Avaya Site Administration Reference
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Working with end users
As the system administrator, you are like a legislator with a "constituency" to satisfy. Your
constituency is your end-users and your job is to support them in using your Avaya voice
systems and messaging systems. With adequate support, end-users will find the phone
system a powerful tool for carrying out their organizational responsibilities. In turn, the
end-users have constituents to whom they must answer: the organization's clients.
Clients' first contact with your organization is often through the telephone. Employees'
facility with your voice system can directly affect clients' first impressions of your
organization, and perhaps their subsequent loyalty.
Of course, employees have many other responsibilities besides customer service.
Administrative tasks are an important component of many workers' jobs; one which
entails considerable reliance on the phone system. Here again, the impact of employee
facility with the phone system is clear.
Note
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Systems.
Assessing end-user training needs
The phone system is a critical communications device in your organization. Telephone
contacts provide lasting impressions of the organization to the outside world, and allow
for important internal exchanges of information. Training end-users is an important
element in your organization's success and employees' job satisfaction.
Before training end-users it's important to ascertain the areas in which they need support.
As you assess training needs and formulate plans, be sure to keep Management . The
success of any training regimen depends on "buy-in" from top Management.
Preventing future training problems
Training end-users requires a considerable commitment of time and organizational
resources. You want to ensure that end-users retain the content of their training over the
long term. Two effective methods for doing this are:
providing job aids and station end-user guides where appropriate
You may want to consider job aids in the following areas:
using the messaging system
Feature Access Codes
how to report problems with stations
providing sources for information on upgrades, new features, and Best Practices
Ways to disseminate such information may include:
publishing a regular newsletter or informational e-mail
referring administrators to an internal Communication Manager software users' web
site
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