The Most Important Question Managers Aren’t Asking

“Is this the job we sold you on?”

How much time does it take you to recruit, hire, and train a new team member? How much does it cost your organization? What is the impact if a new team member leaves your organization shortly after being trained, or even before their training is complete? Of course, there is a negative impact when someone leaves soon after being hired, so it makes sense to reduce the risk of that happening.

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How To Be An Effective Manager

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A new team member joins your contact center. She is put through training and taught how to use her phone and your company CRM, how to de-escalate upset customers, and how to go through the necessary talking points on common calls... And just as common is the scenario where that top-performer-turned-Supervisor is asked to do her new job with little or no training.

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Your Team Meetings Suck (But They Don't Have To)

Contact centers of all shapes and sizes often have lots of similarities. One thing I have found to be true across most companies is this shocker: contact center team meetings suck! And another thing that is generally true is that your team members may not tell you they suck. Why? Because they crave the time off the phones!

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