benefit their organizations. Some of these ideas come from things they...
Davy Crockett, Analytics and the New Frontier
I wasn’t planning on ever sharing this information with anyone, but we’re all friends here. Right? According to my parents, when I was a little...
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...
Recruiting for the Contact Center of the Future
For more than a decade, a push toward virtual contact centers with work-from-home (WFH) agents has been moderately successful. However, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated...
Contact Centers Grapple with How to Sustain—and Grow—Remote Workforces
Not long ago, as I walked the floor of a contact center, the voice of a customer service rep echoed toward me across mostly...
Can You Say Con-tin-gen-cy?
I think that’s what Mister Rogers might have said had he been a speaker on one of this year’s many virtual contact center events. Mister...
Top 5 Posts in February
This February seemed to blow past, yet we had a lot of activity on the Pipeline blog. We’re still early into the new year,...
Close to You
In August of 1970, American duo the Carpenters released their second studio album, which was called Close to You. The album contained the hit...
The Rocket Man and a Watershed Year
For those of you expecting an introductory dissertation on Elton John’s song “Rocket Man” from the 1972 album Honky Chateau, or even a review...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Cloud-Based Communication Tools Key to Maintaining Contact Center Operations
When workforce operations are disrupted, the results can have a serious impact on your business. This is especially true if your customer service operations...
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...
