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Guest Post: When You Need to Scale Up Customer Service… But Your AI Just Doesn’t Quite Cut it Yet

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An “unsupervised” AI bot has led businesses to receive sudden surges in negative feedback, bad reviews, and increased churn. If teams do not focus on creating a good experience across each and every interaction, you will lead to negative feedback, bad reviews, and increased churn. Despite the hype, commercial AI is still maturing.

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Finding Greater Success as a Leader in your Call Center: 5 Soft Skills Every Manager Needs to Get a Leg Up on the Competition

SharpenCX

These are skills like time management and organization, oral and written communication skills, or the willingness to collaborate. According to a study in the International Journal of Management & Business Studies , managers spend 70 to 90% of their time each day simply communicating with their team and others at work.

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How to Become a Customer Service Expert in 30 Days

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In late 2008 Malcom Gladwell published his book Outliers: The Story of Success. Time management – Customer service agents face constant pressure: Do you give the customer you’re with more time or do you wrap things up to help other customers? Remember, this is only temporary.

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International Contact Centre Operations Tips & Best Practices

Callminer

A 2008 report by CFI group explained that when customer service professionals are perceived to converse softly and clearly, they resolve customer issues 88% of the time. Let your operations team handle real-time management. Both of these are the responsibility of the operations team, not the workforce management team.