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Working Together: Building an Autonomous Team of Leaders

Learn how Infinite Campus's support team set aside the traditional hierarchical org chart and embraced self-management and autonomous leadership.
Date Published June 18, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019

What About Me? 3 Steps to Avoid Burnout

Learn to recognize when you’re overloaded, and take steps to take better care of yourself.
Date Published June 13, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019

No News Is Good News: Common Phrases that Will Destroy Your Service Quality

Beware of comments and assumptions that can lead to service delivery that is simply adequate rather than exceptional.
Date Published June 11, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019

Show Me What You’ve Got: How to Interview Service Desk Analysts and Technicians

Faced with a 40% turnover on the service desk, this manager tried a different approach to interviewing analyst and technician candidates, with great success.
Date Published June 6, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019

Transformative Training: How to Foster Learning for Service and Support Teams

As service and support leaders, it’s our job to enable and foster the environment, create the process, and engage our teams throughout the learning experience.
Date Published June 5, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019

Transformative Training: Producing Ongoing Results

 

Transformative training contains key components that are critical the learning process, and the learning process is critical to shaping attitudes and behaviors in the support organization. In this webinar, we’ll discuss four key components of transformative training that...

Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 24, 2021

The State of the Industry: A Mid-Year Research Roundup

 

HDI conducts extensive research throughout the year. In this webinar, we will review our 2019 research to date, examine what it means for the industry, and suggest areas that leaders should be paying attention to, including possible courses of action. We will review the latest...

Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 24, 2021

AI Means Business: A Panel Discussion on Modernizing Knowledge Management

 

While it’s still early days for artificial intelligence (AI), it’s clear that AI means business. In a June 2020 study conducted by Omdia, researchers found that more than 50% of respondents had deployed or were planning to deploy AI in five of seven business...

Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 22, 2021

IT Excellence in the Age of Digital Transformation

 

Customer expectations are continually rising, and that’s not likely to change anytime soon. At the same time, IT leaders are feeling the pressure to do more with fewer resources and smaller teams. Finding the right balance between cost, quality, and speed has never been...

Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 22, 2021

Unlocking Your Workforce Potential: IT Support from Anywhere to Anywhere

 

While much has changed this year for support centers—which consist of service desks, help desks, and desktop support—we must also remember that a lot has changed for the customers we serve, as well. They may lack the proximity of colleagues to answer simple...

Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 22, 2021