ShepHyken

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Addressing the individual responsible for the complaint is a teaching and coaching opportunity for that specific employee. The type of reviews and complaints you want to share with the team have to do with customers experiencing a flaw in your process. The lesson on how these are handled is definitely worth sharing.

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SharpenCX

MAY 11, 2021

Every profession needs good coaching. Without great coaching, you don’t have a team. As a manager, it’s up to you to coach your individual agents into a team that helps customers. Each of your agents needs 1:1 coaching and each needs different care. The first step to coaching is to define your team’s goal.

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Coaching Call Center Customer Experience Feedback 67

Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 15, 2019

Defining and managing your customer service culture is a significant issue for many organizations. Today we share some important considerations for establishing your customer service culture as well as the best practices of the leading customer service organizations. Then, you implement it.

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Toister Performance Solutions

JANUARY 5, 2023

Who is to blame for poor customer service? You can probably make a list of things that make it difficult to keep your customers happy and coming back again and again: Defective products anger customers and make service a chore. Bosses often fail to adequately communicate, train, or coach. Great questions.

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Customer Service Coaching Wait times Personalization 90

Callminer

APRIL 23, 2019

To ensure the quality of customer service. By removing all sensitive data without sacrificing the context of conversations, companies can get the full benefits of customer engagement and speech analytics solutions to boost customer service and agent performance while simultaneously maintaining compliance.

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ShepHyken

JULY 30, 2021

They could be in the market for the services that you offer, so you must ensure they are nothing short of satisfied with the experience that you provide. If your customers are not fully happy with your company’s services, they may consider taking their business to one of your competitors. As a CMA and CMA coach,?Nathan?mentors

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Steve DiGioia

JULY 11, 2016

A touch of independence mixed with patience, possessing a definite superiority complex and territorial. But what if we in the customer service industry held these same traits dear to our heart? They look to us for direction and we must coach and council those that fail to abide by established norms. But what about you?

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Callminer

MAY 11, 2020

Ongoing training and coaching are equally important to ensure that your employees are equipped with the skills and knowledge they need to do their jobs effectively. And, coaching sessions provide an ideal opportunity for managers to check in with their agents or employees to get their feedback on how things are going from their perspective.

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SharpenCX

JUNE 30, 2021

Microsoft says 90% of Americans use good customer service as a factor when deciding whether to do business with a company. Why would customers stay loyal to brands that are slow or can’t offer help? Why wouldn’t a customer find a company that makes buying and learning a product or service quick, easy, and accessible?

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Customer Service Coaching Contact Center Agent Empowerment 67

Toister Performance Solutions

JULY 1, 2021

You have to walk the talk if you want your employees to be customer-focused. 1 Clarify your vision Give employees a customer service vision to follow. This is a shared definition of outstanding customer service that gets everyone on the same page. The customer-focused CEO was big on accountability.

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Toister Performance Solutions

MARCH 31, 2022

Here's my preferred definition of new hire training: The process of helping a new employee develop the knowledge, skills, and abilities they need to do their job independently at a minimally proficient level. This definition illustrates why executives are eager to end training quickly. The slow ones might need more coaching.

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Help Scout

APRIL 29, 2021

Your customer service culture is not what your fancy “Customer Guarantee” promises, and it’s not whatever you say it is in your new employee handbook. It’s worth noting that companies with any of these primary cultures can still deliver good customer service experiences. Strategies for company executives.

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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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Calibration Customer Service Coaching Contact Center 80

Comm100

JUNE 26, 2018

With the World Cup in full swing, now is probably the perfect time to talk about one of the essential elements of any team – the Coach. Coaches are focused on improving performance during the moment, and the skills required for an excellent coach are very distinct. This is where a coach comes into play. Coaching Skills.

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ProProfs Blog

JUNE 30, 2020

Customers wouldn’t see what you have to offer, but what you are willing to change for them. That’s the true essence of customer service experience. To help you understand this essence and develop better customer service strategies, we’ve curated a list of some of the best customer service books below.

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Customer Service Chief Customer Officer Customer centricity Marketing 128

Call Center Weekly

OCTOBER 11, 2017

What are your pillars of customer service? Pillars of customer service are an integral part of effective, individual service interactions. Our service pillars are the human, business, and hidden dimensions. Every customer interaction has aspects of each dimension.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 14, 2020

Which customer service blog posts helped to shape the last decade for you? . When we look back at the customer support industry in 2010, we see a very different beast to the one we work in today. Here, we cover the 20 best customer service blogs and influencers to follow in 2020.

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Toister Performance Solutions

JULY 23, 2019

A widespread number of toxic employees are working in customer service jobs—far more than in other professions. And it's creating a big problem for both customers and coworkers. The results are startling: Customer service employees are nearly four times as likely to have a toxic coworker.

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Customer Service Coaching Consulting Consulting 71

BlueOcean

JUNE 26, 2018

We sat down with Paul to discuss his views on best practices for creating incredible customer service. Do you have a “process” for consistently creating exceptional service experiences? How do metrics and standards play a role in customer service? Let me give you a specific example.

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Customer Service industry standards Contact Center Average Handle Time 141

Toister Performance Solutions

JULY 13, 2017

This includes leadership, emotional intelligence, and customer service. My friend Jeremy Watkin recently wrote about the debate over this term in this blog post for the International Customer Management Institute (ICMI) blog on the topic. He asked 17 customer service leaders to weigh in. Here's why.

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Vonage

MARCH 26, 2018

They can mine this data to uncover points of frustration and sentiment across the customer journey; to review and understand how agents are communicating with customers (for example how much time they spend listening versus talking); and to coach agents to give special attention to the moments that matter.

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Customer Service Contact Center Customer centricity Coaching 91

Integrity Solutions

APRIL 13, 2022

From customer service to marketing to product development, the job of selling is no longer confined to those people working within the sales organization. For many people, “sell” is still a four-letter word—and definitely not something they want to be associated with. What Does Mean To Have A Sales Mindset?

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Sales Customer Service Banking Customer Experience 52

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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Contact Center Engineering Calibration Coaching 92

Tethr

MARCH 20, 2020

Customer service in a tough place. But perhaps no function is being hit as hard as customer service. Sometimes so much so that the customer is far more likely to churn soon. For example, one Tethr customer saw the rate of “Difficult” calls in Covid-related calls increase from 13.9 percent to 21.5

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Customer Service Coaching Customer effort Finance 48

The Center for Client Retention

MARCH 4, 2018

Experienced customer service managers give it two weeks. That’s the maximum amount of time you see employees increase their effort and service focus immediately after the typical customer service training class. I’ve facilitated thousands of customer service training workshops over more than 20 years.

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Customer Service Coaching Management Personalization 73

Playvox

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In an era of agent turnover, budget cuts, and fleeting customer loyalty, it’s useful to explore the evolution of quality management from its traditional, compliance-focused roots to a modern, customer-centric approach. Understand customer sentiment. Automate recruiting, training, and onboarding.

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TeamSupport

MARCH 10, 2021

That’s part of the definition of Customer Success as given to us by the Customer Success Association. In Part 1 of this blog series we introduced the new imperative for customer support and customer success—achieving success for your customers… and for your bottom line.

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B2B Upselling Coaching Customer Support 98

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 7, 2016

There was a time when ‘good’ was ‘good enough’ If a customer said we were ‘good’, we were happy. If, in coaching, we told the advisor they were ‘good’, we all were happy. Because in most cases, it was the typical definition of “good” – “not bad.”.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2022

When you train your employees on customer service, you are showing them you value them by investing the time and money to ensure they will be successful. Money can definitely be a motivator—but it’s usually short lived. Coach them. Become a coach, a nurturer. Motivate them. Be flexible. About the Author.

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Coaching Customer Service Accountability Feedback 59

Customer Service Life

OCTOBER 28, 2023

They do so by only reviewing customer interactions during routine quality assurance evaluations based on a checklist rather than encouraging and coaching agents to make human-to-human connections. Something I’ve been thinking about more in recent years is how this question applies to text-based customer support channels.

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TeamSupport

AUGUST 24, 2020

We all have to run them, and read them, and receive them, or submit them, and definitely explain them. As a customer service professional, you have all sorts of data at your fingertips. In Part 2 of this blog series, we’ll explore how to use reporting to determine how happy your customers are and what to do if they’re not.

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B2B Customer Support Coaching Metrics 97

Playvox

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The reality is people are apt to “cut corners” to make their day easier, and it’s no different in a customer service center environment where stress levels and turnover are high. Agents are dealing with numerous customers with different personalities and different communication skills.

Contact Center 77

Contact Center Agent burnout Coaching Best practices 77

Fonolo

AUGUST 3, 2021

You know that customer service is the backbone of your organization. Knowing where you stand with your customers and proving that value to stakeholders requires carefully crafted call center reporting that directly aligns with your organization’s Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). What is Call Routing in a Contact Center?

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Call Center Abandon rate Contact Center Metrics 142

Playvox

JANUARY 12, 2023

While some customer service centers are transitioning back to the office, agents continue to want the option to work remotely. Diagnosing opportunities for improvement in customer interactions from afar isn’t too complicated, but coaching agents to succeed and recognizing agents when they do well at a distance is a bigger challenge.

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Quality management Coaching Contact Center Metrics 69

CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Faced with this dramatic rise in AI-driven tech for customer service, you might expect the number of agents to decrease but therein lies an interesting paradox. Greater emphasis on targeted, proactive training and coaching will ensure agents have all the skills they need for the future.

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Integrity Solutions

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It’s easy to say that we put the customer first, but what does that actually look like in practice? In the past, customer service centers were viewed as cost centers or expenses. Today, the organizations that are delivering a superior customer experience are proving just how outdated that perspective is.

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Customer Service Life

DECEMBER 14, 2020

He just focused on one customer at a time. On the drive back home my father-in-law said something to the effect of, “Jeremy, you’re the customer service expert. The Call Center Coach, Jason Curtis said, When we are busy I tell the front line their job is to serve the customer they have on the line.

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