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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
 
7:00 am - 10:00 am Registration Open
7:00 am - 10:50 am Tradeshow
7:30 am - 8:00 am Breakfast
8:00 am - 9:00 am Breakfast Keynote Presentation
Breakfast Keynote Presentation: Nerve to Serve: Say Hello to Humor and Goodbye to Burnout
Presented by Jody Urquhart, I Do Inspire

Humor helps. The ability to laugh at life helps us deal with daily disappointments and setbacks. Humor gives call center professionals the nerve to serve in a complex and challenging environment. Join us as we demonstrate how humor helps you stay in control and maintain balance and perspective.
 
9:10 am - 10:10 am Session 5 & 6
Session 5: Business Improvement: Change Control in a Call Centre
Presented by Bree Prowse, Star Choice

Business Improvement strategies in a contact centre are more important now than ever before in our industry. Ensuring effective and efficient operations in a competitive economy are crucial to ongoing success. What are the inhibitors to process improvement? How can you set your business up for success? Take advantage of techniques and strategies to drive process improvements - providing you tools to navigate the sometimes rough waters of change management!

 Session 6:  Linking Quality Experience and Corporate Strategy for Maximum Results
Presented by Andrew Fennell, WestJet
  • Understanding the importance of dispersing corporate strategy throughout your organization.
  • Learning how to design your quality experience program around corporate strategy.
  • Understanding the direct correlation of quality to corporate strategy and how it impacts guest loyalty measures.
  • Designing additional quality based programs to provide the tools, training and feedback necessary for your people to be successful.
 
10:10 am - 10:50 am Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall
10:50 am Tradeshow Tear Down
10:50 am - 11:50 am Session 7 & 8
Session 7: Results Based Coaching
Presented by Jayne Kowal, Customer Service Works

How can we use coaching to support employee retention, high performance teams, individuals maximizing their strengths, succession planning, and customer satisfaction? Join us in this interactive session where we will explore and practice a C.O.A.C.H. model. Participants will leave with a method and a toolkit to support coaching in the workplace.

Session 8: Setting Performance Expectations - Building a Performance Based Culture
Presented by Karishma Arora, GE Money

Continuing to drive internal performance measures is at the heart of a contact centre. Whether customer service, technical or billing based - there are common threads throughout. It is one thing to set performance targets, it is quite another thing to have people want to exceed them. Karishma Arora will take participants step by step through the process of building a performance based culture. If your performance has flat lined, take advantage of this session to pick up helpful insight that you can put into play.
 
11:50 am Closing Ceremonies
Closing Ceremonies - Closing Remarks, Award Presentation, Raffle Draw
 
 

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