Integrity Solutions

MAY 12, 2020

With leaner sales organizations, your sales enablement strategy has to step up and be a valuable contributor to the organization. In many organizations, revenue has “fallen off a cliff,” as one sales leader put it, and companies are looking at where they can make cuts and recapture lost momentum.

Sales 121

Sales Coaching Metrics Technology 121

SharpenCX

AUGUST 31, 2021

A customized dashboard offers many benefits : Focused insights to improve training and coaching methods Compiled data to improve decision making Transparency to increase agent productivity Clarity around team goals and benchmarks. Your agents are concerned with their individual metrics and the day-to-day goals.

Call Center 128

Call Center Metrics Benchmark Contact Center 128

ShepHyken

JUNE 25, 2021

After he bought his first car dealership, he walked in and noticed that all of the sales guys were dressed casual, in polo shirts and slacks. Recognize the right behaviors and reinforce with incentives, promotions, metrics, and more. Troy is a sharp-dressed man; when it comes to work/business, he is always dressed in a suit.

Customer centricity 307

Customer centricity Coaching Consulting Consulting 307

CCNG

MARCH 30, 2022

Some sales organizations utilize email “cadences” to drive their business development efforts by utilizing a certain order of pre-programmed emails in the quest for increasing sales. Coach the agent for 20 minutes – check off the box and get the green dot. The supervisor goes on, “So I’ll send this to you in the coaching form.

Coaching 195

Coaching CCNG Average Handle Time Contact Center 195

CrazyCall

APRIL 9, 2019

There are dozens of hundreds of rankings devoted to sales influencers and experts across different industries and the world in general (we’ve also published one ). We’ve decided to remedy the situation and created a list of 18 saleswomen who in our view play an essential role in the world of sales. Tiffani Bova. Tiffani Bova.

Sales 133

Sales Consulting Consulting Coaching 133

Integrity Solutions

JANUARY 18, 2021

This past year laid bare some critical underlying selling skills and cracks in their sales pipeline that sales leaders were able to ignore or avoid while focusing on more immediate concerns. It’s also clear that the shift to a remote sales model isn’t just a temporary fix. New Sales Pipeline Strategy. By Will Milano.

Sales 123

Sales Coaching B2B Metrics 123

TeleDirect

APRIL 7, 2025

Use Blended Learning Methods Combine online training, classroom sessions, role-playing, and real-time coaching for maximum retention. Use Metrics to Evaluate Training Effectiveness Track KPIs like first-call resolution, customer satisfaction (CSAT), and average handling time (AHT) to assess performance improvements.

Call Center 62

Call Center First call resolution Best practices Gamification 62

Cincom

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Speed, accuracy, and the ability to meet customer demands efficiently are the pillars of success for the sales team. Configure, Price, and Quote (CPQ) software plays a vital role in automating product configuration, pricing, and quote generation helping sales teams to easily handle complex pricing scenarios.

Sales 40

Sales Gamification Finance Best practices 40

CX Global Media

APRIL 10, 2017

If you need more than just simple product descriptions and frequently asked questions to make a sale and service customers are your people properly equipped? More sophisticated sales and service interactions require the support of additional assets. I also share a few capabilities that initially stood out to me on-site. About Grypp.

Sales 120

Sales Contact Center Customer effort Call Center 120

ROI CX Solutions

APRIL 24, 2025

Sales and upselling scripts Customer service agents play a critical role in selling products or services. Sales Are you familiar with the other products that we sell? Engage in continuous agent coaching, discussing communication roadblocks and solutions in your script that can help them. We look forward to serving you better.

Scripts 92

Scripts Call Center Upselling Feedback 92

CX Accelerator

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Other Actions: Coach your leaders to use the leadership behaviors you'd like to see, taking care to model how you want them to coach their direct reports.Ask your leaders to emulate the service vision when working with employees. From Jeremy Hyde: How do your leaders calibrate on what they “coach” on and how/when they approach it?

Calibration 244

Calibration Schedule adherence Coaching Employee engagement 244

Quality Contact Solutions

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Sales leaders are one of the most critical assets to your company. Their decisions are directly responsible for how sales reps contribute to the company’s growth or lack thereof. But what makes sales leaders great? Here are 10 qualities that great sales leaders have in common.

Sales 98

Sales Telemarketing Best practices Coaching 98

GetFeedback

AUGUST 14, 2019

Measuring just a piece of this journey can seem short-sighted or not as powerful as other CX metrics, like Net Promoter Score (NPS). CX shouldn’t ever be measured by one metric alone. Customers and their experiences are complex and nuanced, so there’s no perfect metric. Use CSAT at key points in the sales process.

Metrics 109

Metrics Journey mapping Surveys Coaching 109

Steve DiGioia

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Whether a best-selling author, keynote speaker, top sales trainer or customer service guru they were gracious enough to share their view on this one (1) question: As an organization gets larger there is a tendency for the mindset to change from “the customer comes first” to “higher profits and lower payroll first”. Grant Cardone. Kate Nasser.

Customer centricity 264

Customer centricity Consulting Consulting Metrics 264

Integrity Solutions

MAY 23, 2023

Sales prospecting is vital to the success of any sales organization. Simply learning how to find, approach and engage new customers is at the heart of being able to meet and exceed your sales goals. Why Is Sales Prospecting More Important Than Ever? What is Sales Prospecting?

Sales 91

Sales Coaching Brand ambassadors B2B 91

The Northridge Group

AUGUST 19, 2020

Companies that want to take their call centers from good to great should focus on these four areas: Clearly defined and focused metrics. Focus your metrics around what is critically important to your organization’s customer base. Therefore, your metrics need to be customized. Clear coaching for continued development of staff.

Contact Center 145

Contact Center Coaching Call Center First call resolution 145

CCNG

MAY 27, 2021

Contact Center Leaders are continually being pushed to improve processes, decrease cost, increase customer satisfaction, and improve sales or metrics. Understanding the best path to follow, with the fluidity of the contact center industry, can be a daunting task. culture, motivation, incentives, and employee engagement.

Consulting 195

Consulting Consulting Contact Center Gamification 195

The Northridge Group

JANUARY 9, 2020

The solution to creating a program that actually drives to improved customer experience or improvement in any other key performance metrics, is to design a behavior-based quality program. If you fixate your focus on improving a few specific metrics, it becomes easier to identify the behaviors that correlate to those specific desired outcomes.

Customer Experience 131

Customer Experience Coaching First call resolution Metrics 131

BlueOcean

MARCH 11, 2025

Measuring the Success of Conversation Intelligence When measuring the success of conversation intelligence programs, one of the most crucial distinctions is separating soft skills metrics from customer experience metrics. This distinction is crucial because it helps us uncover hidden truths about customer satisfaction.

Customer Experience 62

Customer Experience Calibration Average Handle Time Metrics 62

ChurnZero

JULY 8, 2022

Cut to 2022, and the idea that a SaaS company could secure venture funding without investors digging deep into retention metrics seems comical, if not reckless. Net revenue retention (NRR) is taking center stage as the qualifying metric for determining the health of a SaaS business. Customer success owns a large portion of that metric.

SaaS 98

SaaS Metrics Customer retention Upselling 98

ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

To share how to choose, track, and act on effective onboarding metrics, ChurnZero Customer Success Enablement Team Lead Bree Pecci joined CSM Practice for a drill-down into customer-centric onboarding. Onboarding metrics serve two main purposes. Basing onboarding metrics on your internal operations can produce false positives.

Metrics 98

Metrics SaaS Surveys Self service 98

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Paul is a Transformational, hands-on, customer service department leader with extensive experience using performance metrics, lean process improvements, and positive leadership in building effective, efficient, and happy customer service departments. Paul Husar, Senior Call Center Manager at LG Electronics. Follow on LinkedIn.

Customer Service 251

Customer Service Chief Customer Officer Contact Center Consulting 251

TeleDirect

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Effective Call Center Strategies | Customer Service Tips for Call Centers | Call Center Coaching from TeleDirect. In other words…it takes a great coach! Like any successful plan of attack, call center coaching and effective call center strategies demand excellence from management and agents. It takes careful planning.

Coaching 62

Coaching Call Center Business Process Outsourcing outsourcing 62

Calabrio

APRIL 11, 2025

trillion in global sales are at risk in 2025 due to one thing: bad customer experiences. A comprehensive needs assessment involves: Analyzing Performance Data: Dive into key metrics like Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) , First Call Resolution (FCR) , Average Handle Time (AHT) , and other factors of QA scorecards.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Coaching Call Center Average Handle Time 52

TeleDirect

MARCH 13, 2025

Enhances Call Center Performance Improves key metrics such as average handle time (AHT) and customer satisfaction scores (CSAT). How Training Impacts Call Center Performance Metrics 1. A: Training duration varies by industry, but a 1-2 week structured program with ongoing coaching is recommended.

Best practices 62

Best practices Call Center Customer Service Average Handle Time 62

Integrity Solutions

JANUARY 23, 2023

The past several years have certainly tested the mettle of even the most experienced salespeople and sales managers. Here’s a round-up of some of the key ideas that have stood out to them as well as their advice on new year’s resolutions for sales leaders and team members that will deliver the biggest impact this year.

Sales 78

Sales Coaching Accountability Metrics 78

SharpenCX

OCTOBER 6, 2021

According to Gallup’s State of the American Workplace report, engaged employees are more likely to improve customer relationships, increasing sales by 20%. Do customers have a sales question? Set clear metrics to drive your team. First, choose the contact center metrics you want to improve and focus on. A technical issue?

Contact Center 128

Contact Center Coaching Metrics Employee engagement 128

Integrity Solutions

OCTOBER 8, 2019

When it comes to the sales leader’s performance, the best CEOs are holding them accountable for more than just the number; they expect them to grow their people, too. As the revenue producers, it’s not surprising that the sales function is always on the mind of the CEO. What CEOs Want Sales Leaders to Know.

Sales 80

Sales Coaching Metrics Accountability 80

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It’s 2019, which means contact center metrics from 1999 are almost old enough for their first legal beer (and already knocking them back in Canada.) Those metrics were born in an era when customer service was a race, where whoever got to the finish line first (i.e. One Metric to Rule Them All. But where do we start?

Metrics 87

Metrics Customer Care Average Handle Time outsourcing 87

Callminer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Call centers that implement agent performance management solutions equip their agents with the ongoing coaching and training needed to perform at their best. “A good outbound sales script contains a strong connecting statement. Keep metrics in mind and up to date. Aim to connect. Automate the busywork of dialing.

Best practices 182

Best practices Call Center Outbound sales Telemarketing 182

CX Global Media

JULY 17, 2018

Make no mistake, Call Center Coach is not only the name of our business — it’s an industry need. According to an Executive Priorities report from Strategic Contact , coaching is the number one priority in contact centers. In many circles, the thought of coaching is about supervisors coaching agents. Click to Tweet ).

Contact Center 179

Contact Center Coaching Construction Call Center 179

ChurnZero

JANUARY 22, 2021

“But I didn’t want a job in sales!”. If you’ve internally cursed the idea of selling or simply desire to take your sales skills up a notch, then this webinar is for you. Apply a language framework to “get into” the sales conversations. I’m not a huge fan of the sales being blended in with normal CS conversation.

Sales 98

Sales Chief Customer Officer Upselling Metrics 98

The Northridge Group

AUGUST 14, 2023

Additionally, contact centers must invest in streamlined and high-quality employee onboarding, continuous skill development, and coaching. When employees see an investment made in their development through coaching and continuous support, they can visualize their upward mobility.

Contact Center 120

Contact Center Coaching Morale contact center associations 120

Call Center Weekly

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Just consider the combination of questionable draft choices, bad trades, player melt downs and season ending injuries; then add to these the seemingly erratic changes in coaching philosophy and overbearing executive oversite and you have one of the most over-paid failures in modern sports. Seriously…go. Let’s stop there.

Contact Center 169

Contact Center Coaching Business Process Outsourcing Transportation 169

CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Whether you’re managing tickets, tracking metrics, or offering omnichannel support, these Zendesk apps are game-changers. Zendesk Sell: Align Support with Sales Customer support and sales often work in silos, but Zendesk Sell breaks those barriers. With its detailed analytics, you’ll always know where to improve.

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience Technical Support Coaching Sales 52

TechSee

MARCH 7, 2023

Deborah Woods, Contact Center Manager, Costa Express Limited – With a strong track record of exceeding business metrics and a leader who can influence people at all levels and negotiate effectively, Deborah is a professional, goal-oriented people manager. We were excited to see her leading the conversation at MCW23 last week.

Chief Customer Officer 207

Chief Customer Officer Contact Center Telecommunications Finance 207

Balto

JANUARY 6, 2025

Insightful Data-Driven Reports: Track long-term quality trends and assess coaching effectiveness through comprehensive reports. It also integrates a handful of CRM functionalities that enable you to automate sales and marketing processes, as well as foster customer loyalty with effective omnichannel communication and loyalty programs.

Call Center 52

Call Center Coaching Surveys Contact Center 52