Call Design

JUNE 29, 2020

Contact centres are the frontline of your customer service operation, which means that your contact centre must be operating at optimum capacity at all times. The management of your contact centre is an essential element to operating successfully and providing your customers with the very best customer service.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 24, 2023

Waiting is another type of cost to the customer. Companies should consider this cost when designing their experiences that require waiting. It occurred to me that when you ask a customer to wait, it’s for your benefit, not the customers. One can balance the wait cost with the value provided to customers.

Banking 195

Banking Coaching Wait times Chatbots 195

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Customers expect better and faster pre and post purchase services. Whether they need help setting up a new device or to repair a damaged product, the way in which these interactions are handled are at the heart of customer satisfaction. Eric Esguerra, Vice President, Customer Service & Operations at Miele Canada Ltd.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 25, 2024

Since my request, we were lucky enough to have a new one from Justin Stafford ( justin@customersmarts.co ), founder of Customer Smarts , based in Sydney, Australia, and podcast host of “Customer Smart.” Justin shared how sports can teach us a lot about how to improve your Customer Experience. It’s not glamorous.

Customer Experience 195

Customer Experience Customer centricity Finance Sales 195

Calabrio

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Complacency is not an option as agents, supervisors and contact center managers are forced to become more strategic, taking on increasingly critical new responsibilities to deliver engaging customer experiences. Contact centers have to adapt and continuously evolve in order to meet customer expectations.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Self service Analytics Banking 52

SharpenCX

MAY 31, 2023

In the evolving world of customer service, contact centers play a vital role in ensuring customer satisfaction. High turnover rates not only lead to increased recruitment costs but also impact the overall customer experience. However, call center agent retention continues to be a challenge for many organizations.

Call Center 76

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 3, 2014

As their website says, the Royal Yacht Britannia experience is designed to tell visitors about the unique Ambassadorial role played across the World by The Queen’s former floating Palace. In doing so, the Royal Yacht Britannia team has thought through every aspect of the visit to create an excellent Customer Experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We talked with him before on our podcast a month ago about how emotions drive customer behavior. This week, we dive a little deeper into this concept and explore how emotions affect the insights we get from Customer Science. Customer Science is a relatively new development in the area of customer strategy.

Banking 195

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TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2023

TechSee’s Annual Influencer List For a second year, everyone at TechSee is proud and excited to share our annual list of influential leaders in the space of digital customer service. As the Head of Customer Support and Engagement at HotDoc, she is responsible for leading the customer support and engagement strategy.

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Customer Service Customer centricity Contact Center Consulting 207

Call Experts

APRIL 8, 2024

In this comprehensive blog post, we’ll take you on a journey through the world of call center agents, exploring the key performance metrics and the qualities that define a top-notch call center agent. Performance Metrics in the Call Center Call center operations rely heavily on performance metrics to evaluate and improve efficiency.

Call Center 52

Call Center Average Handle Time Coaching Metrics 52

JustCall

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Training and coaching are not just boxes to tick; they’re the heartbeat of employee growth and a company’s journey to success. A striking 83% of top-performing customer service agents confirm they received the necessary agent training to excel. This also promotes rapid improvement among the support agents.

Coaching 52

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Fonolo

MARCH 28, 2023

Customer experience managers in the contact center have never mattered more. Because even though most businesses work hard to offer excellent service , today’s savvy customers notice so much more. They also share and compare their experiences with your business against the biggest brands in the world.

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Global Response

MAY 15, 2023

While this is common, it’s not the most effective way to ensure you are delivering quality service consistently—and it also holds back many call centers from improvement. A consistent quality control process can help achieve ongoing focus on implementing and improving quality. The solution?

Call Center 62

Call Center Scripts Coaching outsourcing 62

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

When companies implement specific tools and best practices, they can significantly improve their customer experience (CX), increase agent performance, and ensure high-quality service. It represents a holistic approach that is aimed at transforming call center functions into a streamlined, customer-focused powerhouse.

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COPC

JUNE 9, 2023

Welcome back to our Balanced Scorecard Blog Series! By fostering a collaborative approach and consistently evaluating the metrics within your scorecard, you pave the way for informed decision-making and drive performance improvements across your organization. This monthly review should address three primary things: a.

Management 52

Management Coaching Metrics Average Handle Time 52

JustCall

JULY 29, 2021

It involves a continuous practice of coaching sales teams. In fact, sales coaching plays a role in raising a high-performing team of sales reps. But statistics show that with sales coaching, sales teams are able to attain 91% attainment of sales quota. So, are you tapping into coaching for your sales reps?

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CX Global Media

JULY 17, 2018

This contact center supervisor “stuff” has become too complicated to leave to chance — particularly if you are trying to have a positive employee and customer experience. Make no mistake, Call Center Coach is not only the name of our business — it’s an industry need. Click to Tweet ). Click to Tweet ). Click to Tweet ).

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Call Design

AUGUST 30, 2022

Intelligent automation can alleviate common challenges and bring greater quantifiable operational and financial benefits to contact centres by elevating pressures on service delivery and improving the bottom line. Automating the manual tasks, allows team leaders and managers to spend more time coaching and developing their teams.

Coaching 78

Coaching Best practices Metrics Management 78

Blueship Call Center

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As one of the primary factors in determining a company’s success, providing excellent customer service must be continuously improved. Top call center outsourcing companies provide exceptional customer service, it’s reasonable to anticipate sales growth of 20% or more of overall business revenue.

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outsourcing Call Center Customer Care Coaching 75

NobelBiz

JUNE 19, 2023

As businesses, we need to harness this culture of immediate responses to elevate customer service levels. From monitoring agent performance and customer interactions to identifying emerging trends and addressing issues proactively, real-time monitoring is a game-changer. What is Real-Time Monitoring?

Call Center 52

Call Center Coaching Contact Center Metrics 52

COPC

JULY 5, 2017

introduces a new blog series called Ask the Experts. experts questions about specific areas for improving operational performance in call centers, customer experience operations, vendor management organizations and procurement. It’s about being on the customer’s side. What has led to these changes?

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Totango

JANUARY 22, 2024

We polled our Customer Advisory Board (CAB) at the end of last year to gauge which way they saw the pendulum shifting for CS in 2024. At the intersection of product, customer, and business insights, CS is uniquely positioned to steer businesses through these changing environments. Most expect to see CS emerging as a growth engine.

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Hodusoft

JULY 19, 2023

In-Depth Guide: Inbound Call Center Software Inbound call center software is an essential tool for delivering optimal customer service. It is designed to help businesses in efficient management and handling of large volumes of incoming customer calls. In this blog, we will explore everything related to inbound call center software.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When one in five of your customers speak something other than English as their first language, providing bilingual customer support is critical. The impact of bilingual support on the customer experience cannot be understated. Without it, you risk taking a hit to your CSat scores, your brand loyalty, and your bottom line.

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Nicereply

JUNE 21, 2021

Often overlooked support skills can elevate your service offering to a more delightful, high-quality customer experience. Customer Service is a difficult job. Many customer-facing roles deal with high-pressure situations, emotional customers, negativity and insults, delivering bad news, and many other draining activities.

Coaching 124

Coaching Customer advocacy Technical Support Best practices 124

NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Hyper efficiency is a term used to describe the streamlining of processes to increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve customer service. They can optimize team productivity and achieve exceptional results by focusing on key areas such as KPIs, technology, workforce management, training, culture, and continuous improvement.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Management Gamification 52

Cisco - Contact Center

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Keeping Customer Experience Top of Mind. With most interactions between consumers and business happening online these days, customer experience has taken on a new meaning. American management consulting firm McKinsey, concluded that “A company’s competitive edge lies in seeing the world through the customer’s eyes.”

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Call Design

JANUARY 19, 2021

Contact centre agents are on the front line of your customer service efforts, fielding customer questions, and requests while upholding your organisation’s values and standards. The biggest obstacle with high agent turnover is that it directly affects the satisfaction of your customers. Establish Clear Expectations.

Coaching 148

Coaching Best practices Consulting Consulting 148

Nicereply

MARCH 23, 2021

Staying on top of new customer service trends can be exhausting. Having a well-rounded collection of sources can help your team identify new opportunities for improvement and up your customer service game. We’ve got quite a few friends in the customer service world who inspire us. Shep Hyken (@Hyken) February 1, 2018.

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Call Design

APRIL 15, 2021

Between the monotonous daily routine and the work environment, many agents experience exhaustion and may choose to look elsewhere for work. However, if you can trial new and different ways to coach and motivate agents so that they enjoy their work more, then they are more likely to stay with the organisation. Giving Agents Freedom.

Coaching 78

Coaching Best practices Scripts Feedback 78

Call Experts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In this comprehensive blog post, we’ll take you on a journey through the world of call center agents, exploring the key performance metrics and the qualities that define a top-notch call center agent. Performance Metrics in the Call Center Call center operations rely heavily on performance metrics to evaluate and improve efficiency.

Call Center 59

Call Center Average Handle Time Coaching Metrics 59

CSM Magazine

APRIL 20, 2022

In our last blog , we asked the question ‘what does wellbeing really mean?’ In our last blog , we asked the question ‘what does wellbeing really mean?’ Agents cite managing their work/life balance as the biggest stress factor (41%) followed closely by ‘complex customer issues’ (36%) and ‘too many calls’ (34%).

Technology 52

Technology Coaching Analytics Enterprise 52

Upstream Works

DECEMBER 14, 2022

When it comes to AI and customer service, automation usually comes to mind. That consideration will only come by shifting focus from customer service to customer experience (CX). CX has gained currency because it’s a more accurate reflection of what’s important to customers and how they want to be treated.

Chatbots 78

Chatbots Contact Center Coaching Surveys 78

TeamSupport

AUGUST 24, 2020

As a customer service professional, you have all sorts of data at your fingertips. From time to first response to hourly ticket totals to the number of chat sessions per day and everything in between, a good customer service system can provide you with the metrics needed to improve your service operation.

B2B 97

B2B Customer Support Coaching Metrics 97

Totango

JULY 28, 2021

Following best practices for hiring a customer success manager can make a critical difference in the quality of your customer relationships. Customer success managers serve as the face of your company in dealing with clients, playing a key role in ensuring satisfying experiences of your brand. Suggesting upsells.

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Call Design

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Digital transformation and intelligent automation are helping the contact centre industry accelerate growth, achieve operational excellence, and drive superior customer satisfaction. Intelligent automation empowers agents by maximising their time and helps engage and motivate them to meet KPIs thus improving your customers’ experience.

Average Handle Time 78

Average Handle Time Coaching Morale Customer Experience 78

ConvergeOne

JUNE 21, 2022

To ensure the quality of every customer interaction, contact center managers need a business system – a repeatable approach. Workforce Engagement Management (WEM) is a practice designed to improve outcomes in contact center and back-office communication environments. How was the “right agent” trained?

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