If you run a call center, you're probably always brainstorming new tactics for increasing sales or improving the service experience. Usually these initiatives are driven by overarching corporate-level goals, like promoting new products, increasing visibility in a new market, or launching seasonal campaigns. In more service-oriented centers, the focus may be less on sales and more on call handling/resolution time. Whatever your initiative, it's one thing to broadcast these efforts, so that everyone knows their objectives. But, if you add some excitement and healthy competition to the mix, you can achieve better results and improve morale at the same time.
Allison is currently living out the elaborate fantasy she described to her now-former staff and colleagues in early 2001. With a hearty dose of courage and absolutely no plan of action, she abruptly left her middle-management job to become a writer—and today she is doing just that in her role as Baudville's Senior Content Writer. She's here to tell you everything she's learned in her 20-years+ professional life, plus a lot more. She's wordy like that!
