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Recruiting and Hiring

• Key Attributes of At-Home Call Center Agents
• The Untapped Call Center Workforce: Older Workers and Individuals with Disabilities
• Let Them Drive: Advice on New-Hire Evaluations in the Call Center
• Selecting the Right Prehire Tests for Call Center Agents
• Assessment Tools Help Make Call Center Agent Selection a Science
• Secrets of Success in Call Center Agent Recruiting
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Training and Development

• Integrate Your Call Center's Onboarding Process for Better Results
• Where E-Learning Fits in Today’s Call Center
• Call Center Supervisor Selection: The Often-Ignored Art
• The End of Frontline Agent Training As We Know It
• Is Your Agent Training Process Evolving with the Role?
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Agent Motivation and Retention

• Call Center Spotlight: American Express – UK Customer Service Centre
• Call Center Spotlight: AAA Idaho/Oregon
• Call Center Onboarding Programs Raise Agent Engagement, Retention and Performance
• True Tales of Call Center Agent Empowerment
• Call Center Agent Motivation: It’s the Principle of the Thing
• Measuring Up to Call Center "Employer of Choice" Standards
• A Five-Point Plan for Retaining Your Best Call Center Agents
• 13 Reasons Why Call Center Agents Resign
• The Rules of Call Center Agent Engagement
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Quality Monitoring

• Adding the Customer to the Call Center's Quality Equation
• Call Center Spotlight: Rogers Communications Customer Care
• Monitoring the Machine: Ensuring Your Self-Service Applications Don’t Act Up
• Innovative Trends in Call Center Quality Monitoring
• The Evolution of Quality Monitoring: Adding the Customer's Voice to the Process
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Customer Satisfaction

• Expert’s Angle: Speech Analytics in the Call Center – This Call May be Monitored for Quality Assurance…
• Expert's Angle: Combining Quality Monitoring and Customer Satisfaction in the Call Center
• Call Center Spotlight: MassMutual – USIG Service Center
• Debunking Today’s Most Persistent Marketing and Service Myths for the Call Center
• The Four Keys to Customer Loyalty: Key No. 4: Build a Culture of Service
• Sector Snapshot: How Telecom's Rapid Growth is Handled in the Call Center
• Customer Service: Go From Now to ‘Wow!’ in the Call Center
• The Call Center's Main Purpose Is to Retain Customers
• Tactics of Truly Customer-Centric Call Centers
• Call Center Surveying and Analytics Solutions Are Coming on Strong
• Common Mistakes in Customer Satisfaction Measurement
• Making Call Center Performance Management Accessible
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Metrics

• The Importance of Real-Time Data in the Contact Center
• Expert’s Angle: Can Good Metrics Solve the Call Center’s People Management Issues?
• Measuring the Call Center Metrics that Matter
• Keeping Call Center KPIs in Perspective
• Identifying the Key Performance Indicators in Call Centers
• Avoid Conflicting Call Center Objectives
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Workforce Management

• Accurate Forecasting: Your Call Center Depends on It
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Self-Service (IVR and Web)

• Web-Based Self-Service: Beyond the Hype
• Spoken User Interface Design: The Elements of IVR Self-Service Style
• The Business Case for ASR and IVR in the Call Center
• Speech Lessons: Assuring True Self-Service Success via Voice
• Customer-Focused Self-Service Not an Oxymoron
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E-Support

• Channel Management in the Call Center: Email
• Call Center Spotlight: RDI Marketing Services
• The Power of IP and the Internet: Achieving Customer Experience Synergies Inside and Out
• The Viability of Video Call Centers
• Mastering Email Management in the Call Center
• Call Centers Voice-Enabling E-Support
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Contact Center and Enterprise

• Expert's Angle: The Intelligent Self-Service Imperative for Call Centers
• Recommended Reading: The Seven Principles of Call Center Budgeting
• Expert's Angle: Managing the Relationship Between the Call Center and R&D
• Taming the Back Office Effect on the Call Center--Part 2: Revealing the Personnel Opportunity in Back-Office Departments
• Taming the Back Office Effect on the Call Center--Part 1
• Finding the Quality (and the ROI) in Your Call Center's Quality Monitoring Program
• Customer Experience Analytics Transforms from Concept to High-Value Application for Call Centers
• Becoming Strategic: Using Customer Contact Analytics to Empower the Call Center's Role
• What Managers in Other Departments Should Know about the Call Center
• From Call Center Management to the CEO's Suite
• 10 Steps to a Better Call Center Budget
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Special Topics

• Which Way Home? Comparing and Contrasting Three Approaches to Home Agent Staffing for Call Centers
• Call Center Site Selection Strategies
• Call Center Offshoring: Study Reports Labor Quality, Risk Management as Key Location Determiners
• Speech Analytics in the Call Center: Making the Right Decisions in a Still-Growing Market
• Call Center Trends: Doing More with Less
• Call Center Outsourcing: A Reasoned Approach
• Controlling Call Center Costs
• Making Sales Work in the Call Center Environment
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Relationship Management

• The Four Keys to Customer Loyalty: Key No. 3: The three dimensions of service
• Embracing the Impact of Social Media on Customer Care
• Relationship Management: Aligning Your Call Center with Customers
• Focus Your Call Center on Revealing the Invisible Customer
• 12 Principles that Drive Profitable Customer Relationships
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Call Center Humor

• Ramping Up: Baby Steps for Sub-Par Call Centers
• How to Emulate "Employer of Choice" Call Centers
• Call Centers Need to Get Ferociously Customer Focused
• Five (rickety) Steps to Web Self-Service Success
• Glossary of Critical Call Center Terms
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