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Contact Center Trends 2021: The CX Watershed

Fonolo

To achieve that within a remote or hybrid work environment, we’re going to see more contact centers reach for a cloud-based technology that drives camaraderie, increases visibility, allows supervisors to coach from anywhere, and enables agents to self-manage.” FCR is the Most Important Metric.

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How the Tethr Effort Index was born

Tethr

The Tethr Effort Index (TEI) is an AI-derived metric, measuring the effort for each customer interaction based on more than 100 independent variables and thousands of discrete phrases and utterances. Tethr entered a partnership with the original Effortless Experience research team at CEB ( now Gartner ) in 2015.

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Reshaping The Future Of Digital Customer Service: 22 Influential Leaders to Watch in 2022

TechSee

Paul is a Transformational, hands-on, customer service department leader with extensive experience using performance metrics, lean process improvements, and positive leadership in building effective, efficient, and happy customer service departments. Paul Husar, Senior Call Center Manager at LG Electronics. Follow on LinkedIn.

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Managing Knowledge Transfer During Contact Center Outsourcing Transition

HGS

Actively Monitor the Program— By actively monitoring the program once it goes live, contact center team leads ensure they are able to identify trends in metrics that could be related to a lack of tacit knowledge. Wed, 09/30/2015 - 15:59. The end result is a truly optimized customer experience. Contact Center. employee engagement.

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Is the Contact Center a Good Career? Tenured Agents Say Yes

Balto

The whole team benefits before, during, and after an internal promotion.” – Michelle Barbeau, Senior Customer Enablement Manager The only metric which didn’t improve linearly with rate of internal promotion was whether or not respondents were actively working towards a promotion. Suddenly, their work has greater meaning and impact.

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11 Industry Experts Discuss “What’s More Important: Customer First or Profit First?”

Steve DiGioia

Metrics are designed to focus on what the organization wants to achieve. Metrics that focus on customer satisfaction/loyalty, and have a real impact on compensation or advancement, are also essential. Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ & President of CAS, Inc. I like the idea of a Customer Room proposed by Jeanne Bliss.

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How Customer Service is Being Ruined by Toxic Coworkers

Toister Performance Solutions

This includes: Poor customer service Harassment Theft and fraud A separate study conducted in 2015 by Michael Housman and Dylan Minor found that 1 in 20 customer service employees were fired for toxic behavior within their first year of employment. Focus on Teamwork Grace Judson is a leadership geek, trainer, coach, and consultant.