5 Reasons Why Results are Held Back in Customer-Facing Teams (PDF)

This 1-page report is based on our work over the past 26 years, advising senior leaders on how to get better results from their customer-facing teams.

In this report, you’ll learn:

The wrong area of focus for your managers (and the solution).

The wrong people managers focus on to get better results (and who they should be focused on instead).

The ways many managers rely on to motivate their teams that no longer work (but can lead to unethical behaviour and unhappiness).

The problem with how our brains are wired, that gets in managers’ way when attempting to get better results (and what to do about it).

The accidental mistake managers make, that can destroy engagement.

 

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Praise from clients, who’ve addressed the mistakes outlined in the report

“Our Average Handle Time dropped by 16%. Call quality improved (measured by an external Quality Auditor). Customer availability increased from 50% to 95%.” Dwina Dickinson, Contact Energy

“There was a significant cultural shift. As a result, employee engagement increased to the second highest in Asia-Pacific, while sales increased by 20%.” Simon Whyte, SKF NZ

“Our service delivery has greatly improved. Overtime is down more than 65%, delivering savings over $200k/month.” Richard Pettersen, Queensland Urban Utilities

“As a result of the productivity gains we got in our outbound collections centre, we reduced staff by 31%, without reducing throughput.” Jim Wrigley, ADT Security

Call Handling Time reduced from around 7 minutes, to less than 5 minutes 30 seconds.” George Van Ooyen, Ministry of Social Development

Sales conversion increased by 25%.” Susy Goldner, Virgin Australia

Employee engagement improved by 37% and achieved the World Best Practice benchmark.” Devinia Liddelow, World Vision Australia