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Updated On: Mar 27, 2024

Importance Of Call Center Scripting & CRM Integration With Knowledge Management

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In a survey conducted by NICE systems, 9 out of 10 respondents aged 18-65 preferred to speak with a live service agent directly over the telephone. To face customers in a live service environment, the support teams would need scripts to equip them in any situation.

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Intuitive call center scripting empowers agents to handle any customer query with consistent and accurate responses. CRM integration would help auto traverse questions about customers’ personal information. The two together make a perfect team on a knowledge management platform

Why is contact center scripting essential?

Major contact center companies fail to attain customer retention due to a lack of knowledge or are unsuccessful in providing solutions to customer queries. This alarming stage alerts companies that it’s now time to switch.

Call center scripting boosts agents while interacting with both inbound and outbound customers. Scripts represent accurate data with every minor detail that agents can just read out while interacting with customers. This avoids the hunt for words when delivering responses while maintaining the company’s reputation.

However, for companies already backed up with a sound knowledge management system, the hassle of solving queries without scripts still exists. For that reason, companies need to employ scripts within their contact centers.

Since deploying scripts are beneficial in response rate matters, the sqm group reports that a 1% improvement in response rates means an annual operational savings of $276,000 for an average call center.

Create call center scripts with knowledge management

The effectiveness of using call center scripting software depends on how the contact center agents use them. Customer service companies need to focus on providing better tools to empower agents’ productivity.

An interactive decision tree software is ideal for empowering agents to streamline the technical process with a step-by-step guide. A few reasons to choose decision trees as the right tool for scripting in contact centers are:

  • The intuitive creation of decision trees allows agents to resolve customer support tickets and streamline interdepartmental communication with guided workflows
  • Customization of decision trees enables users to communicate with consistent responses across different channels without compromising resolution
  • Decision trees tool also enhances first call resolution boosting overall CSAT & net promoter score while reducing average handling time of tickets and calls
  • Integration of workflow knowledge created with decision trees over self-service platforms and bots helps content authors republish the same content, ensuring consistency
  • Decision trees allow agents to link media files such as images, videos, etc., to guide customers interactively
  • While agents can resolve complex queries, customers can experience self-service facilities across touchpoints, enhancing customer satisfaction, retention & loyalty
  • Decision trees help quickly disseminate knowledge and faster access to resources, delivering instant and actionable solutions in a hassle-free environment.
  • Feedback is crucial for any company. Decision trees tools allow feedback from customers and agents for better resolutions
  • Improve efficiency & productivity of contact center agents with decision trees tool

Why integrate CRM to call center scripts? 

Introducing CRM integration to decision trees can streamline customer support & maintain strong relationships with them. When combined with potential CRM, interactive decision trees software simplifies customer-based operations.

  • Customization of call center scripts includes accurate information in a sorted layout that can help find instant responses. A study of customers & answers given by agents allows the CX head to create better solutions. Sorting data in such a manner & making your customer feel fully heard & understood reinforce workplace efficiency.
  • Beyond troubleshooting & support, the decision trees tool can be integrated with existing CRM, serving features such as single sign-on, tag & auto-copy resolutions in CRM to save the post-call time of agents on conversation documentation.
  • After integrating with CRM, agents can create tickets with access to use their knowledge base. While interacting with customers, entering specific keywords could display solutions that suit best.
  • Robust technical support can embed best practices by ensuring consistent & quick responses across all touchpoints.

To bottom up

Contact center agents usually do not have a standard SOP guideline to follow, for which robust knowledge management tools must be optimized. The percentage of contact centers using call center scripting has witnessed a spike from 48.3% to 52.9% – a rise of almost 5%.

Scripts do serve a role in boosting employee productivity; appropriately using them can increase the ability of contact center agents to perform better to improve CX.

Nitin Saxena

Sr. Vice President

Nitin has 25 years of experience working at companies like HP and Mphasis. For more than 14 years, he has been a key figure at KocharTech (Knowmax's parent company), skillfully navigating operations, training, and quality management responsibilities across international and domestic sectors. Currently, he oversees Business Operations at Maxicus.

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