Ambassador Experience

Why Virtual Employment is the Key to Building Greater Workforce Diversity

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By Anthony Crutcher, CIO, Activus Connect Ask successful entrepreneurs about the importance of workforce diversity in creating a healthy business, and you will find a typical response: without it, you are limiting the firm’s potential. Building a diverse company isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s hugely beneficial to the bottom line. McKinsey & … Why Virtual Employment is the Key to Building Greater Workforce Diversity

How Customer Experience Careers Positively Impact Lives

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When somebody mentions a career in contact centers, call centers, or customer experience services, what are the first thoughts that come to mind? Perhaps you imagine hundreds of employees crammed into cubicles taking calls from an offshore location. Maybe those employees have just left college or are “in between jobs” and aren’t fully committed. To … How Customer Experience Careers Positively Impact Lives

How We Attract World-Class Leadership Talent to Our Virtual Business

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In an increasingly virtualized world, organizations need solid leadership teams to solve the challenges of running a successful work-from-anywhere business. Still, world-class leaders are always in high demand. As competition heats up to recruit this top-level talent, companies are looking for ways to distinguish themselves as market frontrunners by building an innovative, performant culture that … How We Attract World-Class Leadership Talent to Our Virtual Business

Life at Activus: An Opportunity to Help People, Wherever You Are

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Empathy and understanding are two cornerstones of great customer experiences, which is why life experience has always been a vital element of Activus Connect’s approach to recruitment. Hope Wild, one of our Team Experience Coordinators, brings plenty of life experience to the table, but also a natural desire to help people in need, which she … Life at Activus: An Opportunity to Help People, Wherever You Are

Who Ya Gonna Call? Stress Busters

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When customers live in stressful times, the responsibilities of a contact center employee become far more challenging, leading to burnout extremely quickly. The contact center workforce is subject to name-calling, threats, and all sorts of irate customers on a daily basis, so customer experience providers have a direct responsibility to continuously help employees manage stress … Who Ya Gonna Call? Stress Busters

Life at Activus: The Importance of Empathy in Times of Crisis

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When people experience challenging times, the best kind of support comes from those who have shared those experiences and understand the difficult situation they’re facing. As an Ambassador at Activus Connect, Janelle Cuevas-Cruz works on one of our support programs answering incoming calls and assisting customers for a client in the financial services and lending … Life at Activus: The Importance of Empathy in Times of Crisis

Boosting Diversity and Inclusion with Solid CX Partnerships

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Diversity is a major priority area for most businesses today, and with good reason. A recent study by McKinsey found that diverse companies are 35% more likely to outperform their competitors, while 67% of workers consider an employer’s diversity and inclusion model a deciding factor in their job hunt, according to Glassdoor. The prospects of … Boosting Diversity and Inclusion with Solid CX Partnerships

Rebuilding Employee Trust in the Customer Experience Industry

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The wide-scale adoption of work-at-home in the CX and BPO industry is causing a negative ripple effect within the talent pool. Companies are promising flexibility and a better work-life balance, but failing to deliver on employee needs and expectations, leading many people to leave their jobs with a deep mistrust of the industry. When ex-BPO … Rebuilding Employee Trust in the Customer Experience Industry

The Secret to Transparency and Openness in a Virtual Business

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At Activus Connect, we’ve uncovered a little-known secret to enhancing transparency in business. Consistency. When a company sticks to its ideals, consistently fulfills promises, and adopts consistent communication practices, it can become a transparent, inclusive business with a culture of openness. Let’s go over some of the ways consistency leads to organic improvement in a … The Secret to Transparency and Openness in a Virtual Business