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CX RIOT RADIO — 299 episodes

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Are Your Customer Service Agents Human, or Are They Formfills?

2

You Can't Cut Your Way to Prosperity

3

Government Regulation in CX (CXRR Classic)

4

Scripting Sins

5

Digital Customer Service

6

Your Phone Tree is a War Crime

7

Stop Building Franken-Teams

8

Structure, Not Scripts

9

Sunday With Suz: The Call Center is NOT a Cost Center

10

The Biomechanical Call Center

11

Sunday With Suz: Let Your Bots be Bots, Let Your Humans Be Human

12

Headset Hemorrhage

13

Wetware Hellscape

14

Algorithmic Delusion.

15

Instant Art

16

Renting Yourself To The Machine

17

Identity is Data

18

synthetic intimacy

19

Modern Life is Cyberpunk

20

why everything looks dead now

21

The State Took Your Choice... Cashiers Take the Blame

22

Group CX

23

On the Front Line

24

The CX Riot Radio Christmas Special

25

Remote or Office? Your Team Support Strategy Doesn't Change | CXRR Classic

26

Why AI-First CX Is Failing Customers

27

CSAT Is A Dumb Metric | Customer Loyalty is King

28

Urgency & Ownership

29

Some Wars Must Be Fought Alone

30

You Built This Culture, Now Fix the Results

31

Consistent Messaging

32

High Tech, Low Lives

33

GIVE EM THE PICKLE

34

Most Companies Don’t Deserve Their Customers

35

Customer Service Isn't For Everybody (Classic Episode)

36

Be The Leader You Needed

37

Failure is Sexy

38

The Rise of the Sorcerous Maleficum: A Business Fable Part 2

39

The Rise of the Sorcerous Maleficum: A Business Fable Part 1

40

CXRR Classic: CX in an Industry With a Bad Rep w/ Daniel Mattar

41

If Evolution is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Evolve

42

CaffCX Classic: Stoicism in the Call Center

43

The Three Faced AI God

44

🔥Your Offshore Center Sucks. Here's How to Fix It.🔨

45

Your QA is F*cked: How to Design QA to Win Customers, Not Check Boxes

46

Is The Keep Call Centers in America Act Just an Act?

47

Techlash

48

Delegate This

49

Your Standards are Showing

50

Let's Read the State of Customer Experience Report (Part 2)

51

Let's Read the State of Customer Experience Report (Part 1)

52

Want to Win With AI? Keep Your People

53

The Danger of Dirty Data

54

Leveling Up the Call Center With Performance Pay (Classic Episode)

55

Leading Through Chaos

56

4 Pillars of the Blue Collar Call Center (Classic Episode)

57

from formfill to revenue generator

58

Where Marketing Goes to Thrive... or Die

59

Don't Automate Away What Makes Your Brand Unique

60

Creating a Dispatch Score Card and Attendance Policy [WalkThrough]

61

BURN THE SHIPS

62

CaffCX Classic: Pay Your Dues! | Call Center Talk

63

Using Comfy Nostalgia to Win Back Customers

64

no gods no managers

65

Don't Weaponize Data

66

Leaning Out Your Call Center

67

Coaching

68

Your Supervisors Need to be Fast, Too

69

We Need to Talk About Empathy Statements

70

Power Lists and Time Blocking

71

not everyone is going to figure it out at work

72

excellence is a choice

73

Why Remote Work is Good (or can be)

74

Strive For Excellence, NOT Perfection

75

HAPPY NEW YEAR I LOVE YOU

76

Merry Christmas From CX Riot Radio

77

THE TERROR OF THE DISENGAGED

78

Call Center Leadership

79

automating societal decay

80

brown friday

81

better or bitter?

82

Saving QA From It's Own Hubris

83

LAA (Listen. Acknowledge. Act.)

84

chase the damn leads

85

Customer Service Week 2024

86

Tips For Outsourcing

87

Decentralized Locations

88

RISE OF THE HUMAN CHATBOT

89

Are Your Customer Service Agents Human, or Are They Formfills?

90

CxRR Classic: Don't Turn Your Agents Into Chatbots

91

Is Your Call Center Living in the Past?

92

Steel & Soul: A Journey of Customer-Centric Enlightenment

93

Spamming Execute

94

Contagious Curiosity

95

CxRR Classic: The Punk Rock Contact Center

96

Paying the Toggle Tax

97

Self Service Champions ;)

98

Overcoming Complaint Complacency

99

High Prices, Low Quality... Record Sales.

100

employees vote to unionize, non-profit replaces them with chatgpt

101

you need to respond to reviews

102

spark: all you need to improve your cx

103

are we in a white collar recession?

104

AI as a Co-Pilot NOT an Autopilot

105

are we prepared for the next industrial revolution?

106

minimizing RTO culture ROT

107

modernizing the trades

108

customer science theater 3000

109

customer feedback

110

the roi of customer service

111

the spaghetti incident

112

Caffeinated CX Classic: The 5 Keys of CX

113

The Most Important Aspect

114

Contact Center Team Leads

115

why are you still doing what your customers hate?

116

I Don't Know (From the Archives)

117

The Best KPIs to Track in a Blue Collar Call Center

118

Government Regulation in CX

119

4 Must-Haves in Your Call Center Training Curriculum

120

from players🎮 to paychecks💸

121

Use AI to Augment, Not Replace Employees

122

Top Grading Your Call Center

123

Every Call is a Sales Call

124

From the Archives: CSAT is Dumb

125

Coaching Call Center Agents So They Don't Hate Coaching

126

Be Omnipresent 🔥

127

Can CX Be Saved in 2024?

128

The Great KPI Quest

129

Raise the Middle, Cut the Bottom

130

Leadership Capital

131

As a Dog Returneth (From the Archives)

132

The 4 Pillars of the Blue Collar Call Center

133

Overcoming Brown Friday

134

From the Archives: ✨Magic Words🧙

135

How Companies Can Reduce Employee Burnout

136

The Customer Loyalty Secret

137

Personalization and Isolation

138

Getting 5 Star Reviews For Your Trades Business

139

Why Occupy Wall Street Failed... And Made Things Worse.

140

Praise to the Stakeholders!

141

The HeroCX Framework: Customer Service Week 2023

142

The Long-Term Consequences of Short-Term Savings

143

Customer Service Week 1: The HeroCX Framework

144

Customer Service Week 2023 (Bonus Episode)

145

CX in 2023

146

CX and Leadership with John Akhoian

147

The Customer Centric Plumbing Company

148

Hiring For EQ and CQ

149

The Communication Crucible

150

Unrelenting Training

151

One Stop Resolutions (From the Caffeinated Archives)

152

Customer Service Isn't For Everyone

153

The Compassionate Meritocracy

154

P.E.A.C.E. Company Culture and Values

155

Leveling Up the Contact Center with Performance Pay

156

Creating Cyborgs With Bad QA

157

Espresso Shot: Unleashing Empathy

158

Forging a Customer-Centric Company Culture

159

Espresso Shot: 5 Ways to Up Your CX Game

160

Espresso Shot: Simplifying the Peak-End Rule

161

Unmasking the Delight Fallacy

162

Espresso Shot: EX=CX²

163

Espresso Shot: The Hidden Power of Positive Reviews

164

The Unfiltered Truth about Poor Customer Experience

165

From Scripts to Subversion: Embracing Punk Rock Ethos for Customer Service and Branding Success

166

Embracing the Minimum Effective Tech Stack

167

Efficiency and Progress Are Ours Once A-More

168

Shattering the Silos: Holy Unity for Unstoppable Triumph

169

CaffCX Throwback- Humanized CX

170

Why You Should (Sometimes) Fire Customers

171

A Firestorm to Purify the Bane that Customer Service Drowns In

172

Personal Development in the Contact Center

173

The Caffeinated CX Mindset

174

The Power and Pitfalls of Personalization

175

Is QA Workplace Bullying?

176

Improving Your Bottom Line by Improving Company Culture

177

Taking Care of the Voice of Your Company with Zac Garside

178

Increasing Empathy, Decreasing Effort

179

Sales Training for Plumbers w/Tony Gee

180

OTTER 2.0

181

Reduce Your Turnover Rate by NOT Doing This

182

12 Needs for Ultimate CX

183

The Negative Connotations of Coaching

184

The 5 Cardinal Rules for Amazing CSRs

185

Robot Customers

186

Running a Contact Center Team

187

Critical Failures in CX

188

Stoicism in the Contact Center- BONUS EPISODE

189

The Punk Rock Contact Center

190

Floor Support in a Digital Age

191

Enter 2023

192

Quality Assurance Automation

193

RISE OF THE HUMAN CHATBOT

194

Decentralized Locations

195

Human Formfills

196

Addition by Subtraction

197

Wowing Customers

198

Company-Customer Friction

199

Call Center Horror Story: Cell Phone Policies

200

Every Call is a Sales Call

201

The 5 Qualities of Customer Service Superstars

202

Adventures in Bad CX

203

The Unintended Consequences of Lowering Talk Time

204

All the Call Floor is a Stage

205

The Customer is Always Right?

206

The Laws of Referability

207

Customer Satisfaction Vs Customer Loyalty

208

Is Resolving Customer Complaints Enough? With Kat and Vanessa

209

The Quiet Quittening

210

The Great Layoffation (Part 2)

211

The Great Layoffation (Part 1)

212

Team Leads and Coaching Set Up

213

Let's Get Some CSRs!

214

Horrible Self-Service with Jenny

215

Basically, It's The Basics

216

Risk and Reward

217

Punk Scenes and Startups with Thomas Seelbinder

218

The PP Spectrum

219

Attrition Warfare

220

Last Call

221

Burn Out

222

The Three Types of Empathy

223

Always Keep the Call Moving

224

In Defense of the Dispatch Fee

225

Never Stop Training!!

226

Reducing Turnover in Your Contact Center

227

Training Customer Service Reps

228

Gimme Gimme Gimme

229

Zoomers and Boomers with Ryan Warriner

230

Putting Employees First

231

Community Outreach with Magda from Rooter Hero

232

Contact Center Cybernetics

233

CSR/DSR 2

234

The Positive Aspect of Negative Reviews

235

Guilty by Association

236

17 Year Low

237

Transparency

238

Opening the OTTER Gate

239

Annoying Apologetic Asks

240

Consistent Messaging

241

Burgers of Wrath

242

The New Word of Mouth

243

The Customer Service Superstar

244

Always Be Improving

245

It's Fine

246

First Impressions Matter

247

Utilizing Nerdy Skills in CX Leadership

248

It Comes From the Top

249

Pay Your Dues

250

Coachings and 1-on-1's

251

The Absolute Glory That is Repeat Customers

252

Hiring the Right Customer Service Agents

253

Generational Loyalty

254

Weird Severance

255

The EX CX Cycle

256

It's Not Enough to Resolve Complaints

257

5 Steps For Better CX

258

CX Book Recommendations

259

Why Incentivizing AHT is Often Dumb

260

Call Center Culture and Leadership (or lack thereof) During a Crisis with Yergy from the Misery Machine!!

261

Improving CX in an Industry with a Bad Rep w/Daniel Mattar

262

PIP

263

Smash the Silos

264

Respecting Customer Channels

265

The Golden Rule

266

CSAT is a BS Metric

267

Let's Review Your 2021

268

CX RIOT RADIO (Trailer)

269

Artificial Intelligence as a Buzzword

270

The Great Resignation BS

271

This is About Me Giving Back

272

It All Matters

273

AQ Ain't Just an Instance Anymore

274

The Most Important Aspect

275

Hyper-Caffeinated Leadership 1

276

Stop Blaming Your Bad Customer Service on Covid

277

Call Center Horror Story: The Bottle

278

Convenience For Me, or Convenience For Thee?

279

NPS Scores (Net Promoter Score... Scores)

280

Safety, the Brand, and the CX with Fernando Lucio

281

Simplifying the Peak-End Rule

282

Customer Choice

283

Customer Expectations

284

Call Center = Cost Center?

285

ex=cx²

286

The 4 Most Important Skills a CSR Can Possess

287

Rant 001

288

Don't Turn Your Agents Into Chatbots

289

3 Questions on How to Get to Know Your Employees on Day 1

290

Customer Service Week?

291

Espresso Shot- DFU or Bad GUI?

292

Interview with John Akhoian, CEO of Rooter Hero Plumbing

293

Espresso Shot- Helping Each Other Out

294

Espresso Shot- Keep it Simple 2

295

Coffee With Dave- Culture Revolution

296

Espresso Shot- The Power of OTTER

297

Espresso Shot- Nerdy CX Stats

298

KIFS

299

Introduction to the Podcast