Tethr

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

But in today’s bustling work environment, supervisors are struggling to find the time needed to effectively coach staff for continual performance improvement. Coaching is more important than ever before in today’s call center environment, as calls continue to increase in complexity. But are you really coaching?

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Call Center Weekly

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

By Celia Pagliughi Let us first define who coaches are and what coaching is. W ho is a coach? It is very simple; we are all coaches. When we walk into our call centers we are all coaches. W hat do coaches do? A good way to start the coaching relationship is to set up a team meeting and do a quick exercise.

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Expivia

MAY 15, 2021

Call center coaching is just like coaching a little league team. A talented kid will master swinging the bat on their own, but a coach can help them perfect the move. However, they need that extra coaching to truly become incredible agents. However, they need that extra coaching to truly become incredible agents.

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Playvox

JULY 12, 2022

It takes work on their part and on yours, but CSRs can learn to write better if you coach them properly, and if they take your coaching seriously. How Should You Coach to Improve CSRs’ Writing Skills? For coaching to work, it has to be frequent, consistent, focused, and brief. Give them feedback on their own work.

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SharpenCX

JANUARY 23, 2020

Only one in four employees think that their managers deliver meaningful feedback, or that the feedback they get helps them work better. Contact center managers struggle to coach for better performance. And coaching backed by the data that lives in your contact center is even more powerful. Get the guide.

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JustCall

MARCH 22, 2022

It involves continuous efforts to coach and better sales teams. Sales coaching plays a key role in raising a high-performing team of sales representatives. But statistics show that with excellent sales coaching, sales teams can attain 91% attainment of sales quota. So, are you tapping into coaching for your sales reps?

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SharpenCX

MAY 11, 2021

Every profession needs good coaching. Without great coaching, you don’t have a team. As a manager, it’s up to you to coach your individual agents into a team that helps customers. Each of your agents needs 1:1 coaching and each needs different care. You can’t use the same coaching techniques universally with your team.

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Tethr

MAY 19, 2020

Building a coaching culture is a continuous and active process. Coaches must lead by example, provide timely feedback specific in language and tailored to the individual, while working to improve the agent’s ability to drive positive CX outcomes. Coaching is a lot more complicated than simply managing agent performance.

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JustCall

MAY 6, 2022

Even your best hiree needs constant training and feedback to get better. This is why data-driven sales coaching is so important. . As a sales manager or leader, a big part of your responsibility is to coach your reps and assist them in their growth. Now, of course, real-time sales coaching is far from easy.

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SharpenCX

JUNE 2, 2021

In fact, 37% of companies lack time to collect and analyze their QA data, 31% struggle to have the time and resources to coach and train people to read the data, and 25% lack the necessary technology to do so. Let’s consider four topics that will directly impact your call center QA and improve your training and coaching.

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Here are four steps to ensure you and your CSM team nail your strategic customer meetings: Be prepared for anything. Before the meeting, provide an agenda to all participants to keep everyone on track. Also, don’t be afraid to come to the meeting with your notes, answers, and questions ready to go! . Were these goals met?

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JustCall

MARCH 13, 2023

A sales coaching plan is every sales manager’s best friend. What is a Sales Coaching Plan? Whether you want to coach newbies during the first call or coach customer service teams, driving personalized coaching and learning is important. What does your role as a sales coach look like?

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Call Center Weekly

MARCH 1, 2018

One thing I have found to be true across most companies is this shocker: contact center team meetings suck! At the beginning of my contact center career I lived through some awful team meetings. I just couldn’t take it anymore and I started the journey to improve my team meetings. Your team meetings don’t have to suck!

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ShepHyken

JULY 15, 2022

This week we feature an article by Michael Becker, founder of Abundance Accelerators , a growth agency for coaches. I’m in the coaching space so let me dive into what a 10x customer onboarding process may feel like. Michael Becker is the founder of the growth agency for coaches, Abundance Accelerators. No problem.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2021

No matter how rich your customer feedback is, it’s worthless if not applied. Bryan Neale from Blind Zebra Consulting joined us for a webinar to teach Customer Success leaders how to coach their teams to handle NPS conversations following a four-step call framework. What I mean by that is, I always want product feedback.

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delighted

DECEMBER 8, 2021

SupporTrends applies natural language processing to all customer conversations – whether they’re in a help desk, 3rd-party review site, Zoom meeting, or you guessed it, Delighted survey feedback. MaestroQA: Enrich agent coaching with real-time customer feedback. Planhat: Improve customer health with feedback.

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Voxjar

APRIL 9, 2020

This guide will show you how to make the transition to remote call coaching and quality assurance. How to overcome the biggest challenges of remote call coaching and QA. What tools are the most effective for remote call quality assurance and coaching. 3: Delivering QA and Coaching Feedback from Home. You’ll learn.

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Satrix Solutions

AUGUST 31, 2020

I genuinely enjoy being asked, partially because we have so many great examples , but more because it reveals an important mindset of the prospective buyer: they understand why feedback from relevant groups should always be considered when making important decisions. Actioning Customer and Employee Feedback.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Integrated, data-driven module provides tools to better support, develop and engage agents, allowing them to better meet rising interaction volumes and complexity. Calabrio, the customer experience intelligence company, today announced its new coaching solution for agent performance management, Calabrio Performance Coaching.

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OrecX

JANUARY 29, 2019

Coaching agents at scale is no easy feat. Between administrative tasks, meetings, and your own workload, there is little time left in the day to focus on individual agents. Instead, leaders resort to fly-by coaching, whisper/barge, and the ol’ trusty headset splitter to give agents feedback. Step 2: Put Your Team to Work.

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Kayako

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

That’s where coaching comes in. Why coaching beats training support teams. This is why coaching needs to be included in a support rep’s development. Coaching builds and refines much-needed support skills. Coaching hits the switch on active mode learning. Coaching gives employees a sense of ownership.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

By coaching to handle every situation amazingly well, you can improve reputation and get more sales/. The workshops are customized to meet the unique needs of your employees. A lack of regular feedback between employees and managers leads to a lack of motivation and subsequent deterioration of service quality. Conclusion.

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Nicereply

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Support is the frontline for every company, which means they’re usually the first to hear about issues, feedback, and overall sentiment. As a support manager , you get to meet many of these different types of customers, both directly and indirectly. Customer support teams interact with a lot of customers. Others, not so much.

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Myra Golden Media

JANUARY 15, 2019

One of the things I’m working on for 2019 is giving you tools to help you coach your employees and hold them accountable so that they are positioned to deliver the best possible customer experience. Before going into a meeting with an employee, identify, and write down, what you want them to Know, Feel, and Do. Use what I call KFD.

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SharpenCX

OCTOBER 7, 2020

And, great managers know it’s on them to coach agents to better performance and realize higher call center ROI. Outstanding performance only happens when you set clear goals, give regular feedback and surface progress to your team. If agents aren’t meeting performance standards, what will you do to help? What’s more?

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Lumoa

APRIL 17, 2018

We have been talking a lot about how important it is to take actions on customer feedback. Customer feedback is the essential unlimited source for development and inspiration for the whole company. Customer feedback in marketing automation Do you have resources to communicate directly with your customers in a personally?

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Comm100

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Customer service agents should be adequately and continuously coached to learn the skills they need to provide quality customer service. Just like coaching in any other field, the coach needs to take the time to observe those being coached and to build them up where they need help. Set goals for each coaching session.

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Skybridge

APRIL 13, 2020

In today’s post, I’d like to highlight how your coaching process will need to change. They need to be secure enough to ask for feedback from their teams and make adjustments as needed in order to nurture strong virtual relationships with their at-home agents. Because first time remote managers are going to make mistakes.

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delighted

JANUARY 7, 2022

Fortunately, there is a way to bridge that gap: real-time customer support feedback. The value of customer feedback in the process of providing a great customer service experience cannot be stressed enough. How customer support feedback bridges the experience gap. Are the experiences you provide meeting customer expectations?

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Myra Golden Media

JULY 16, 2019

Monitoring Sans Coaching. This seems obvious, but you’d be surprised to know how many companies take the time to rate customer service contacts – and then penalize employees for lousy performance without bothering to meet and discuss variances with employees. Expecting Coaches to Coach Without Training.

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SharpenCX

AUGUST 18, 2020

In-line coaching and training. Does your omnichannel software put coaching and training into your daily workflow? Your agents crave feedback and relevant coaching in-the-moment. An omnichannel platform with built-in coaching tools lets you leave feedback on interactions as you review them.

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SharpenCX

AUGUST 18, 2020

In-line coaching and training. Does your omnichannel software put coaching and training into your daily workflow? Your agents crave feedback and relevant coaching in-the-moment. An omnichannel platform with built-in coaching tools lets you leave feedback on interactions as you review them.

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Myra Golden Media

JANUARY 1, 2019

Are you coaching and holding employees accountable? If you want to see change, you have to set expectations, have coaching conversations, and be willing to deal out consequences. 2) Then you must commit to addressing all issues that don’t meet your expectations. Prepare for Coaching Conversations. I hope you say yes.

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CSM Magazine

JULY 25, 2019

To significantly improve team performance, coaching offers a new role for today’s managers. Good coaching requires day to day engagement with employees to give assistance as needed. They argue that, “a management paradigm based on coaching can readily out-perform a management paradigm based on control.”

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COPC

MARCH 11, 2024

Then, take steps to attract and recruit the best-fit candidates who meet minimum hiring requirements. Are we providing insights into attrition rates and qualitative and quantitative feedback on recruitment quality and class pass rates? Are we getting feedback in this area to inform recruiting and training? Please explain.

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Customer Service Life

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Image by Mikko Koivuneva from Pixabay Whether it’s called a one-on-one meeting, or a coaching conversation, or a performance check-in, this regular conversation between a supervisor and an employee is essential to an effective and high-performing contact center. What’s on their mind? What do they love doing outside of work?

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Playvox

MARCH 19, 2024

From recognizing customer service agents to making coaching easier, AI can help improve employee happiness, agent experiences, job satisfaction, and overall well-being, among many other benefits to significantly impact company culture and organizational success. AI can then assist the analyst to score and provide feedback.

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