Call Center Culture and The Secret Sauce of a Successful Phone Call, with Richard Blank

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When it comes to call center turnover, Richard Blank (Costa Rica's Call Center) shares insightful advice on how to keep the staff engaged in the industry with the highest attrition - all from a training perspective.
It starts with setting the right mindset and the relationship you have with the agent.
Find out more from our latest podcast episode: Call Center Culture and The Secret Sauce of a Successful Phone Call, with Richard Blank

This is episode 2 of the third season of First Contact. Richard’s journey in the call center space is filled with twists and turns. When he was 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train over 5000 employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking styles backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 telemarketers. Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique jukeboxes in Central America, making gamification a strong part of CCC’s culture.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro / Richard Blank Presentation
1:35 Fortune Favors the Brave: The beginning of a Call Center Journey
3:14 People and moments that made you start your call center career
5:04 How do you build a call center culture and grow call center agents
08:03 Addressing conflicts within the call center**
10:41 Adequate Training for Omnichannel Personalization
13:54 The Engagement Toolkit to Fight Attrition
17:05 Rhetoric and Phonetic Delivery: The Secret sauce of a Phone Call
26:54 AD
28:54 What Got Taken Away During COVID
32:41 Old School Retro Gaming Turned Into Gamification
38:40 The 30s Rule Technique
42:22 Positive outcomes after Covid
46:36 Keeping up with the team remotely
48:47 Being an agent at the Costa Rica’s Call Center
52:45 Looking forward into 2022
54:42 Ending thoughts


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