Tailored training and coaching for service success

An interview with Ulf Michaelis, Director Customer Service & Sales at Telefónica Deutschland / O2. O2 ’s customer service recently achieved notable successes in the mobile hotline test conducted by the trade magazine connect and in the Telecom Handel readers‘ poll, among others. We spoke with Ulf Michaelis, Director Customer Service & Sales at Telefónica […]
Teambuilding: strengthen relationships – achieve goals

How is a team actually different from a mere collection of people? On the one hand, common goals and appropriate structures are needed. However, whether a company succeeds in developing dynamically depends to a large extent on the quality of interpersonal relationships within the company. This is where professionals come in with team building to […]
Employee turnover prevention „Who needs new employees – should start with the old?“

Not just talk but do is the motto of many successful and optimally personalized companies. Normally, one would think that startups in particular have problems finding and retaining enough employees. But mostly these are rather companies that have existed on the market for a long time and in many cases are even omnipresent. But where […]
Soft skills – the competencies of the present and the future

After the Corona crisis, what skills are important for entrepreneurs and their employees to be stronger and prepared for the future? Working models have become much more agile since the start of the pandemic and require greater adaptability from all stakeholders. A good example of this is hybrid working, which has now become established in […]
Handmade virtual workshops

Three days of digital team building – is that possible? If you’re now thinking of endless video conferencing, with back pain and secret parallel email editing, you’re more than ready for a rethink. After all, anyone who no longer notices any difference between presence and digital, who is fully immersed in the subject matter, who […]
The „star model“ – as an organizational model of the future?

The new way of learning. For decades, there have been the classic organizational forms such as line, multi-line, and matrix organizations. But the world of work, with its employees of the z, y and x generations, its leadership styles from authoritarian to transactional, its working methods from lean to agile and its spatiality from present […]
Is the boom of „call centers“ unstoppable?

The new importance of personal customer service. The trend of recent years to increasingly reduce personal contact, use artificial intelligence, strengthen self-service and thus deploy fewer and fewer employees in telephone, written or virtual customer contact seems to be over. Not because contact reduction didn’t work, but simply because personal customer service from afar is […]
Leading at a distance

Right now, digital leadership and coaching is more important than ever before. In the space of a few days, many companies have had to drive digitization faster than in recent years in order to remain productive at all or to ensure digital customer service. On the other hand, a large number of employees were suddenly […]
Reading sample

Roth, T. W. (2019) Dear readers, due to many inquiries regarding the following book publication: „Model-based evaluation of health- and organizational climate-related interventions in call centers. -Effects on Emotional Dissonance, Well-Being, and Entrepreneurial Outcomes-„ we provide a reading sample as of now. You are welcome to request them via our contact button. We will then […]