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Team Building Activities To Avoid (And 7 Activities To Do Instead)

Interested in learning about some engaging team building activities? Sure, team building activities are a great way to boost morale, increase collaboration and create a group of tightly-knit coworkers. However, team building activities are only useful if they are informative and enjoyable at the same time. Unfortunately, your average team-building activity doesn’t live up to this. Most team building games are embarrassing, awkward, and a waste of time!

Overview of Advanced Roadmaps UI - Demo Den - Sep 2020

Rhys Christian, a Product Manager on the Advanced Roadmaps team, gives an overview of the new Advanced Roadmaps planning interface for Jira Premium users. Check out this demo to learn more about the main sections of a plan, how to configure the view for your needs, and a brief look into scheduling the Roadmap.

Courier Live: Controlling IoT using the Webhook Provider

Aydrian and Riley use the Courier Webhook provider to connect to a BlinkStick Square when a notification is sent. They walk through setting up a Courier route and websocket event. Click "Show More" to jump to key moments in the video. Riley Napier, Sr. Software Engineer Courier: The smartest way to design & deliver notifications. Design once, deliver to any channel with one API.

What's What at Zendesk: Stay connected in real-time with social messaging

Social messaging has skyrocketed in popularity for customers getting in touch with customer service. It can be hard for companies to think about how to spin up and manage new channels. Our new improvements make it easy to pull the social messaging options customers want into a unified conversation across channels, including chat, email, and phone support. Join Claire Peracchio to dive deeper into Agent Workspace: Social Messaging to see this update in action.

Part 1: The Strategic Role of B2B Customer Support

Businesses buy your products or services to help their operations run efficiently and to meet their customers’ expectations. And while robust product features are important, it is the added benefits of B2B (business-to-business) customer support that can accelerate product use and drive optimal performance to help customers reach their full potential. In other words, effective B2B support forms the foundation for long-term successful customer engagements.

What Is Omnichannel? (And Why It Is So Crucial For Businesses)

What does it take for a business to succeed? Regardless of your industry, lowering the cost of customer acquisition, increasing sales and customer retention are probably among your primary business goals. In a perfect scenario, your business interactions seamlessly acquire new customers, retaining current clients while upselling. However, in today’s fast-paced world, the customer journey has become shorter.

What is call listening?

How well is your call center handling customer issues? Metrics like customer survey scores and average hold times speak volumes about your support team’s performance. But even data doesn’t always tell you the full story. To uncover the finer details of your call center performance, you’ll need a headset and a quick tutorial on call listening, or call monitoring.