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Tag Archives: Contact Centre
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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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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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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Customer Experience Awards 2019
A 10th year anniversary for Awards International and the UK Customer Experience Awards. With almost 30 categories and 150 judges, the event was back at the amazing venue of Wembley Stadium, with the pitch being painstakingly prepared for the NFL … Continue reading
Posted in Awards, Best Practice, Candidate Experience, Contact Centre Industry, Continuous Improvement, Customer Contact, Customer Experience, Customer Experience ROI, customer service, Customer Service Industry, Customer Strategy, Customer Success, Digital Experience, Douglas Jackson, Growth of Customer Experience
Tagged Awards, Awards International, Camm & hopper, Contact Centre, Contact Centre Awards, Customer Experience, Customer Service, Customer Strategy, cxA19, Digital Experience, direct line group, Douglas Jackson, dpd uk, financialforce, game retail, Ian Golding, Kamyar, knight frank, Neil Skehel, nfl, trustedhousesitters, UK Customer Experience Awards, Wembley Stadium
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Winning with Customer Experience 2016
A few weeks ago I headed to London to attend the Winning with Customer Experience conference. On arriving at the American Square Conference Centre the venue was impressive and I was greeted with a smile and guided to the conference, just in … Continue reading
Posted in Awards, Best Practice, Contact Centre Industry, Customer Contact, Customer Experience, Douglas Jackson, Employee Engagement, multi channel customer experience
Tagged American Square Conference Centre, Bristol and Wessex Water, Contact Centre, Cranfield University, Customer Experience, customer experience awards, Customer Service, Direct Line, Douglas Jackson, Employee engagement, Ericsson, Financial Services Customer Experience, Firstource, Insurance Customer Experience, LV, Nationwide Building Society, Northern Gas, Standard Life, Utilities Customer Experience, waitrose, Winning with Customer Experience, Winning with CX
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Back to the Contact Centre of The Future – UK National Contact Centre Conference 2015
A content packed conference, with much to digest, great speakers, the UK National Contact Centre Conference #ukccc15 #cctr Continue reading
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Tagged #ukccc15, Andy Ralphs DWP, ann-marie Stagg, Back to the contact centre of the future, Ben Page, Best Practice in Contact Centre, Call Centre, CCMA, Contact Centre, Contact centre avatar, contact centre future, contactcentre, Customer Experience, Customer Strategy, dawn redman hermes, digital transformation, Direct Line, DX, Giles Mclellan UCLAN, harj johal, helen wilson, Ipsos Mori, Martin Hill-Wilson, omnichannel, Plantronics, UK National Contact Centre Conference
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The Forum – Customer Strategy & Planning Conference – Changing Gear.
This week, some of TeamDJ headed up to Newcastle for the Customer Strategy and Planning Conference. The event opened with some light-hearted, North East linguistic training from the Forum’s adopted ‘Geordie’ Chris Rainsforth. The 400+ strong delegates were able to successfully … Continue reading
Posted in Awards, Best Practice, Business Planning, Contact Centre Industry, Customer Contact, Customer Experience, Customer Experience ROI, Digital Experience, Douglas Jackson
Tagged #forumconf, Argos, Awards, British Gas, CEX, Contact Centre, Contact Centre Analytics, Customer Contact Planning, Customer Experinece, Customer Strategy, Digital Experience, Douglas Jackson, DX, Employee engagement, Essex and Suggolk Water, Hughes Insurance, Innovation Awards, James Leach, LV, Motability, multichannel, NE Ambulance, omni channel, Resource Planning, Response, self help, Self-Serve, The Forum, The Forum online, Ulster University
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Is The Future Bright For Call Centres?
For our guest blog this week, we would like to welcome Bob Horton. Bob is a board level business professional, experienced in Operations Management Leadership, Performance Improvement and leading Strategic Transformational Change. He is award winning for innovations and change, … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practice, Contact Centre Industry, Customer Contact, Customer Service Industry, Customer Strategy, Digital Experience, multi channel customer experience, omni-channel, Social Customer Service
Tagged AI in Call Centres, Artifical Intelligence in Call Centres, Award winning Change, Bob horton, Call Centre, CCEO, Chief Customer Experience Officer, Contact Centre, Contact Centre Transformation, CSAT, Customer analytics, Customer Engagement Hub, Customer Insight to Drive Customer Service, Director of Customer Experience, Douglas Jackson Recruitment Blog, FCA Customer Service, Financial Services Customer Service, first contact resolution, Insurance Customer Service, Is the Future Bright For Call Centres, multi-channel customer service, multi-skilled agents, Operational Leader, Quality in Contact Centres, Self-Serve, social customer service
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The Contact Centre Skills and Knowledge of The Future
This week Douglas Jackson attended the CCMA (Call Centre Management Association) seminar; The Contact Centre Skills and Knowledge of the Future.
Posted in Awards, Best Practice, Contact Centre Industry, Customer Experience, Customers
Tagged Avaya, best practice, BT Futurologist, Call Centre, Call Centre Management Association, Call Centre Manager of the Year, Call Centre of the Future, Call Centre Skills of the Future, CCMA, Contact Centre, Contact Centre agents, contact centre technology, Dr Nicola Millard, Future Contact Centre skills, Future leadership requirements, Jo Thompson Managing Director, Milennials, Natalie Keightley
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Customer Strategy and Planning – ‘Bridging the Gap’
April 2014 and TeamDJ head to Brighton for this year’s Customer Strategy and Planning Conference. The headline; ‘Bridging the Gap’, almost had a dual meaning, along with the twitter hashtag #roadtobrighton, as, just before the start of the Professional Planning … Continue reading
Posted in Awards, Best Practice, Business Planning, Contact Centre Industry, Customer Service Industry, Customer Strategy, Douglas Jackson, Employee Engagement, Homeworking, Performance, Resource Planning Industry, Talent Management
Tagged Arise Homeworking, Awards, Best Practice in Contact Centre, brighton, Call Centre Best Practice, Call Centre Development, Capital One, Contact Centre, Contact Centre Awards, customer engagement, Customer Strategy, Darren Lawrenson, Employee engagement, Innovation, LV, Neopost, PPF Heroes, PPFCONF, Professional Planning Forum, Resource Planning, Richard Sedley, Santander, Seren, Speech Analytics, UPC, WebhelpUK
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How to Recruit and Retain the Best Talent – Part One Recruitment
How to Recruit and Retain the Best Talent – Recruitment: Earlier this year, Douglas Jackson were at the Call Centre Expo and one of our Managing Partners took part in a panel session; ‘The expert view: recruiting and retaining the … Continue reading
Posted in Candidate Experience, Contact Centre Industry, Customer Service Industry, Douglas Jackson, Hiring, Recruitment, Social Recruitment, Talent Acquisition
Tagged Call Centre, Contact Centre, Customer Service, douglas jackson recruitment, employee retention, hiring, recruiting, recruiting great talent, recruitment, recruitment ideas, recruitment methods, Recruitment Strategy, retaining talent, Successful hiring
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When is a Recruitment Specialist not a Specialist?
In recent weeks, we have been asked to recruit a number of newly created senior Customer Service appointments for organisations undergoing major transformation or change across their estate. Whilst working with the COO for one of these businesses, to develop … Continue reading
Posted in Clients, Contact Centre Industry, Customer Service Industry, Customers, Douglas Jackson, Recruitment, Recruitment Agency, Talent Management
Tagged Call Centre Director, Contact Centre, Contact Centre Director, contact centre jobs, Customer Service Director, Customer Service Jobs, customer service manage, Customer Services, executive search, Head of Contact Centre, recruitment advice, Recruitment Agency, Recruitment Consultant, Recruitment specialist, Search & Selection
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Welcome to Douglas Jackson
Welcome to Douglas Jackson’s Blog: Douglas Jackson are an Executive & Managerial recruitment organisation, specialising across the Contact Centre, Outsourcing & Customer Service industry. We specialise in placing Executive and Managerial level positions, as well as skilled Analyst appointments across all … Continue reading
