Brad Cleveland Blog

MARCH 13, 2018

Quality standards come to life when they guide behavior and enable us to deliver consistent high-quality service. Calibration is an important tool for ensuring consistency in interpreting performance. It also makes coaching far easier. Coaching’s not a prescription for …

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Myra Golden Media

AUGUST 5, 2019

When I work with customer service and marketing teams to improve customer interactions, I always ask some form of these questions: “It’s six months from today. What does our customer experience feel/look/sound like? On August 9th I am hosting a webinar, Quality Form Development & Coaching.

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Myra Golden Media

JULY 12, 2019

The goal was to motivate customer service employees to deliver a better customer experience by monitoring calls and giving feedback on calls. Each dimension on the score sheet was rated on a 5-point scale after supervisors listened to a random sample of calls between employees and customers.

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Customer Service Life

JANUARY 18, 2019

Creating a quality form for your customer service team can be a scary task. There’s no right answer here, but intentionality around these names can make a difference in how customers are perceived. And consistency in the way we address our customers matters. What’s your customer service philosophy or mission?

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Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

It is through this lens that workforce optimization has evolved to mean the business strategies, processes, and supporting automation technologies that maximize contact center and agent productivity and efficiency to allow organizations to deliver outstanding customer experience (CX).

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Customer Service Life

JANUARY 15, 2019

As I did further investigation I learned that on some forms agents could earn extra credit for “Going above and beyond for the customer” or for “WOWing them.” In my opinion we can thank a handful of customer service news stories that somehow conditioned us to think that customer service isn’t great unless it goes viral.

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Sikorski's Think Abouts

APRIL 5, 2015

What will coaching do? Modify agent behavior through coaching. Provide the calibration function. This week’s question for your employees – Why do you like being coached? Correct undesirable behaviors. Improve communications skills. Increase productivity. Decrease Employee Turnover. Staff will become more engaged.

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24-7 InTouch

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

To dive deeper into customization capabilities, we’ve outlined the final two stages: training and reporting. We care about our brands, and want to provide the highest quality customer service possible for their customers. Through customized, immersive training environments that are built with the specific brand in mind.

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CSR Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2017

As we’ve developed quality programs for clients over the years, the industries (both our own quality assurance industry , as well as our client’s customer service and call center industries ) have continued to change and evolve. Calibrations Aren’t Just a Chore. Calibrations Aren’t Just a Chore.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 3, 2023

As businesses strive to provide exceptional customer experiences, call centers have become an increasingly important part of the customer service strategy. Contact centers are responsible for handling customer inquiries and complaints while providing solutions. Why is Call Center Quality Management Important?

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Calibrate Contact Center Interactions Fairly and Consistently While we all know that feedback is important, when a call center gets busy, coaching, mentoring, and even quality management may fall to the side as agents and their leaders look at meeting and beating agreed-upon Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Beyond evaluation scores, it also focuses on coaching and includes processes to maintain the integrity of the feedback, like calibration. With sky-high customer expectations and the increasing use of digital channels, keeping service quality high is no easy task. But what’s the real value of a loyal customer?

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Call Design

JULY 6, 2021

Customer satisfaction is a quality-based measurement to gauge the overall quality of the delivered customer service. A strong customer satisfaction result means more customers have been satisfied with the quality of service provided. Forecast Accuracy.

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Etech GS

APRIL 1, 2019

Emphasize your intention is to help them be successful and to ensure quality customer service is delivered. If you know there is a bad interaction, do not choose to play it in a calibration session that is attended by a large group. The ideal coaching session takes no more than 15 minutes. Invest in coaching the agents.

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Playvox

MARCH 12, 2024

Instead, share insights on performance through a comprehensive quality management program where you help your agents see how they can improve their customer interactions. According to a recent Gallup study , best-in-class managers use ongoing conversations to deliver feedback that celebrates successes and calibrates performance.

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Customer Service Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Here’s a definition: Quality assurance for the contact center is about setting a standard for how the work is done and then ensuring, through evaluation, coaching, and training, that the work is consistently done at or above the standard. Regularly evaluate customer interactions and coach agents. How will quality help?

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Customer Relationship Metrics

JULY 26, 2017

So, being concerned about the quality of operator customer service delivery, women were hired instead. Just like you grade the call internally, your customer should grade the call externally. Think about the evaluation, the calibration, and the coaching. Anything less knocks the customer out of focus.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

MARCH 13, 2018

Quality standards come to life when they guide behavior and enable us to deliver consistent high-quality service. Calibration is an important tool for ensuring consistency in interpreting performance. It also makes coaching far easier. Coaching’s not a prescription for …

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Customer Service Life

JUNE 10, 2019

While we’d like to think this quality coaching session holds some special transformational power, what’s more likely is that the eyes of both the coach and the agent go straight to the score and all opportunity to help that agent improve at their job is lost. Check your alignment with customer perception.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Agent screen capture technology offers a solution by allowing supervisors to review agents’ screens during customer interactions. This not only helps in ensuring compliance with protocols but also provides opportunities for coaching and feedback based on actual performance. RELATED ARTICLE What is IVR?

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Quality Contact Solutions

MAY 4, 2021

Customer Profile – Provide documentation on the profile of your customer base. Is it a sales call, customer service, or a technical support call? Call Quality – Call monitoring and coaching are such a vital aspect of ensuring your customers are getting the correct answers and excellent service.

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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. It may be a valuable tool for establishing standards against which the customer relationship center can push its customer service goals. Everything you need to know.

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Callminer

AUGUST 1, 2017

If customers are being sent to the wrong department, then they tied up customer service personnel from helping the right people. Make onboarding & ongoing coaching as stellar as possible. Customer service diminishes. Continuous coaching and training helps mitigate this risk. Alex Tebbs.

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Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

To improve the customer experience, map the current flow and look for ways to improve. Monitor agent calls for coaching opportunities. Monitor interactions to identify exactly where agents are delivering great service while uncovering opportunities for training and coaching. Calibrate regularly.

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Customer Centric Support

JULY 18, 2017

When implemented well, a Quality Management program has the potential to revolutionize both the agent and the customer experience. It’s no wonder the turnover rate in service centers is so high if this is the typical environment. How does an agent achieving ‘x’ score help the customer? I feel like “big brother” is watching me.

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BetterXperience

DECEMBER 24, 2015

I was on one of those dreaded calibration calls with an external client — you know, that conference call where you randomly listen to a phone call from a customer and critique how well the representative did. This skill is imparted via coaching and not training. Make it your goal to shorten training and increase coaching.

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Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

To improve the customer experience, map the current flow and look for ways to improve. Monitor agent calls for coaching opportunities. Monitor interactions to identify exactly where agents are delivering great service while uncovering opportunities for training and coaching. Calibrate regularly.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 21, 2016

Customer experience is a huge factor in bringing consumers back into the fold as repeat customers. A major facet of a customer’s experience is the customer service exchanges they have with your company’s representatives. Any employee that a customer talks to is the face of your business during that interaction.

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Customer Service Life

MAY 31, 2018

It’s challenging to define a quality customer service interaction but essential if you’re going to deliver any level of consistent service to customers — let alone get agents and supervisors to all understand and agree on the standard ( this is called calibration ). Shift focus to coaching and excellence.

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Taylor Reach Group

JANUARY 11, 2018

The Contact Center outsourcing industry is a significant piece of the customer service and support landscape. We all know intuitively that there is a relationship between hiring, training, coaching and systems and the resultant quality, however defined. Internally the quality assessors can calibrate between themselves.

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Outsource Consultants

MARCH 9, 2018

This includes ensuring the agents receive the proper training, quality management, and calibrations to drive high-level performance. So, how do you ensure that your outsource call center agents will provide customer service that will yield great reviews from your clients or customers? 6) Average Handling Time.

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Voxjar

JUNE 5, 2021

And how do you standardize the level of service that customers get no matter which of your agents they find on the other end of their inquiry? Two words: call calibration. What Is Call Calibration? Calibration is a way to establish and define expectations so you can make sure they’re being met.

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Call Experts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The training continues with 3 weeks of on the job coaching, Quality Assurance monitoring, and regular feedback sessions with their trainers and leadership. Once completed, we provide a monthly continued education curriculum focused on areas like: providing impactful coaching. 10 Trends That Will Disrupt Customer Service in 2018.

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Customer Relationship Metrics

JULY 27, 2017

They are considered savvy and are very capable of defending their customer service function to be a competitive weapon and not a red line item. Leaders that are high on the Performance Influence continuum have Voice of the Customer programs that produce a high, provable ROI on the Customer Experience.

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Customer Service Life

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

It’s an essential process for any company that wants to deliver consistently great customer service. While I’d argue that customer satisfaction is most certainly a quality metric, it should never replace your quality assurance efforts. This is one easy way to insert CSAT into your quality calibrations and coaching.

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Customer Service Life

JUNE 17, 2019

How are you currently tracking quality for your customer service team? The good news is that the quality application market for the small to medium sized customer service operation has been heating up of late, due in large part to the increasing popularity of platforms like Zendesk, Freshworks, and Salesforce.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

Using Chat GPT, SmartScore can evaluate any conversation across any channel in less than 10 seconds, building custom scorecards and automatically sending ‘evaluations to be completed’ to assessors’ inboxes. It will use real-time reports, calibration, agent appeals and feedback to improve performance.

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