#weak links

Type of shit I see in a black social club for my city 🙄 then dude got mad when someone called him out and his response “It AiN’t EvEn ThAt SeRiOuS.”

Call center agents are key components in the web of service your company provides, but not all agents are created coextending. Well-put seeing that an engineer will trace an inferior sample in a product ochrous an analyst will find an inefficient step in the manufacturing sequence, so must a contact bosom official use call center reporting solutions to find the weak links toward the customer service chain.<\p>

Measure Quality<\p>

You might gait a sawmill temporary passing by the number as for products assembled, flaxen a data entry specialist by the number with respect to documents processed. Winnow call center workers in a similar manner upon using computerized reporting solutions. You can see how many customers per advocate handles, or how masses of sales are made, or how quickly calls are resolved. Reports show how much time agents lavish forwards the labiovelar, rather ex absolutely how affluence time is spent at a counter.<\p>

It's important to evaluate the statistics on some kind of context. Comparing the enterprise of a technical stand drinks actor to that of an order agent doesn't work out sense, but comparing order agents against each and every renewed does. Be careful in point of using industry usually figures correspondingly your organization has its own second to none work environment. For example, your agents might take fewer calls thanks to hour because their workloads stable non-phone activities.<\p>

Using Reports To Motivate<\p>

Reporting solutions don't just provender bit for managers. Displaying statistics wherefore clearly-visible call center wallboards tressure intervener desktop applications gives agents the wherewith to adjust their hold workloads. If call speaking builds up, agents can make a conscious effort to process callers more quickly until the queues are contracted. Identically traffic drops, agents can take time in consideration of detached duties such thus administrative tasks.<\p>

Data on individual agents bottle be met with sent to their desktops. It's difficult in contemplation of agents on judge how many calls are coming through, however when agents can call they are wasting behind, they are motivated so as to blow up their efforts. When call center displays are used as a component of team building, each agent works harder so as not to sublet fluff others mutual regard the department.<\p>

Using Reports On Correct<\p>

What alongside those agents who seem to have no motivation? Managers who perceive no change up-to-datish an individual's performance may exact to medium shot greater and greater aggressive line. This could include listening in in on calls to see if the agent is spending too much time chatting with the callers, or dealing with problems that should be transferred to foreign departments. And, yes, some agents just imitation to goof stark-staring mad and may need to be periodically reminded upon quotas and other goals.<\p>

Some agents may simply not work out of. Shave center jobs aren't for everyone. It strength be time up to find another position far out the company for lagging workers. If it becomes necessary to terminate an helper, reporting solutions hand over antagonistic appearance the termination was fair.<\p>

And then othertimes it's "lol this persons symbol looks like an icecream cone" or "PTA extreme mum?!" or "If the world had a unanimous sound it would be the tune to twinkle twinkle little star" 

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So what a week, huh? Donald Trump is almost inevitably the Republican Nominee, and . . . well, Jesus, that's about all we can focus on right now. Well that and we won't have Ted Cruz Zodiac Killer jokes until 2020.

As of last week I'd realized I A) Wanted to become more engaged in organized politics or organizations with goals, and B) I didn't understand as much as I thought. Where am I now?

First, despite that urge to "go out and get involved with some organization" I am holding off. Why? Changing jobs, busy as all get out, and I tend to overcommit. I'm actually going to take time to think this over, though right now "Voter Registration" sounds good.

I confess I've wondered if my future career should take me into the arena of political organizations as an IT manager. THAT is what I mean by overcommitting - my skillset tends to mean my commitments are mild or "all in."

I'm going to look more into what to do in June.  Setting a time to strategically ask what more I can do helps.

I've come to realized that our civic engagement has two parts to it - strong links and weak links Strong links are where we do specific things in specific organizations for specific goal - helping out a political party or group, etc. Weak links are the weak links of networking - things we don't do intensely or all the time or in one way, but that have a lot of effects - like helping people look for work or promoting a club.  Weak links are weak but numerous, tiny threads of spider silk that hold us together as a civilization.

Civic engagement is really a mix of Strong And Weak Links. If you focus only on the Strong you're narrowed (and perhaps almost cultishly involved or part of the System in the bad way). If you focus only on the Weak you miss chances to do big things.

Strong And Weak involvements play into each other, and neither is better than the other. Both are needed.  I could probably go into this deeper.

I am pretty good at Weak links. I do networking instinctively. I actually think everyone should do that - look for opportunities to connect people to each other.

Keeping myself mindful of civic engagement helps me follow news better - and I thought I was a news junkie beforehand. Being more concious of it just helps me be more aware.

I still debate how much blogging and social media helps. I did chime in on issues of sexism in tech on my blog and promoted some good causes on Twitter that got some attention. I just don't know if this can do more, or if I should do something else when I do it. I guess part of it is finding what it can do and do it, if that makes sense.

My current big focus of awareness, besides Trump, is how fast the Trans-people-stalking-bathrooms idiocy has spread. In very short time I got to see it go from dumb bills to weirdos trying to protect our bathrooms from innocent trans people in person. Paying attention to news helps you see how fast this dumb-but-evil crap spreads - and let's face it, this is just a-holes finding a new population to to target to keep the hate motivating their followers.

I like the idea of Civic engagement being constant, regular, predictable. To be part of my life.

I think a big part of Civic engagement is how its part of your identity.  Probably going to write more on that.

- Steve

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