Cathy Biddulph

How to Hire People that Fit Your Ideal Contact Center Agent Profile

by Cathy Biddulph in Agent Recruiting, Call Center Agents, Call Center WFM, Cathy Biddulph, Customer Service Outsourcing

To outside eyes, hiring customer service agents might seem like a straightforward order: hire people who are good at customer service… In fact, careful, nuanced hiring is the foundation of any successful customer support program. If you are engaged with an outsourced contact center partner, you want to have confidence that they are hiring the […]

 

Read More

4 Neurolinguistic Traits that Help Predict Agent Success

by Cathy Biddulph in Agent Recruiting, Cathy Biddulph

Would you want your customers talking with unmotivated, uninterested, and unskilled agents? Of course not! You want your customers to talk with agents who are knowledgeable, skilled, and hardwired with the right neurolinguistic profile (aka mindset) to deliver a great experience. Every human brain processes communication and procedures differently. The study of neurolinguistics examines the […]

 

Read More

Diversity in the Contact Center

by Cathy Biddulph in Agent Recruiting, Cathy Biddulph

“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities,” wrote Stephen R. Covey, business professor and best-selling author. The same holds true in the contact center business. It is a well-established fact that one of the primary benefits of partnering with a contact center for customer care is having someone else shoulder recruiting and human resources responsibilities. […]

 

Read More