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March 31, 2006
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Welcome back for Issue #7. In this weeks newsletter we tried to add some solid call center performance management articles, as well as some informative news and tools.

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This area gives you a glimpse of some of the tools that are essential to run a profitable center. Included are models, such as OB pricing, variable cost and IB pricing models.

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Leaders need feedback to thrive. If they don't constantly evaluate how they are doing as leaders, they face repeated failure. Here is one important feedback mechanism that most leaders ignore.

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There is no doubt that a lot of emphasis is placed on leadershipqualities today. However, this is nothing new. If my school history lessons were anything to go by it seems that it is the leaders that we learn most about. Many people believe that the world is divided into two types of people, the leaders and the followers.

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BMW, The Ritz-Carlton, Kodak, Dell, Microsoft, Volvo, Smuckers, Kleenex, Crayola.

What do these companies have in common? They are all known for their quality. Merriam-Webster defines quality as a degree or grade of excellence and an inherent or distinguishing characteristic or trait. For Call Centers, providing a “Quality Experience” to your customers competes for priority with other metrics such as call handle time, call volume and full time equivalent.

One of the members of the CallCenterCafe.com staff is really into hypnosis and he found this cool site on covert hypnosis. It's pretty fun. Check it out!

Also, spend time over on the HOT Links (to the left.) THere are some really fantastic tools for you there.

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