Learning Styles and Call Centre Coaching

Executive summary In this 900 word article, I explores the four different types of coaching interventions that Call Centre Sales Managers use to drive up their team’s performance but argues that each agent has their own preferred learning style and this should dictate the coaching mode used most often with that agent. Plus some useful tips to perform coaching at your highest level. Learning styles and coaching We’re all very familiar with Honey and Mumford’s Learning Styles piece of work from the 1980’s which describes the four varying styles of…

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20 Coaching Tips for Call Centre Sales Coaching

To achieve a culture of regular coaching being the way we work around here, here’re 20 extra tips to help you in your busy call centre environment. Have a policy of shutting down email from 10am for all coaches, that way they can swarm over their people and conduct side by side coaching. Be clear of the coaching that will work for individual agents. You can use the famous learning styles. For example activist agents will respond well to side by side coaching as they are more than likely to…

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