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Title | Category: Processes & Best Practices |
ID | 11667 |
Date | August 11, 2025 |
Title | Why Classroom Training Isn’t Enough for Your Agents (and What to Do Instead) |
Url | https://www.vistio.io/blog/why-classroom-training-isnt-enough-for-your-agents-and-what-to-do-instead/ |
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Author | Jeff Vahrenwald |
Summary | Many contact center trainers assume if the classroom training is solid, agents will be ready for anything. But But the reality is that’s not how people learn. And it’s not how skills stick. |
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ID | 11663 |
Date | August 4, 2025 |
Title | Is It Time to Abandon Your Plan to Replace Agents with AI? |
Url | https://www.vistio.io/blog/is-it-time-to-abandon-your-plan-to-replace-agents-with-ai/ |
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Author | Jeff Vahrenwald |
Summary | As companies push forward with replacing agents with AI, they’re discovering what frontline leaders have known all along: customer service is more than a series of transactions. It’s human, nuanced, and built on empathy and trust. Trying to remove people from the equation doesn’t just lead to worse experiences—it erodes customer confidence and damages your brand. So now what? |
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ID | 11353 |
Date | June 30, 2025 |
Title | How to Fix Your Broken Employee Training |
Url | https://www.vistio.io/blog/how-to-fix-your-broken-employee-training/ |
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Author | Jeff Vahrenwald |
Summary | Most employee training is outdated, passive, and ineffective. But AI-powered training simulators that deliver realistic, engaging, and job-specific practice provide a path to fixing broken training. |
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ID | 11348 |
Date | June 23, 2025 |
Title | How Great Training Builds Great Culture |
Url | https://www.vistio.io/blog/how-great-training-builds-great-culture/ |
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Author | Jeff Vahrenwald |
Summary | In fast-paced, high-turnover environments, a great training program is a culture-building engine. It sets the tone for everything that follows, and it tells agents what’s expected, what’s valued, and what kind of team they’re joining. |
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ID | 11344 |
Date | June 16, 2025 |
Title | Want Agents to Stay? Train Them |
Url | https://www.vistio.io/blog/want-agents-to-stay-train-them/ |
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Author | Jeff Vahrenwald |
Summary | Employees say they’d stay at a company longer if they received better training. Meanwhile, studies show that the best way to keep your agents in the job is to invest in their development. |
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ID | 11340 |
Date | June 9, 2025 |
Title | The Solution to Agent Training Isn’t More Content. It’s More Context. |
Url | https://www.vistio.io/blog/the-solution-to-agent-training-isnt-more-content-its-more-context/ |
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Author | Jeff Vahrenwald |
Summary | Despite all the tools and technology available, so many contact centers are struggling with agent engagement, performance, and retention because of training programs that are outdated and that don’t help them do their jobs better. |
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ID | 11337 |
Date | June 2, 2025 |
Title | The Training Your Employees Actually Want |
Url | https://www.vistio.io/blog/the-training-your-employees-actually-want/ |
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Author | Jeff Vahrenwald |
Summary | Most employee training doesn’t fail because it’s underfunded or under-designed. It fails because it feels disconnected from daily work and misunderstands what employees actually want: training that is practical, personal, and on their terms. |
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ID | 11334 |
Date | May 27, 2025 |
Title | Want Higher Productivity and Profit Margins? Start with Better Training |
Url | https://www.vistio.io/blog/want-higher-productivity-and-profit-margins-start-with-better-training/ |
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Author | Jeff Vahrenwald |
Summary | The connection is clear: effective training isn’t just a nice-to-have. It’s a core business strategy. So why do so many organizations still struggle to implement it? |
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ID | 11330 |
Date | May 19, 2025 |
Title | The Reality Check New Hires Actually Need |
Url | https://www.vistio.io/blog/the-reality-check-new-hires-actually-need/ |
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Author | Jeff Vahrenwald |
Summary | When simulations mirror the complexity, pressure, and unpredictability of real customer interactions, they become a way to determine whether agents can actually apply what they’ve learned. |
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ID | 11315 |
Date | May 12, 2025 |
Title | Why the End of Onboarding Is Just the Beginning of Training |
Url | https://www.vistio.io/blog/why-the-end-of-onboarding-is-just-the-beginning-of-training/ |
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Author | Jeff Vahrenwald |
Summary | Most new agents begin taking live calls with limited confidence and an incomplete skillset. And while that’s not a failure of onboarding, it is a sign that more support is needed after the program ends. |
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