Lead Change Blog

MARCH 1, 2018

For instance, if you hire a call center and have received several customers commenting on their great interaction with a certain representative, let her manager know. A simple note or email can make a world of difference. You have to highlight how their individual roles and collective efforts fit into the big picture.

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The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

It’s called motivational profiling. Your underlying (and often unconscious) attitudes and motivations determine what you pay attention to and focus on in your leadership role. Before delving into 7 key leadership motivation patterns, let’s first look at 3 often-missed truths about performance. Decision making style.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2019

Take a new competitive threat for example… (SENSE) Sales people might hear and observe their customers’ reactions to that threat – as might your market researchers, call center folks, external market experts, and even your finance team as they watch the erosion of market share and revenue.

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Decker Communication

JUNE 28, 2021

While I loved all my roles, one in particular really helped me grow as a leader — managing a call center in financial services. The energy in a call center is incredible. Nothing could beat the excitement of the market close, especially on a big day where the market was either way up or way down.

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Decker Communication

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Those were the words of the leader of one of our multi-billion dollar clients, which accents the amazing changes in leadership over the last 40 years. . As we close out the decade, let’s look at how leadership has become decentralized and team-oriented. The Days of Centralized Leadership in Business are Long Gone. .

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CO2

AUGUST 7, 2012

People often think of me as the Question Guy–one of the benefits of writing a book ( Just Ask Leadership ). They also think of me as an Executive Coach and Leadership Development Expert–since I work and write in those areas. Assess Your Leadership Style (Part 4). Creating a Personal Marketing Plan (Part 8).

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

When former Alfa Romeo CEO Luca de Meo came from Audi to head up marketing at Volkswagen AG, he realized the global function was filled with gossip and suspicion. It is Zappo’s CEO Tony Hsieh working in the call center on the phone when call volume is especially high. Add sprinkles to your leadership!

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 26, 2017

These companies have “going global” down—they perform strongly in international markets, and can execute across borders because they embed globalization on their daily executive discussions. Guest post from Anna Schlegel : More than half of Google’s revenue comes from outside the United States. Map a plan for 1-2-3 year growth. ·

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Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

I also truly appreciated some of the business practices that leadership followed that I have missed in other organizations, including ones highlighted in McCord’s book. This would include a day spent with an installation tech and a day spent with a call center agent – preferably, in a market other than your own.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2016

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. In this era, business started embracing formal planning.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Your federal small business loan can fund a call center and answering service , linking local talent to employers nationwide. To get started, market your services online with a SEO friendly Website design. Women Leadership and Mad Men Some revolutions are bloody, and some are flash-in-the-pan moments.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2016

A few years ago when shipping giant United Parcel Service (UPS) adopted the clever marketing slogan “Moving At The Speed Of Business,” it resonated well with the public because keeping up with the pace of change can be incredibly tough. How do you keep the machine working even when sometimes key components are missing?

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2014

The business was in the call-center space like our firm and it would enable us to enter a coveted new market: selling insurance over the phone. We transferred calls all over the country from one of our call center facilities to the next to maximize employee hours. Director Style Focus Leading Others'

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2015

The ‘brand’ is a marketing term. ‘Customer care’ means that customer service is palmed off on some call center. Customer experience” comes right out of marketing surveys, which rarely ask for real feedback or share the findings with company decision makers. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2015

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. In this era, business started embracing formal planning.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2014

This is leadership! Instead of having an odd man out, I kept an old, beat up call center chair and my team got the good chairs until mine could be replaced. CEO Jason Levesque, a US Army veteran and entrepreneur, founded Argo Marketing in 2003, and has become a widely respected Maine business owner.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 21, 2010

It is part of the overall marketing and advertising plan. To put it more practically, if you are bad in the call center and at the front counter, what makes you think you’ll be good on Twitter? It is the way people are now communicating with eachother and the way business’ are marketing.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Becca has also acted as the product marketing manager for a wide array of technology solutions.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 10, 2016

a boutique company with three distinct, yet complementary, lines of business: outsourced call center services, customer care consulting and marketing services. CJ Stafford is president of Stafford Communications Group Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In an experiment, we approached the call center of a bank’s consumer loans business. (We’ve This call center employed all the best practices of the day: A psychologist created scripts of talking points. We made a number of operational changes to the call center. Building Balanced Cultures.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

Like Samsung, we have found it critical to establish leadership in home markets first, we place a similar importance on mixing local and global talent, and we faced the same cultural integration challenges. These include forging new business strategies, marketing new products, and developing African growth strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

I spent more than four hours listening in to client support calls at the call center. To say they were surprised is an understatement: Many CEOs never visit the call center, and virtually none do it their first afternoon on the job. Leadership' So, what I do on my first day? I see this all too frequently.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

To ensure a truly transformative culture change effort, the team outlined a new corporate-wide organizational strategy to sit alongside its other market-focused strategies: “Foster a culture of insight and innovation.” Most people focus on the first type of innovation: incremental.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. Stagnant growth in its core PC market recently led Intel to announce layoffs of roughly 12% of its workforce. The company will also eliminate a key chipset in the difficult tablet and smartphone market.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2015

And so on through legal and compliance, training, and marketing. However, they held the line when it came to assigning customers randomly to call center employees. Dedicated call center support was a critical aspect of the concept learned during customer research and had to be protected. Business case developed?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

He was suddenly responsible for many thousands of call-center employees. Even though American Express was well-known for its outstanding service, the company at the time regarded Bush’s organization purely as an expense, and it followed the conventional command-and-control model in its call centers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change. It must be marketing. And she put marketing in charge of an organization-wide growth program. Who should lead our transformation?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. And yet black women’s advancement into leadership roles has remained stagnant , even as the number of them in professional and managerial roles has increased. How People Get Ahead. What were the critical events, and what lessons did they learn?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Thirty percent of early AI adopters in our survey — those using AI at scale or in core processes — say they’ve achieved revenue increases, leveraging AI in efforts to gain market share or expand their products and services. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. The result was the Booking.com platform.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

It tested our crisis management and leadership skills beyond what we could have foreseen or prepared for, demonstrating that in a large-scale crisis, it’s how you react to its real-time situations that determines the speed at which you can begin to rebuild. Here’s how we did it. The First Crisis: Employees.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

IBM Watson’s progress in the health care market is a significant example and driver of the transformation, providing big lessons to IBM and to every large company that must disrupt its own business — or watch competitors do it first. They know how to achieve product/market fit and which ideas to pursue later on.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Chris Plescia, Marketing, Collaboration and Corporate Internet Solutions BSA Leader, told me that they are moving from an information "push" environment — sending out lots of messages on things workers need to know — to a "pull" environment, where workers search for information they need, get answers to questions, or access services.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

The linked system allowed for more insight into customers, and managers could use the information to coach employees, to assess whether they had the right tools and resources, and to identify people with innovative ideas and leadership potential. Insight Center. Measuring Marketing Insights. Turning data into action.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Will we all be working out of call centers or supermarket kiosks next year? “The market research from Capital is promising. Why not slow down a bit—do some more-intensive market research to double-check that our assumptions are accurate?” “I can just hear Erkan saying that,” Sophie said.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2013

Any company in a truly competitive market suffers an inevitable decline if it ignores this basic discipline for too long. At Zappos, it''s not unusual for someone interviewing for a $13-per-hour call center job to meet with 15 people before being hired.

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