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Build vs. Buy: When Outsourcing Makes Sense | #ICMIchat Rundown (September 15, 2020)
By: The Editors  |  Published: September 16, 2020
No word strikes fear into the hearts of customers and front-line agents like "outsourcing." Employees fear their jobs will be shipped to far off lands. Following prior bad experiences, customers hold contempt... Read More
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Fast Pivot to Long-Term Strategy: Positioning Your Contact Center For the Future
By: IBM  |  Published: September 16, 2020
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Five Concrete Ways to Measure Customer Experience
By: Nate Brown  |  Published: September 16, 2020
Customer experience (CX) can be a very overwhelming and confusing topic. It’s not customer service, but it does include customer service, as well as every other function for that matter. Often, this... Read More
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Here are Some Tips on How Best to Support Remote Contact Centers
By: Simon Black  |  Published: September 15, 2020
As a recent FT article highlighted, “The image of a seamless, 24-hour global work ethic (from the contact center industry), relies to a great extent on humans in large offices – ‘butts... Read More
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Eight Ideas to Put Quality Management at the Heart of Your Contact Center
By: Rebecca Gibson  |  Published: September 14, 2020
Your quality management (QM) program is probably well-established, with guidelines and definitions, rules, and ratings. But does it have a heart, one that contributes meaning and spark to how we think about... Read More
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That’s Our Policy: Deregulating Customer Service | #ICMIchat Rundown (September 8, 2020)
By: The Editors  |  Published: September 09, 2020
Rules are everywhere, and you can't escape them. Most of the time, they help things run smoothly and protect everyone's best interests, but sometimes they don't work out quite as they were... Read More
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Four Ways that Contact Centers Can Foster a Customer-Centric Organizational Culture
By: Chris Hanna  |  Published: September 09, 2020
All businesses exist for the same reason – customers. Despite this vital fact, many teams and organizations neglect the customer’s role in their operations and culture. Even if you offer the best... Read More
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How to Calibrate your Contact Center's Quality Management Program
By: Rose Polchin  |  Published: September 08, 2020
Calibration sessions - where individuals from the contact center get together, review and evaluate customer contacts to ensure alignment, consistency, and fairness within the contact center - are important events in the... Read More
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Contact Center Managers Need Generational Awareness
By: Brett Holleman   |  Published: September 07, 2020
Recently, I had the opportunity to engage in a lengthy conversation with a National Director of Contact Center Training for a global high-tech company. He shared some great insight around the challenges... Read More
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Show Me You Care: Listening and Appreciating Your Employees | #ICMIchat Rundown (September 1, 2020)
By: The Editors  |  Published: September 02, 2020
Labor Day is on its way, reminding leaders how important their employees are to our organization's success. Employee appreciation isn't something to be done once a year. It should be part of... Read More
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