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How to grow a wildflower meadow in your contact centre

Why just letting the grass grow will never produce the desired result. Summer is over and my annual attempt to turn what was once a space to play a bit of footy with the kids into a colourful wildflower meadow has once again well and truly failed.

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Not everything we see turns into gold

Looking past the glitter to avoid picking the fool’s gold…Understanding the role of sales in any organisation is not a complex thing. Keeping the sales role in some context, may not be so easily understood and may take the shine away from that first impression.

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Insourcing – an opportunity hiding in plain sight?

At Contact Centre Panel, we are fortunate to have many conversations each month with our clients and partners, we enjoy discussing what is happening specifically in businesses but love talking about industry trends and what the future of CX looks like. So last week, I was stopped in my tracks when a partner asked, “what about insourcing at the moment?”

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Contact centre revolution? A vision of future working

For years we’ve been talking about how homeworking would bring opportunities and change how contact centres employ people and deliver service, creating flexibility for both people and organisations. It was a win-win and was coined as the great opportunity – yet it never really fulfilled its potential. However, due to the pandemic, in 2 weeks it has been delivered, but at what cost?