To provide great customer service, consider hiring talent with empathy, empowering your team to make decisions, and creating relationships among team members.
Tag(s): supportworld, support center, customer experience, customer service
Date Published May 10, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017
What kind of work would you expect from someone if they accepted that their work was inherently less valuable and advancement was a myth?
Tag(s): supportworld, workforce enablement, leadership, desktop support
Date Published May 9, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017
Making the most of a conference experience includes comfy shoes and taking actionable items back to your organization.
Tag(s): supportworld, service management, workforce enablement
Date Published May 5, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017
Roy Atkinson was named one of HDI’s Top 25 Thought Leaders in Technical Support and Service Management. Learn what motivates Roy to be involved in the community.
Tag(s): supportworld, desktop support, service management, customer experience, community, leadership
Date Published May 4, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017
Cost per ticket is the total monthly operating expense of a service desk divided by the monthly ticket volume. Do you know your cost per ticket?
Tag(s): supportworld, metrics and measurements, cost per ticket
Date Published May 2, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017
A new UFFA scoring method could help you gain a new appreciation for KCS expectations for your tech support staff and give you an action plan for optimizing KCS.
Tag(s): supportworld, service management, metrics and measurements, KCS, knowledge management, KPI
Date Published April 27, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017
Email is still an important channel for support centers, and good written communication is not to be taken for granted.
Tag(s): workforce enablement, supportworld, customer experience, service quality
Date Published April 27, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017
The mission of technical support has been to get people back to work quickly after an incident or for a service request. But that can no longer be our primary mission.
Tag(s): supportworld, technical support, research, business of support
Date Published April 26, 2017 - Last Updated April 19, 2019
To help learning stick, repetition in a variety of different ways is one of the most important tools a trainer has.
Tag(s): supportworld, training, workforce enablement
Date Published April 25, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017
Learn why changing our data source from cases to articles moves us from reactive to proactive problem management for tech support.
Tag(s): supportworld, service management, problem management, knowledge management, KM
Date Published April 20, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017