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Schedule 2024

Session 104: Surviving and Thriving Post COVID: Recommitting to Core Principles and Reinvigorating Best Practices

Beth Gauthier-Jenkin  (Vice President Customer Experience and Human Resources, Gopher Sport)

Chelsey Johnson  (Education and Quality Manager, Gopher Sport)

Sarah Gibart  (Senior Effortless Experience Manager, Gopher Sport)

Location: Java Sea 2

Date: Wednesday, October 23

Time: 10:15 am - 11:15 am

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Track: Boost Your Culture

Session Type: Case Study

Vault Recording: TBD

Many contact center teams can cite negative impacts to results, morale, and retention due to the COVID pandemic, during the crisis, and for a time afterwards. The Gopher Sport contact center (2018 ICMI Best Small Contact Center recipient) was hit hard due to a dramatically changing business landscape but has returned stronger than ever. Join us as we share our experience regarding recommitting to and restoring tried and true core principles associated with:

Hiring the Right People

Leveraging native system technology

Training and Quality

Process re-engineering and simplifications

Career Path Processes


Takeaway

Creative example of a developed career path in a contact center environment
~Insights and easy to implement training approaches to improve learner engagement
~Hard lessons learned related to hiring the wrong people and how to fix it
~Continuous improvement methods to systemically make the work in your contact center better through simplification