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How to Train and Support Remote Customer Service Employees

Myra Golden

This morning I hosted a webinar for leaders of customer service departments and operations. I walked everyone through how to prepare customer service specialists to apply psychological tactics to bring down the temperature in interactions and de-escalate. I’m concerned about training my agents and supporting them.

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3 Things Being an Overwhelmed Call Center Manager Taught Me About Motivating Employees

Myra Golden

George jumped at the chance to get out of the call center and sit in on a meeting with managers and directors. He had so many creative ideas for how to help our company build and strengthen customer relationships. Here are 3 things being an overwhelmed manager taught me about motivating my call center employees.

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15 Ways to Get the Most Out of Call Center Week 2017

Stella Connect

Hiring for Retention: Building Blocks for Staffing your Contact Center for the Next Generation (Master Class). Director Consumer Care Center, Banner Health. Few contact center issues are more pressing (or costly) than employee churn. VP Customer Experience Design, AARP. 5 Must-See Sessions.

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This is How to Ask Your Customer Questions

Myra Golden

Years ago, when I managed a small call center, I realized that my team had to ask our customers seven questions. Through call monitoring, I could hear, that our customers were annoyed with our “many” questions before we even started helping them. Our customers liked them too. Seven questions is a lot.

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Contact Center Training Events with Myra Golden

Myra Golden

Three Unique Professional Development Events for Customer Service Professionals. How to Handle Difficult Customers Using Verbal Aikido. 5 Aikido Principles for Creating Calm, Defusing Anger and Moving to Closure with Difficult Customers. Creating calm with difficult customers is not a matter of using aggressive tactics.

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Contact Center Training Events with Myra Golden

Myra Golden

Three Unique Professional Development Events for Customer Service Professionals. How to Handle Difficult Customers Using Verbal Aikido. 5 Aikido Principles for Creating Calm, Defusing Anger and Moving to Closure with Difficult Customers. Creating calm with difficult customers is not a matter of using aggressive tactics.

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How to Boost Your Quality Monitoring with Calibration – And Why You Must

Myra Golden

I remember managing a contact center and having an employee say to me , “Tammy does the exact same thing, yet the supervisor doesn’t take off points for her. I had my supervisors meet with me on a regular basis to check, adjust, or determine by comparison with each other the standards set forth by our call center.