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This Call May Be Recorded: How Conversation Intelligence Is Transforming the Contact Center Industry

BlueOcean

For most of the history of the contact center industry, the standard for QA has been for a team lead, coach, or supervisor to review and score three contacts per agent per week. One percent of one percent… at best. Coaches would get to know the agents on their teams. They could do spot checks for compliance.

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Why AHTs Still Matter and 5 Ways to Improve Them

CSM Magazine

For instance, your customer success VP might be concerned that short AHTs indicate customers are being rushed into solutions they might not necessarily want and your finance and IT directors both have concerns that long AHTs will increase staffing costs. Understand that the problem is not empathy in itself but how it is coached.

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20 Business Leaders Share How Call Centers Can Address Increased Customer Vulnerability

Callminer

Doing so ensures clients can still avail of the company’s services without fully draining their finances. In a world of finance, many customers will be needing help in a difficult time. Coaching needs to happen in real time from management. When the client manages to become financially stable again, they can pay the amount due.

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BPO Best Practices and Blockchain: A Deep Dive Interview with Expert BPO Consultant, Steve Weston

Vistio

In addition to managing a lot of the day-to-day finances and other financial areas of the company, I spend most of my time on relationships, building our contact pool, leading them to potential business. Can you share a little more about your day-to-day role and responsibilities as the managing partner of SKWeston & Company ? .

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Call Center Quality Management: A Comprehensive Guide to Improving Customer Satisfaction and Agent Performance

NobelBiz

How to Implement Effective Call Center Quality Management Call Center Management Best Practices What is Call Center Quality Management? Some industries, such as healthcare and finance, have strict regulatory requirements that call centers must adhere to. Why is Call Center Quality Management Important?

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How to Take Your WFM to the Next Level

Call Design

We define our agents as “top producers” or “needs coaching”. Interfacing with marketing, operations, human resources, finance, and technology. Clearly this leaves one last thing to focus on “the right agent”. How we understand our agents often comes from our KPIs and their metrics. Dan Smitley.

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How will the economic downturn affect Customer Success? Learn from three SaaS CEOs.

ChurnZero

To get your CS team to look outside of themselves and flex their empathy, coach them on how to interact with customers, especially when it involves delivering undesirable news. Finance is less of a Customer Success foe than you think. We put off difficult conversations and dodge hardball questions to serve ourselves, not others.

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