IF US GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL MOTIVATED IN OFFERING ASSISTANCE, DO NOT CONTACT ME UNLESS YOU INVESTIGATE DONALD TRUMP https://ausertimes.blogspot.com/2025/03/mike-johnson-threatened-me-with-pulling.html
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A US GOVERNMENT TERRORIST LASER ATTACK ON HELICOPTER WAS DETRIMENTAL IN PLANE CRASH INCIDENT AT RONALD REAGAN AIRPORT IN WASHINGTON, DC IN 2025 https://ausertimes.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-us-government-terrorist-laser-attack.html
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Author your Brand Podcast. Surfing, Bilingualism, and Non-Voice Omnichannel Support with Richard Blank
The Author Your Brand show takes a deep dive into becoming a best selling author, sometimes without writing a word. The host, Doug Crowe, interviews CEO’s of multi-million dollar firms, successful entrepreneurs, and “slightly” famous people. Guests include the former CMO of Starbucks Asia, the Inventor of GPS (who sold the company he founded for $6.6 Billion) & NYT bestselling authors. This daily LIVE show uncovers the mindset of these visionaries & their success tips
In a lively podcast interview hosted by Doug Crowe, Richard Blank, founder and operator of Costa Rica's Call Center (CCC), a thriving call center in Costa Rica, shares his passion for surfing, bilingualism, and the challenges of operating a call center in a global market. Richard explains the high-quality services his call center provides to clients across North America, Central America, and Europe, emphasizing the importance of bilingual, college-educated agents dedicated to specific campaigns.
The conversation then turns to the benefits and drawbacks of non-voice omnichannel support, as Doug and Richard discuss the value of personal engagement when it comes to creating a rapport with customers that extends beyond the immediate transaction. This interview will be relevant to anyone interested in call center operations, customer support, and building lasting customer relationships.
Understanding Call Center Contracts and Compliance
One seat for one month is my minimum contract. But if it were my own personal opinion, I like odd man outs. I'd prefer three seats for three months just to at least see. Yeah, right. And do you do any list bill stuff or the client's got to provide the list to call on? Not only does the client provide me the list, but it has to be scrubbed through the DNC because my company is inscribed in the United States that follows all U.S. business and banking laws. Okay. And for clarification, those who don't want to mention, DNC stands for do not call list, which I'm not sure if that actually works or not. They should know because I know a lot of people that have been hit for that. And so you have to be very careful.
AI vs. Human Touch in Customer Service
The pros and the cons. I think when people have these non-voice omni-channel supports, which are chats and emails, which could be generated and used, fine, that saves time and can move things forward. But how about this? You've been a client a long time somewhere and you'd like to speak with somebody. And if no one speaks with you or their office hours are better, you're in a queue a long time. When you finally get someone, you're going to pop. And there's a very good chance you're gonna curse, you're gonna scream, and you're just gonna let it out. And so these relationships cost a lot of money to build. And as much as AI can assist you, it really won't put the ball in the end zone because me and you talking about your dog or your trip to Egypt, or your being a magician, or these fun things that both you and I do in lives with pinballs in Costa Ricas, your AI will not catch that. And that's where the situation is going to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8awjWIfJAc
https://youtu.be/CCbCZ-gi8e0
https://youtu.be/eFZHKjI4aA8
Doug Crowe is a business growth strategist that’s passionate about getting results for his clients. Doug is your partner in business growth and your best option for leveraging the digital revolution. He has helped clients maximize resources and build a thriving business. Doug leverages his years of expertise to bring growth to your business.
WE TELL YOUR STORY
...Better
Why consider becoming an author? Is the time, money, and resources necessary to create a book of impact even worth it?
Influence. Impact. Authorship.
Becoming an author is always a major achievement... but never done alone.
Our authors do more than simply publish a book; they make a dent in their Universe.
Why Authoring Your Book Can Change the World
(But You’ll Surely Fail if You Don’t Do This…)
Your story matters. Your ideas need to be shared. But if you depend only upon a book to become the tipping point, it simply won’t work. In today’s ecosystem of information overload, even a social media influencer has an impact that lasts about as long as the memory of a goldfish.
Engagement? That’s cute. What does that mean, anyway?
There is a single foundational element all thought leaders, influencers, and visionaries have that most authors hope for, but very few achieve.
Stop Dreaming. Start Researching.
Your idea for a book may be the greatest thing since sliced bread. Why haven’t you written it and had a dozen publishers beating down your door for a movie deal? For most authors, there’s a bit of doubt and fear, and that's normal.
Is what you are saying worthy?
Will people resonate with it?
Can you make a difference?
What if there was a way to find out the answers to all of these questions? Here's the good news. Not only can you get these questions answered, but our proprietary "vet & validate" answers them and begins building your audience... before your book is written.
AUTHORS OF IMPACT
What’s your idea, your dream, your vision?
Do you know a better way to communicate at the office? Maybe your leadership principles would apply to a new demographic like local government? Your story can be life-changing for somebody.
But only if you are published.
Don’t go through life with the potential to make the world a better place and squander the opportunity. Once your idea of becoming an author is in your heart-don't hesitate.
Take action today.
What do John Grisham, Tony Robbins, and ** Rowling have in common?
These visionaries didn’t start at the top. Like all people of influence, they had humble beginnings. They were just trying to make ends meet as…
…A lawyer in a busy firm.
…A janitor in a corporate office.
…Or a single mother on child support writing the first few words of her book on a napkin.
The one thing they have in common is that they were as busy as you (maybe more). But that did not deter them from moving their vision into reality. Authorship, like any large venture, requires a blend of patience and perseverance. Equally important is a process and team to pull it all together.
At Author Your Brand, we use that same system the Fortune 100 do for developing and guaranteeing a new product launch.
Research.
The process is detailed, thorough, and will give you the data, confidence and pre-sales to boldly move forward; to helping you become a #1 Best Selling Author… without you writing a single word.
We help people just like you capture, organize, publish, and market a beautifully crafted book that tells your unique story within the context of serving others.
We transform leaders into respected experts in their field. We make sure that your book is a timelessly powerful tool that attracts new opportunities and has the power to make a dent in the Universe.
If You Qualify, Expect:
Unparalleled collaboration to frame your unique perspective
Professional journalism to distill your content into a compelling story
A systems-based creative process that perfectly captures your voice
Over 200 data points of competitive intelligence
Unlimited revisions and focus group testing on your book cover
#1 status as a Best-Selling author on Amazon.
Major media attention and outreach to build your author*ity
...and much more.
Doug Crowe
Founder
A gifted leader with a variety of talents, Doug is a prolific businessman, marketing expert, and a brilliant writer. He writes for Entrepreneur.com and has been published in Yahoo Finance, Chicago Tribune, Daily Herald, and the Seattle Times.
Richard’s journey in the call center space is filled with twists and turns. When he was 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers. Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain. A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, inducted into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business. Giving back to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. Come and see for yourself why call center outsourcing in Costa Rica is a perfect solution for your growing company and a powerhouse in the BPO industry.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Author your Brand Podcast, Doug Crowe, Richard Blank,Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#Doug Crowe #AuthoryourBrandPodcast #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #AuthoryourBrandPodcast
Author your Brand Podcast. Surfing, Bilingualism, and Non-Voice Omnichannel Support with Richard Blank
The Author Your Brand show takes a deep dive into becoming a best selling author, sometimes without writing a word. The host, Doug Crowe, interviews CEO’s of multi-million dollar firms, successful entrepreneurs, and “slightly” famous people. Guests include the former CMO of Starbucks Asia, the Inventor of GPS (who sold the company he founded for $6.6 Billion) & NYT bestselling authors. This daily LIVE show uncovers the mindset of these visionaries & their success tips
In a lively podcast interview hosted by Doug Crowe, Richard Blank, founder and operator of Costa Rica's Call Center (CCC), a thriving call center in Costa Rica, shares his passion for surfing, bilingualism, and the challenges of operating a call center in a global market. Richard explains the high-quality services his call center provides to clients across North America, Central America, and Europe, emphasizing the importance of bilingual, college-educated agents dedicated to specific campaigns.
The conversation then turns to the benefits and drawbacks of non-voice omnichannel support, as Doug and Richard discuss the value of personal engagement when it comes to creating a rapport with customers that extends beyond the immediate transaction. This interview will be relevant to anyone interested in call center operations, customer support, and building lasting customer relationships.
Understanding Call Center Contracts and Compliance
One seat for one month is my minimum contract. But if it were my own personal opinion, I like odd man outs. I'd prefer three seats for three months just to at least see. Yeah, right. And do you do any list bill stuff or the client's got to provide the list to call on? Not only does the client provide me the list, but it has to be scrubbed through the DNC because my company is inscribed in the United States that follows all U.S. business and banking laws. Okay. And for clarification, those who don't want to mention, DNC stands for do not call list, which I'm not sure if that actually works or not. They should know because I know a lot of people that have been hit for that. And so you have to be very careful.
AI vs. Human Touch in Customer Service
The pros and the cons. I think when people have these non-voice omni-channel supports, which are chats and emails, which could be generated and used, fine, that saves time and can move things forward. But how about this? You've been a client a long time somewhere and you'd like to speak with somebody. And if no one speaks with you or their office hours are better, you're in a queue a long time. When you finally get someone, you're going to pop. And there's a very good chance you're gonna curse, you're gonna scream, and you're just gonna let it out. And so these relationships cost a lot of money to build. And as much as AI can assist you, it really won't put the ball in the end zone because me and you talking about your dog or your trip to Egypt, or your being a magician, or these fun things that both you and I do in lives with pinballs in Costa Ricas, your AI will not catch that. And that's where the situation is going to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8awjWIfJAc
https://youtu.be/CCbCZ-gi8e0
https://youtu.be/eFZHKjI4aA8
Doug Crowe is a business growth strategist that’s passionate about getting results for his clients. Doug is your partner in business growth and your best option for leveraging the digital revolution. He has helped clients maximize resources and build a thriving business. Doug leverages his years of expertise to bring growth to your business.
WE TELL YOUR STORY
...Better
Why consider becoming an author? Is the time, money, and resources necessary to create a book of impact even worth it?
Influence. Impact. Authorship.
Becoming an author is always a major achievement... but never done alone.
Our authors do more than simply publish a book; they make a dent in their Universe.
Why Authoring Your Book Can Change the World
(But You’ll Surely Fail if You Don’t Do This…)
Your story matters. Your ideas need to be shared. But if you depend only upon a book to become the tipping point, it simply won’t work. In today’s ecosystem of information overload, even a social media influencer has an impact that lasts about as long as the memory of a goldfish.
Engagement? That’s cute. What does that mean, anyway?
There is a single foundational element all thought leaders, influencers, and visionaries have that most authors hope for, but very few achieve.
Stop Dreaming. Start Researching.
Your idea for a book may be the greatest thing since sliced bread. Why haven’t you written it and had a dozen publishers beating down your door for a movie deal? For most authors, there’s a bit of doubt and fear, and that's normal.
Is what you are saying worthy?
Will people resonate with it?
Can you make a difference?
What if there was a way to find out the answers to all of these questions? Here's the good news. Not only can you get these questions answered, but our proprietary "vet & validate" answers them and begins building your audience... before your book is written.
AUTHORS OF IMPACT
What’s your idea, your dream, your vision?
Do you know a better way to communicate at the office? Maybe your leadership principles would apply to a new demographic like local government? Your story can be life-changing for somebody.
But only if you are published.
Don’t go through life with the potential to make the world a better place and squander the opportunity. Once your idea of becoming an author is in your heart-don't hesitate.
Take action today.
What do John Grisham, Tony Robbins, and ** Rowling have in common?
These visionaries didn’t start at the top. Like all people of influence, they had humble beginnings. They were just trying to make ends meet as…
…A lawyer in a busy firm.
…A janitor in a corporate office.
…Or a single mother on child support writing the first few words of her book on a napkin.
The one thing they have in common is that they were as busy as you (maybe more). But that did not deter them from moving their vision into reality. Authorship, like any large venture, requires a blend of patience and perseverance. Equally important is a process and team to pull it all together.
At Author Your Brand, we use that same system the Fortune 100 do for developing and guaranteeing a new product launch.
Research.
The process is detailed, thorough, and will give you the data, confidence and pre-sales to boldly move forward; to helping you become a #1 Best Selling Author… without you writing a single word.
We help people just like you capture, organize, publish, and market a beautifully crafted book that tells your unique story within the context of serving others.
We transform leaders into respected experts in their field. We make sure that your book is a timelessly powerful tool that attracts new opportunities and has the power to make a dent in the Universe.
If You Qualify, Expect:
Unparalleled collaboration to frame your unique perspective
Professional journalism to distill your content into a compelling story
A systems-based creative process that perfectly captures your voice
Over 200 data points of competitive intelligence
Unlimited revisions and focus group testing on your book cover
#1 status as a Best-Selling author on Amazon.
Major media attention and outreach to build your author*ity
...and much more.
Doug Crowe
Founder
A gifted leader with a variety of talents, Doug is a prolific businessman, marketing expert, and a brilliant writer. He writes for Entrepreneur.com and has been published in Yahoo Finance, Chicago Tribune, Daily Herald, and the Seattle Times.
Richard’s journey in the call center space is filled with twists and turns. When he was 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers. Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain. A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, inducted into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business. Giving back to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. Come and see for yourself why call center outsourcing in Costa Rica is a perfect solution for your growing company and a powerhouse in the BPO industry.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Author your Brand Podcast, Doug Crowe, Richard Blank,Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#Doug Crowe #AuthoryourBrandPodcast #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #AuthoryourBrandPodcast
Author your Brand Podcast. Surfing, Bilingualism, and Non-Voice Omnichannel Support with Richard Blank
The Author Your Brand show takes a deep dive into becoming a best selling author, sometimes without writing a word. The host, Doug Crowe, interviews CEO’s of multi-million dollar firms, successful entrepreneurs, and “slightly” famous people. Guests include the former CMO of Starbucks Asia, the Inventor of GPS (who sold the company he founded for $6.6 Billion) & NYT bestselling authors. This daily LIVE show uncovers the mindset of these visionaries & their success tips
In a lively podcast interview hosted by Doug Crowe, Richard Blank, founder and operator of Costa Rica's Call Center (CCC), a thriving call center in Costa Rica, shares his passion for surfing, bilingualism, and the challenges of operating a call center in a global market. Richard explains the high-quality services his call center provides to clients across North America, Central America, and Europe, emphasizing the importance of bilingual, college-educated agents dedicated to specific campaigns.
The conversation then turns to the benefits and drawbacks of non-voice omnichannel support, as Doug and Richard discuss the value of personal engagement when it comes to creating a rapport with customers that extends beyond the immediate transaction. This interview will be relevant to anyone interested in call center operations, customer support, and building lasting customer relationships.
Understanding Call Center Contracts and Compliance
One seat for one month is my minimum contract. But if it were my own personal opinion, I like odd man outs. I'd prefer three seats for three months just to at least see. Yeah, right. And do you do any list bill stuff or the client's got to provide the list to call on? Not only does the client provide me the list, but it has to be scrubbed through the DNC because my company is inscribed in the United States that follows all U.S. business and banking laws. Okay. And for clarification, those who don't want to mention, DNC stands for do not call list, which I'm not sure if that actually works or not. They should know because I know a lot of people that have been hit for that. And so you have to be very careful.
AI vs. Human Touch in Customer Service
The pros and the cons. I think when people have these non-voice omni-channel supports, which are chats and emails, which could be generated and used, fine, that saves time and can move things forward. But how about this? You've been a client a long time somewhere and you'd like to speak with somebody. And if no one speaks with you or their office hours are better, you're in a queue a long time. When you finally get someone, you're going to pop. And there's a very good chance you're gonna curse, you're gonna scream, and you're just gonna let it out. And so these relationships cost a lot of money to build. And as much as AI can assist you, it really won't put the ball in the end zone because me and you talking about your dog or your trip to Egypt, or your being a magician, or these fun things that both you and I do in lives with pinballs in Costa Ricas, your AI will not catch that. And that's where the situation is going to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8awjWIfJAc
https://youtu.be/CCbCZ-gi8e0
https://youtu.be/eFZHKjI4aA8
Doug Crowe is a business growth strategist that’s passionate about getting results for his clients. Doug is your partner in business growth and your best option for leveraging the digital revolution. He has helped clients maximize resources and build a thriving business. Doug leverages his years of expertise to bring growth to your business.
WE TELL YOUR STORY
...Better
Why consider becoming an author? Is the time, money, and resources necessary to create a book of impact even worth it?
Influence. Impact. Authorship.
Becoming an author is always a major achievement... but never done alone.
Our authors do more than simply publish a book; they make a dent in their Universe.
Why Authoring Your Book Can Change the World
(But You’ll Surely Fail if You Don’t Do This…)
Your story matters. Your ideas need to be shared. But if you depend only upon a book to become the tipping point, it simply won’t work. In today’s ecosystem of information overload, even a social media influencer has an impact that lasts about as long as the memory of a goldfish.
Engagement? That’s cute. What does that mean, anyway?
There is a single foundational element all thought leaders, influencers, and visionaries have that most authors hope for, but very few achieve.
Stop Dreaming. Start Researching.
Your idea for a book may be the greatest thing since sliced bread. Why haven’t you written it and had a dozen publishers beating down your door for a movie deal? For most authors, there’s a bit of doubt and fear, and that's normal.
Is what you are saying worthy?
Will people resonate with it?
Can you make a difference?
What if there was a way to find out the answers to all of these questions? Here's the good news. Not only can you get these questions answered, but our proprietary "vet & validate" answers them and begins building your audience... before your book is written.
AUTHORS OF IMPACT
What’s your idea, your dream, your vision?
Do you know a better way to communicate at the office? Maybe your leadership principles would apply to a new demographic like local government? Your story can be life-changing for somebody.
But only if you are published.
Don’t go through life with the potential to make the world a better place and squander the opportunity. Once your idea of becoming an author is in your heart-don't hesitate.
Take action today.
What do John Grisham, Tony Robbins, and ** Rowling have in common?
These visionaries didn’t start at the top. Like all people of influence, they had humble beginnings. They were just trying to make ends meet as…
…A lawyer in a busy firm.
…A janitor in a corporate office.
…Or a single mother on child support writing the first few words of her book on a napkin.
The one thing they have in common is that they were as busy as you (maybe more). But that did not deter them from moving their vision into reality. Authorship, like any large venture, requires a blend of patience and perseverance. Equally important is a process and team to pull it all together.
At Author Your Brand, we use that same system the Fortune 100 do for developing and guaranteeing a new product launch.
Research.
The process is detailed, thorough, and will give you the data, confidence and pre-sales to boldly move forward; to helping you become a #1 Best Selling Author… without you writing a single word.
We help people just like you capture, organize, publish, and market a beautifully crafted book that tells your unique story within the context of serving others.
We transform leaders into respected experts in their field. We make sure that your book is a timelessly powerful tool that attracts new opportunities and has the power to make a dent in the Universe.
If You Qualify, Expect:
Unparalleled collaboration to frame your unique perspective
Professional journalism to distill your content into a compelling story
A systems-based creative process that perfectly captures your voice
Over 200 data points of competitive intelligence
Unlimited revisions and focus group testing on your book cover
#1 status as a Best-Selling author on Amazon.
Major media attention and outreach to build your author*ity
...and much more.
Doug Crowe
Founder
A gifted leader with a variety of talents, Doug is a prolific businessman, marketing expert, and a brilliant writer. He writes for Entrepreneur.com and has been published in Yahoo Finance, Chicago Tribune, Daily Herald, and the Seattle Times.
Richard’s journey in the call center space is filled with twists and turns. When he was 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers. Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain. A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, inducted into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business. Giving back to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. Come and see for yourself why call center outsourcing in Costa Rica is a perfect solution for your growing company and a powerhouse in the BPO industry.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Author your Brand Podcast, Doug Crowe, Richard Blank,Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#Doug Crowe #AuthoryourBrandPodcast #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #AuthoryourBrandPodcast
2 of 2 Here is how CIA gets to play with my blog and perhaps even steal files from my computer during work as they claimed me will http://ausertimes.blogspot.com/2024/12/how-long-will-it-take-to-us-government.html
1 of 2 Here is how CIA gets to play with my blog and perhaps even steal files from my computer during work as they claimed me will http://ausertimes.blogspot.com/2024/12/how-long-will-it-take-to-us-government.html
Trekking Guide Team Adventure is a government-registered trekking company running for more than a decade. Showing you the natural as well as cultural aspects of Nepal with the rich Himalayas as well as different local tribes for you to observe and learn about the different cultures of Nepal.
For more info: https://nepalguidetrekking.com/trip/everest-base-camp-trekking
#EverestBaseCampTrek2025
Welcome to EV Charging News Australia. I'm your host, Marc Dal Cin. Today, we're diving into some exciting developments in the world of electric vehicle charging across the country. New South Wales is making a big push to accelerate EV adoption with a significant investment in charging infrastructure. The state government has announced a $4.1 million commitment to install six hundred and seventy one electric vehicle charging ports at three hundred and ninety one sites across Sydney and Newcastle , and are providing grants to eligible businesses to supercharge the EV charger installation process. This initiative aims to provide more convenient charging options, especially for drivers without off-street parking. The investment will be matched by $8 million in private funding, resulting in a mix of chargers ranging from 7 kilowatts to 75 kilowatts. These will include pole mounted, pedestal, and kiosk-style chargers, set to be installed on footpaths and in public council car parks over the next 12 months.
One of the grant recipients, Sydney-based EV charging provider Jolt, plans to install 65 free kerbside public charging sites across seven local government areas in Sydney. Jolt's CEO, Doug McNamee, emphasized the importance of kerbside charging in busy metropolitan areas, stating it will be crucial for those lacking easy charging options at home. Speaking of Jolt, they're offering a unique proposition to EV owners. Their charging stations will provide 7 kilowatt hours of free energy per day, which translates to about 50 kilometers of driving range in just 15 minutes of charging. This initiative could lead to significant savings for EV owners, potentially up to twelve hundred dollars per year for those without access to home chargers. On a broader scale, the global EV charging landscape is set for explosive growth. The International Energy Agency projects that public charging points worldwide will exceed 15 million by 2030 and reach nearly 25 million by 2035. In the United States alone, the government aims to install 500,000 public charging ports by 2030.
As we wrap up today's episode, It's clear that EV charging spots are popping up left and right to keep up with all the demand in Sydney and New South Wales. No doubt, this stuff's crucial for getting more people into electric cars and tackling those worries about where to juice up. Got any questions? Just hit me up through our website at evchargerinstallation.au. Thank you!
Czech police vandalised car in Ostrava but it was on Andrej Babish Andrej Babiš request
https://ausertimes.blogspot.com/2020/09/czech-police-vandalized-car-in-ostrava.html
Andrej Babish Czech prime minster used police to vandalize rob my car and his psychological methods were indifferent from those seen at Polish landlords and employers who also claimed were destroying my property using directed energy weapons for my sake and would help me only if I would keep mouths shut.
At this point and time, truth is running through my brain about police involvement into MK Ultra - their promises on what they will do and uncertainty to what degree Babish was involved in this ordeal, but it becomes clear once in Slovenia(memories opened entirely about what I was promised and by whom) on who organized whole thing.
WHAT HAPPENED AT OSTRAVICA IN CZECH REPUBLIC HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AMERICAN HOLLYWOOD OTHER THAN ANGER FROM HOLLYWOOD'S SIDE AGAINST CZECH POLITIC ONCE BOYS' TRIP ABROAD ENDED IN 2008 OR SO AND THEY LEARNED ABOUT WHAT TRUMP'S ASSSISTANS PREPARED FOR ME IN THERE AT THIS VERY DAM WHERE HOLLYWOODERS LEFT BEHIND TRACES OF PRESENCE IS HOW I WAS AT LEAST BRAINWASHED. THEY USED ONE INDIVIDUAL WHO PROBABLY WAS JUST AN EMITATION OF HOLLYWOOD ACTOR TO RAISE ANGER ISSUES IN ME AGAINST HOLLYWOOD.
HOLLYWOOD ACTORS I LEARNED FROM OSTRAVICA PROHIBITED FROM VISITING OR GETTING ANYWHERE NEAR ME BY US GOVERNMENT LITERALY. COUNTRY OF BRAVE AND FREE NOT SO FREE AFTERALL !!!
Trench Leadership: A Podcast From the Front. EP64 hosted by Simon Kardynal. Putting Fear Into Perspective featuring Richard Blank
HELPING EMERGING LEADERS BUILD UPON THEIR LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION.Emerging leaders carry the burden of leading ‘in the trenches’, often feeling overwhelmed as they travel along their new role as the leader. In Trench Leadership: A Podcast From the Front, I use my personal and professional experience, my education (Master of Arts in Leadership), and guests to provide advice, inspiration, and practical tools to help emerging leaders find their path right in the trenches, helping them be the leader they want to be.
Fear is the most basic of human instincts. We need it to tell us when to be cognizant of impending danger.
The challenge with fear is that it can, and wants to, take over. Fear wants to keep us inside our comfort zones, keep us safe, secure in the knowledge that if we don’t push ourselves, we can’t get hurt.
But the question is, how can we, as leaders, harness the power of fear to not only survive, but thrive?
And so, in this episode, you’ll hear from Richard Blank, CEO for Costa Rica’s Call Centre, who will talk about his experiences with fear in the workplace. Richard will use his personal and professional examples to talk about how emerging leaders can live with their fear, use it to create strong and powerful teams. Lastly, Richard will give practical advice to leaders so they can use their fear to help themselves and their teams thrive.
https://youtu.be/T6NFa3z5Xgc?si=Wc8z-QiLXTwd7FNk
My Professional Background
I’m a Canadian, eh! who retired from the Canadian Armed Forces as an aircraft maintenance superintendent at the rank of Master Warrant Officer. I completed 26+ in the regular force, experiencing multiple postings, exercises, and domestic and international deployments.
I’ve since joined the RCAF Reserves, humbled to be the Squadron Warrant Officer with 412 (T) Sqn, located in Canada’s national capital city, Ottawa, Ontario.
I also work as a contract manager at a Canadian contracting company called Calian Group Inc., providing contract management services to contractors and clients.
I hold a Master of Arts in Leadership degree from Royal Roads University where I found my passion to help emerging leaders create strong foundations as they embark on their leadership journey.
About Me Personally
I’m a father and husband who lives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. My daughter is in university and she wants to become a veterinarian. Her intense dedication and passion for wanting to help animals is fuelling her, and she is on her way to achieving that goal.
My wife is a Senior Non-Commissioned Member in the Royal Canadian Air Force and has split her time between being a reservist and regular force member, and putting up with my non-stop ideas.
My passions include being a private pilot, runner, building custom poker tables, and riding my motorcycle.
I also enjoy speaking to anyone that will listen about the benefits of education (formal and informal) for leaders at all levels.
Formal Leadership Education - Royal Roads University and the Master of Arts in Leadership Degree Program
Listeners of the show will have heard, often, that my path to creating this podcast, my passion to help emerging leaders, started with my acceptance in the Master of Arts in Leadership program at Royal Roads University.
A fun fact is that many people have seen part of the Royal Roads campus without even knowing it. How so? If you are an MCU or Deadpool fan, then you have seen Royal Roads. The X-Men’s secret headquarters is none other Hatley castle, which is one of the centrepieces of the campus at RRU. Google it, you’ll see the castle, pretty neat, huh?
The International Society of Military Sciences (ISMS)
The purpose of this organisation is to build a network for the creation, development, exchange and diffusion of research and knowledge about war, conflict management and peace support efforts. The society hosts an annual conference, and one or more workshops per year.
The ISMS is helping to strengthen NCM corps, providing a means for international military academies to cooperate in the development of Non-Commissioned Members (NCM).
For me, the ISMS helps me continue to advocate for NCM, specifically within the Canadian Armed Forces.
Mindfulness Techniques
Listen, we get it. Everyone says that to be an effective leaders, we need to manage our stress. And ‘they’ aren’t wrong, but the missing component is that relieving that stress usually means a release long after the stressful moment has passed by.
Trench Leadership: A Podcast From the Front is humbled to have been listed as #8 for Canadian leadership-themed podcasts for 2022.
I have spent my professional career in the Canadian Armed Forces for over 26 years in the regular force. In 2020, I retired to take on a new role with the Calian Group as a Contract Manager. In 2022, I re-joined the CAF as a Primary Reservist, humbly taking the role as Squadron Warrant Officer at 412 (Transport) Squadron.
I joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1994 as an infantry soldier; however, in 1999, I switched to the Royal Canadian Air Force as an Aircraft Structures Technician (think auto body for airplanes but much cooler). In 2021, I retired as an Aircraft Maintenance Superintendent with the rank of Master Warrant Officer, employed as a Career Manager. I was responsible for the career management of approximately 1,145 people. I was also responsible to ensure that the right people, with the right qualifications, were placed within the right squadrons at the right time.
Due to my organizational skills, I excel in high-stress environments where I thrive on the challenge of solving complex problems on time and within budget.
I am adept at drafting clear and concise documentation. I am a skilled orator who is often requested by my higher chain of command to deliver briefings and speeches to small and large groups of people.
I am officially bilingual (French and English). I hold a Government of Canada accredited second language profile (French) of C- Comprehension, B - Writing, B - Oral Interaction. I am able to easily converse in both languages and I can prepare comprehensive reports in either language.
I have experience as a program manager where I was responsible for budgetary requirements, project milestones and collaborating with stakeholders from many different organizations.
In 2021, I completed a Master of Arts in Leadership from Royal Roads University. It is this education, coupled with the extensive leadership experience that has made me the adaptable, clear thinking, reliable leader and father that I am today.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Trench Leadership, Simon Kardynal, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#TrenchLeadership #SimonKardynal #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Trench Leadership: A Podcast From the Front. Hosted by Simon Kardynal. EP64 featuring Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/T6NFa3z5Xgc?si=Wc8z-QiLXTwd7FNk
Trench Leadership: A Podcast From the Front. EP64 hosted by Simon Kardynal. Putting Fear Into Perspective featuring Richard Blank
HELPING EMERGING LEADERS BUILD UPON THEIR LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION.Emerging leaders carry the burden of leading ‘in the trenches’, often feeling overwhelmed as they travel along their new role as the leader. In Trench Leadership: A Podcast From the Front, I use my personal and professional experience, my education (Master of Arts in Leadership), and guests to provide advice, inspiration, and practical tools to help emerging leaders find their path right in the trenches, helping them be the leader they want to be.
Fear is the most basic of human instincts. We need it to tell us when to be cognizant of impending danger.
The challenge with fear is that it can, and wants to, take over. Fear wants to keep us inside our comfort zones, keep us safe, secure in the knowledge that if we don’t push ourselves, we can’t get hurt.
But the question is, how can we, as leaders, harness the power of fear to not only survive, but thrive?
And so, in this episode, you’ll hear from Richard Blank, CEO for Costa Rica’s Call Centre, who will talk about his experiences with fear in the workplace. Richard will use his personal and professional examples to talk about how emerging leaders can live with their fear, use it to create strong and powerful teams. Lastly, Richard will give practical advice to leaders so they can use their fear to help themselves and their teams thrive.
https://youtu.be/T6NFa3z5Xgc?si=Wc8z-QiLXTwd7FNk
My Professional Background
I’m a Canadian, eh! who retired from the Canadian Armed Forces as an aircraft maintenance superintendent at the rank of Master Warrant Officer. I completed 26+ in the regular force, experiencing multiple postings, exercises, and domestic and international deployments.
I’ve since joined the RCAF Reserves, humbled to be the Squadron Warrant Officer with 412 (T) Sqn, located in Canada’s national capital city, Ottawa, Ontario.
I also work as a contract manager at a Canadian contracting company called Calian Group Inc., providing contract management services to contractors and clients.
I hold a Master of Arts in Leadership degree from Royal Roads University where I found my passion to help emerging leaders create strong foundations as they embark on their leadership journey.
About Me Personally
I’m a father and husband who lives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. My daughter is in university and she wants to become a veterinarian. Her intense dedication and passion for wanting to help animals is fuelling her, and she is on her way to achieving that goal.
My wife is a Senior Non-Commissioned Member in the Royal Canadian Air Force and has split her time between being a reservist and regular force member, and putting up with my non-stop ideas.
My passions include being a private pilot, runner, building custom poker tables, and riding my motorcycle.
I also enjoy speaking to anyone that will listen about the benefits of education (formal and informal) for leaders at all levels.
Formal Leadership Education - Royal Roads University and the Master of Arts in Leadership Degree Program
Listeners of the show will have heard, often, that my path to creating this podcast, my passion to help emerging leaders, started with my acceptance in the Master of Arts in Leadership program at Royal Roads University.
A fun fact is that many people have seen part of the Royal Roads campus without even knowing it. How so? If you are an MCU or Deadpool fan, then you have seen Royal Roads. The X-Men’s secret headquarters is none other Hatley castle, which is one of the centrepieces of the campus at RRU. Google it, you’ll see the castle, pretty neat, huh?
The International Society of Military Sciences (ISMS)
The purpose of this organisation is to build a network for the creation, development, exchange and diffusion of research and knowledge about war, conflict management and peace support efforts. The society hosts an annual conference, and one or more workshops per year.
The ISMS is helping to strengthen NCM corps, providing a means for international military academies to cooperate in the development of Non-Commissioned Members (NCM).
For me, the ISMS helps me continue to advocate for NCM, specifically within the Canadian Armed Forces.
Mindfulness Techniques
Listen, we get it. Everyone says that to be an effective leaders, we need to manage our stress. And ‘they’ aren’t wrong, but the missing component is that relieving that stress usually means a release long after the stressful moment has passed by.
Trench Leadership: A Podcast From the Front is humbled to have been listed as #8 for Canadian leadership-themed podcasts for 2022.
I have spent my professional career in the Canadian Armed Forces for over 26 years in the regular force. In 2020, I retired to take on a new role with the Calian Group as a Contract Manager. In 2022, I re-joined the CAF as a Primary Reservist, humbly taking the role as Squadron Warrant Officer at 412 (Transport) Squadron.
I joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1994 as an infantry soldier; however, in 1999, I switched to the Royal Canadian Air Force as an Aircraft Structures Technician (think auto body for airplanes but much cooler). In 2021, I retired as an Aircraft Maintenance Superintendent with the rank of Master Warrant Officer, employed as a Career Manager. I was responsible for the career management of approximately 1,145 people. I was also responsible to ensure that the right people, with the right qualifications, were placed within the right squadrons at the right time.
Due to my organizational skills, I excel in high-stress environments where I thrive on the challenge of solving complex problems on time and within budget.
I am adept at drafting clear and concise documentation. I am a skilled orator who is often requested by my higher chain of command to deliver briefings and speeches to small and large groups of people.
I am officially bilingual (French and English). I hold a Government of Canada accredited second language profile (French) of C- Comprehension, B - Writing, B - Oral Interaction. I am able to easily converse in both languages and I can prepare comprehensive reports in either language.
I have experience as a program manager where I was responsible for budgetary requirements, project milestones and collaborating with stakeholders from many different organizations.
In 2021, I completed a Master of Arts in Leadership from Royal Roads University. It is this education, coupled with the extensive leadership experience that has made me the adaptable, clear thinking, reliable leader and father that I am today.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Trench Leadership, Simon Kardynal, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#TrenchLeadership #SimonKardynal #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Trench Leadership: A Podcast From the Front. Hosted by Simon Kardynal. EP64 featuring Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/T6NFa3z5Xgc?si=Wc8z-QiLXTwd7FNk
Trench Leadership: A Podcast From the Front. EP64 hosted by Simon Kardynal. Putting Fear Into Perspective featuring Richard Blank
HELPING EMERGING LEADERS BUILD UPON THEIR LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION.Emerging leaders carry the burden of leading ‘in the trenches’, often feeling overwhelmed as they travel along their new role as the leader. In Trench Leadership: A Podcast From the Front, I use my personal and professional experience, my education (Master of Arts in Leadership), and guests to provide advice, inspiration, and practical tools to help emerging leaders find their path right in the trenches, helping them be the leader they want to be.
Fear is the most basic of human instincts. We need it to tell us when to be cognizant of impending danger.
The challenge with fear is that it can, and wants to, take over. Fear wants to keep us inside our comfort zones, keep us safe, secure in the knowledge that if we don’t push ourselves, we can’t get hurt.
But the question is, how can we, as leaders, harness the power of fear to not only survive, but thrive?
And so, in this episode, you’ll hear from Richard Blank, CEO for Costa Rica’s Call Centre, who will talk about his experiences with fear in the workplace. Richard will use his personal and professional examples to talk about how emerging leaders can live with their fear, use it to create strong and powerful teams. Lastly, Richard will give practical advice to leaders so they can use their fear to help themselves and their teams thrive.
https://youtu.be/T6NFa3z5Xgc?si=Wc8z-QiLXTwd7FNk
My Professional Background
I’m a Canadian, eh! who retired from the Canadian Armed Forces as an aircraft maintenance superintendent at the rank of Master Warrant Officer. I completed 26+ in the regular force, experiencing multiple postings, exercises, and domestic and international deployments.
I’ve since joined the RCAF Reserves, humbled to be the Squadron Warrant Officer with 412 (T) Sqn, located in Canada’s national capital city, Ottawa, Ontario.
I also work as a contract manager at a Canadian contracting company called Calian Group Inc., providing contract management services to contractors and clients.
I hold a Master of Arts in Leadership degree from Royal Roads University where I found my passion to help emerging leaders create strong foundations as they embark on their leadership journey.
About Me Personally
I’m a father and husband who lives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. My daughter is in university and she wants to become a veterinarian. Her intense dedication and passion for wanting to help animals is fuelling her, and she is on her way to achieving that goal.
My wife is a Senior Non-Commissioned Member in the Royal Canadian Air Force and has split her time between being a reservist and regular force member, and putting up with my non-stop ideas.
My passions include being a private pilot, runner, building custom poker tables, and riding my motorcycle.
I also enjoy speaking to anyone that will listen about the benefits of education (formal and informal) for leaders at all levels.
Formal Leadership Education - Royal Roads University and the Master of Arts in Leadership Degree Program
Listeners of the show will have heard, often, that my path to creating this podcast, my passion to help emerging leaders, started with my acceptance in the Master of Arts in Leadership program at Royal Roads University.
A fun fact is that many people have seen part of the Royal Roads campus without even knowing it. How so? If you are an MCU or Deadpool fan, then you have seen Royal Roads. The X-Men’s secret headquarters is none other Hatley castle, which is one of the centrepieces of the campus at RRU. Google it, you’ll see the castle, pretty neat, huh?
The International Society of Military Sciences (ISMS)
The purpose of this organisation is to build a network for the creation, development, exchange and diffusion of research and knowledge about war, conflict management and peace support efforts. The society hosts an annual conference, and one or more workshops per year.
The ISMS is helping to strengthen NCM corps, providing a means for international military academies to cooperate in the development of Non-Commissioned Members (NCM).
For me, the ISMS helps me continue to advocate for NCM, specifically within the Canadian Armed Forces.
Mindfulness Techniques
Listen, we get it. Everyone says that to be an effective leaders, we need to manage our stress. And ‘they’ aren’t wrong, but the missing component is that relieving that stress usually means a release long after the stressful moment has passed by.
Trench Leadership: A Podcast From the Front is humbled to have been listed as #8 for Canadian leadership-themed podcasts for 2022.
I have spent my professional career in the Canadian Armed Forces for over 26 years in the regular force. In 2020, I retired to take on a new role with the Calian Group as a Contract Manager. In 2022, I re-joined the CAF as a Primary Reservist, humbly taking the role as Squadron Warrant Officer at 412 (Transport) Squadron.
I joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1994 as an infantry soldier; however, in 1999, I switched to the Royal Canadian Air Force as an Aircraft Structures Technician (think auto body for airplanes but much cooler). In 2021, I retired as an Aircraft Maintenance Superintendent with the rank of Master Warrant Officer, employed as a Career Manager. I was responsible for the career management of approximately 1,145 people. I was also responsible to ensure that the right people, with the right qualifications, were placed within the right squadrons at the right time.
Due to my organizational skills, I excel in high-stress environments where I thrive on the challenge of solving complex problems on time and within budget.
I am adept at drafting clear and concise documentation. I am a skilled orator who is often requested by my higher chain of command to deliver briefings and speeches to small and large groups of people.
I am officially bilingual (French and English). I hold a Government of Canada accredited second language profile (French) of C- Comprehension, B - Writing, B - Oral Interaction. I am able to easily converse in both languages and I can prepare comprehensive reports in either language.
I have experience as a program manager where I was responsible for budgetary requirements, project milestones and collaborating with stakeholders from many different organizations.
In 2021, I completed a Master of Arts in Leadership from Royal Roads University. It is this education, coupled with the extensive leadership experience that has made me the adaptable, clear thinking, reliable leader and father that I am today.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Trench Leadership, Simon Kardynal, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#TrenchLeadership #SimonKardynal #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Trench Leadership: A Podcast From the Front. Hosted by Simon Kardynal. EP64 featuring Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/T6NFa3z5Xgc?si=Wc8z-QiLXTwd7FNk
The Yakking Show by Peter Wright & Kathleen Beauvais. A Costa Rica story- EP 182 with Richard Blank.
Guiding You to Health, Balance, and Wholeness Your go-to channel for expert advice, practical tips, and inspiring ideas to elevate your mental and physical well-being. Join our community of like-minded individuals who are committed to achieving a harmonious and fulfilling life. Discover transformative techniques to enhance your mental resilience, boost your physical vitality, and find contentment in every aspect of your journey.
Get ready to unlock your potential, cultivate balance, and embrace a life of joy and fulfillment. Embark on a transformative path towards holistic wellness.Richard Blank, CEO of costaricascallcenter.com talks to Peter and Kathleen about building a world-class call center business, training bilingual telemarketers and providing exceptional levels of service to international clients. Richard tells us his success secrets.
https://youtu.be/cT2lA4ZEIHU?si=y15i7f-xqJRRWkFq
The Yakking Show was born out of a desire to give entrepreneurs, self employed professionals, authors, and other creative people a platform to talk about themselves, their services and their products.The show that provides you with a greater range of actionable business ideas than almost anywhere else on the internet.In March 2020 at the start of the global disruption caused by the coronavirus, we wanted to do something to fill the gap caused by the sudden end of live networking events and to lighten the dark mood that had settled on the world.
The show gives you an opportunity to tell your story in an informal conversation with Peter and Kathleen, experienced and successful audio and video podcast hosts.Podcast appearances are more authentic than corporate publicity videos.We do all the work, you just show up on Zoom, we record, edit and publish video and audio versions on all the major video, audio platforms and social media.We provide you with links to the finished video and audio uploads to share on social media, embed on your website, and use in promotional material.We have an international audience made up of diverse business, community, industry and consumer participants. You may qualify as a participant for our Premium Content series in which case you will be featured in longer interviews with more opportunities to showcase your business.
Timeline
05:00 Adapting to a new culture
06:20 What makes Richard successful
09:40 Active Listening
12:30 Training at-home workers
14:00 Dealing with angry and upset callers
17:00 Dedicated Practice
20:50 Long lines & potholes
23:23 Phonetic micro expressions
28:47 Fortune favours the brave
30:01 Positive escalations
Kathleen Beauvais
Podcast host that is guiding you on your path to wholeness.
I am a co-host of The Yakking Show along with my wonderful colleague, Peter Wright. This is a captivating podcast with a keen interest in all things health-related.
Peter and I are thrilled to co-host alongside experts in health, fitness, alternate health, holistic living, meditation, and mindfulness. This is a platform for thought-provoking conversations and valuable insights, empowering our listeners to enhance their overall well-being and achieve harmony in their lives.
If you are passionate about holistic living and personal growth, I invite you to connect with me and join the conversation on The Yakking Show. Let's inspire and empower each other to reach new heights of health and well-being.
Peter Wright:
As co-host of The Yakking Show audio and video podcast, for our business channel, I interview guests to provide actionable business tips and ideas for our audience of SME owners and entrepreneurs.
On the Harmony: Your Path To Wholeness channel, we interview guests for tips and ideas about healthy living, alternate health, holistic health, wellness and fitness.
In my public speaking and writing roles, I speak and write about life, health, and overcoming adversity.
My life has been an amazing adventure, living in 3 countries in Southern Africa, traveling to and doing business in many more.
My working career has included marketing management in small and large corporations, starting and running several of my own businesses before returning to Zimbabwe to farm for 10 years.
I suffered 3 years of intimidation and death threats during the Zimbabwe government's illegal farm takeovers, eventually being unlawfully arrested, rigorously interrogated, and detained by police.
After being released I was prevented from returning to my farm. I left Zimbabwe in 2004 with only 2 suitcases to start over in Canada.
Specialties: My challenging and often dangerous experiences in Africa have given me a unique ability for survival and recovery. It has given me a wealth of experiences to enrich my writing and weave compelling stories
It's not what happens to you in life, it's what you do about it that counts.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Kathleen Beauvais, Peter Wright, The Yakking Show, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#KathleenBeauvais #PeterWright #TheYakkingShow #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
The Yakking Show EP 182 with Richard Blank. Peter Wright & Kathleen Beauvais discuss a Costa Rican adventure.
https://youtu.be/cT2lA4ZEIHU?si=y15i7f-xqJRRWkFq
The Yakking Show by Peter Wright & Kathleen Beauvais. A Costa Rica story- EP 182 with Richard Blank.
Guiding You to Health, Balance, and Wholeness Your go-to channel for expert advice, practical tips, and inspiring ideas to elevate your mental and physical well-being. Join our community of like-minded individuals who are committed to achieving a harmonious and fulfilling life. Discover transformative techniques to enhance your mental resilience, boost your physical vitality, and find contentment in every aspect of your journey.
Get ready to unlock your potential, cultivate balance, and embrace a life of joy and fulfillment. Embark on a transformative path towards holistic wellness.Richard Blank, CEO of costaricascallcenter.com talks to Peter and Kathleen about building a world-class call center business, training bilingual telemarketers and providing exceptional levels of service to international clients. Richard tells us his success secrets.
https://youtu.be/cT2lA4ZEIHU?si=y15i7f-xqJRRWkFq
The Yakking Show was born out of a desire to give entrepreneurs, self employed professionals, authors, and other creative people a platform to talk about themselves, their services and their products.The show that provides you with a greater range of actionable business ideas than almost anywhere else on the internet.In March 2020 at the start of the global disruption caused by the coronavirus, we wanted to do something to fill the gap caused by the sudden end of live networking events and to lighten the dark mood that had settled on the world.
The show gives you an opportunity to tell your story in an informal conversation with Peter and Kathleen, experienced and successful audio and video podcast hosts.Podcast appearances are more authentic than corporate publicity videos.We do all the work, you just show up on Zoom, we record, edit and publish video and audio versions on all the major video, audio platforms and social media.We provide you with links to the finished video and audio uploads to share on social media, embed on your website, and use in promotional material.We have an international audience made up of diverse business, community, industry and consumer participants. You may qualify as a participant for our Premium Content series in which case you will be featured in longer interviews with more opportunities to showcase your business.
Timeline
05:00 Adapting to a new culture
06:20 What makes Richard successful
09:40 Active Listening
12:30 Training at-home workers
14:00 Dealing with angry and upset callers
17:00 Dedicated Practice
20:50 Long lines & potholes
23:23 Phonetic micro expressions
28:47 Fortune favours the brave
30:01 Positive escalations
Kathleen Beauvais
Podcast host that is guiding you on your path to wholeness.
I am a co-host of The Yakking Show along with my wonderful colleague, Peter Wright. This is a captivating podcast with a keen interest in all things health-related.
Peter and I are thrilled to co-host alongside experts in health, fitness, alternate health, holistic living, meditation, and mindfulness. This is a platform for thought-provoking conversations and valuable insights, empowering our listeners to enhance their overall well-being and achieve harmony in their lives.
If you are passionate about holistic living and personal growth, I invite you to connect with me and join the conversation on The Yakking Show. Let's inspire and empower each other to reach new heights of health and well-being.
Peter Wright:
As co-host of The Yakking Show audio and video podcast, for our business channel, I interview guests to provide actionable business tips and ideas for our audience of SME owners and entrepreneurs.
On the Harmony: Your Path To Wholeness channel, we interview guests for tips and ideas about healthy living, alternate health, holistic health, wellness and fitness.
In my public speaking and writing roles, I speak and write about life, health, and overcoming adversity.
My life has been an amazing adventure, living in 3 countries in Southern Africa, traveling to and doing business in many more.
My working career has included marketing management in small and large corporations, starting and running several of my own businesses before returning to Zimbabwe to farm for 10 years.
I suffered 3 years of intimidation and death threats during the Zimbabwe government's illegal farm takeovers, eventually being unlawfully arrested, rigorously interrogated, and detained by police.
After being released I was prevented from returning to my farm. I left Zimbabwe in 2004 with only 2 suitcases to start over in Canada.
Specialties: My challenging and often dangerous experiences in Africa have given me a unique ability for survival and recovery. It has given me a wealth of experiences to enrich my writing and weave compelling stories
It's not what happens to you in life, it's what you do about it that counts.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Kathleen Beauvais, Peter Wright, The Yakking Show, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#KathleenBeauvais #PeterWright #TheYakkingShow #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
The Yakking Show EP 182 with Richard Blank. Peter Wright & Kathleen Beauvais discuss a Costa Rican adventure.
https://youtu.be/cT2lA4ZEIHU?si=y15i7f-xqJRRWkFq
The Yakking Show by Peter Wright & Kathleen Beauvais. A Costa Rica story- EP 182 with Richard Blank.
Guiding You to Health, Balance, and Wholeness Your go-to channel for expert advice, practical tips, and inspiring ideas to elevate your mental and physical well-being. Join our community of like-minded individuals who are committed to achieving a harmonious and fulfilling life. Discover transformative techniques to enhance your mental resilience, boost your physical vitality, and find contentment in every aspect of your journey.
Get ready to unlock your potential, cultivate balance, and embrace a life of joy and fulfillment. Embark on a transformative path towards holistic wellness.Richard Blank, CEO of costaricascallcenter.com talks to Peter and Kathleen about building a world-class call center business, training bilingual telemarketers and providing exceptional levels of service to international clients. Richard tells us his success secrets.
https://youtu.be/cT2lA4ZEIHU?si=y15i7f-xqJRRWkFq
The Yakking Show was born out of a desire to give entrepreneurs, self employed professionals, authors, and other creative people a platform to talk about themselves, their services and their products.The show that provides you with a greater range of actionable business ideas than almost anywhere else on the internet.In March 2020 at the start of the global disruption caused by the coronavirus, we wanted to do something to fill the gap caused by the sudden end of live networking events and to lighten the dark mood that had settled on the world.
The show gives you an opportunity to tell your story in an informal conversation with Peter and Kathleen, experienced and successful audio and video podcast hosts.Podcast appearances are more authentic than corporate publicity videos.We do all the work, you just show up on Zoom, we record, edit and publish video and audio versions on all the major video, audio platforms and social media.We provide you with links to the finished video and audio uploads to share on social media, embed on your website, and use in promotional material.We have an international audience made up of diverse business, community, industry and consumer participants. You may qualify as a participant for our Premium Content series in which case you will be featured in longer interviews with more opportunities to showcase your business.
Timeline
05:00 Adapting to a new culture
06:20 What makes Richard successful
09:40 Active Listening
12:30 Training at-home workers
14:00 Dealing with angry and upset callers
17:00 Dedicated Practice
20:50 Long lines & potholes
23:23 Phonetic micro expressions
28:47 Fortune favours the brave
30:01 Positive escalations
Kathleen Beauvais
Podcast host that is guiding you on your path to wholeness.
I am a co-host of The Yakking Show along with my wonderful colleague, Peter Wright. This is a captivating podcast with a keen interest in all things health-related.
Peter and I are thrilled to co-host alongside experts in health, fitness, alternate health, holistic living, meditation, and mindfulness. This is a platform for thought-provoking conversations and valuable insights, empowering our listeners to enhance their overall well-being and achieve harmony in their lives.
If you are passionate about holistic living and personal growth, I invite you to connect with me and join the conversation on The Yakking Show. Let's inspire and empower each other to reach new heights of health and well-being.
Peter Wright:
As co-host of The Yakking Show audio and video podcast, for our business channel, I interview guests to provide actionable business tips and ideas for our audience of SME owners and entrepreneurs.
On the Harmony: Your Path To Wholeness channel, we interview guests for tips and ideas about healthy living, alternate health, holistic health, wellness and fitness.
In my public speaking and writing roles, I speak and write about life, health, and overcoming adversity.
My life has been an amazing adventure, living in 3 countries in Southern Africa, traveling to and doing business in many more.
My working career has included marketing management in small and large corporations, starting and running several of my own businesses before returning to Zimbabwe to farm for 10 years.
I suffered 3 years of intimidation and death threats during the Zimbabwe government's illegal farm takeovers, eventually being unlawfully arrested, rigorously interrogated, and detained by police.
After being released I was prevented from returning to my farm. I left Zimbabwe in 2004 with only 2 suitcases to start over in Canada.
Specialties: My challenging and often dangerous experiences in Africa have given me a unique ability for survival and recovery. It has given me a wealth of experiences to enrich my writing and weave compelling stories
It's not what happens to you in life, it's what you do about it that counts.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Kathleen Beauvais, Peter Wright, The Yakking Show, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#KathleenBeauvais #PeterWright #TheYakkingShow #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
The Yakking Show EP 182 with Richard Blank. Peter Wright & Kathleen Beauvais discuss a Costa Rican adventure.
https://youtu.be/cT2lA4ZEIHU?si=y15i7f-xqJRRWkFq
Big news is that Sony’s Concord couldn’t even last a month before getting axed, the U.S. government is funding propaganda games, and Itsuno finally leaves Capcom. New streams are every week at 1 PM Pacific time, link can be found on my profile.
The HR Lady Podcast with host Wendy Sellers. Reducing an attrition culture with CEO Richard Blank
For those eager to navigate the evolving world of HR and management, “The HR Lady Podcast” stands out as a beacon of insight. Each episode promises candid conversations: from discussing the intricacies of employee attraction and retention, company culture, navigating difficult conversations and more. Find all the no-nonsense HR and Management advice you need.
Wendy Sellers and ** engage Richard Blank, CEO of a Costa Rican call center, in an enlightening discussion on call center culture, attrition, and the pivotal role of gamification. Richard shares how he stumbled upon an opportunity to work in a friend's center in Costa Rica and subsequently fell in love with the place, its culture, and its people. He also discusses the challenging aspects of managing a thriving call center. He emphasizes optimizing call centers, striking the perfect balance between maintaining the dignity of employees and getting the best out of them.
They delve into the core of call center culture and discuss the power of effective communication, active listening, and creating a conducive environment for growth and development. This podcast is impactful for those in the call center industry and anyone interested in fostering a dynamic and high-performing team culture.
https://youtu.be/-1-vJAUMJHQ
As seen in USA Today and International Business Times, Wendy Sellers, The HR Lady, a seasoned HR consultant, educator, and author, delves into the core of management challenges, leadership development, and becoming an employer of choice with authenticity and a refreshing directness. Wendy’s no-nonsense attitude, and her co-host ** are here to spice up your management game. **, who is a rockstar and event emcee with an amazing radio voice, and many expert guests offer actionable strategies and a touch of humor to lighten the load.
Tune in to transform the way you think about HR, management, and leadership. Whether you are an HR professional, a manager looking to enhance your leadership skills, or someone interested in the complexities of workplace management, “The HR Lady” is your go-to resource for expert insights and real-world solutions. Craving more? Dive into their “HR Empowerment” podcast (by Aurora Training Advantage) for deeper discussions in a 5-day series format.
Wendy Sellers, The HR Lady
The needs of business today have changed. Even if your main priority is the bottom line (which it should be), business owners and managers need to understand about the relationships where people feel respected, valued, and trusted are the main items that drive the bottom line (into the red or green).
Wendy Sellers, The HR Lady®, can help! Wendy offers expert HR advice, management training and conference speaking to handle pesky employee challenges while becoming and staying an employer of choice. Attract. Retain. Repeat.
www.thehrlady.com
Wendy Sellers, Wendy The HR Lady, The HR Lady, HR consultant, HR advisor, Retention, Employee Retention, Engagement, Employee Engagement, Management Training Program, Management Training, Training Consultant, Manager Training Topics, Management Books, Manager Training
Subscribe to my YouTube channel here @managertrainingtopics
As seen In USA Today and International Business Times, I am Wendy Sellers, The HR Lady®. After completing my undergraduate degree early and then my master’s degree in healthcare administration in Northeastern Pennsylvania, I headed to the sunshine state of Florida to start my career. I wasn’t sure what that meant yet because I was not thrilled with the slow pace of healthcare administration.
Well, I was in an elevator with my paper resume in hand, headed to an interview when a woman got in and asked if I could do Human Resources, and I told her I probably could figure it out. This was because I had hands-on experience in both retail and restaurant management, which involved managing employees. It turns out she was a recruiter and had a role for me at a small architectural engineering firm in the Orlando area of Florida.
Let me tell you that those first two degrees did not prepare me for dealing with employees. However, they did prepare me for a boatload of compliance nightmares and critical thinking. I eventually returned to school again to get a master’s in human resources and a handful of HR-related certifications and licensures, too.
That small firm grew organically and then through mergers and acquisitions. It grew across the nation and the world. I was fortunate to have an amazing set of leaders there that allowed me to grow. I now have over 25 years of experience in supervisor and manager training, HR education and operations, corporate culture, recruiting, downsizing, change management, and strategy - to name a few.
My sometimes painful experience has been acquired at companies of different categories, sizes, and ownership types. This includes for-profits, non-profits, government agencies, and defense contractors. Now, I aim to guide you, and therefore your company, through periods of growth and change using uncomplicated training, direct and to-the-point advisory services, and easy-to-access HR tools and resources.
My straightforward style means I do not sugar-coat things (respectfully, of course). I believe that people are a company’s greatest asset and should be treated as such. That means training and empowering managers, supervisors, and employees to be successful in their roles. I train administrators on HR compliance and managers on the rest: the people part, from hiring to termination.
My vision is "To help leaders create successful companies that employees do not desperately want a vacation from." Why? Well, because I desire to be the change I want to see in this world.
It is great to meet you. Ask me anything!
1. Interpersonal Communication Conflict Management Strategy
2. Phonetic Micro Expression reading for mastering verbal tell signs.
3. The Famous Buffer-Boomerang Technique
Advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation and phonetic micro expression reading.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
#TheHRLadypodcast #WendySellers #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Wendy Sellers, The HR Lady podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing, BPO, Nearshore, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business,Podcast,Gamification,Leadership,Marketing, Radio, Guest, Money, education, trainer,
https://youtu.be/-1-vJAUMJHQ
The HR Lady Podcast with host Wendy Sellers. Reducing an attrition culture with CEO Richard Blank
For those eager to navigate the evolving world of HR and management, “The HR Lady Podcast” stands out as a beacon of insight. Each episode promises candid conversations: from discussing the intricacies of employee attraction and retention, company culture, navigating difficult conversations and more. Find all the no-nonsense HR and Management advice you need.
Wendy Sellers and ** engage Richard Blank, CEO of a Costa Rican call center, in an enlightening discussion on call center culture, attrition, and the pivotal role of gamification. Richard shares how he stumbled upon an opportunity to work in a friend's center in Costa Rica and subsequently fell in love with the place, its culture, and its people. He also discusses the challenging aspects of managing a thriving call center. He emphasizes optimizing call centers, striking the perfect balance between maintaining the dignity of employees and getting the best out of them.
They delve into the core of call center culture and discuss the power of effective communication, active listening, and creating a conducive environment for growth and development. This podcast is impactful for those in the call center industry and anyone interested in fostering a dynamic and high-performing team culture.
https://youtu.be/-1-vJAUMJHQ
As seen in USA Today and International Business Times, Wendy Sellers, The HR Lady, a seasoned HR consultant, educator, and author, delves into the core of management challenges, leadership development, and becoming an employer of choice with authenticity and a refreshing directness. Wendy’s no-nonsense attitude, and her co-host ** are here to spice up your management game. **, who is a rockstar and event emcee with an amazing radio voice, and many expert guests offer actionable strategies and a touch of humor to lighten the load.
Tune in to transform the way you think about HR, management, and leadership. Whether you are an HR professional, a manager looking to enhance your leadership skills, or someone interested in the complexities of workplace management, “The HR Lady” is your go-to resource for expert insights and real-world solutions. Craving more? Dive into their “HR Empowerment” podcast (by Aurora Training Advantage) for deeper discussions in a 5-day series format.
Wendy Sellers, The HR Lady
The needs of business today have changed. Even if your main priority is the bottom line (which it should be), business owners and managers need to understand about the relationships where people feel respected, valued, and trusted are the main items that drive the bottom line (into the red or green).
Wendy Sellers, The HR Lady®, can help! Wendy offers expert HR advice, management training and conference speaking to handle pesky employee challenges while becoming and staying an employer of choice. Attract. Retain. Repeat.
www.thehrlady.com
Wendy Sellers, Wendy The HR Lady, The HR Lady, HR consultant, HR advisor, Retention, Employee Retention, Engagement, Employee Engagement, Management Training Program, Management Training, Training Consultant, Manager Training Topics, Management Books, Manager Training
Subscribe to my YouTube channel here @managertrainingtopics
As seen In USA Today and International Business Times, I am Wendy Sellers, The HR Lady®. After completing my undergraduate degree early and then my master’s degree in healthcare administration in Northeastern Pennsylvania, I headed to the sunshine state of Florida to start my career. I wasn’t sure what that meant yet because I was not thrilled with the slow pace of healthcare administration.
Well, I was in an elevator with my paper resume in hand, headed to an interview when a woman got in and asked if I could do Human Resources, and I told her I probably could figure it out. This was because I had hands-on experience in both retail and restaurant management, which involved managing employees. It turns out she was a recruiter and had a role for me at a small architectural engineering firm in the Orlando area of Florida.
Let me tell you that those first two degrees did not prepare me for dealing with employees. However, they did prepare me for a boatload of compliance nightmares and critical thinking. I eventually returned to school again to get a master’s in human resources and a handful of HR-related certifications and licensures, too.
That small firm grew organically and then through mergers and acquisitions. It grew across the nation and the world. I was fortunate to have an amazing set of leaders there that allowed me to grow. I now have over 25 years of experience in supervisor and manager training, HR education and operations, corporate culture, recruiting, downsizing, change management, and strategy - to name a few.
My sometimes painful experience has been acquired at companies of different categories, sizes, and ownership types. This includes for-profits, non-profits, government agencies, and defense contractors. Now, I aim to guide you, and therefore your company, through periods of growth and change using uncomplicated training, direct and to-the-point advisory services, and easy-to-access HR tools and resources.
My straightforward style means I do not sugar-coat things (respectfully, of course). I believe that people are a company’s greatest asset and should be treated as such. That means training and empowering managers, supervisors, and employees to be successful in their roles. I train administrators on HR compliance and managers on the rest: the people part, from hiring to termination.
My vision is "To help leaders create successful companies that employees do not desperately want a vacation from." Why? Well, because I desire to be the change I want to see in this world.
It is great to meet you. Ask me anything!
1. Interpersonal Communication Conflict Management Strategy
2. Phonetic Micro Expression reading for mastering verbal tell signs.
3. The Famous Buffer-Boomerang Technique
Advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation and phonetic micro expression reading.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
#TheHRLadypodcast #WendySellers #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Wendy Sellers, The HR Lady podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing, BPO, Nearshore, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business,Podcast,Gamification,Leadership,Marketing, Radio, Guest, Money, education, trainer,
https://youtu.be/-1-vJAUMJHQ
The HR Lady Podcast with host Wendy Sellers. Reducing an attrition culture with CEO Richard Blank
For those eager to navigate the evolving world of HR and management, “The HR Lady Podcast” stands out as a beacon of insight. Each episode promises candid conversations: from discussing the intricacies of employee attraction and retention, company culture, navigating difficult conversations and more. Find all the no-nonsense HR and Management advice you need.
Wendy Sellers and ** engage Richard Blank, CEO of a Costa Rican call center, in an enlightening discussion on call center culture, attrition, and the pivotal role of gamification. Richard shares how he stumbled upon an opportunity to work in a friend's center in Costa Rica and subsequently fell in love with the place, its culture, and its people. He also discusses the challenging aspects of managing a thriving call center. He emphasizes optimizing call centers, striking the perfect balance between maintaining the dignity of employees and getting the best out of them.
They delve into the core of call center culture and discuss the power of effective communication, active listening, and creating a conducive environment for growth and development. This podcast is impactful for those in the call center industry and anyone interested in fostering a dynamic and high-performing team culture.
https://youtu.be/-1-vJAUMJHQ
As seen in USA Today and International Business Times, Wendy Sellers, The HR Lady, a seasoned HR consultant, educator, and author, delves into the core of management challenges, leadership development, and becoming an employer of choice with authenticity and a refreshing directness. Wendy’s no-nonsense attitude, and her co-host ** are here to spice up your management game. **, who is a rockstar and event emcee with an amazing radio voice, and many expert guests offer actionable strategies and a touch of humor to lighten the load.
Tune in to transform the way you think about HR, management, and leadership. Whether you are an HR professional, a manager looking to enhance your leadership skills, or someone interested in the complexities of workplace management, “The HR Lady” is your go-to resource for expert insights and real-world solutions. Craving more? Dive into their “HR Empowerment” podcast (by Aurora Training Advantage) for deeper discussions in a 5-day series format.
Wendy Sellers, The HR Lady
The needs of business today have changed. Even if your main priority is the bottom line (which it should be), business owners and managers need to understand about the relationships where people feel respected, valued, and trusted are the main items that drive the bottom line (into the red or green).
Wendy Sellers, The HR Lady®, can help! Wendy offers expert HR advice, management training and conference speaking to handle pesky employee challenges while becoming and staying an employer of choice. Attract. Retain. Repeat.
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As seen In USA Today and International Business Times, I am Wendy Sellers, The HR Lady®. After completing my undergraduate degree early and then my master’s degree in healthcare administration in Northeastern Pennsylvania, I headed to the sunshine state of Florida to start my career. I wasn’t sure what that meant yet because I was not thrilled with the slow pace of healthcare administration.
Well, I was in an elevator with my paper resume in hand, headed to an interview when a woman got in and asked if I could do Human Resources, and I told her I probably could figure it out. This was because I had hands-on experience in both retail and restaurant management, which involved managing employees. It turns out she was a recruiter and had a role for me at a small architectural engineering firm in the Orlando area of Florida.
Let me tell you that those first two degrees did not prepare me for dealing with employees. However, they did prepare me for a boatload of compliance nightmares and critical thinking. I eventually returned to school again to get a master’s in human resources and a handful of HR-related certifications and licensures, too.
That small firm grew organically and then through mergers and acquisitions. It grew across the nation and the world. I was fortunate to have an amazing set of leaders there that allowed me to grow. I now have over 25 years of experience in supervisor and manager training, HR education and operations, corporate culture, recruiting, downsizing, change management, and strategy - to name a few.
My sometimes painful experience has been acquired at companies of different categories, sizes, and ownership types. This includes for-profits, non-profits, government agencies, and defense contractors. Now, I aim to guide you, and therefore your company, through periods of growth and change using uncomplicated training, direct and to-the-point advisory services, and easy-to-access HR tools and resources.
My straightforward style means I do not sugar-coat things (respectfully, of course). I believe that people are a company’s greatest asset and should be treated as such. That means training and empowering managers, supervisors, and employees to be successful in their roles. I train administrators on HR compliance and managers on the rest: the people part, from hiring to termination.
My vision is "To help leaders create successful companies that employees do not desperately want a vacation from." Why? Well, because I desire to be the change I want to see in this world.
It is great to meet you. Ask me anything!
1. Interpersonal Communication Conflict Management Strategy
2. Phonetic Micro Expression reading for mastering verbal tell signs.
3. The Famous Buffer-Boomerang Technique
Advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation and phonetic micro expression reading.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
#TheHRLadypodcast #WendySellers #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
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https://youtu.be/-1-vJAUMJHQ
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BJP has made two deputy chief ministers in Bihar. One of them is named Samrat Chaudhary. The caste is Koiri. Lalu Yadav made the leader of his party's parliamentary party in Lok Sabha, his name is Abhay Kumar Sinha.
The Adaptive Executive Podcast by Greg Ballard. A Positive Call Centre Culture with Richard Blank.
Your host, Greg Ballard, talks with Richard Blank of Costa Rica's Call Center. Costa Rica's Call Center is a state of the art BPO Telemarketing outsource company that personally trains call centers across Central America. They are bilingual and professionally trained and they can do the same for your staff.
https://youtu.be/nDFhRVW3XXc?si=XhLnezaxHzYkpYO9
The Adaptive Executive podcast host, founder, and CEO of Five C Consulting Greg Ballard is based in Northern Virginia. Greg has 25+ years of extensive experience in management and leadership development for start-ups, corporate, entrepreneurial, and faith-based enterprises. Five C Consulting works with a diverse set of clients ranging from mid-size tech companies, large government agencies, military, and non-profits to radically improve strategic investments and organizational performance. Greg has led and managed over 300+ business units and has mentored more than 225 leaders.
Listen in on “The Adaptive Executive” where they share stories from leading executives and discuss how to keep yourself and your organization adaptive and your employees engaged. In this episode, Greg Ballard and I discuss applying the mindset of being both adaptive as an executive and being innovative at the same time when working though organizational development processes and opportunities. Also hear why asking great questions can really have an impact on your team and the innovation in your organization. Check out the episode now!
Greg Ballard is the founder and CEO of Five C Consulting, a boutique firm based in Washington, D.C. Metro. His company works with a diverse set of clients ranging from mid-sized tech companies, large government agencies, military, and non-profits to radically improve strategic people investments and organizational performance.
With over 20+ years of experience, Greg has developed extensive experience in management and leadership development through start-up, corporate, entrepreneurial, and faith-based enterprises. In prior roles, Greg has led and managed business units of 300+ and has personally mentored over 225 leaders. Greg has facilitated 300+ classroom/workshop experiences and organized or supported 1,400 large event experiences.
Over the past six years, Greg has actively worked with CEO’s, operational executives, mid-level managers, and small business owners to improve their mindset, business habits and overall approach to management and leadership. He has helped executive professionals improve productivity, communicating difficult feedback, navigating politics, influencing, strategic decision making, mindset, designing habits that last and other management and leadership challenges.
Greg holds an undergraduate degree in Cross-Cultural Communications and has participated in or led eight foreign service trips around the world. Greg is active in his community, a member of a regional chamber, and support of several non-profit organizations.
1. Interpersonal Communication Conflict Management Strategy
2. Phonetic Micro Expression reading for mastering verbal tell signs.
3. The Famous Buffer-Boomerang Technique
Advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation and phonetic micro expression reading.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
#THEADAPTIVEEXECUTIVE #GREGBALLARD #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
the adaptive executive, greg ballard, Richard Blank,Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing, BPO, Nearshore, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business,Podcast,Gamification,Leadership,Marketing, Radio, Guest, Money, education, trainer,
https://youtu.be/nDFhRVW3XXc?si=XhLnezaxHzYkpYO9
Your host, Greg Ballard, talks with Richard Blank of Costa Rica's Call Center. Costa Rica's Call Center is a state of the art BPO Telemarketing outsource company that personally trains call centers across Central America. They are bilingual and professionally trained and they can do the same for your staff.
https://youtu.be/nDFhRVW3XXc?si=XhLnezaxHzYkpYO9
The Adaptive Executive podcast host, founder, and CEO of Five C Consulting Greg Ballard is based in Northern Virginia. Greg has 25+ years of extensive experience in management and leadership development for start-ups, corporate, entrepreneurial, and faith-based enterprises. Five C Consulting works with a diverse set of clients ranging from mid-size tech companies, large government agencies, military, and non-profits to radically improve strategic investments and organizational performance. Greg has led and managed over 300+ business units and has mentored more than 225 leaders.
Listen in on “The Adaptive Executive” where they share stories from leading executives and discuss how to keep yourself and your organization adaptive and your employees engaged. In this episode, Greg Ballard and I discuss applying the mindset of being both adaptive as an executive and being innovative at the same time when working though organizational development processes and opportunities. Also hear why asking great questions can really have an impact on your team and the innovation in your organization. Check out the episode now!
Greg Ballard is the founder and CEO of Five C Consulting, a boutique firm based in Washington, D.C. Metro. His company works with a diverse set of clients ranging from mid-sized tech companies, large government agencies, military, and non-profits to radically improve strategic people investments and organizational performance.
With over 20+ years of experience, Greg has developed extensive experience in management and leadership development through start-up, corporate, entrepreneurial, and faith-based enterprises. In prior roles, Greg has led and managed business units of 300+ and has personally mentored over 225 leaders. Greg has facilitated 300+ classroom/workshop experiences and organized or supported 1,400 large event experiences.
Over the past six years, Greg has actively worked with CEO’s, operational executives, mid-level managers, and small business owners to improve their mindset, business habits and overall approach to management and leadership. He has helped executive professionals improve productivity, communicating difficult feedback, navigating politics, influencing, strategic decision making, mindset, designing habits that last and other management and leadership challenges.
Greg holds an undergraduate degree in Cross-Cultural Communications and has participated in or led eight foreign service trips around the world. Greg is active in his community, a member of a regional chamber, and support of several non-profit organizations.
1. Interpersonal Communication Conflict Management Strategy
2. Phonetic Micro Expression reading for mastering verbal tell signs.
3. The Famous Buffer-Boomerang Technique
Advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation and phonetic micro expression reading.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
#THEADAPTIVEEXECUTIVE #GREGBALLARD #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
the adaptive executive, greg ballard, Richard Blank,Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing, BPO, Nearshore, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business,Podcast,Gamification,Leadership,Marketing, Radio, Guest, Money, education, trainer,
The Adaptive Executive Podcast. Positive Call Center Culture with Richard Blank. Episode 19.
https://youtu.be/nDFhRVW3XXc?si=XhLnezaxHzYkpYO9
The Adaptive Executive Podcast by Greg Ballard. A Positive Call Centre Culture with Richard Blank.
Your host, Greg Ballard, talks with Richard Blank of Costa Rica's Call Center. Costa Rica's Call Center is a state of the art BPO Telemarketing outsource company that personally trains call centers across Central America. They are bilingual and professionally trained and they can do the same for your staff.
https://youtu.be/nDFhRVW3XXc?si=XhLnezaxHzYkpYO9
The Adaptive Executive podcast host, founder, and CEO of Five C Consulting Greg Ballard is based in Northern Virginia. Greg has 25+ years of extensive experience in management and leadership development for start-ups, corporate, entrepreneurial, and faith-based enterprises. Five C Consulting works with a diverse set of clients ranging from mid-size tech companies, large government agencies, military, and non-profits to radically improve strategic investments and organizational performance. Greg has led and managed over 300+ business units and has mentored more than 225 leaders.
Listen in on “The Adaptive Executive” where they share stories from leading executives and discuss how to keep yourself and your organization adaptive and your employees engaged. In this episode, Greg Ballard and I discuss applying the mindset of being both adaptive as an executive and being innovative at the same time when working though organizational development processes and opportunities. Also hear why asking great questions can really have an impact on your team and the innovation in your organization. Check out the episode now!
Greg Ballard is the founder and CEO of Five C Consulting, a boutique firm based in Washington, D.C. Metro. His company works with a diverse set of clients ranging from mid-sized tech companies, large government agencies, military, and non-profits to radically improve strategic people investments and organizational performance.
With over 20+ years of experience, Greg has developed extensive experience in management and leadership development through start-up, corporate, entrepreneurial, and faith-based enterprises. In prior roles, Greg has led and managed business units of 300+ and has personally mentored over 225 leaders. Greg has facilitated 300+ classroom/workshop experiences and organized or supported 1,400 large event experiences.
Over the past six years, Greg has actively worked with CEO’s, operational executives, mid-level managers, and small business owners to improve their mindset, business habits and overall approach to management and leadership. He has helped executive professionals improve productivity, communicating difficult feedback, navigating politics, influencing, strategic decision making, mindset, designing habits that last and other management and leadership challenges.
Greg holds an undergraduate degree in Cross-Cultural Communications and has participated in or led eight foreign service trips around the world. Greg is active in his community, a member of a regional chamber, and support of several non-profit organizations.
1. Interpersonal Communication Conflict Management Strategy
2. Phonetic Micro Expression reading for mastering verbal tell signs.
3. The Famous Buffer-Boomerang Technique
Advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation and phonetic micro expression reading.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
#THEADAPTIVEEXECUTIVE #GREGBALLARD #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
the adaptive executive, greg ballard, Richard Blank,Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing, BPO, Nearshore, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business,Podcast,Gamification,Leadership,Marketing, Radio, Guest, Money, education, trainer,
The Adaptive Executive Podcast. Positive Call Center Culture with Richard Blank. Episode 19.
https://youtu.be/nDFhRVW3XXc?si=XhLnezaxHzYkpYO9
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The Science of CX podcast. Key Takeaways Into More Productive Customer Engagements with Richard Blank
The Science of CX is a groundbreaking new weekly podcast developed to
address the millions of businesses that need to learn techniques to compete better
in today’s business landscape, by using CX as the cornerstone of a new strategy.
Join Steve Pappas in the lab as he puts his 25+ years to the test to make your
business (soar, grow and accelerate).
Getting to know Richard the man. How did he end up with such a large collection of restored pinball machines and jukeboxes?key ingredients to ensure an effective micro-expression conversationHow agents can positively handle and grow from negative calls and feedback from customersRunning a small business? Well tune in and find out what tips Richard has to help you leverage your everyday conversations into a goldmineTime and numbers. Find out whether or not it's productive to measure your employee’s efforts based on the number of hours or sales made Richard shares with us his unique and world-class system of training and mentoring new agents An exercise you can easily pick up in helping you become a better micro expression reader
https://youtu.be/RJnuK2lPYFc?si=yrsPGin8LM1sXy5F
https://youtu.be/AOPI8wCqX-0
Key Takeaways
Learn how to turn new customers into the most loyal customers and be on the
mind of everyone in town. Whether you’re a beginner or seasoned expert, you will
learn something useful in each and every episode.
CXpert - interviews with CX Leaders and Influencers that have made it their
business to treat customers like a million. Steve, will use his years of CX-Centric
business knowledge to bring out cool ideas for every business owner to
learn new techniques and also avoid some
Steve has built a career transforming, growing, expanding and turning around businesses. He has created successful companies by delivering remarkable customer experiences. Steve makes sure each employee has the actionable knowledge necessary to make better decisions, build great culture and serve customers in a way that increases loyalty, referrals, sales and satisfaction.In his recent role with Panviva, the knowledge cloud company, Steve expanded the Australian software company successfully into the US to a market powerhouse position. Steve also advises many companies annually on their CX strategies. Industry associations, publications, and Fortune 500 companies invite him to speak and write about CX best practices in healthcare, finance, utilities, insurance, and telecommunications.A successful entrepreneur in his own right, Steve has built and sold six companies. He has spent many years cultivating his approach to CX and each company has held to the mantra of “the customer is at the center of the universe.
In fact, his first CX initiative was a college Honors project where Steve redesigned the student registration system to ease the process of registering for classes and enhance the student registration experience. He then went on to running an Technology Division with over 12,000 employee customers, while working for one of the largest global government contractors. All the while addressing internal customer expectations and increase customer satisfaction and productivity.Next, he perfected the concepts of personalization with marketing automation tools to better target and deliver one-on-one communication with customer messaging. Now, Steve is focused on helping business leaders build great strategies to deliver the ultimate in customer experiences and drive their business to new heights.When he is not driving CX strategy or launching companies, Steve plays the guitar and mentors startup business. He lives in New Hampshire with his wife and sons.
you're listening to the science of C. X. A podcast that hopes to inspire business owners and leaders to learn new techniques and turn prospects into customers, enter customers into raving fans. My name is Steve Pappas. I'm known for my relentless pursuit of all thing’s customer across my career. And in my six startups, I've had to learn how to make decisions in business that customers really respond to. Let's spend some time together and help your business soar grow and accelerate. Well, welcome everybody to another episode of the science of C. X. I'm Steve Pappas, your host and as always, we look everywhere to find the experts that can help you in your business journey as well as your customer experience initiatives within your organization.
Today is No exception. Today we're going to be talking about some remarkably interesting areas. We're going to cover a lot of material. Please take notes if you want or you can come back and listen to it multiple times because that makes it seem like we have more listeners. Hey, yeah, do that. Instead listen to this episode 3, 4 or five times. That'll do it. Anyway, we're going to be talking about advanced telemarketing strategies. We're going to be talking about conflict management, interpersonal skills, customer support, rhetoric, Gamification, employee motivation and phonetic micro expression reading.
Have I piqued your interest yet? Well, we have a gentleman on today. His name is Richard blank, and he comes to us from Costa Rica, and he is the head of a great business process, outsourcing contact center, but he's also an expert in so many different areas that we want to talk about. So why don't we bring him in from the virtual green room? You know, there's no real green room of course by now, but let's pretend he's coming in from the green room and we'll welcome him to the show.
Richard, thanks for joining us today on the show. See, that's an amazing introduction. I'm so happy to be here, really enjoy your work and cannot wait to share amazing ideas with your audience today. That's great. Well, I'm going to give folks a little bit about your bio just so they understand where we're going to start from and maybe some interesting things about you too. So, Richard's journey in the car Contact center space is filled with twists and turns. When he was 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in san Jose Costa Rica with a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric.
Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10,000 bilingual telemarketers. I think he learned a few things along the way. Richard blank has the largest collection of restored American pinball machines and antique rock ola jukeboxes in central America making Gamification a strong part of Costa Rica Contact center. Culture. Richard blank is the chief executive officer for Costa Rica’s Call center since 2008. Richard also holds a bachelor's degree in communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla Spain, a keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School, 68th National Honor Society induction ceremony.
Giving back to the high school is especially important to Richard as such. He endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level. So, I've got to start Richard with the first part here that just jumped right at me as the largest collection of restored American pinball machines and jukeboxes. Now if anybody knows me, they know that I love pinball aside from playing guitar for the last for years. I love pinball, I don't quite go into the Galaga and those things that my wife loves but I love playing pinball.
So, tell us what you have got, I'd love to know what kind of pinball machines you have Steve, I'm so glad that you started with dessert first and naturally our favorite class in school was recessed. So absolutely. I grew up in the seventies and eighties and the arcades were just some of the most amazing places to make friends and compete. It was so new and the artwork on the cabinets and the marquees, it really was an experience and always wanted that game room like Ricky Schroder and silver spoons.
I was jealous. So, I wanted one and down here since I own a call center and I have the space, I go treasure hunting and one man's trash is another man's treasure and they just really do not know what they have in their bodegas. And so, I will find a machine and bring it back here. And with specialist I restore them now regarding my pinball machines. The oldest one that I have is a 1976 Bally's freedom. And one of the newer ones would be like, let's say a last action hero where a doctor who I have an M. B. A fast break in a mouse.
And around I got Williams, space shuttle 1987 I got a judge Dredd Street fighter, two lethal weapon, three jokers, World cup hook and Jurassic Park. So, it turned out into a hobby became an obsession. And when you're a married man, you decide which hills to die on which swords to fall upon. And my wife and I have this agreement where pretty much everything is in her favor. But the one thing she knows that makes me happy of restoring these old classic jukeboxes and pinball machines because what an error and the craftsmanship and the fact that they've been preserved for decades shows that people really cared about these machines.
Now you and I was awfully expensive growing up. So, it seemed like a luxury. But the fact that we can afford it. It really is something that I take full advantage of when I have the moments with just not my agents but myself. There's always a pinball marathon going on down here. Well, it's great that you have the employee engagement to do that. But I'll tell you, we had bought one, we had a terminator pinball machine at one point that had the gun for the pinball release, but it took so much to get it into the basement of the home that we were living in when we sold the house.
We negotiated to sell the pinball machine, so I didn't have to get it out of there. It was so heavy to move, and I wasn't about to, but I have been in the market for another one right now. The prices are through the roof on all those two. I was looking for an Adam’s family or another terminator, but the Adams family was the one that kind of thrilled me and as well as jukeboxes, it's funny, we have a lot of similar interests in collection.
I don't have any jukeboxes. I wanted to cut my teeth on the first one and I have a buddy in the UK that restores German jukeboxes and he's one of the largest in the world that restores those early seventies and eighties jukeboxes that were built in Germany. I think it was like N C D M or something like that and that's an interesting market. But let's get on to some of the other areas that we're going to talk about. I gave folks at the beginning of the episode, a lot of terminology that we're going to be talking about today.
And one of the things that I really wanted to discuss, this idea of phonetic micro expressions, I don't know if our audience knows what that really is or maybe some do and of course they'll yell at me in the comments etcetera. But can we talk about these things because let's jump into some of these areas that we're going to get across and are these all used the things we're going to talk about? They all used in the contact center, and can you train people in all these areas?
They're used in my call center and just depends on the sort of profiled agent that you have there. Let me take it back a bit. Everybody studies micro expression reading. There was a tv show called Lie to Me that specialized in where you can judge people's postures, their eyes, their face, their hands. I mean there's books and seminars about it now when you're on the phone, three of your senses are removed, your taste, touch and smell. And the scientists claim that when you do have one that is removed, your others expand.
So, I expect you to do much more active listening and then people can also argue that you can't see people on the phone, but I beg to differ because there is image streaming, you have metaphysics when you read a book, it's better than the movie because of imagination. You can use more descriptions and more adjectives but let's just concentrate on the sound of speech. The average attention span is about 30 seconds to two minutes, conversations have introductions, bodies and conclusions. So, if you have a controlled environment, you can have a consistent variable and then you can see inconsistencies.
So now we have a base of how we're going to study speech and 32nd segments. Okay your tone is what represents your emotion, and it should be confident and empathetic because that should be consistent on your end. People will talk about a mirror imaging technique Steve, and I agree with that. But you also need to know how you're speaking for your adjustments. So, your mirror imaging isn't about you sitting across from someone and crossing your arms and tapping a finger. No, you don't have that over the phone.
So, eliminate any sort of mirror imaging face to face. I study the rate and the pitch. These are things that can be done in any language. I do not study semantics. The word choice. I'm studying the tone of your voice which is mine is consistent. I could care less what your tone is. That could be a flag or a mask, but you study someone's rate of speech and how loud they speak their pitch and every 30 seconds to two minutes. Think about the X. Y. Chart that you had in pre-algebra, you can see how fast or how loud they're going.
You consistently market every 30 seconds to two minutes. I would back it up with an answering speed because that is something that you cannot control. It's more subconscious, you can manipulate your tone rate and pitch. But the professional interrogators and police officers’ usual throw the question in the fourth or fifth time to really judge the answering speed. So, if you can do that xy chart with a horizontal line behind it and kind of gauge from 0 to 10 where you're going, you will see areas of spikes or dips and in my opinion that's the time to ask a tie down or pin down question or clarification question.
And these are certain times in which you're able to assist the conversation of moving forward for better clarification and it's not really giving away your power on that. You're really doing more of the Wuwei the less struggle the rudder of the ship. And so, this phonetic micro expression reading can be done just mind you this in your 1st 30 seconds. I don't know you and one is the loneliest number in your second minute. We could have a match off one and a one fast and high, low and slow by five at least.
You might have an odd man out in regard to your quadrants because after you've gone all four quadrants you have to repeat a quadrant, but most of the time people are in quadrant, on the top and the fast and so by your 10th 30 seconds to two minutes. Think about it like this, it's about 4. 5 to 5 minutes on something like that. And by your 11th you should know how somebody is speaking that's 5. 5 minutes in on a 10-minute conversation. And by then you will know how to close the deal.
And so, once you see it you can't unsee it. After three weeks it becomes habit and once you start paying attention to it it becomes very lucid and clearer. You are not lying and I'm not manipulating but these people are obviously giving away certain tell signs on how they speak on first time or even long term conversations and if you do catch somebody being facetious or not as clear, maybe ask them to repeat it using other senses or using another example to see if they're consistent. And so, I think it's an excellent way not to be offensive because passive aggressively you could once again use a me-too technique with somebody.
Let's just say you can't hear them. It's a bad connection on a cellphone or a dog is barking in the background. I try to fall on that small sword instead of placing blame on them, it's for my clarification Steve, did you say 123 or ABC because the worst thing you could ever do Is have somebody so upset and go down rabbit holes because now you need to restart your phonetic micro expression, reading the Tarot Card Reader said you could read two different reads in 10 minutes depending if it's sunny or raining, same person, same hour, but it could be a different read.
So, the greatest thing you could do is to ride that weight and keep it at that apex if you can. It's like when people said lucid dreaming, you really don't want to readjust your body to be able to keep that consistent breathing and body posture. With someone that you're speaking with, you try to keep them as consistent as possible. There's a little wiggle room there but don't go extreme and if you can handle something like that, fall on these swords, get clarification.
I think your audience would have some extremely effective conversations with people on the first time. This is a remarkably interesting area because we do have an awful lot of folks that either work in contact centers or are managing contact centers or even outsource to contact centers. And the training of agents tends to be remarkably similar in most organizations but they're not thinking about how they can better control they’re usually using the approach where gee I'm sorry you're having that problem. So, they're falling on the sword most of the time.
But if you think about the calls, right? If you think about the types of calls that come in, I mean they're not picking up the phone because they're just calling to say thank you or their colleagues to say gee what an excellent product this is. They're usually picking up the phone or they're making a contact with them because there's an issue, there's some type of an issue either they don't understand, they don't know how to fill out, they don't know how to do something or there's a more negative issue.
So, if you think about the incoming approach that happens, a lot of it tends to be negative. And unfortunately, the contact center agents these days are feeling increasingly of society's negativity coming out of the pandemic. You know, because people who are very understanding more, more understanding during the pandemic, but they’re taking it out on front line people. So, I don't know how you guys have seen things. But from the folks that I've spoken to in the last few months, it seems like most of the calls are key issues and they have to diffuse right away.
So can they use the phonetic micro expression method that you talk about to kind of even the playing field and get them to calm down so that they can explain what their issue is better rather than they're ready to blow up at any moment type of thing. Sure. And I'm glad that you brought that up, that's a subject that I can easily address and apply the phonetic micro expression read because mind you my friend you could start the call yelling and cursing and at the end thanking them.
So naturally your phonetic micro expression reading might be adjusted with raid and Fitch. But I would never say that I'm sorry unless you specifically spilled the drink or broke the window because then you might get offended because this individual speaking with you is so nice, they didn't do it but they're apologizing for someone else's broken window. So, my suggestion from my agents immediately is to thank you Steve for sharing that with me. I understand your position didn't mean that I agree with it, but I understand your position and allow me a moment to make it work and fix it for you.
And so now the audience, your client coming in, guns a blazing isn't really putting all that anger at the individual because that individual did not make that problem. They're taking the shrapnel; you say the incoming. That's a wonderful way to use it incoming Obama grenade. But I like to defuse. There's a technique that I use called the buffer boomerang technique. And so, if somebody comes at me with a negative tone, I will like sponge and buffer that negative tone. I will name drop you and say Steve.
That's an excellent question, repeat back your question what it was to show active listening. So, there's a connected key lock there and then boomerang it back as a plus three. So, I could potentially my friend readjust the tone and the pace of the call to then put it back into that phonetic micro expression reading that you need to really nail it. But I believe that people are frustrated and mind you this there's a lot more omnichannel non voiced support. So, prior to that phone call they might have filled out a couple forms, send a couple of emails that only elevates the stress.
So, when they're calling, they're almost letting off steam. And if you allow them to speak, you'd be surprised how it goes from attend to it to both in pitching the rate they cry it out and then everyone calms down. You've taken copious notes. Now, Steve, you mentioned A B. C. And D. What about the Richard? Thank you, Steve. And e there's nothing wrong with raking and reviewing and meeting minutes. It's I can't just solve it with you with a magic potion. These things, someone is coming to you emotional, they don't know you you might need to repeat your name multiple times in third person because now they're embarrassed.
Three men it's in to ask your name Steve. So, you could say okay at the end of this call, Richard, you're going to say Steve. You really helped me out in this section you know, oh thank you Steve. Great. I got them I anchored. And so, these are certain soft skills to just be polite, show your manners, Take that certain control of a conversation, more of a shepherd with its sheep. They zigzag but they still go back in the barn. So, I don't need so many jagged edges.
There are no straight lines in nature and and I love empathy with somebody because when I use your name, I will usually use it in a transitional sentence or confirmation. And then during the conversation I will use personal pronouns as you know the yours and ours just to make sure that I'm keeping your conversation going in your attention and then landing in the bomb when I dropped the name drop and you should take these calls every 30 seconds to two minutes because as you say, they could change. But this gives you an excellent chance, my friend, if you really want to look at it logically that if somebody is calling in, you have a chance to retain the client, you have the chance to up sell them.
If that's what you're doing, you could get a referral out of it. But look at it like this, let's say we drop the ball. Worst case scenario, this individual will take the time to do an exit interview and tell us areas in which we could have improved or what our competition had done to earn their business and as long as you're willing to keep an open mind and I don't like the word constructive criticism. I mean you fumbled the ball; you should have known what you were doing.
Then just call the balls and the strikes and let you know that you made this error and learn from it and don't do it again. And these are the sort of things call by call person by person instead of doing 100 calls a day Steve. Why don't you have your agents take 95? They're taking extra couple three minutes on the phone to let Mr. jones relax a little bit. That is the secret to the successor old school style. This is interesting because as you're explaining some of these tips and techniques, it occurs that it doesn't just apply in the contact center world.
I mean this could be if you're a brick-and-mortar store, it could be your pizza place. There could be people calling because hey, you got the wrong toppings on my pizza. The delivery was wrong or there could be all kinds of things, but it applies to all areas of business and people running small businesses could learn from these same techniques. Don't you agree? This could save a thanksgiving dinner. A marriage. These are just diplomatic soft skills of attentive listening and prioritizing, but I couldn't agree with you more and I never even shared with you.
My favorite technique. It's the positive escalation when I call a place and people always give the gatekeeper a bad rap. But these are the individuals that the CEO and the owners love the most and they're the first impression and the strongest warrior of the tribe. They're the first one there, representing them in the best light. And so, for me, I'd like to understand their protocol. I like to properly introduce myself and say the name of their company and ask how their company is doing sometimes better than they do just to at least give them a taste of how I speak instead of just immediately asking to speak to you Steve.
And then if this individual decides to transfer me the first thing, I'm going to let them know prior to the transfers that they did an excellent job. And I will be mentioning that verbally to the owner of the company and at the conclusion of the call with the owner of the company, I will also mention that in writing. So, if I happen to call your company back, the Richard Circle's complete because this individual remembers me, and I've heard dozens and dozens of times. I thank you and saying I've been here for a decade and you're the first person that wrote about me to Mr. jones.
And these are individuals that will tell you anniversaries and promotions or no Steve’s direct extensions. 1 25 calms on Thursdays at two. Thank you, Catherine. I appreciate it and I love them to death. Those are the greatest insiders. It's a plethora of information and the moment that you start bullying your way in there or pretending they're waiting for your call or your insistent. That's why they're there to hang up on you. But there's a certain way to be not clever, but you have 30 seconds to make a first impression.
Half of that is your speech her speech and give a couple of seconds of silence. So, you really got about 12 seconds to speak. That's not a lot. My suggestion is to say things that they're most familiar with which is the name of their company and their own name and then you got to do your own name as well because you can't be anonymous. The whole call that's shady. You can use a little bit of that in the beginning by just doing a name spike in a proper introduction and if you get the past to pitch, you have the momentum and then you do once again that sort of escalation.
It It seems to work for me because it separates you from hundreds if not thousands of people that are prospecting that business interesting back to the contact center for a second. You talked about have your agents take 95 calls instead of 100 but most of the contact centers that I've dealt with over the past 20 plus years. They're driven by their average handle time. They're driven by the numbers to some degree. They're even told when they're going to the bathroom. How do you resolve that to a contact center manager that is just driving everything by the numbers.
So, you're an intake coordinator for a law firm for lawsuits against firings or disabilities and somebody calls in and they happen to become emotional for a minute. What are you going to do Steve look at the clock and say Mrs. jones. Please hurry up. I only have two more minutes to talk to you. You know what would happen? It wouldn't be for the client or for me, the agent might resign on something like that. So as much as we want to stick to certain metrics, you're talking about an artist of speech.
Somebody that is in the moment that's in the now that wants to assist this individual the best way that they can and by limiting their ability to build that sort of rapport or to allow someone to get it out. Which could be the key to closing the deal or to Upsell for something or to get that referral. I don't do things like that. Now we're not doing extreme where someone's doing 50 calls a day instead of 100. But you can see there's an average but that's what it's called an average and if you say you just want to look at conversion ratios.
Look at that too. But everyone once again is an artist and they have their own special sauce and some people are graded intros, other bodies, other conclusions. But my goodness gracious is somebody is in the moment and they're connecting with someone and they're standing up instead of sitting down and you could tell they have the glaze where they're not staring at anyone. They're just thinking of the client, and everyone can see them doing this. You don't think that that energy spreads on the floor. You don't think that that's important as well.
That sort of synergy. So, these rigid centers that judge you on your bathroom breaks and your handling time you're going to break the agent. I mean you can do that and grind it out, but you might have an attrition rate. But if I give somebody the ability to expand on a call and to be themselves my friends. So, they're not just plastic and going through the motions then I can create an ace, I can create a leader. I can create someone that will come to me at the conclusion of the call and say you know, Mrs. jones started crying.
I go she alright, She goes, yeah, it took a couple more minutes but I connected her through to the counselor and I gave additional notes because we had to speak about her husband just passing away and the fact that she has to move and other things that would have never been qualifying the call because you're supposed to be asking her just certain questions but know this individual added additional things and then they say, thank you for listening. You're the different company than the ones before that. Just put me through the assembly line and you know that it's the mom and pop.
It's the bed and breakfast. You'd rather go to the small hardware store sometimes because you know the man, I'll drive an extra couple of miles from my favorite restaurant Steve. That's the sort of the science that you're talking about. It's amazingly simple. It's how you feel and how you were treated. What about the price? What about the price? Sometimes it's worth the money. It's not always about saving a dollar. It's about supporting your business or if I'm having a day with some blues, you come over to me and just let me know you're happy that I'm there and you sit with me for a second.
So, as we get older, my friend, those are the sort of relationships that we see at businesses and you, and I understand that the grind and we also understand when your favorite client walks through the door. So, I like to pay that forward the best that I can. Absolutely. So, I went down that path and I think your answer and your philosophy is brilliant. Unfortunately. I mean it's the way I believe too that the contact center folks in an organization should be revered because they are your front line.
They hold things together. They are the impetus for the referral the up sell the further sell the expansion all those things. Yet still in today's world, C E O s don't always think that way. They look at a contact center as a cost center rather than the proper way of looking at it as it's an expansion center. It's a focus group. It's the lifeblood of the company because those folks have the most contact with our customers post sale, they become the hub of the post-sale journey and unfortunately maybe it'll take another generation before enough sea level folks understand that.
So that brings me more to the conversation of culture. How do we develop a culture in our contact centers especially and I know this can spill out into the rest of the business, but how can we develop a culture that rewards and reveres the contact center agents as being the customer success vehicle, the people that help our customers become more successful using our products and our services. You must look at it Two ways. If you yourself are not centered in balance, it would be exceedingly difficult to expand and to think of others.
I can't hit the ball and drag johnny as much as my agents here have become bilingual, which shows structure and dedication over years outside the classroom. I expect them to do the same thing if they're thinking about being a telemarketer as a profession besides the eight hours that they put in here, they should be doing dedicated practice outside of the center, reading in English watching certain movies or speeches so they can take certain parts of rhetoric that inspired them. That they saw transitional sentences or effective. You could do case studies in history and find out certain speeches that moved people.
And then secondly, I mentioned the word synergy. These individuals were a very social environment. If you and I are working out at the gym Steve, we're going to be pumping each other up to put up three or four more on the bar and put more plates up. So, I expect the audience, the agents to feed off their energy and to share ideas and to pick someone up when they're feeling down. As I mentioned, I created a Gamification culture. So, I have a place where people can let off steam, recharge batteries hang out with me and meet people from other departments.
So that assists me in one way. But also, since once again English is their second language. The fact that they are getting a return on investment. I see that these agents are much more focused for intense periods of time because of the translation. So, it's less area for distraction. But here's the best part my man regarding my culture when I first came down here 27 years old, I didn't start sea level of my friends call center. I taught English decided to stay and then worked at the center and so I was with the proletariat for four years, I went through so many departments.
I saw the good and the bad and what it did for me was it enabled me to see areas to enhance it for the agent and for the client to give them their dignity, so they don't feel like robots are expendable. And when I had the opportunity to start this business, they couldn't fool me because I was on the phone, I've done this before and I hate to say it, I'm not bragging but I am the sin save my dojo in this industry where people burn out and they look down upon it, I thrived really excelled.
But I saw the art in it. Look at it like this, you're very selective of the campaigns that come in here, we're in a strict catholic country. They must go home and tell their parents what they do. If I brought in something gray area or shady, no one would take it. So I'd have no friends of my chuck e cheese birthday party and so you have to do an account to not only where the client feels okay offering it, but the Asian would feel comfortable making the calls because if it's a forced fit, if it's out of place and out of character, they're not going to last long, they're not going to sound natural and we're not giving anything real specific here.
But as I say, I must ensure that what I'm bringing into this call center something where I'm able to fulfill the needs. Now I can add scripts and suggestions, but initially it must be something that just does not compromise any sort of ethics interesting. Well, let's cover a little bit more because I'm fascinated by not only the culture, but the organization that you've built to help organizations that want to outsource their contact center. So, we could talk a little bit about your training, you're coaching your mentoring methods and then what does the knowledge base look like for your agents to always do a better job?
Because quite frankly, I mean you're going to do as good or better a job than the company you're representing because you're going to keep the account and you're going to keep them happy and keep them over the course of a lifetime. So how do you train differently? How do you coach and mentor folks and keep them so that you don't have the attrition level that a lot of places have today. That's a wonderful question real fast in regards to attrition, I have more of a natural attrition than a forced attrition because companies such as amazon hp intel and oracle and Sykes are here, so I'll lose somebody for a scheduling conflict for the university of boyfriend or girlfriend works there closer to their home, very rarely, if not never someone will say that I insulted them, yelled at them, gave them the walk of shame.
It's just maybe an ex-employee with some sour grapes. I treat everybody with dignity, and I look for ways to delegate and promote them, but initially it's really the psychology prior to any sort of skill set. So, fear is a morbid anticipation of things that haven't happened yet. The fact that they learned a second language is 10 times harder than any campaign. I'll put them on. I also believe in the right bus, right seat philosophy. And so, when they come into the call center besides starting their day playing pinball to make friends and relax a little bit.
We really do focus on quality assurance so we can grade their calls for certain metrics. But I try to do certain breakthroughs like when they're filling out their resumes with me and putting in all their credentials, I'll ask them to turn the page over Steve and give me a couple of paragraphs of a coming of age moment, let me know when you beat up a bully or save the kitten from a tree. And so, I could use this when they're having a rainy Wednesday to remind them of when they were a champion.
These are things they always have in them. It's just a matter of getting it out and keeping it consistent and so let's just say in the first day of class, it's especially important not just to lecture them when they just nodded you and walk out the door. You need to have checkpoints; you need to have interaction. You can go over a certain segment and then just maybe have somebody stand up in front of class and read the next paragraph. Why? Because you're triple gunning. They're reading out loud their public speaking, they're doing it in front of the boss.
Imagine those sorts of butterflies you would have, but if you could triple or quadruple your training daily where then you go upstairs, you record yourself reading the script, where you're practicing it. You're not just reading it, you're speaking into a recording device, then you're listening to it and then you're doing a self-analysis for self-adjustments over the things we spoke about. You'll know when you're pausing is off or when you're too loud or too best. Are you stuttered or mispronounced a word and I'm allowing you Steve to write it out phonetically, at least learn how to spell it.
But the vowels are sometimes tricky for Latinos, so it's okay to be able to switch things around so it's pronounced a certain way, and these are the sort of adjustments, minor adjustments that we make for somebody to feel more comfortable initially. So, they don't pick up unhealthy habits and kind of like bedside manner. I can't stress enough; the name drops and the act of listening and the confirmations because people feel much more comfortable when they're being listened to, and you are taking your meeting minutes and if we need to repeat something in the military alphabet.
A it shows that you're extremely involved and engaged in the conversation. A lot of the times people served in the military, so they think that's cool and you're not just making up words and going along. These people know that you are actively trying to spell their name, their email address correctly. And so, I've seen the tens of thousands of phone calls. That that's the most effective way of not to offend somebody when you can't hear them well or they have an exotic name or if it's something where you just say, yeah, okay, but the next thing, you know, your email bounces back.
It would have been better off to confirm if it's L for lima, you know, and just to make sure that you got it. And as I say, these are the sort of things like in school, you come to class, you do your homework and you do your quizzes, you can still not do so well on the final exam, but you're going to pass the class, you will be preparing yourself and marinating and softening up the call in the relationship in order to convert it. And sometimes my friends, it happens a second or third time don't expect a cold call close.
I tell my clients to put their checkbook away. A lot of the times, I just want to answer their questions and show credentials and reintroduce them to other people on the floor that they can meet and make a better decision. So don't feel rushed. People will see that, and they will be apprehensive to move forward with you. So let it happen at a natural pace. So, you said something about you QC. All the calls and I think I remember you were talking about your Hall of Fame, you know, the best and the worst calls.
I mean is that used as a training method for everyone to understand both the good and the bad types of calls. Absolutely. Remember you were mentioning earlier about people calling in the first round of calls coming where people are upset if they can ride that wave and they see the bark is, there's no bite. It's just barking and that we calmed mars jones down. We listened to Mrs. jones, we separated piles, we were able to move forward. The call didn't take that long because we didn't have to repeat things because we were confirming things.
We eliminated rabbit holes. We did the mirror imaging. We did the phonetics; we did the drops. It's beautiful. Now you have this toolbox. It's not a to Z. There are steps that can be skipped or moved back to how about we look at it like this? I loved romantic tragedy. So, I consider that a hang up call is a romantic death. Where am I going with this? Let's just say you're just hardcore carpet bombing, making outbound calls and no matter what you say, you're calling a place that she says, don't call again or not interested or we're good.
Thanks, and hang up. I always look at it like this. If you can do a company named spike and do a name, drop of the individual before they hang up on you. I think that's a beautiful death. I think at least poor lome knows you got something out of that call. But then they wouldn't be surprised that you could anchor yourself by just getting them out of that trance by saying their name in that 1st 30 seconds. I've had Times where we bought another minute, bought another three minutes and just by default, nothing on our own.
We couldn't move forward. I'll give you an example. People can call me, and we could be on the phone and 99% were ready to sign the contract. But then they ask if we do Chinese, I don't have Chinese agents, I don't do graveyard shift and I can't match offshore prices India and the Philippines. So just by that alone, I'm not able to move forward, but 99% fit. So how do I feel about that? A little disappointed. But then again, I was able to go 15 rounds lost on the decision, but I was still able to make my points listen to their points build rapport, have some labs introduce, fantasize good call.
So, another couple of questions, what type of companies or what type of industries do you guys mostly handle calls for inbound or apa? Well, I'll let you know five. We don't do, we don't do sports books, casino stocks, pharmacies or sweepstakes. I have nothing against it. Just don't want to do it. But I'm looking for small to medium sized companies in the United States, Canada Central America and Europe that would need individuals to make outbound lead generation, appointment setting or inbound customer support. And it's amazingly simple.
Our agents are college educated; they're dedicated. I don't have a blended or mixed center. They only work for your campaign, and they have some amazing skill sets here. Costa Rica really packs a punch regarding business process outsourcing. I have mentioned some of the big boys, but there are tons of call centers here and since we're the only democratic society in central America, they don't have a standing army. So, there's a 95% literacy rate Steve so as much as people might see telemarketing call centers as transitional sort of jobs or something in the United States, as you say, has a certain rap here.
It pays more than most vocation. So, I'm having some extremely educated bilingual people with degrees walking in this door and working with me. So, it's amazing the sort of people that you meet here. Very eclectic, all diverse types. That's great. So, if a company called and says, okay, we want to get started, what is that initial onboarding looks like time wise especially and system wise and how quickly can you be up and running to take their calls? Great. Well let's just say I accept the vertical and I'm comfortable with that.
There's a pre-launch checklist that my floor manager and chief technical officer sent to that company. It's exceedingly difficult for me to start moving forward without stations being set up connections, made scripts for bottles, reporting and contact because once the ads go out and people come in, it's really a seller's market. I got to be able to explain it to their candidates a, the campaign that they're doing the incentives that they have and the metrics that they're expecting. It just can't be fantasy time. It needs to be something that's concrete.
And so, once we bring the people in, it really all depends on the training time. I've had people go as low as a half a day just to teacher CRM and do a little bit of role play for fun and others do longer training sessions, even up to a month. That concerns me because we do follow all Costa Rican labor laws and there are certain call centers that are known for like for an example, sykes has the MetLife account and supposedly people will be there for an entire month training and then on their first day of coming back to work, they just don't show up.
And by Costa Rican labor law, they need to get paid for that month they go on a certain list as being a jumper and it's not fair, but that's the name of the game. So, the longer the training, the more I'm concerned because people sometimes can take advantage of that and just use that as a placeholder until they can find another job. So, if we have certain awfully specific checkpoints to ensure that this agent really has done their due diligence, really engage really up to speed.
That's a good risk compared to just doing five days’ worth of classroom, talking about merchant process outsourcing and stuff like that. It needs to be awfully specific, and I have to ensure that this client that I'm speaking with does have a track record. If it's a brand-new pilot project, then we need to invest in the process and there shouldn't be any surprises and I must let them know what to expect when building a campaign, there may be attrition. We may need to readjust the script, call certain area codes, or do certain things.
But I guess the most important thing about it is being forthright, when it comes to onboarding people, I can easily have somebody in five business days, depending if you need 10 people give me up to 10 business days, you know, and maybe we can hire people piecemeal, we can catch them when certain campaigns and other centers and as I mentioned, it's very competitive out there. The more that you put out the start date, the more that you're going to lose people because they need a job between those times and now since Covid came, it really adjusted to the work from home.
So there is an advantage of the brick and mortar because of internet redundancy, my generator and on site I. T. Support but Steve, I was exceptionally fortunate during Covid to be able to adjust my business model virtually because if I owned a brick and mortar only like a bike shop or a pizza parlor, I'm in big trouble as much as I lost a lot of the essence of the center and the camaraderie? I was able to survive. But you know, the labor pools changed. I must ensure if there is training, they should be on site to know the company culture and at least meet us before going home.
It's one of those things my friend where I really did see a huge shift that when I first started this back in 2000, that's great. Well, in the last few minutes that we've got, you know, I'd ask you whether we could give our listeners an exercise. We talked about the two-paragraph coming of age. Can you explain an exercise that folks can do as homework after they listen to this episode. And that might be interesting for them to learn more about the content that we gave them here today and then when we come back maybe you can give folks a way of getting in touch with you guys if that's something that they're looking for.
Thanks Steve, I appreciate it. Let people do the Triple watch. They should watch something without sound, they should watch something without sight. And if you want to study the visual body language, that's great. Just watch something without sound. You can assume what they're doing and then if you want to study the phonetics, to choose a channel that you don't understand the language. Like for me it would have to be Chinese or German or something like that. Italian French and Portuguese are too like Spanish for me.
But if I watch the Chinese channel, it's extremely easy for me to do that phonetic micro expression reading because I don't understand any semantic. So even I'm taking out the tone, I'm just studying their rate in their pit. Do not get study it that way while you're on the phone, once again these are things that you can do. You just draw your xy chart the horizontal line and every 30 seconds to two minutes point to how Mr. Jones's speaking just for practice, but it is about practice. It's about dedicated practice.
Record yourself, listen to yourself. I don't like how I sound. That's what everybody says. But guess what you that's what you got. So, you need to adjust it and as you and I have a mirror and our beards look great because we do look great. You could do the same thing with your voice as well. Record it, master it adjusted. And if you do that, you'll see that you'll get more positive reinforcement from people. There will be more I guess inclined to ask you for advice because you were sympathetic about it and the way you spoke about it and finally if you are in a certain situation where there's emotion and its tense, you should choose to speak last.
And if it's not something where you need to immediately give an answer then you should sleep on it so you can decompress and come back the next day a little more levelheaded and prioritize and that's an excellent way to grow and to crack some codes and to get to various levels. You don't always need to prove your point at that moment. There are other ways to do it. So, you don't overreact overextend and say something you regret. So, it's not like you're being weak. No, you're being considerate of it and you're being tactful about it.
If you're in the moment and its face to face with somebody if you must, even though it looks funny, you should close your eyes when speaking. So, there's less distraction and you're not energy being sucked from you. They might say why you close your eyes. I'm allowed. There's no rules to this. It's not tag you're asking me something emotional, so allow me my focus and my balance and if somebody is being aggressive with you, I think you should look in between their eyes, it looks like you're looking in their eyes.
So it's not like you're looking away or allowing them to suck the energy out of you, like Medusa, but it is a certain technique sir where instead of losing your direction and your energy and your breathing, you can regroup yourself and these are the sort of conflict management skills that have assisted me and having more productive conversations when they could have really gotten out of hand. That's great. I mean this has been filled, filled with great techniques, tips and insight as well. Thank you for being so generous with your expertise.
This has really been a wonderful episode, Richard. How can people get in touch with you if they're thinking about outsourcing if they're thinking about needing a contact center because I think by the end of this, they understand what you bring to the table. So how can they get in touch with you? I really appreciate having me on the show today with you, your audience and allowing me to share this information. The first thing they should do, my friend is by a first-class plane ticket. Come down here to Costa Rica so you can enjoy some eco-tourism, go to some beaches and waterfalls but your audience can give me a call at triple 82716750.
Or send me an email. CEO Costa Rica’s call center dot com. And finally have an exceptionally large Facebook fan page about 98,000 local Costa Rican Ticos. And they can't wait to meet you, Steve. You're going to have tens of thousands of new fans in central America. I can't wait. Well, Richard, thanks again for joining us today. I really love the thing that you said earlier and I'm going to add something to it. So, each agent is a voice artist, and this is a message to all the C E. O. S out there that have contact centers and folks that have agents working for them that each agent is a voice artist and I think you should let them create a great interaction.
So let them create, let them build those great interactions. So that's it for our episode of the Science of C. X. I'm Steve Pappas, your host. We've had Richard blank on today from Costa Rica call center and I want to thank you all for joining us. If you like the content that we bring to you, please feel free to drop us a review wherever you get your podcasts and until we meet again, please stay safe. Stay healthy and do take care everyone. Bye bye. You've been listening to the science of C. X. My name is Steve Pappas.
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Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. When he was 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers. Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain. A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, inducted into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business. Giving back to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
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