Why IT Support Agents Need the Latest in Call Center Software

One of the best things that any business can do is be on the lookout for new innovations that can help it be more successful and efficient. Even if a business is working at peak performance, that doesn’t mean they can afford to stop looking for ways to make things run more smoothly. That’s especially true […]

Books Every Call Center Manager Should Read

Managing a busy call center can be an incredibly challenging job, and it often might seem like, with all of the non-stop changes and innovations coming to the industry, it’s impossible to find the right guide for a manager who needs some tips or just a little help. But as it turns out, there’s a […]

5 Ways to Help Your Contact Center Employees Relieve Stress

The general public doesn’t often think of contact center work as particularly stressful. However, customer service can be an extremely stressful profession. Contact center employees have to deal with any number of possible stressors, from angry customers, to ineffective training, to staying on top of new policies or procedures that may have just been put […]

Our Top Picks of the Best Public Safety Blogs on the Web

Public safety is an ever-changing subject with so many different iterations that it’s hard to keep up. It’s important that all of these different elements work in concert with one another, so we offer a range of topics that stand alone but are interconnected at the same time. But we’re by no means the only […]

How To Determine Which KPIs Are Most Useful For Your Contact Center

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are a great way to focus your contact center on improvement by using the data that you generate every day. The idea is that you use several KPIs to measure different parts of your performance—call time, agent turnover rate, or first contact resolution, for example. By monitoring and measuring these KPIs, […]

How Emotional Intelligence Training Can Improve Your Call Center’s Customer Service

Think for a moment about how important it is to see the person you’re talking to in order to understand what they’re trying to say. The look on their face or their body language can clue you into what they really mean, even if their words are telling you something different. Now imagine sitting at […]

How Better 911 Call Data Can Improve Emergency Outcomes

It’s virtually impossible to overstate how precious time can be in an emergency situation, especially the time between when an emergency is called in and when public safety workers arrive. Be it a fire, a search and rescue mission or a hunt for a fugitive, every second is precious. But time isn’t the only thing […]

So You Want to Become an Emergency Dispatcher or Telecommunicator

Every important job has standards, and that’s certainly true of the positions of emergency dispatcher/telecommunicator and emergency telecommunicator. It’s a critical occupation in which an employee has to work quickly and efficiently with decisive action, because lives are quite literally on the line. In short, it’s not a job for everyone. But when a public […]

How Technology is Helping Keep Public Safety Workers and Citizens Safe

Risk is part of the job for many, if not all, public safety workers - but unnecessary risk should never be. Keeping those workers safe in the event of a natural disaster so that they can then keep the public safe is crucial, and agencies should seek the best possible ways to do so. Luckily, […]

6 Ways to Help New Contact Center Employees Succeed

Contact center work can be rewarding because it’s such a great test of quick-thinking, multi-tasking and customer service. Finding an employee who excels at all of those things can be challenging, however, and contact center work can often be the first job of a young person who’s just entered the workforce. So the challenge is […]