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Abby Hinshaw

Brookings,OR

Summary

With over 18 years of leadership/ management experience across various employers, I excel in empathetic communication and analytical assessment, driving team efficiency and sustainability. My proactive approach in mentoring and workforce management has consistently enhanced operational practices, showcasing adaptability and a commitment to excellence. WIth an eye toward the creation and enrichment of spaces that cultivate equitability, diversity, inclusivity and sustainability I strive to add to the continued growth of this team.

Work History

Call Center / Crisis Remote Leadership

Various Employers
  • Over 8 years of remote crisis and call center leadership experience.
  • Worked to ensure and develop training and ongoing improvement of team members.
  • Worked closely with team members to ensure quality interactions within the guidelines of the call center's needs and policies.
  • Ensured accountability in the handling of people power by analyzing workforce needs both in real time and through gathered long-term data.
  • Teamworking across different departments to continue the development and growth of frameworks that assist in ensuring efficiency is achieved in hand with sustainability.
  • Real-time leadership and management of teams as they worked on the lines to ensure that pain points and roadblocks could be rectified in a timely manner, in ways that served all involved.
  • Mentored junior team members and managed employee relationships.
  • Providing guidance to upper management on employee relations issues, performance management, training, and development initiatives.
  • Lead queue management, maintaining flexibility and reactivity in real time to queue demands.
  • Ensuring the completion of on-shift admin duties in a timely manner, including, but not limited to, attendance, reports, queue data, and CRM management.
  • Displaying a willingness to assist during high volume by stepping into whatever space could use assistance most, to relieve queues.
  • Workforce analysis and management, including but not limited to scheduling, finding and correcting inefficiencies, handling changes in business needs, arranging shift coverage to adapt to needs, and PTO/off-time scheduling.
  • Experience in quality assurance, including reviews, feedback, refreshers, ongoing training, and development of training materials.

In Person Leadership

Various Employers
  • 10 plus years of management and leadership experience in in-person workforce.
  • Managed and led teams through business needs changes, such as unionization, buy-out, and operational changes.
  • Worked toward establishing and evolving operational practices to support the company's needs to align with efficiency.
  • Workforce analysis and management, including but not limited to scheduling, finding and correcting inefficiencies, handling changes in business needs, arranging shift coverage to adapt, and PTO/off time scheduling.
  • Endeavored to enrich knowledge to demonstrate a continued growth mindset and ensure confidence in my leadership.
  • Ensured ongoing education and training
  • Worked toward quality assurance through the review of reports, data, and interactions.

Skills

  • Empathetic communication
  • Analytical and assessment skills
  • Multitasking Abilities
  • Training capabilities
  • Time management
  • Problem-solving
  • Relationship building
  • Adaptability

Timeline

Call Center / Crisis Remote Leadership

Various Employers

In Person Leadership

Various Employers
Abby Hinshaw