Does this sound like your call center? You can handle most day-to-day items with excellence, you have a great management team that maintains the status quo, and your metrics are mostly trending in the right direction. Despite all these positive outcomes, there’s no cushion to handle special initiatives. And you have a long list of items to tackle. These include mandates from upper management, projects you must pursue to keep up with industry trends, and key strategies to advance your call center to where you want it to be. You could hire more staff to take on these one-of-a-kind scenarios, putting together a team to knock them off one at a time until they complete everything. Or you could bypass the human resources nightmare involved with assembling a crack team of call center experts to handle your special projects and work with a contracted services professional instead. A contracted services provider will skip the learning curve of a new hire. They’ll be able to address your initiatives quickly, efficiently, and effectively. Here are some of the projects a contracted services professional can handle.

If your call center is operating like it did five years ago, or even a couple, it’s time to look at things afresh. It’s time to embark on some optimization initiatives. Your contracted services provider can evaluate everything your call center does. Then they’ll make recommendations to align what you do with best practices and leading-edge processes.

Is there a new service you want to rollout? Is there a new technology you need to implement? While you can seek to tackle this in-house, or beg your IT department to make it a priority, the smart solution is to tap a contracted services provider to handle it for you. In no time they’ll have the new technology in place and ready to use. It’s fast and easy.

Sometimes all that’s standing between where you are and where you want to be is software. While software is relatively straightforward to install, it takes time to properly configure it, develop procedures on how you will implement it, and train staff to use it. A contracted services professional can do these things for you.

Are you combining the call centers from two departments or divisions? Successfully navigating this is challenging. You need to consider different, and often incompatible, systems and software. Then you need to factor in different cultures and management styles. Last is serving your callers and customers. You must ensure a flawless transition for them. While accomplishing this looks easy on paper, doing it in the real world is anything but easy. Instead of stretching and stressing your in-house staff to orchestrate a successful melding of call centers, tap a contracted services provider to handle it for you.

Even more challenging than merging two in-house call centers is acquiring a call center and bringing it under your managerial and cultural umbrella. Again, a contracted services professional is the ideal person to oversee this, manage the transition, and bring about the successful outcome you seek. In addition, they’ll do it quickly while minimizing problems.

Don’t struggle to deal with implementing essential projects using in-house staff who are already stretched too thin. Instead handoff your special initiatives to a contracted services provider who can come in and get the job done in a fraction of the time and for a fraction of the cost.   Call Center Sales Pro, a premier sales and marketing service provider for the call center and telephone answering service industry, helps clients grow their revenue and optimize their business. Contact Janet at contactus@callcenter-salespro.com or 800-901-7706. Peter Lyle DeHaan is a freelance writer from Southwest Michigan.