Dan McCann, our founder, ran an outbound sales contact center and struggled to develop talent, losing almost 50% of our new hires in their first six months. We tried revamping training countless times, hiring more experienced talent, and adding our top 10% performers as mentors and coaches – when they had time.
Unfortunately, none of these efforts moved the needle.
Our new hires continued to get stuck when they tried to apply what they had learned in training to real-world scenarios. We knew practice makes perfect, but needed to find a way to scale a role-play-centric, hands-on approach to training.
So, we built a simulator to practice real-world role-plays. It worked so well that Sym-training became our coaching standard for all employees, and new hire retention grew to over 90%!
And with that, SymTrain was born!