Tag Archives: Team

The Anatomy of a Successful Call Center: A How-To Guide for Managing a Call Center Team Full of Stellar Agents

Laura Krajewski — March 15, 2020 Stop me if you’ve heard this story before: You start your job as a new customer service agent at your company. You go through training, get coached to use the company software, and learn to de-escalate situations with angry customers. You learn the products, services, and you know how … Continue reading The Anatomy of a Successful Call Center: A How-To Guide for Managing a Call Center Team Full of Stellar Agents

The Path to Becoming the Most Important Member of the Executive Team

Chris Hicken — March 14, 2020 Let’s start by acknowledging that Customer Success teams always have the coolest people in the company. They are kind, optimistic, helpful, and they take really good care of customers. Want to have a beer with someone after work? Definitely invite someone from CS. Success leaders usually manage more revenue … Continue reading The Path to Becoming the Most Important Member of the Executive Team

How to Create the Ideal Shift Schedule for your Customer Service Team

Rohit Viswanathan — March 10, 2020 Your customer service team plays a vital role in keeping clients happy and enabling business growth. From dealing with varying degrees of customer emotions to putting the required effort into solving problems as quickly as possible, it can be a very demanding job. If employees need to perform at … Continue reading How to Create the Ideal Shift Schedule for your Customer Service Team

Building Your Own Professional Development into your Call Center Strategy: The Top 5 Call Center Manager Skills to Help your Team (and You) Thrive

Laura Krajewski — February 24, 2020 Between meetings with other managers and department heads, you barely have time to answer all the mentions on Slack. Your agents ping you constantly asking for advice. You’ve got a running to-do list with KPIs to track and updates to make to training materials. And, you have a meeting … Continue reading Building Your Own Professional Development into your Call Center Strategy: The Top 5 Call Center Manager Skills to Help your Team (and You) Thrive