Articles - Retention

Retaining great people is one of the biggest challenges in contact centre management. This page brings together expert guidance, research, and practical solutions to help you understand what drives retention and how to strengthen it across your teams. Discover how factors such as recognition, development, leadership, and culture influence loyalty and motivation. You will also find ideas for reducing early attrition, improving career paths, and creating an environment where advisors feel valued, supported, and ready to stay.

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7 Ways You’re Punishing Your Best Agents Right Now
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Hang On a Minute… Is AI Worsening EX?
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How to Change Your Shift Patterns – Without Losing Your Best Agents!
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Improve Your CX Strategy – Clever Ideas From Bupa’s Contact Centre!
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What’s Really Stopping Your Talent From Blooming?
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Successful Customer Retention Strategies From Specsavers
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Top 10 Customer Experience KPIs
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What Is Customer Retention?
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What Is a Customer Retention Strategy?
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What Is Quiet Quitting?
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6 Contact Centre Initiatives You Can’t Ignore
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How to Combat Quiet Quitting in the Call Centre
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Don’t Let the Menopause Compromise Staff Retention in Your Contact Centre
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How to Calculate Customer Profitability
10 Innovative Ways to Create Customer Value
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5 Customer Engagement Strategies That You Cannot Ignore
11 Customer Retention Strategies
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The Top Ten Call Centre Problems
Create a Contact Centre Orientation Plan to Reduce Attrition
5 Ways to Retain Advisors Using the Same Tools as Customer Retention
6 Ways to Wow and Win Back Lost Customers
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Does Your Contact Centre Need a “Colleague Experience Manager”?
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5 Things That Will Drive Your Staff Away
29 Strategies to Tackle Agent Absence and Attrition