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
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Encourage Your Team Members to Develop Effective Leadership Skills
Rick Goodman — February 6, 2020 Wouldn’t it be great if your team members were willing and able to lead? It’s by no means a far-fetched idea. You can have a team of employees who are all willing to show initiative and to make bold decisions. It’s simply a matter of creating the right organizational … Continue reading Encourage Your Team Members to Develop Effective Leadership Skills
Customer Success vs Account Management: Understanding What Each Team Does
Mia Jacobs — February 4, 2020 Customer success and account management share common goals: Building customer loyalty and driving growth. Still, considering customer success vs account management reveals some insight into the contributions of both roles. One way of looking at it is that Account Managers operate reactively often within a sales environment and with … Continue reading Customer Success vs Account Management: Understanding What Each Team Does
Go Fish! A Philosophy For Being an Outstanding Team Member
Steven Deneir — February 1, 2020 Tuesday morning. 5AM. Alarm clock goes off. Some clouds in the sky. Driving my son to the swimming pool so he can start his training at 5:45 sharp. Continuing the drive towards a client to facilitate a training. 6:45 Traffic jam. Drizzle. 7:45 arrived. 9:00 Training to be started. … Continue reading Go Fish! A Philosophy For Being an Outstanding Team Member
Why Team Activities Can Boost the Performance of Your Company
Klaas Geller — January 27, 2020 Team activities can be a costly venture but a worthwhile one? A lot of business owners say yes. For more than one reason. Let us start with the obvious: They build teamwork and help maintain a healthy work atmosphere. Each team goes through four major phases. (Five, if you … Continue reading Why Team Activities Can Boost the Performance of Your Company
Need to Create Urgency For Your Team to Meet Deadlines?
Karl Sakas — January 23, 2020 Feeling the need to create urgency so that employees meet deadlines? See 20+ root causes to explain why this happens at agencies. Spoiler: You may be part of the problem. Frustrated that her employees were taking forever to complete work, an agency owner asked, “How can I create a … Continue reading Need to Create Urgency For Your Team to Meet Deadlines?
Understanding the Customer Success Team Structure
Mia Jacobs — January 23, 2020 The success of an enterprise depends more than ever on the Customer Success (CS) team. A CS team’s primary purpose is to build, maintain, and optimize lasting customer relationships by helping them fulfill and even exceed their own business goals. The stronger that connection is, the more likely your … Continue reading Understanding the Customer Success Team Structure
Same Product = Same Team: Myth or Fact?
Daria Bagina — January 19, 2020 The Scrum Guide is quite clear on one important thing: for one product there is only one Product Owner and only one Product Backlog: “[The Product Backlog] is the single source of requirements for any changes to be made to the product.” “The Product Owner is the sole person … Continue reading Same Product = Same Team: Myth or Fact?
Same Product = Same Team: Myth of Fact?
Daria Bagina — January 17, 2020 The Scrum Guide is quite clear on one important thing: for one product there is only one Product Owner and only one Product Backlog: “[The Product Backlog] is the single source of requirements for any changes to be made to the product.” “The Product Owner is the sole person … Continue reading Same Product = Same Team: Myth of Fact?
Product Mindset: Encouraging Ownership in a Scrum Team
Stefan Wolpers — January 14, 2020 TL; DR: Product Mindset and Ownership in Scrum Teams There is one product, one Product Owner, one Product Backlog — a simple rule. How is that supposed to scale, you might ask, isn’t that approach turning the Product Owner into the Scrum team’s bottleneck, impeding value creation rather than … Continue reading Product Mindset: Encouraging Ownership in a Scrum Team