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		<title>How to develop leadership in the contact centre</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
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As we know, the role of the team leader is crucial to the effective development and retention of talented front-line agents.  Whilst the remit of the ‘leader’ role will vary depending upon the size of the organisation, there are some consistent elements common to most team leader roles.  Carolyn Blunt tells us more.These include:

Resource planning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to cheer up the contact centre</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abhinit Gogia thought that his colleagues in the contact centre were looking dull and uninterested.  On his way home, he thought of an idea that would get everyone going.
Read on to find out what he did&#8230;.
The earth revolves faster, I say to myself, while picking up the next call of my day. It’s October and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Training Cheat Sheet &#8211; Emotional Intelligence</title>
		<link>http://www.callcentrehelper.com/training-cheat-sheet-emotional-intelligence-25195.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we launch the final cheat sheet in the series of downloadable training materials on Emotional Intelligence.    
This training module will help you to:

Recognise and manage your own emotions
Motivate yourself
Recognise and understand the emotions of others
Manager the emotions of others

Click here to download the Emotional Intelligence Cheat Sheet.
These cheat sheets are all available in a downloadable Microsoft [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to reduce agent time spent on data entry</title>
		<link>http://www.callcentrehelper.com/how-to-reduce-agent-time-spent-on-data-entry-25876.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Infinity CCS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Data entry is essential to customer service, but it can also be time consuming and inefficient. Our expert panel share their top tips and experiences on how to reduce the time agents spend on data entry.
Take a step back and find the wasted time
Contact centre agents spend around 12.5% of their time on after-call work, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Training Cheat Sheet &#8211; Effective Questioning</title>
		<link>http://www.callcentrehelper.com/training-cheat-sheet-effective-questioning-25184.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we launch the second cheat sheet in the series of downloadable training materials on Effective Questioning Techniques.    
This training module will help you to :

Use a variety of question types
Add more structure to your questions
Listen properly
Summarise customer issues and avoid call-backs

Click here to download the Effective Questioning Cheat Sheet.
These cheat sheets are all available in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reward for service, not sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too many contact centres reward performance for sales and don&#8217;t reward for good customer service, but it doesn&#8217;t have to be this way.  Paul Cooper  shares his thoughts&#8230;
Well, firstly I want to argue with one of the statements I have just made, as I think the assumption is wrong. For many businesses sales volumes DO depend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 things to ensure you lead to high performance</title>
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		<comments>http://www.callcentrehelper.com/3-things-to-ensure-you-lead-to-high-performance-24925.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
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As leaders we need to ensure that our teams are delivering high performance.  But this is easier said than done.  Angelo Azar highlights three actions that a leader in a contact centre environment can prioritise for maximum return. 
The number of short courses or management training days we have all attended over the years to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to survive and prosper in a multilingual contact centre</title>
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		<comments>http://www.callcentrehelper.com/how-to-survive-and-prosper-in-a-multilingual-contact-centre-25567.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luke Turner shares with us the trials and tribulations of working in a multilingual contact centre.
I work abroad running the MI and WFP team in a contact centre that covers 11 different languages and multiple channels of communication, and having spent many years working in UK contact centres.  I have had to adapt my management style [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 tips to build loyalty amongst staff</title>
		<link>http://www.callcentrehelper.com/10-tips-to-build-loyalty-amongst-staff-24929.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.callcentrehelper.com/10-tips-to-build-loyalty-amongst-staff-24929.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
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As an industry, contact centres have a reputation for being unable to retain our best staff.  The churn in our industry has always been high. But it doesn’t have to be this way.  Penny Hutton provides her 10 top tips to build loyalty amongst staff.
Staff retention is a reflection on the training and personal development [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Training Cheat Sheet &#8211; Handling difficult customers</title>
		<link>http://www.callcentrehelper.com/training-cheat-sheet-handling-difficult-customers-25175.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.callcentrehelper.com/training-cheat-sheet-handling-difficult-customers-25175.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have had a number of requests from our readers to provide more training materials.  We are lucky to have been supplied with a number of training cheat sheets by Rob Wilkinson of Call Centre Connect.
The first in the series is a cheat sheet on Handling Difficult customers.
It covers topics such as how to get customers [...]]]></description>
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