Vistio

JANUARY 27, 2025

In contact centers, scripts have long been a cornerstone of customer interactions. But as customer demands grow more complex and situations become less predictable, relying solely on scripts can hinder an agents ability to deliver exceptional service. However, scripts can also be limiting.

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Vistio

JANUARY 13, 2025

Effective agent training is more than just a checkbox on a to-do listits a critical investment in long-term success. The Pitfalls of Classroom and Mock-Call Training Traditional training methods, such as classroom sessions and mock-call exercises, can only take agents so far.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The first thing I thought when I heard this is that they are teaching employees how to engage with customers by acting out a scripted response. In an interview with The Guardian , Simon Tavener, the secretary of the Oxford Theatre Guild, said, “Selling requires you to have a sort of script in your head. There is no script.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 9, 2021

First, ditch the scripts. If you’re a new customer support rep, your organization will certainly ask you to follow a script. Reading from a script makes you sound like a robot. By no means do they want to talk to someone who’s reading a script? Now, how can you achieve that? But guess what?

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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 28, 2024

A preprocessor script is a capability of SageMaker Model Monitor to preprocess SageMaker endpoint data capture before creating metrics for model quality. However, even with a preprocessor script, you still face a mismatch in the designed behavior of SageMaker Model Monitor, which expects one inference payload per request.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Why Training on Emotional Management for Frontline Employees is Vital. Lack of employee training. Before you get to training, you have some critical work to do. It is essential to train your people on how to do that. Many employees need training on how to evoke those emotions. The answer is too many.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 17, 2019

My Comment: While I don’t believe in scripts (How can you script sincerity?), Best Practices for Call Center Scripts: Expert Tips & Best Practices for Developing & Using Effective Call Center Scripts by Rachael Royds. As mentioned, I’m concerned with a company that focuses on scripts.

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Steve DiGioia

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Many must recite a script written by someone who sits in an office far removed from the customers or by someone who, for years, hasn’t been “on the front lines” with the customers. Don’t Make Your Employees Read From a Script. But since they have the position, they think they know better…but do they?

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Vistio

DECEMBER 9, 2024

If our customers expect modern, tailored solutions and lightning-fast service, why are so many contact centers stuck using outdated, one-size-fits-all training methods? Its like trying to prepare for a marathon by practicing sprintsyou might be training, but youre not training for what matters. The result?

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The question is, can call centers improve agents’ emotional intelligence through training and employee engagement strategies ? A customer service agent trained to use empathy in their interactions has the power to develop a relationship with you even over the phone. Train your agents’ empathy skills with these 5 tips: 1.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 18, 2021

Hire and Train Experienced Customer Service Staff. Customers may lose trust in your organization if they feel your service department is poorly trained. To ensure they’re knowledgeable of your company , create flashcards of common questions and complaints that have their own scripted answers. .

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AWS Machine Learning

APRIL 18, 2024

Organizations typically counter these hurdles by investing in extensive training programs or hiring specialized personnel, which often leads to increased costs and delayed migration timelines. Traditionally, cloud engineers learning IaC would manually sift through documentation and best practices to write compliant IaC scripts.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 31, 2019

Your job is to write the Customer Experience script and memorize it. Define it to have your entire team reading from the same script. Customer Service excellence is an integral part of how people remember things, but too few organizations take the time to train their customer-facing employees to deliver it.

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AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Building foundation models (FMs) requires building, maintaining, and optimizing large clusters to train models with tens to hundreds of billions of parameters on vast amounts of data. Customers such as Stability AI use SageMaker HyperPod to train their foundation models, including Stable Diffusion.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 31, 2023

Call center training has always been one of the key pillars of running a successful call center. A strong call center training program should not just be part of your onboarding process. Still have questions about call center training? What is Call Center Training? Don’t just pick one.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 20, 2020

They build scripts within call centers to get customers to say yes to things early, effectively getting them in the habit of saying yes. Customer Service excellence is an integral part of how people remember things, but too few organizations take the time to train their customer-facing employees to deliver it.

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AWS Machine Learning

JANUARY 31, 2025

These models are trained using self-supervised learning algorithms on expansive datasets, enabling them to capture a comprehensive repertoire of visual representations and patterns inherent within pathology images. Training jobs are run on p3.2xlarge and g5.2xlarge instances. The AWS CloudFormation template for this solution uses t3.medium

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AWS Machine Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

For example, you may want to make use of Amazon SageMaker to build and train ML model, or use Amazon SageMaker Jumpstart to deploy pre-built foundation or third party ML models, which you can deploy at the click of a few buttons. We show how you can build and train an ML model in AWS and deploy the model in another platform.

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TeleDirect

MARCH 20, 2025

Train agents to listen without interrupting and to ask clarifying questions when needed. Equip Agents with Comprehensive Training Invest in ongoing training programs that cover customer service skills, technical knowledge, and problem-solving techniques. Q2: What training methods are best for call center agents?

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

When its time to hire and train your first customer support representative (CSR), the process might feel overwhelming. Here, we will walk you through every step of training your first customer support rep, ensuring they represent your start-up with professionalism, empathy, and efficiency. Avoid overly complicated explanations.

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AWS Machine Learning

APRIL 29, 2024

In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have gained attention for their effectiveness, leading various industries to adapt general LLMs to their data for improved results, making efficient training and hardware availability crucial. In this post, we show you how efficient we make our continual pre-training by using Trainium chips.

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Rather than relying on static scripts, Sophie autonomously decides how to engage. A national smart home provider used dynamic visual guidance to reduce handling time by over to 40%, letting teams handle more queries in less time – while automatically training AI models for future Agentic AI automation. Visual troubleshooting?

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AWS Machine Learning

MAY 23, 2024

By utilizing sparse expert subnetworks that process different subsets of tokens, MoE models can effectively increase the number of parameters while requiring less computation per token during training and inference. This enables more cost-effective training of larger models within fixed compute budgets compared to dense architectures.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 25, 2019

Knowing what customers’ concerns are will make it easier to develop a script, one that will assure callers that their specific issues are being addressed. Ideally, customer service representatives in your company are undergoing periodic training to ensure they are truly listening to customers; concerns.

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AWS Machine Learning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

It is important to consider the massive amount of compute often required to train these models. When using compute clusters of massive size, a single failure can often throw a training job off course and may require multiple hours of discovery and remediation from customers. In recent years, FM sizes have been increasing.

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AWS Machine Learning

MAY 31, 2024

In this blog post and open source project , we show you how you can pre-train a genomics language model, HyenaDNA , using your genomic data in the AWS Cloud. Amazon SageMaker Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed ML service offered by AWS, designed to reduce the time and cost associated with training and tuning ML models at scale.

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AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This vision model developed by KT relies on a model pre-trained with a large amount of unlabeled image data to analyze the nutritional content and calorie information of various foods. The teacher model remains unchanged during KD, but the student model is trained using the output logits of the teacher model as labels to calculate loss.

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AWS Machine Learning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Trained on the Amazon SageMaker HyperPod , Dream Machine excels in creating consistent characters, smooth motion, and dynamic camera movements. Model parallel training becomes necessary when the total model footprint (model weights, gradients, and optimizer states) exceeds the memory of a single GPU.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 13, 2017

In our Customer Experience Management Training , we use stories of truly horrendous customer experiences to get them laughing while also absorbing a key concept. Train employees on what’s tasteful and what’s not, and especially avoid jokes that can demean or insult any group of people. When you want to create a better work environment.

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ShepHyken

MAY 31, 2021

Linkedin Pulse) Customer service scripts are tempting from the perspective of experience consistency, but it is hard to be authentic and inspired when you are reading someone else’s words. Go to The Customer Focus™ to learn more about our customer service training programs. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 12, 2018

So, here is my top 20 list of myths on customer experience not to tell yourself or things you should never say to a customer that we often use in client workshops: Following a script. Because scripts and checklists are all the rage now, employees are scripted to death. When I hear a script, I wonder if the person can help me.

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Integrity Solutions

JULY 24, 2024

One of the most critical areas where small businesses can gain a competitive edge is by investing in their teams’ development, particularly through sales training. The Fundamental Element Sales Training Often Overlooks Sales training is often deployed with a focus on product knowledge, process, selling skills and techniques.

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AWS Machine Learning

MAY 1, 2024

It comes in a range of parameter sizes—7 billion, 13 billion, and 70 billion—as well as pre-trained and fine-tuned variations. Many practitioners fine-tune or pre-train these Llama 2 models with their own text data to improve accuracy for their specific use case.

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AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Like many ML organizations, accelerators are largely used to accelerate DL training and inference. In this post, we discuss how M5 was able to reduce the cost to train their models by 30%, and share some of the best practices we learned along the way. To use accelerators, you need a software layer to support them.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 17, 2019

Servers are rewarded for advancing these goals, and they are not trained or encouraged to respond to customers’ social cues. To correct these issues, restaurants need to train employees to empathize with customers and pick up on cues they are sending out. The hostess who reluctantly seats you is probably just following protocol.

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Callminer

JULY 30, 2020

That’s why it’s important to train your call center representatives on effective conflict resolution techniques and leverage the right technologies to support ongoing coaching and training. While sticking to set scripts can be helpful, being genuinely concerned with solving customer concerns helps customers feel valued.

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