Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Tony North on Help Desk Leadership in 2023: Challenges, Governance, and AI

Help desk leadership is always an ongoing topic. People can’t seem to feel they know enough about it, so they keep digging, looking for new ideas, perspectives, methods, or whatever can make them even better at their jobs. And don’t get us wrong; that’s exactly what you should be doing! And to help you with that, we discussed “Service and Leadership in 2023” in April’s Ticket Volume podcast live recording.

Want your distributed workforce to thrive? A new study reveals how leaders can make it possible.

Whether your distributed workforce engages in real-time or asynchronous work—or both—research points to three systems that support it all. Study abstract: Collaboration is critical to organizations and difficult when work is distributed. Prior research has indicated that when individuals are distributed, organizations respond by structuring their work to decrease reciprocal interdependence, reduce the complexity of tasks that individuals perform, or accept moderate inefficiencies.

Agents of change: How AI can improve agent efficiency and experience

Call center agents are often asked to do the impossible: Make every customer happy—while struggling with slow tech, increased workloads, stress, and burnout. Thankfully, many in the world of CX are discovering how to spell relief: AI. According to “The New CX Priorities,” a new industry report from Freshworks, CX leaders must treat customer support as a strategic function with far-reaching impact across the organization.

Taking inventory of your intranet to enhance its capabilities

What is an intranet? It’s a powerful tool used within organizations to facilitate, support and improve internal communication and collaboration. But it goes well beyond that, and you’ll want to take inventory of your intranet’s capabilties to ensure its offering everything it can be!

Boost Your Business Efficiency: The 7 Features You Need in Your Time Tracking Software

Meet John, a busy project manager at a software development company. With numerous projects to manage and deadlines to meet, John finds tracking time spent on every project difficult. That’s when he came across Workstatus! The software helped him to.

11 remote employee monitoring tools to track your team

If your remote team is distributed around the world, how can you make sure they’re completing tasks efficiently—or even working at all? With a reliable remote employee monitoring platform, you can manage your team and track their activity during work hours without having to micromanage every project. So which app is the right choice for your team?