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Building Customer Care Leaders in the Virtual / Work-from-Home Environment

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In 2001, after managing her first virtual contact center, Vicki realized that different leadership strategies and tools were needed for the at-home environment. Vicki Brackett has been leading both virtual/work-at-home and brick-and-mortar contact centers for over twenty years.

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Amazing Business Radio: Anthony Goonetilleke

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Featured Interview: Shep begins his interview with Anthony Goonetilleke by asking if we have reached the point of HAL, the computer in 2001 A Space Odyssey? You want to be ahead of the game. Should we be nervous or scared of that type of technology?

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5 Major Criteria To Be An Effective Leader

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He's written two books on leadership and has been president of his own company since 2001. Mitchell Consulting Inc is both a health care finance consultant and an authority on leadership and diversity issues. Connect with Mitch: Website | Blog | Twitter | YouTube.

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Meet our December Wall of Fame Sponsor: 2Ring

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Company 2Ring CEO/Founder Ondrej Smolar Founded 2001 Describe your company 2Ring is an independent software vendor focused on innovative enhancements for many of the major contact center platforms (Amazon, Cisco, Five9, Genesys).

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 12-27-2021

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Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey , HAL, the computer could talk in a human-like fashion, yet it still sounded like a computer. They use speech recognition and natural-language processing to enable users to complete some tasks. My Comment: In Arthur C.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of February 19, 2024

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Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, introduced us to HAL 9000, a computer that communicated like a human … and against its crew. Will AI Take Over Customer Service? by Shep Hyken (Enghouse Interactive) The future is now. Science fiction has become reality. Back in 1968, almost five decades ago, Arthur C.

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The Largest Call Center Association in the NorthEast!

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The NECCF was founded in February 2001 by contact center executives and specialists who wanted an unbiased “user group” […]. You may not be familiar with the NorthEast Contact Center Forum (NECCF), but you should absolutely get this incredible regional organization on your radar!