Terry Starbucker

JULY 5, 2015

Note: This is the 3rd installment of excerpts from my book manuscript of “More Human: A Journey To The Heart Of Great Leadership” The first installment is here , and the second here. . It is a key step towards building the culture of accountability that is the heart of More Human leadership. ” – Robert Orben.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 13, 2015

Here at Lead Change Group, we know that problems are most effectively solved when individuals come together to meld ideas, energies, and approaches. In our Chip Shots feature, our Leading Voices are invited to provide brief insights into a leadership dilemma. Chip Shots Higher Education Leadership politics Transitions'

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2018

It’s worth your time and energy to find ways that help build a collaborative environment. Leadership has to step up and take the initiative if you want to experience real change. For example, if you have a call center, try sprucing it up by implementing call center gamification. Innovate Mundane Tasks.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Ranking third in Popular Science ‘s list of ‘America’s Greenest Cities,’ Boston is putting its recovery money toward clean-energy initiatives. Partner with local R&D brainpower to start your own clean-energy venture. Authentic Leadership I was recently at the Pa. Governor’s Conference for Women.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 5, 2014

Schemas reflect these changes of context; thus, when a call center employee is operating in a help-a-family schema, the kinds of behaviors that are appropriate are quite different from those in a deal-with-a-customer schema. He has experience working in financial services, energy, engineered products and services, and consumer goods.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 10, 2015

When 2 decades later I led the outsourced call center channel, it became obvious in about 37 seconds that these outsourced employees working for Verizon Wireless were wild about getting a hold of some VZW gear and would be honored to wear it. All I wanted for Christmas was for my husband to get a hold of a Bell Atlantic sweat shirt.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2015

Used out of context, words become excuses, gibberish, rationales and basically wastes of energy. ‘Customer care’ means that customer service is palmed off on some call center. The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success. Words count.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Our call centers became the FEMA call centers. For example, now with our call center experience, we are competing for the call centers for the U.S. We needed to adjust our plan to give room and seize the opportunities that had risen within housing, energy, and services. and Caribbean.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Instead, senior leaders give supervisors the responsibility and authority to earn the enthusiasm, energy, and creativity that signal deep employee engagement. Call center representatives, sales specialists, field technicians, and others on the front line know intimately which aspects of the business annoy or delight customers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

I started in the call center,” a CEO from a financial services business unit told us. “I We often heard in our interviews, as Warren Bennis and Bob Thomas did in their crucibles of leadership research, about early experiences that leaders felt had shaped them. Another CEO declared that “Leadership is a contact sport.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

I started in the call center,” a CEO from a financial services business unit told us. “I We often heard in our interviews, as Warren Bennis and Bob Thomas did in their crucibles of leadership research, about early experiences that leaders felt had shaped them. Another CEO declared that “Leadership is a contact sport.”

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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. Preemptive self-disruption is becoming a new normal for the serious leadership. This clean-sheet customer experience prioritization over more traditional call center KPIs had a huge effect.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These new capabilities connect to the work we’ve done over the past several decades inside our enterprises to automate processes with tools — such as accounting systems, supply chain, call center, and such. That requires a new way of thinking about people and leadership. But there’s a model of leadership that will.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

For example, when leaders brought scholarship students into a call center to thank the fundraisers for the money they raised, the fundraisers became more persistent and made a lot more calls on their shifts. versus $2,459.44 for fundraisers who did not talk to a scholarship student.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

To have the influence to help set business strategy for the company, CMOs need to translate customer insights into terms meaningful to senior leadership. They also worked with the call center and IT to create a “chat live” button to make it easier for customers to complete forms online before they drifted off to a competing site.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

We are always on the agenda of the executive team and are a significant part of the leadership meetings,” says Bert van Meurs, CMO of Philips Healthcare Imaging Systems. At Essent, the Dutch energy company, CEO Erwin van Laethem provided practical guidance to his CMO. “My Leadership Marketing'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

IBM leadership must have the courage to quickly modify or even eliminate the ones that aren’t working according to plan. IBM and other innovative companies must move beyond this old dichotomy, infusing startup energy and mindset throughout the organization. Acquire ideas, not just revenue. the AS400 minicomputer and the PC).

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Mary Grace holds leadership appointments with several professional societies including Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. The millions of customers in its database represent the gamut of buying histories, buying propensities, profitability, demographics and cost to serve.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Will we all be working out of call centers or supermarket kiosks next year? Erkan Malas was FDM Turkey’s COO, and from the start he had chafed at Sena’s appointment and approach. But people are wondering how they’ll fit into the business going forward. They want to know if we’re going to start closing branches.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 27, 2015

The call center had ventured into this unknown territory organically. Their leadership knew their processes needed rigor, so they called me in to take a look and help them create a scalable model. I wonder how many other new home owners leave their final walk-through feeling similarly gamed.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 24, 2011

Beryl brings goodness into the world by helping hospitals with call center support for doctor referrals and follow-up calls to check on patients who recently underwent treatment. Ann’s energy is boundless. At Beryl they know they’re doing important work.

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