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The OD toolbox is full of incredibly useful techniques for improving how organizations function. There are 360 surveys, conflict resolution strategies, team-building approaches from personality...
Talk of Executive Presence, Power Posturing and the like is everywhere. Amy Cuddy’s TED talk on Body Language and Power has been viewed an astonishing 28M times. A recent study by Sei Jin Ko,...
I was shopping for a birthday card for my son. There was one in the poke-fun-at-generational-differences genre with this old geezer on the front. The outside of the card said something like,...
We are all engaged multiple relationship networks: family, extended family, neighbors, associations, hobby groups, meet-ups, religious groups, country clubs, friends, significant others,...
In 1935, Erwin Schrödinger suggested the following thought-experiment. A cat, a flask of poison, a radioactive source and a monitor are placed in a sealed box. If the monitor detects a single...
For my money, the greatest quote about strategy was not spoken by General Schwarzkopf. It is not in Sun Tzu's Art of War, nor in Musashi's Book of the Five Rings. Genghis Khan didn't say it. Nor...
Call Center quality is abysmal. And it has been for the entire forty years the call center industry has been in existence. We can make cars with near perfect quality, but after 40...
There was a recent discussion in the Customer Experience Management group in response to an article by Ondra Synek entitled Why AHT is dead and how to do better.
I would link to it, but...
There are horses and there are carts and getting them ordered properly makes all the difference.
Unfortunately, when it comes to improving center-wide outputs, call centers often have the...
One-agent-at-a-time coaching is the go-to method in call centers for trying to improve center-wide output measures. But it is less valuable than many believe. Through the use of...
It is no secret that call center industry performance is mediocre at best. High error-rates are tolerated (see What is an Acceptable Contact Center Error Rate?). Employees...
I wish this story wasn't true, but you can't make this stuff up.
We were at an outsourcer's offshore location recently, where they had tied yellow, smiley-faced balloons to the agents' cubes.
When...
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