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Category Archives: Best Practice
Returning to the office…Covid Recovery for business…
Are you thinking about the key considerations for getting your team back to the office post Covid. Is your communication and employee engagement high enough? Continue reading
Posted in Best Practice, Business Planning, Employee Engagement, Employees, Homeworking, Leadership, Performance, resilience
Tagged Business Performance, Covid Recovery for business, Douglas Jackson, Employee communication, Employee engagement, Enhancing teams, Hannah Louise Cox, Homeworking, Office Safety, Premises, remote working
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Basketball, Burgers and Resilient Leadership.
What does basketball and burgers have to do with resilient leadership? Learn more in this short article. Continue reading
Posted in Behavioural Assessment Tools, Behavioural Profiling, Best Practice, business intelligence, Contact Centre Industry, Customer Strategy, Customers, Diversity and Inclusion, Douglas Jackson, Employee Engagement, Employees, Executive Search, Leadership, Motivation, Recruitment, Self-Management, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management
Tagged amazon, Basketball, Burgers, Creating a great team, determination, Douglas Jackson, Douglas Jackson Recruitment Blog, executive search, goals success, How to hire great leaders, How to hire resilient leaders, leading a great team, Mcdonalds, Michael Jordan, Michelle Ansell, Netflix, persistance, Ray Kroc, resilience, Resilient Leaders, Resilient Leadership, The Founder, The Last Dance
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Searching For Excellence and Geisha Recruiters???
Searching for excellence; Japanese culture strives for perfection, the bullet train, the geisha, sushi chef….many people see recruitment as easy but to become an expert takes time…… Continue reading
Posted in Behavioural Assessment Tools, Behavioural Profiling, Best Practice, Candidate Experience, Contact Centre Industry, Continuous Improvement, Customer Contact, Customer Experience, customer service, Customer Strategy, Customer Success, Customers, Digital Experience, Diversity and Inclusion, Douglas Jackson, Executive Search, Hiring, Personal Development, Recruitment
Tagged Bullet Train, Douglas Jackson, douglas jackson recruitment, Douglas Jackson Search, executive search, Experienced Executive Search, Experienced Recruitment Consultant, Expert Recruitment Consultant, Fred Astaire, Geisha, Japan, Maiko, Michelle Ansell, Mount Fuji, Proven Recruitment Consultants, Recruitment Consultants, Searching For excellence, Tokyo
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The New Customer and Employee Landscape
What a few months, outside of the movies, I don’t think the majority of us could have ever planned or thought the country would be in lockdown, or in the grip of pandemic as we are. On the whole, we … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Best Practice, Business Planning, Contact Centre Industry, Customer Contact, Customer Experience, Customer Service Industry, Customer Success, Customers, Digital Experience, Diversity and Inclusion, Douglas Jackson, Employee Engagement, Employees, Executive Search, Hiring, Homeworking, Leadership, multi channel customer experience, omni-channel, Personal Development, Recruitment, Robotics, Self-Management, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Transformation/Change
Tagged A new type of leader, AI, Automation, Contact Centre, Customer Experience, Customer Service, digitalisation, diverse workforce, diversity, Emotional Intelligence, Employee engagement, empowered workforce, EQ, Hiring Leaders with emotional intelligence, Homeworking, homeworking recruitment, human interactions, inclusive workforce, lockdown learnings, omnichannel, onboarding, remote working, remoteworking onboarding, remoteworking recruitment, The new customer service and contact centre landscape, Training, transformational change, virtual coaching, virtual management, virtual performance
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Top Tips For Your CV Writing
Whether you’ve got time on your hands and you’re giving your CV a ‘spring clean’ or whether you’re actively pursuing a new role, there’s no doubt that investing time and effort into crafting a CV that you are proud to … Continue reading
How Will Business Planning Change?
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve had some interesting conversations with senior leaders particularly those operating in the planning space. Several conversations have been around Covid-19 and the impact it has had on their operations with lots of operations … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Analytics Recruitment, Best Practice, business intelligence, Business Planning, Contact Centre Industry, Continuous Improvement/Process Improvment, Homeworking, Resource Planning Industry
Tagged Absence Management, Cloud Technology, douglas jackson recruitment, field workforce planning, flexible working, Forecasting, Homeworkers, Homeworking, How will resource planning change, operational planning, Perry Fletcher, remote management, remote working, Resource Planning, resourcing, Scheduling, WFM, workforce management, Workforce Planning
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Accelerated Digital Transformations
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve had some interesting conversations with senior leaders particularly those operating in the digital transformation space. A number of conversations have gravitated to the lack of ‘red tape’ during the latest digital transformation projects … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics Recruitment, Automated Customer Service, Best Practice, Business Planning, Contact Centre Industry, Continuous Improvement, Customer Experience, customer service, Customer Strategy, Diversity and Inclusion, Homeworking, multi channel customer experience, Transformation/Change
Tagged Accelerated Digital Transformation, Business as usual, business operations, digital transformation, digital transformation projects, diverse recrutiment, diversityrecruitment, Douglas Jackson, empowering stakeholders, flexible working, Holly Beeston, Homeworking, inclusiverecruitment, increased urgency, large scale transformation, lockdown, Recruitment Consultant, transformation
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6 Top Tips For Video Interviews
With the nations home-working in full swing, there have been a number of changes for us all day to day. From battling with the youngest family members, prioritising home-schooling over spending time out in the garden whilst the sun is … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practice, Candidate Experience, Contact Centre Industry, Customer Contact, Customer Experience, customer service, Douglas Jackson, Executive Search, Hiring, Homeworking, Recruitment, Recruitment Agency, Video Recruitment Tools
Tagged career advice, digital interviews, digital recruitment, Douglas Jackson, douglas jackson recruitment, Douglas Jackson Recruitment Blog, Douglas Jackson Search, Holly Beeston, Interview Advice, Top Tips for Interview, Top tips for video interviews, video interviewing, video interviews, Virtual interviews
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Attracting and Retaining The Skills For The Future.
I was at a recent event and talking to a Director of Customer Experience about the changing roles within the customer market, as well as the perception vs the reality of the pace of change, given that voice is still … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practice, Candidate Experience, Candidates, Career Development, Contact Centre Industry, Customer Contact, Customer Experience, customer service, Customer Service Industry, Recruitment, Retention, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management
Tagged Attracting and retaining the skills for the future, Authentic CEO, CEO, Contact Centre, Contact Centre Future Leaders, Customer Experience, Customer Service, Douglas Jackson, Ethical, Future CEO, Future skills for customer contact, Raconteur, recruit good contact centre people, skills for the future, Talent Acquisition, Talent attraction, Talent retention, Worforce, Workers of the future, Workers Voice
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Customer Experience Stars
The start of a New Year, we don’t know about you but it always brings about a time of self reflection, of improvement, of new beginnings, even for those of us who strive for continued development and leanings throughout the … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Automated Customer Service, Awards, Best Practice, Candidate Experience, Career Development, Clients, Contact Centre Industry, CRM, Customer Experience, Customer Experience ROI, Customer Service Industry, Customer Success, Customers, Data, Douglas Jackson, Employees, Executive Search, Insight/Analytics, omni-channel
Tagged Customer Experience Influencers, Customer Experience Magazine, Customer Experience Professionals, Customer Experience Stars, Douglas Jackson, executive search, Hannah-Louise Cox, Managing Partner, Michelle Ansell, op 50 Customer Experience, Recruitment Consultant, Recruitment Industry Accolades, Recruitment Industry Recognition, Top 10 Customer Experience Influencer, Top 25 Customer Experience Professional
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Europe’s finest- ECCCSAs 2019
It was the biggest yet, with 1300 attendees from over 24 countries arriving at the Battersea Evolution for the 2019 European Contact Centre and Customer Service Awards. This year the event was hosted once again by Fiona Bruce, who was … Continue reading
Posted in Awards, Best Practice, Business Planning, Candidate Experience, Contact Centre Industry, Continuous Improvement, Customer Contact, Customer Experience, Customer Service Industry, Douglas Jackson, multi channel customer experience
Tagged ann-marie Stagg, Awards, Battersea Evolution, CCMA, Contact Centre, Customer Experience, Customer Service, Douglas Jackson, douglas jackson recruitment, ecccsa19, European contact centre and customer service awards, Fiona Bruce, Frank Bruno, Ovo Energy, papyrus
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The Future of Work in Contact Centres
The Future of Work in Contact Centres was this years theme and a topical subject for the annual CCMA UK National Contact Centre Conference, which was once again held at the fabulous British Library. This event is always an informative, … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practice, Chatbots, Contact Centre Industry, Customer Contact, Customer Experience, customer service, Douglas Jackson, Employee Engagement, multi channel customer experience, omni-channel
Tagged ageing customer, ageing workforce, ann-marie Stagg, British Library, CCMA, Customer Experience, Douglas Jackson, Employee engagement, helen wilson, Henley Business School, Ipsos Mori, Moneypenny, NICE, Odigo, omnichannel, poly, Professor Moira Clark, remote working, Sabio, the future of work in contact centres, Verint
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Voice Still King in Retail
I had the opportunity of attending a retail round-table event hosted by Ann-Marie Stagg and the CCMA in London last week, titled ‘The Future of Retail’. As you would expect, AI and Bots were heavily featured, although interestingly, voice was … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Analytics, Automated Customer Service, Best Practice, Chatbots, Contact Centre Industry, Customer Contact, Customer Experience, Customer Experience ROI, customer insight, customer service, Customer Service Industry, Customer Strategy, Customers, Data, Digital Experience, Recruitment, Retail, Retained Recruitment, Retained Search
Tagged AI in Call Centres, ann-marie Stagg, Asos, Ben Page, CCMA, Chatbots, Douglas Jackson, Ipsos Mori, is voice still king in retail, John Lewis, Kerry Gidziewicz, Lego, marcus hickman, Recruitment Consultant, The Co-Op, The future of retail, trust in customer service, voice biometrics, voice technology of the future, Wilko
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