Managers must do more than be straight shooters and do hard work to gain their team’s trust. What’s also needed are small gestures of kindness that lets their teams know they care. Read more from a passage of “Trust Me - Restore Belief & Confidence in an Uncertain World.”
Tag(s): supportworld, culture, best practice, practices and processes
Date Published December 6, 2021 - Last Updated January 20, 2023
We all know that we have two weeks, at most, to fill a position, but too often we are stuck either hiring warm bodies or putting extra workload on our team. It’s better to prepare for the inevitable departures. Here’s how.
Tag(s): supportworld, culture, customer experience, best practice, remote support tools, relationship
Date Published December 2, 2021 - Last Updated January 20, 2023
Initiatives to integrate chatbots or voice recognition tools that do not take the customer’s experience into account may be doomed to failure. Here’s why taking the time to map out the customer journey may save a lot of headaches for automation efforts.
Tag(s): supportworld, culture, customer experience, best practice
Date Published December 2, 2021 - Last Updated December 16, 2021
More tickets, less human contact is a recipe for burnout. Here are some concrete suggestions for how to help ensure your IT support team isn’t feeling overwhelmed. It may take a different strategy to dig out of the mountain of tickets, but it’s better than risking attrition.
Tag(s): supportworld, culture, customer experience, best practice, remote support tools, relationship
Date Published December 2, 2021 - Last Updated December 16, 2021
According to recent insights from Omdia, there is “serious strategic intent from organizations to invest in … enterprise service management (ESM), demonstrating that the practice is no longer just an aspiration for many organizations and is becoming a reality...
Tag(s): webinars, support models, supportworld, self-service, self-service tools, knowledge management
Date Published December 2, 2021 - Last Updated December 13, 2021
The pandemic forced a dramatic shift towards digital-first...
Tag(s): webinars, supportworld, customer experience, support channels, technology
Date Published December 2, 2021 - Last Updated January 6, 2023
Higher education is among the most dynamic...
Tag(s): webinars, supportworld, business value, IT service management, ITSM, infrastructure management
Date Published December 2, 2021 - Last Updated January 6, 2023
Accelerate the digital enterprise using the principles of ITIL. ITIL best practices help increase the speed and success of your products and services and enable faster time to value.
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Tag(s): webinars, support models, supportworld, self-service, self-service tools, knowledge management
Date Published December 2, 2021 - Last Updated December 13, 2021
A lifelong quest to find the universal values all humans seek out leads an IT manager to understand the importance of taking the hard stances to best support a team or a company. Here’s why he thinks courage might be the most important trait in this industry.
Tag(s): supportworld, culture, change management
Date Published November 22, 2021 - Last Updated January 20, 2023
Change is hard, especially when human nature creates some very predictable and unreasonable workarounds to a perfectly good change management process. In part two of this series, here are five more pitfalls to change management, and how to do your best to avoid them.
Tag(s): supportworld, culture, change management
Date Published November 18, 2021 - Last Updated January 20, 2023