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A day in the life of a contact centre agent

How to motivate employees

Six Reasons Your Contact Center Agents Are Disengaged

Dr Wynand Goosen

Becoming a leader people want to follow

How do I – manage negativity to change?

How do I – deal with a disruptive team member?

2012 People Awards Banquet

Executive Interview with Ray McLellan MD of Captivate Global

Maximizing Contact Center Agent Performance

Getting Workforce Optimization Right

O’Keeffe & Swartz cleans up at Prestigious Contact Centre World Awards

CCMG PEOPLE AWARDS 2012 SEMI FINALISTS

Best customer service infographics

The Contact Centre Management Group People Awards 2012

Aphorisms

A first in the industry – your claim to fame!

Retaining top talent - Gauteng

Retaining top talent - Kwa-Zulu Natal

The Green Thing

O’Keeffe and Swartz helps make SA aware that adoption is an option

Requirements for a poor performance dismissal

Recruit and Build the Right Team

Improving agent empathy skills

Managers battling to handle pressures

Taking your first step towards success - Gauteng

A New Look at Leadership - Cape Town

5 tips to help manage an underperforming team

C is for Customer

Five ways to share good customer feedback with the rest of the team

Listening – the secret lost art

Rise to fame: Natasha Darries

Agents – the voice of your brand

Home working agents

Home Working

Rise to fame

DMA ASSEGAI AWARDS 2011

Seven deadly sins of call quality monitoring

Gaining visibility, discipline and control

Give Trust a chance

Walk the Talk

Customer Experience Management

Recognition of Prior Learning

Improving productivity creates jobs

Manage Your Manager

Ten probing interview questions

The Power of Peer Mentoring in the Call Center

Assessing Competencies

The Right to Lead

Assegai Marketing Awards open for entries

You Can´t Send a Duck to Eagle School

Procedures for end-of-year staff parties

RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING (RPL)

THE SOUTH AFRICAN SERVICE AWARDS

Showcase your team - DMA Assegai Awards

Who´s really in charge of your life?

What is the right thing to do?

Useful quotations for motivating your staff

Update on the Recruitment Process  

Member feedback

Movers and Shakers

The Youth Council

A Meaningful Scorecard to Measure Coaching

Performance Perspectives-Managers and Engagement

Staff with company shares are more engaged

Poor employee engagement is killing performance

Andy Searle

The internet as default channel for citizen support

Should we be in call centres?

Pulling Together-The 10 Rules for High Performance Teams

PERSEVERANCE

Organisations letting their customers down cross-channel

Motivation & Morale

How Smart is Your Workforce?

People Solutions

Goals...The 10 Rules for Achieving Success

An Excerpt from Every Day is a Gift

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

Creating and sustaining an engaged workforce

Conflict in the Workplace

Company goals - more important than employee engagement

Coaching = The Grow Model

Call Center Agents: Employees or Contractors?

Create an extra 2 hours a day!

Butterfly Agent Attrition

An excerpt from Rock Solid Leadership

An Excerpt from The 100/0 Principle

Addressing Poor Performance

10 reasons you must have exit interviews

46 tips for Managing Absence

Motivational Games

Celebrate People-Skills

from the members section

Talent Management

The Practical Trainer

Finding the Right Work-Life Balance is Essential for the Millennial Generation

Five Tips for Coaching Agents to improve Customer Experience

How Do You Teach “The Power of One” to Your Agents

How to keep the contact centre on top form

Performance Coaching Utilizing the GROW Model

The importance of call centre culture and how to improve it

Turnover a New Leaf: How to Reduce Attrition in the Call Center

Using bonus schemes to motivate agents

What Does Your Underbelly (e.g. Frontline Attitude) Say About You?

Clone Your Best Agents

Customer Centricity

Getting a Positive Company Culture

Super Supervisors

The “Other” Voice: Voice-of-Employee Initiatives Electrify the Contact Center

The Power of Your Words

The right words and phrases to use with an angry customer

Time for laughter at work

Why Won’t the C-Level Support Your Customer Experience Strategy?

Work x Entertainment = Workatainment

How to nurture your centre through change

Improving the Customer Experience through Virtual Agents

Preparing your call centre for the Olympics

Problems in Your Contact Center? Agent Training Won´t Fix It

Six Reasons Your Contact Center Agents Are Disengaged

The Powerful Impact of Wellness Initiatives on Agent Performance

Transitioning from Old QA

3 Steps to Find Your Call Center Efficiency Sweet Spot

15 tips to improve quality monitoring

How to Develop Rockstars in Your Organization

Pain Relief for Call Centres

3 things to ensure you lead to high performance

4 Things Leaders Must Do to Bring the Best Out Of People

Bouncebackability – How to motivate agents when call volumes are high

Business Ethics extend beyond the obvious

Do you incentivise your home agents?

How do I – pull a team together?

Managers battling to handle pressures

Managing for Performance Improvement

Managing people according to their personalities

“People are our greatest asset” – is this really true?

Where have all the Managers gone?

Recruit and Build the Right Team

SA workers don´t leave jobs they leave bosses

Six steps to reducing contact centre staff attrition

Strategies for developing and retaining talent in the contact centre

The importance of call centre culture and how to improve it

The younger generation still prefer to contact companies by phone

Treat Your Agents Well

When Disgruntled Contact Center Agents Strike Back

Why smart employees underperform

3 Crafty Strategies for Maximizing Contact Center Agent Performance

Building flexibility into the schedule using banked hours

Dealing with change in the workplace

Five reasons to simplify your service desktop

How to be the best project manager

How to reduce agent time spent on data entry

Is Your Call Center Armed to Address Customer Complaints?

Lessons Are NOT Being Learned About Employee Retention

Must-Ask Questions for Call Center Agent Applicants

Options for Consolidation in Call Centres

5 Ways to boost morale in the contact centres

6 Habits of True Strategic Thinkers

15 Tips for contact centre managers

25 Must-Answer Questions for Succeeding with Social Customer Care

How to Solve 7 Everyday Contact Center Problems with Analytics

Poor Leadership and bad cultures leaves call centres out of pocket

Sixteen initiatives to ensure your staff enjoy coming to work

Stop Ignoring the Crucial Call Center KPI

Surprising Reality of What Truly Keeps Call Center Leaders Up at Night

Time to cheer up the contact centre

Why aren’t they coaching in the call center

5 strategies for improving your NPS score

How do I deal with a disruptive team member?

How to encourage a learning culture in the contact centre

Poor discipline means poor management

Seven Fundamental Plays from the Coaching All-Star Playbook

Top 10 Ways To Improve Contact centre performance

How do I - manage negativity to change

Don't Fear the Customer Experience

Contact Center Coaching Best Practices

Customers Don’t Know What They Want

Call Center Managers, Don’t Be a Customer Experience Roadblock

25 tips to help your staff to stay stress free

10 tips to build loyalty amongst staff

How to develop leadership in the contact centre

How to survive and prosper in a multilingual contact centre

Ten ideas you can deploy in less than an hour

The L Word Loyalty

Younger consumers demand more from customer service

Where have all the Managers gone

Changing the mindset of team leaders

5 questions every call centre manager needs to ask themselves

25 tips for motivating staff

Dealing with change in the workplace

How to be the best project manager

How to nurture your centre through change

Poor leadership and bad culture leaves call centres out of pocket

SA workers don´t leave jobs they leave bosses

Six steps to reducing contact centre staff attrition

Time to cheer up the contact centre

Unleash the Creative Power of Your Call Center

When Disgruntled Contact Center Agents Strike Back

A To Do List for the Call Center Agent

Treat Your Agents Well

Why aren’t they coaching in the call centre

3 things to ensure you lead to high performance

Bounce Back Ability - How to motivate agents when call volumes are high

7 Tips to Help Your Agents Delight Customers

Do you incentivise your home agents

More to call centres than meets the eye

Poor discipline means poor management

7 habits of effective contact centers

Are Your Employees Delighting or Driving Away Your Customers?

Becoming a leader people want to follow

Despondent job seekers at an all time low

Do you incentivize your home agents

Employees are staying, despite low job satisfaction

Hints and tips from an award winning call centre

How do I - manage negativity to change

How to improve empathy in the call centre

Managers battling to handle pressures

People do not leave jobs they leave bosses

Requirements for a poor performance dismissal

The art and science of communication

Recruit and Build the Right Team for Your Service Desk

The Power of Discipline

Stress is a Choice

4 Things Leaders Must Do to Bring the Best Out Of People

7 Tips to Help Your Agents Delight Customers, Better Your Brand

Creative ideas to improve the call centre

Don't be nice, be fair

Ethics and honesty policy

Handling difficult customers

How do I handle stress in my team

How do I pull a team together?

How to deal with outbound calling

Important lessons for new leaders

Managing people according to their personalities

Personal goal setting

Reap the benefits of engaging with employees

7 Ways to Elevate Agent Retention & Engagement

44 call centre training tips

Are Your Customer Service Representatives Damaging Your Brand?

Five Steps to an Employee Effectiveness Model

Sick of Agent Turnover or Incompetency?

4 Steps for Fixing Customer Relationship Management

25 tips to make your telesales people more productive

A Bedtime Rhyme

Digital distractions to blame for poor etiquette in the workplace

Ease Agents Into Things via “Transition Training”

Five Steps to an employee effectiveness model

How to optimise part time working in the call centre

How to recover from an agent giving out incorrect advice

If Superman worked in a call centre…

Making big gains with agent motivation

Taking the work to the people

The 7 dumbest things said during a sales pitch

The eight traits of Horrible Bosses

The Power of One

The top ten workforce motivators

Transitions in the workplace

Call Center Agents: Employees or Contractors?

Customer Service Still Struggles to Satisfy

Executive Summary Customer Service Disconnects

Human Capital Leadership Excellence eJournal

Disciplinary and Incapacity forms

Complaint and Grievance forms

A is for Assertiveness

Afraid of Your Employees Using Social Media

Customer experience for agents

Feedback Translation Guide

Home working agents

How we bottle up our amazing team leaders

How to deal with short-notice absence requests

I already coach

Mistakes Agents Make When Dealing with Angry Clients

Ten probing interview questions

The Art of Listening

Enriching the Customer Experience

The powerful act of coaching employees

Call Centre Management – Improving productivity

Coca-Cola´s Knowledge Platform Optimizes Decision Making

Many people in the call center world cringe a bit when they hear the term “sales”

Seven Ways to Elevate Agent Engagement & Retention

Snakes and Ladders call centre game template

Ten probing interview questions

The Power of Peer Mentoring in the Call Center

The Top 50 interview questions

Hiring Superstars

Service and Leadership Trends in Customer Support

Manage Your Manager

Temporary vs. permanent staff

2011 Sees Rise in Consumer Preference

Active Agent Recruiting

Agent Idle Time

Building a Positive Culture into Your Hiring Process

Employee Engagement Feature

How to Measure Supervisor Performance

Improving Your Pre-Hire Assessment Process

Is your call centre damaging your brand

Is Your Call Center Training on Track?

New Careers in Customer Care

Recruitment Final

Retail Customer Experience Set to Change

Top tips for back-office WFM

Top tips for managing attrition in the call centre

Turnover or Turnaround

What can contact centres learn from market traders

What to Do When Everyone Hates Their Schedules

Affordable Agent Rewards & Recognition that Actually WORK

Hiring a Social Media Consultant?

Improve Your Pre-Hire Assessment Process

Make Your Loyalty Program Stand Apart

Mind the gap

Motivational Quotes authored by Andrew Horton

Recruitment tips for call centre temporary staff

Survey Talent Race

Top tips for building rapport on the telephone

Top Shrinkage Offenders

Top tips for selling over the phone

Top tips to make your team leaders more productive

Five more motivational games for call centres

Four lessons for transforming African agriculture

Human Capital Leadership

Research Report Benchmarks for Retail

Tap Agents Talents to Raise Call Center Performance

The 5 W’s of World Class Customer Service Training

The 6 laws of customer experience

The attributes of a successful customer service

The best way to conduct an exit interview

The best way to conduct an exit interview

7 steps to engage successfully with customers

10 Reasons Call Center Should Use Home Agents

A cloudy vision turned clear

6 Ways to determine if you`re a `Gimme Pig`

Ask the experts

Marketing Automation in the Telecom Industry

Coping with TMI (Too Much Information)

Operations

Seven steps to better brainstorming

Selected quotes from Great Leaders

The Leadership Spirit

Three steps to building a better top team

A To-Do List for the Call Center Agent

Learning Smarter

The Purpose of Business

The ultimate agent engagement survey

Whos to Blame: Management or Labor?

What Customer Service Managers Can Learn

Why does sorry have to be the hardest word

A Rep from Nantucket Call Center

Call centres are Satanic Mills

Five Trends in Learning Delivery in 2011

T’was the night after training

Top 5 Industry Developments

Veterinary Pet Insurance (VPI) Customer Care Center

What is Your Recession Sales Strategy?

What Time is the 3 o´clock Parade?

5 Ways to Get Agents to Embrace Quality Monitoring

10 Signs You're a REAL Call Center Professional

Best Practice: You’re Path to Mediocrity

Motivational games for call centres

The Customer Experience Golden Rule for Employers

Global Talent Risk

Transitioning from Old QA to new

4 Ways to Detect if your Performance-Based Culture is more than Lip Service

25 lessons for work (and life)!

A Call Center Game-Changer

Active vs. Passive Listening in the Contact Center

Agents on Demand: A Case for Contact Center Reserve Teams

Curbing Inflation by Increasing Workforce

Developing Customer Experience Management Strategies

Drucker and Heroic Leadership

Earning Trust to Build Long Term Relationships

Feeling 'Jet' Blue During the Holidays

What Do Contact Center Employees Really Want?

Listening – the secret lost art

Ten examples of crowd sourcing

Call Center Agents: Employees or Contractors?

Customer Service Still Struggles to Satisfy

Executive Summary Customer Service Disconnects

Human Capital Leadership Excellence eJournal

Top 10 Customer Service Turn Offs

Agent Repatriation-Social Myth or Boardroom Reality

Customers and Agents – Island of Misfits or Holiday Magic?

The “customer journey” and search for the Holy Grail

Doing More With Less in the Call Center

Empowering Women in Contact Center

Improve Process Management with VOC Feedback

If Superman worked in a call centre…

IT’was The Night After Training

Knowledge Management for Customer Service

Leverage Deals For Client Advantage

Cost-Effective ways to deliver customer service

Customer Service Challenges and Innovations

11 TCO Traps to Avoid

Human Capital Leadership

Workforce Management

Building a Work-at-Home Program

Automated Agents

Agents on Demand

Call centre dress codes

How to Empower Your Front Line Employees

Is A DIY Home Agent Program Right for You?

Managing Gen X and Gen Y in the Call Center

The Next Generation of Enterprise Feedback Management (EFM) Solutions

Contact Center QA Guide: Building a World-Class Quality Assurance Program

consistency in customer experience or nothing

Automating Multilingual, Multicultural Customer Service

Performance Perspectives Managers and Engagement

Transforming your frontline teams into living brand champions

Using training to achieve enterprise goals

Want engaged customers - then engage your people

46 tips for managing absence

Is Attracting Top Talent in the Call Center an Oxymoron?

Tackling sickness absence

Top tips for managing attrition in the call centre

Best Practices in Call Center Recording, QM and Coaching

Money Magic – Part 1

The Four Customer Experience Core Competencies

respect your customers and be realistic

Top 10 Customer Satisfaction Best Practices

5 Mistakes Contact Center Managers Make

17 Minutes with Olga from Amazon

Call centre work – what is it really like?

Five Ways to Get Agents to Embrace Quality Monitoring

Gen Y Doesn’t Want to Work in Your Call Center

How Duvet Days can reduce staff absence

McDonald's Former Chief Marketing Officer Talks

Outside-the-Box Ways to Increase Agent Retention

Pod generation risk losing hearing

Why good bosses tune in to their people

Call Center Services Buyer Guide

Five Secrets to Contact Center E-learning and Coaching Success

FYI For Your Improvement

5 Secrets to E-learning

Recruitment templates

ANNUAL LEAVE POLICY

Boosting the productivity of knowledge workers

Celebrate People Skills at National Customer Service Week

Conveying Culture Through Calls

Handling Sales Objections Over The Telephone

Report reveals interview do’s and don´ts

The Learning Model of the Future

Clone Your Best Agents

10 Deployment Tips

6 Uncommon Ways to Create Breakthrough Value

Break the Rules to Win in Customer Service

How Call Centers Use Behavioral Economics to Sway Customers

How to attract and retain Generation Y employees

Keeping Your Cool When the Caller Gets Hot

Making Home Agents Feel at Work

Measuring Customer Feedback and Agent Performance

Peter Drucker’s Favorite Leadership Book

“Please Hold…While We Learn to Provide Better Customer Service”

Quit Treating Your Contact Center Like a Manufacturing Plant

Ten costly misconceptions about incentive programmes

The Five Insights of Emotional Intelligence

Top Seven Illnesses Encountered Working in a Call Center

Top tips for dealing with customer complaints in call centres

Top tips for increasing telesales conversions

5 Tips for Retaining Good Employees

Research for Customer Service

Butts in Seats

Customer Service Starts With Your Staff

Referral Programs 2.0

Be a call centre super hero

Delivering through customer experience

Employee engagement is a win-win

Agent Performance Management

Employee optimisation and customer management key to WFO

Engage them or lose them

Go Green with the Help of Home Based Agents

Meritocracy Part 1: World Cup Fever

Consistency in customer experience - or nothing

Customer experience day for contact centre leaders

2010 Leadership Trends

One bad call centre experience is all it takes

Personality Mapping in the Call Center

The Most Costly Incentive Mistakes

Turning People into Leaders

We Motivate Using Food, Fun and Money

Ten Steps for Giving Feedback

Getting Your Team in the Zone

How to reach a human in customer service

A Personal Case of Social CRM

Are you just good enough or are you great?

Corporate Wellness

25 tips for motivating staff

Noise at Work Legislation & VistaPlus Digital Amplifier

Agent Performance Management

Customer Service Tops Call Centre Efficiency

Customers Blame the Company for Poor Service

New Year Resolution tips for your call centre

Motivational Games

Nominate the most respected people in the industry

Five Tips for the Perfect Sales Pitch

Quality Management and Liability Recording

Resurgence of Six Sigma in the Call Center: Decreasing Customer Churn

Five phrases a Call Centre Manager should never use

Handling difficult customers

How do I make my CV really special?

How to improve empathy in the call centre

How to tackle challenging calls

Incentive schemes that work

Labour Law Survival

Labour Law Survival Pack

Labour Law Survival Pack Checklist

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What's the best part

Celebrations

Home agents

Typical day

Motivation

Likes and Dislikes

Tattoos

Off-shoring

Quality Assurance

Other languages

Selecting Management teams

Leadership from the front

Talent Management

Best customer service company

Uniforms - What´s your opinion?

People in the call center have a tough job...

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