CSM Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

That means contact center leaders need to get smart about how they deliver better customer experiences – and it begins with looking inward. Why invest in coaching agents? To improve customer experience, contact center leaders need to first improve agent experience. But while customers are obviously important, so are employees.

Customer Experience 59

Customer Experience Coaching Average Handle Time Contact Center 59

Tethr

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Here’s how to improve quality assurance in a call center with Tethr: Track This Metric: TEI Score. If you’ve followed Tethr for any length of time at all, you’ve heard us talk about the Tethr Effort Index , better known as TEI. Track This Metric: AIS Score. Now that’s QA scoring you can coach on.

Call Center 76

Call Center Metrics Coaching Contact Center 76

Customer Service Life

AUGUST 22, 2019

Have we lost sight of something when it comes to asking our customers for feedback and gauging what’s truly important in the customer experience? Let’s first look at the three most popular customer survey metrics and how they’re measured and then I’ll share a way to approach the results more holistically.

Contact Center 106

Contact Center Metrics Surveys Coaching 106

Tethr

JUNE 22, 2020

We’ll also show you the insights that matter and the actions that make a difference in the customer journey. But before we get into the nuts and bolts of how we do this within the platform, let’s look at how we define the ‘whats,’ ‘whys’ and ‘hows’ of the customer’s journey through the customer experience.

Customer Experience 66

Customer Experience Customer effort Interactive Voice Response Coaching 66

Playvox

JANUARY 24, 2022

What’s worse, without customer experience metrics in place, is that you won’t know until it’s too late. At that point the impact of customer frustration will already be hurting your bottom line. Unpacking the types of customer interactions contact centers handle provides key insights. What are Customer Experience Metrics?

Contact Center 88

Contact Center Customer Experience Brand ambassadors Average Handle Time 88

Callminer

JULY 23, 2019

Lack of Confidence: Some managers are great at meeting metrics and making schedules. Tools like interaction analytics can help call center managers identify relevant issues and deliver precise, targeted feedback to agents and have a more direct impact on metrics like call handling time.

Best practices 140

Best practices Feedback Call Center Coaching 140

Tethr

JULY 21, 2020

Using Tethr’s Agent Impact Score (AIS), businesses can start connecting agent quality to effort reduction, while holding agents accountable for customer experience. Customer care teams have been using QA scorecards to measure agent performance for decades. Modernizing QA. Driving agent behaviors using AIS.

Coaching 70

Coaching Construction Upselling Scripts 70

OctopusTech

MARCH 1, 2023

Product and tech support Customers call for help to solve a wide array of issues, from returning damaged products or changing account information and passwords to complaining about product malfunctions. That can lead to data overload and the really important metrics can get lost in the shuffle. Fight the urge.

Interactive Voice Response 62

Interactive Voice Response Call Center Gamification Schedule adherence 62

Uniphore

JUNE 17, 2021

The challenge is accurately tracking whether a particular customer has actually received a resolution they are satisfied with and will not need to call back. By making the digital journey as easy, frictionless and instant as possible, companies can simultaneously improve FCR and customer satisfaction—without even engaging your call center.

Call Center 72

Call Center First call resolution Self service Coaching 72

Call Experts

JULY 27, 2023

From improving response times to providing personalized interactions, a call center can be a game-changer for organizations looking to elevate their customer service and thrive in today’s competitive landscape. Metrics to Track for a Successful Customer Service Call Center The business landscape today is primarily customer-centric.

Call Center 52

Call Center Customer Service Multichannel Abandon rate 52

Tethr

OCTOBER 2, 2020

And how can you turn customer effort into effortless customer loyalty in every interaction? We’ll teach you that and more in “The Anatomy of an effortless service customer interaction.” ” THE BIG TAKEAWAYS: One customer interaction can undermine an entire customer experience.

Customer effort 108

Customer effort Customer Care Coaching Surveys 108

Customer Service Life

JUNE 3, 2019

When I say “metrics” what’s the first thing that comes to mind? And while many of these metrics have their purpose, when it comes to agent performance, there are really two types of metrics that matter. The first is a productivity metric and the second a quality metric. The other type of metric is a quality metric.

Metrics 63

Metrics Contact Center Average Handle Time Coaching 63

Nicereply

MARCH 14, 2023

Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior By Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler Published: 2004 Length: 304 pages Why do some employees miss their deadlines time and time again, while others never do? People are messy.”

Management 98

Management Call Center Metrics Entertainment 98

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That is why Call center analytics enables you to collect and analyze customer data to prioritize them. These reports also improve your call center and business intelligence by providing actionable data and metrics. Metrics are then saved in your call center software’s database.

Analytics 52

Analytics Call Center Big data Contact Center 52

Satrix Solutions

JULY 24, 2018

A tool that gives visibility into the metrics, projects, and tasks being worked on by employees, and guides managers how to run more productive meetings with their employees to coach performance. What customer experience or Voice of Employee metrics do you find companies focus on? What do you suggest they track?

Metrics 60

Metrics Coaching Customer effort Management 60

Serenova

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Without integrating all communication channels into your entire system, convenience will be offset by increased customer frustration. For example, if callers use chat to get an order status, they’ve likely entered the account and order information into the chat conversation.

Coaching 65

Coaching Contact Center Self service Benchmark 65

Voxjar

MARCH 21, 2019

When used correctly, call evaluations bring transparency into the conversations that your reps are having with customers. They also promote high-quality interactions with your brand by setting clear goals for the outcome of each call and create accountability for employees. Too many metrics. Impossible metrics.

Metrics 40

Metrics Coaching Scripts Contact Center 40

NobelBiz

AUGUST 3, 2021

After all, running a contact center without taking human, technological, and managerial facts into account in every operational element is comparable to driving a car without a dashboard. but also qualitative: retention rate, customer satisfaction, Customer Effort Scores, etc.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Coaching Construction 52

Tethr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Understand customer effort across multi-step business processes. Using one of Tethr’s most powerful, differentiating features (pssst … it’s the Conditional category ), you can capture and build structured customer insights on one part of a call. Graphing subsets of customer interaction data by their percentage of total volume.

Analytics 62

Analytics Customer effort Sales Average Handle Time 62

aircall

MAY 16, 2017

What to look for in a customer support manager. As the representative of the team as a whole, the manager is accountable for its success, or lack thereof. Therefore, someone with prior experience of both management and customer support is a plus. Accountability. Customer support agent. Experience. Communication.

Customer Support 81

Customer Support Virtual Agent Coaching Accountability 81

aircall

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Your log keeps a detailed account of every call, and you can cross-reference that information with other integrated services. This way, when they reach you, the customer’s information and call history will appear to the agent. Likewise, an account of the call will be stored in the customer’s CRM file, for your team’s future reference.

Customer Support 83

Customer Support Call Center Interactive Voice Response Automatic Callback 83

Comm100

DECEMBER 1, 2017

For 48% of businesses, improving agent training and coaching is the number one strategy for creating a better agent experience in 2018. Their preferred strategy for empowering (and therefore satisfying) agents is through better training and coaching practices. Improved training doesn’t only help agents: It helps customers as well.

Contact Center 42

Contact Center Customer centricity Journey mapping Benchmark 42

aircall

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Your log keeps a detailed account of every call, and you can cross-reference that information with other integrated services. This way, when they reach you, the customer’s information and call history will appear to the agent. Likewise, an account of the call will be stored in the customer’s CRM file, for your team’s future reference.

Customer Support 54

Customer Support Interactive Voice Response Call Center Automatic Callback 54