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Managing and Motivating Contact Center Employees : Tools and Techniques for Inspiring Outstanding Performance from Your Frontline Staff: Malcolm Carlaw, Peggy Carlaw, Vasudha Kathleen Deming, Kurt Friedmann

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Managing and Motivating Contact Center Employees : Tools and Techniques for Inspiring Outstanding Performance from Your Frontline Staff: Malcolm Carlaw, Peggy Carlaw, Vasudha Kathleen Deming, Kurt Friedmann

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Managing and Motivating Contact Center Employees reveals how to boost morale, streamline business processes, and inspire outstanding performance from frontline sales and service staff.

This creative and practical book gives instant help to anyone who knows the difficulties of managing in the diverse and dynamic contact center environment.

From the Back Cover
As the manager of a customer contact center, you know your employees are among the most highly visible members of your organization, and their performance can make or break the success of virtually any project or product. Yet it is challenging to motivate them because they receive less training and lower pay than virtually anyone else in your organization.

Managing and Motivating Contact Center Employees gives you the field-proven information, tools, and techniques you need to connect with your frontline staff and lead them to exceptional performance. It explains how to manage the critical “human” element in contact centers, which is often more important for overall performance than having the latest contact center technology or operational system. This results-oriented reference is written by contact center consultants for Dell, Microsoft, Bank of America, and other leading organizations–to help you:

  • Establish critical lines of communication between supervisors and contact center reps
  • Set clear expectations–and provide appropriate feedback
  • Share knowledge freely, even as you listen and learn

Contact center employees are in daily, direct communication with your key customers and are an integral component of your company’s long-term success. Learn how to draw out and utilize their motivation and talents, while maximizing their workplace satisfaction, with Managing and Motivating Contact Center Employees.

Whether you are a contact center trainer, supervisor, or manager, Managing and Motivating Contact Center Employees provides tips and techniques to boost morale, streamline business processes, and inspire outstanding performance, including:

  • Strategies to get–and keep–good contact center reps
  • Methods for transforming a group of individuals into a team
  • Proven techniques for building high morale
  • Tips for dealing with problem employees
  • Dozens of fun, self-directed training activities
  • and much more

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  • Service Innovation: Organizational Responses to Technological Opportunities & Market Imperatives (Series on Technology Management): Joe Tidd, Frank M. Hull

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    Service Innovation: Organizational Responses to Technological Opportunities & Market Imperatives (Series on Technology Management): Joe Tidd, Frank M. Hull

    Review
    “… while this text is most valuable to the academician, it also should be of interest to those in service industries responsible for new product development … this book makes a worthwhile contribution to the academic literature as well as catering to the needs of business professionals.” Journal of Product Innovation Management

    This book makes a worthwhile contribution to the academic literatire as well as catering to the needs of business professionals. — The Journal of Product Innovation Management

    In the most advanced service economies, services create up to three-quarters of the wealth and 85% of employment, and yet we know relatively little about managing innovation in this sector. The critical role of services, in the broadest sense, has long been recognized, but is still not well understood. Most research and management prescriptions have been based on the experience of manufacturing and high technology sectors. There is a clear need to distinguish which, if any, of what we know about managing innovation in manufacturing is applicable to services, what must be adapted, and what is distinct and different. Such is the goal of this book.

    This unique collection brings together the latest academic research and management practice on innovation in services, and identifies a range of successful organizational responses to current technological opportunities and market imperatives. The contributors include leading researchers, consultants and practitioners in the field, who provide rigorous yet practical insights into managing and organizing innovation in services. Two themes help to integrate the contributions in this book:

    · That generic good practices exist in the management and organization of innovation in services, which the authors seek to identify, but that these must be adapted to different contexts, specifically the scale and complexity of the tasks, the degree of customization of the offerings, and the uncertainty of the environment. · That innovation in services is much more than the application of information technology (IT). In fact, the disappointing returns to IT investments in services have resulted in a widespread debate about the causes and potential solutions — the so-called “productivity paradox” in services. Instead here the authors adopt a broader notion of innovation, including technological, organizational and market change. The key is to match the configuration of organization and technology to the specific market environment.

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  • Bottom-Line Call Center Management: Creating a Culture of Accountability and Excellent Customer Service (Improving Human Performance): David L. Butler

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    Bottom-Line Call Center Management: Creating a Culture of Accountability and Excellent Customer Service (Improving Human Performance): David L. Butler

    Editorial Reviews

    Review
    “Call center success is dependent on location, a supportive culture, and a process of accountability. David Butler provides a practical guide to call center success for any industry. This book is essential for managers of existing call centers as well as executives considering the launch of a new call center. Applying the ideas and suggestions offered in the book ensures a postive return on the call center investment.”
    – Dr. Patti P. Phillips, President & CEO, ROI Institute, Inc.; author of the award winning book The Bottomline on ROI

    “Gives the reader a thorough, “bottom-line”
    understanding of what differentiates successful and
    sustainable call centers. Economic development
    professionals around the world can benefit from this
    latest research on future trends in an exciting,
    expanding industry.”
    – William B. Sisson, Vice President, Economic Development, Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce

    “Bottom Line Call Center Management can assist anyone in the environment work much more expeditiously because David Butler has completed the research for us. Save yourself 20 years. read the book!”
    – Ann John, Leading Edge Consults, LLC

    “Finally, someone has unlocked the pathway for
    communities and regions to engage meaningfully in
    recruiting and growing a call center industry, making the hallmarks of economic development–job creation and quality of life improvement–a reasonable, attainment goal. David Butler’s work provides us with the key.”
    – Angeline Godwin Dvorak, Vice President for Research and Economic Development, The University of Southern Mississippi

    “If you like to think outside of the box and want
    your team to understand exactly what that means,
    Bottom Line Call Center Management will bring it all
    into focus for them. All in one bookits all here. Dont put this one down!!”
    – Terry Hibler, Call Center Manager, Fortune 500 Company

    Book Description
    An innovative approach to assessing & implementing effective management practices within a call-center environment

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  • Bottom-Line Call Center Management: Creating a Culture of Accountability and Excellent Customer Service (Improving Human Performance): David L. Butler

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    Bottom-Line Call Center Management: Creating a Culture of Accountability and Excellent Customer Service (Improving Human Performance): David L. Butler

    Editorial Reviews

    Review
    “Call center success is dependent on location, a supportive culture, and a process of accountability. David Butler provides a practical guide to call center success for any industry. This book is essential for managers of existing call centers as well as executives considering the launch of a new call center. Applying the ideas and suggestions offered in the book ensures a postive return on the call center investment.”
    – Dr. Patti P. Phillips, President & CEO, ROI Institute, Inc.; author of the award winning book The Bottomline on ROI

    “Gives the reader a thorough, “bottom-line”
    understanding of what differentiates successful and
    sustainable call centers. Economic development
    professionals around the world can benefit from this
    latest research on future trends in an exciting,
    expanding industry.”
    – William B. Sisson, Vice President, Economic Development, Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce

    “Bottom Line Call Center Management can assist anyone in the environment work much more expeditiously because David Butler has completed the research for us. Save yourself 20 years. read the book!”
    – Ann John, Leading Edge Consults, LLC

    “Finally, someone has unlocked the pathway for
    communities and regions to engage meaningfully in
    recruiting and growing a call center industry, making the hallmarks of economic development–job creation and quality of life improvement–a reasonable, attainment goal. David Butler’s work provides us with the key.”
    – Angeline Godwin Dvorak, Vice President for Research and Economic Development, The University of Southern Mississippi

    “If you like to think outside of the box and want
    your team to understand exactly what that means,
    Bottom Line Call Center Management will bring it all
    into focus for them. All in one bookits all here. Dont put this one down!!”
    – Terry Hibler, Call Center Manager, Fortune 500 Company

    Book Description
    An innovative approach to assessing & implementing effective management practices within a call-center environment

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  • Designing the Best Call Center for Your Business, 2nd Edition: Brendan B. Read

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    Designing the Best Call Center for Your Business, 2nd Edition: Brendan B. Read

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    Product Description
    Designing the Best Call Center for Your Business examines all key aspects of opening and expanding a live agent call center, with in-depth coverage on facilities and workstation design; site selection, including communications and power backups; f

    This revised and expanded edition examines all key aspects of opening and expanding a live agent call center.

    About the Author
    Brendan B. Read is a business editor, writer and consultant who writes about site selection, real estate, facilities, staffing, training, outsourcing and home working. Brendan served for many years as services editor of Call Center magazine. A frequent speaker at at industry conferences, he is the author of Home Workplace and co-author of The Complete Guide to Customer Support.

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  • Designing the Best Call Center for Your Business, 2nd Edition: Brendan B. Read

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    Designing the Best Call Center for Your Business, 2nd Edition: Brendan B. Read

    Editorial Reviews

    Product Description
    Designing the Best Call Center for Your Business examines all key aspects of opening and expanding a live agent call center, with in-depth coverage on facilities and workstation design; site selection, including communications and power backups; f

    This revised and expanded edition examines all key aspects of opening and expanding a live agent call center.

    About the Author
    Brendan B. Read is a business editor, writer and consultant who writes about site selection, real estate, facilities, staffing, training, outsourcing and home working. Brendan served for many years as services editor of Call Center magazine. A frequent speaker at at industry conferences, he is the author of Home Workplace and co-author of The Complete Guide to Customer Support.

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