The Employee who has the biggest effect on your Online Reputation

My last post discussed how your reputation online, begins onsite. I mentioned that I would discuss things that your could focus on that would immediately impact your customer’s experience. Here is one of the most overlooked employees in most businesses today. The...

Listening to the “Voice of Your Employees”

I just returned from a large Call Center Conference and many of the breakout sessions discussed the need for businesses to focus on “The Voice of the Customer”. This seems to be the new buzz phrase and I heard many different ideas on how a company can achieve this....

Encourage Your Employees to Fail.

I know that sounds like an odd mantra to follow, but it depends on how you view failure. In your company is failure viewed as a disaster or as an opportunity for training? Every time we try something new, failure is going to be a part of it. We start off with great...

Why is it that Training never gets a seat at the table?

Lately, I’ve been going to a lot of events. I just hit my 3rd in two weeks.  At each event there are breakout sessions and roundtables to discuss relevant issues to business. I’ve been in sessions about Social Media, Workforce Management, Outsourcing, Inventory...