Call Center Leadership Is a Learned Skill

How do you take your call center performance from good to great? What Impact does effective leadership have on the results? Are you developing your current Call Center leaders? And do you have a plan in place to develop future leaders?

It's time to utilize Call Center Leadership Development best practices! If your Call Center / Contact Center is struggling to create consistency, then the solution is a systematic way of approaching common call center challenges by providing effective leadership training.

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Call Center Metrics: Will or Skill

Call Center Leadership Training Resource #2…

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I have a confession!

I'm a long time Operations person and I like to focus on results. 

I use to have a boss that would say to me and the team… "Don't confuse activity with results."  I always liked that saying but learned over time that "activity", if properly focused could have a positive effect on Call Center Metrics.

For instance, coaching somebody is an "activity" but when done properly it can have a lasting effect on that persons performance.  Another example is call center leadership training.  Although the results are not immediately recognizable they will have a lasting effect on call center performance.  Of course the training needs to be impactful and deliver the right message.

I've been in the call center industry for 25+ years and I've noticed that call center agent performance (or lack of) comes down to one of two issues (that can be addressed with Call Center Leadership Training.) 

Will or Skill… some people refer to it as ability or effort.  But basically they mean the same.  And how you approach a coaching session is determined by what category the call center agents falls into.

As an example, let's say you have an agent that is missing their goals and you determine based on observation (i.e. call monitoring) that they need help.  Maybe they are a sales agent and they are having a hard time getting past the gatekeeper or maybe they are out of sync when delivering features and benefits of the product.  Normally on the sales side I see that many agents have issues with rebuttals.  In any event they have a "Skill" problem and will require coaching to improve this skill.

Conversely, you have another call center agent that appears to do the job when they know they are being observed.  When they are not being observed they choose not to perform (this is a frustrating situation), the type of coaching requires initiating alternatives for that particular agent. 

Does your staff have a check list to immediately identify which coaching method is appropriate?  Do they know how to maximize each coaching session and drive each call center agent to perform at their peak?  How is your call center leadership training going?

Call Center Resources

If your answer is no… or if you want to compare your current call center metrics solution with mine then I recommend you download this free resource.

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Greg Meares

Call Center Resources For Call Center Supervisors

 

Recently Call Center Leadership Training Released a Highly Sought After Call Center Resources Module…

Call Center Resources

   Call Center Leadership Training consist of 15 modules and the first is "The Role of a Supervisor."

This module is being offered for free and I urge you to check it out.  All you have to do is sign-up for our notification list (Upper Right), you never know when we are going to release something new!

As a recap here is what "The Role of a Supervisor" is all about:

Module One: The Role of a Supervisor

 This module discusses the role of a supervisor, the qualities needed to be an effective supervisor, and duties performed by supervisors.  Tips and Tactics are reinforced through examples, and exercises. Brought to you by the best Call Center Leadership Training available.

I believe, and so do the last 5985 readers that download the module, that this call center resources is high quality information that can help you or your teams deliver better results.

I have a request and depending on what stage you are visiting, will depend on what I would very much appreciate that you do.

  1. If you haven't downloaded the module do that now and look it over.  When finished please come back here and leave me a comment below and let me know what you think about it;
  2. If you already downloaded it, could you please leave a comment and let me know your feedback?  Also you'll see some buttons below and it would be awesome if you could share this information with others.

Thanks for taking the time to read this post! Please let us know what type of call center leadership training you have in your center?

Enjoy…

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