Myra Golden Media

DECEMBER 19, 2017

My teenage friend Beverly saw the customer as getting away with something, and she took that personally. Her personalization caused her to be completely unwilling to work with the customer. She didn’t want to discuss things, and she certainly didn’t want to give the customer an in-store credit.

Personalization 136

Personalization Customer Service Coaching Customer Experience 136

CSM Magazine

JUNE 27, 2023

Zenarate raises $15M and leads movement from passive training to natural language AI Simulation Training to develop confident and prepared customer service and sales agents who deliver superior empathetic experiences and performance. Zenarate AI Coach delivers on average: 56% faster agent speed-to-proficiency vs. traditional training.

Coaching 59

Coaching Telecommunications Healthcare First call resolution 59

ShepHyken

MAY 23, 2022

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Customer Experience Leaders Can Learn from Baseball by Lynn Hunsaker. 3 Common Customer Complaints and How to Address Them by DP Taylor. 3 Common Customer Complaints and How to Address Them by DP Taylor.

Customer Service 162

Customer Service Coaching Customer Support Customer Experience 162

Expivia

MAY 15, 2021

Call center coaching is just like coaching a little league team. A talented kid will master swinging the bat on their own, but a coach can help them perfect the move. However, they need that extra coaching to truly become incredible agents. However, they need that extra coaching to truly become incredible agents.

Coaching 98

Coaching Call Center Average Handle Time Feedback 98

Global Response

MARCH 27, 2024

An effective call center script balances consistent service quality with personalized customer interactions. It should enable agents to respond to the unique aspects of each call while maintaining a high standard of service. Today, we’ll explore several techniques for creating effective customer service scripts.

Scripts 62

Scripts Call Center Customer Service Coaching 62

Playvox

JUNE 10, 2022

Coaching your contact center agents on their performance can either fill everyone with dread or be a productive activity that you and your agents look forward to. Either way, it needs to be done, and arming yourself with a full set of coaching tips for contact center agents will ensure the sessions are productive.

Coaching 69

Coaching Contact Center Average Handle Time Best practices 69

CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Calabrio, the customer experience intelligence company, today announced its new coaching solution for agent performance management, Calabrio Performance Coaching. Identifying individual or team skill gaps allows leaders to better offer coaching and support to agents that need it.

Coaching 52

Coaching Gamification Customer Service Quality management 52

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

This week we feature an article by Kristin Erikson writes shares great customer service training tips and ideas that will help your company build brand advocacy. Remember customer service training is not something you di, it’s something you do. – Shep Hyken. Use positive body language and engage with customers.

Customer Service 383

Customer Service Morale Sales Coaching 383

JustCall

MARCH 9, 2023

Deploying the services of an artificial intelligence coach is a thing now. Organizations are using an AI call coach for sales reps looking to improve their job skills and enhance their training. In fact, middle-ranked agents are incrementally benefiting from an AI coach to improve their performance.

Coaching 52

Coaching Call Center Construction Best practices 52

Bill Quiseng

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Don’t offer customer service training. Training is the how and what of service. And the job of employees is to serve to satisfy the customer. The mission is to TAKE CARE of the customer. Instead, have customer service education. Have mentors and coaches. In the end, training is for a job.

Education 78

Education Customer Service Coaching Customer Care 78

CSM Magazine

APRIL 20, 2023

Zenarate, the leading Simulation Training solution, today announced that Startek, a global customer experience (CX) solutions provider, is using its AI Coach to provide immersive training to its contact center teams. Zenarate AI Coach is the “flight simulator” for customer and prospect engagement.

Coaching 59

Coaching Telecommunications Best practices Healthcare 59

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Eric Esguerra, Vice President, Customer Service & Operations at Miele Canada Ltd. Eric’s favorite motto is “The Customer Experience is Paramount and must be the driving force to any organization.” In addition, Jim has co-authored three books with his lifelong friend, mentor, and coach, Matt Rocco.

Customer Service 251

Customer Service Chief Customer Officer Contact Center Consulting 251

SharpenCX

JUNE 2, 2021

Naturally, I called customer service to track it down. Another time, I spent a good hour of my work day going back and forth with my medical insurance customer service and the billing office of a hospital. We all have bad customer service stories to share. Easier said than done, right?

Coaching 67

Coaching Call Center Scripts Analytics 67

SharpenCX

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

A study by Walker found that 80% of consumers expected personalized customer service from businesses across all sectors – and they’re willing to pay more for it, too. In today’s digital age, you can no longer afford NOT to provide personalized experiences for your customers. Meet your customers where they are.

Banking 76

Banking Personalization Customer Experience Chatbots 76

CSM Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2022

Simulation training is one of the fastest-growing training approaches for customer service agents. The new approach helps prepare customer service agents to deliver superior customer experiences before live customer interactions confidently. Simulation Training for Better Human Engagement and Performance.

Customer Service 93

Customer Service Coaching Best practices Contact Center 93

CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In customer service, employees are the face of the company and the effectiveness of the onboarding process cannot be overstated. This article outlines techniques and best practices for human resource (HR) managers to use to effectively onboard customer service employees.

Customer Service 52

Customer Service Coaching Best practices Feedback 52

ShepHyken

JANUARY 27, 2021

I was recently asked what three traits I think are most important for someone in customer service to have. I’d like to broaden the topic to anyone dealing with someone else’s problem or question, be it a customer or another person inside the organization, also known as an inside customer. That’s what resilience is.

Coaching 349

Coaching Customer Support Customer Service Marketing 349

SharpenCX

AUGUST 4, 2021

When businesses focus on improving their customer experience and service strategy, they can see up to an 80% increase in revenue. . As a customer service manager, you know how critical it is to deliver the best customer experience. But, over time, your once-polished customer service strategy grows stale.

Customer Service 128

Customer Service Coaching Contact Center Interactive Voice Response 128

Customer Service Life

DECEMBER 18, 2018

We’re moving faster than ever before to make the customer experience WOW-tastic. Customer service agents are expected to turn into an octopus by growing 8 arms to handle all the different contact points, quickly respond to chats, SMS, social media, phone calls and emails. 1:1 Coaching . Can you relate?

Contact Center 103

Contact Center Personalization Coaching Customer Service 103

ShepHyken

JULY 7, 2020

The Secret to Success is Good Customer Service. How to Use Customer Service Stories to Teach, Inspire and Reward. Shep Hyken interviews Patricia Fripp , CSP, CPAE, speech coach and customer service expert. In other words, focus on building your soft skills and delivering great customer service.

Coaching 316

Coaching Customer Service Personalization Customer Experience 316

Tethr

JULY 22, 2020

That being said, high standards are especially critical when it comes to the team who is having conversations with the customers on a regular basis—your call center agents. Exceptional call center leaders use a coaching philosophy to manage their teams. Better your coaching by sticking to best practices. Make next steps clear.

Coaching 81

Coaching Call Center At home agents Best practices 81

Etech

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Coaching employees is important for continuity of an organization. Are you taking time to coach the middle-level managers to be great leaders, maybe even better than you are? Are you taking time to coach the middle-level managers to be great leaders, maybe even better than you are? Coaching focuses on helping, not controlling.

Coaching 84

Coaching Feedback Personalization Management 84

ShepHyken

AUGUST 31, 2021

Shep Hyken interviews Dan Gingiss, an international keynote speaker, coach, and author of The Experience Maker. They discuss how to create experiences that customers want to talk about. Top Takeaways: An Experience Maker is that person in an organization that wears the customer hat at all times. Shep Hyken ?is

Coaching 356

Coaching Marketing Customer Care Customer Experience 356

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Customer Service Pet Peeves That’ll Make Your Customers Cringe in 2020 by SmarterCX Team. My Comment: When it comes to customer service and experience, what drives you crazy?

Customer Service 250

Customer Service Coaching Customer Experience Marketing 250

JustCall

MARCH 13, 2023

A sales coaching plan is every sales manager’s best friend. What is a Sales Coaching Plan? Let’s understand how to create a high-performing and personalized sales training plan. Let’s understand how to create a high-performing and personalized sales training plan. Hit-and-miss sales goals.

Coaching 40

Coaching Sales Metrics Best practices 40

ShepHyken

JANUARY 22, 2020

That quote comes from Dan Sullivan, founder and president of the Strategic Coach program. I’ve learned a lot over the years by attending his workshops and coaching sessions. Words and phrases to describe that type of person include negative, pessimistic, little initiative, complainers and energy vampires. You get the idea.

Coaching 355

Coaching Personalization Customer Service Sales 355

JustCall

MARCH 13, 2023

For many sales managers, sales coaching techniques are either too difficult to execute or too complicated to achieve. Whether you need to coach customer service teams right or coach newbies during the first call, using the right sales coaching methods is key.

Coaching 40

Coaching Sales Feedback Metrics 40

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.

Customer Service 288

Customer Service Airlines Best practices Consulting 288

CX Global Media

JUNE 25, 2018

Jim Rembach : Hey this is Jim the Fast leader Show and Call Center Coach, and I ‘m here at Contact Center Expo with Bruce Eidsvik, a Senior VP of marketing for Genesys. We want to keep this a little on the QT, in that what would be better than to bring that agent together with that person they served and unite them at our event CX19.

Customer Service 209

Customer Service Coaching Call Center Contact Center 209

ShepHyken

MARCH 10, 2021

We were discussing how important it is to “bake” customer service into the culture. It’s leadership’s job to define the customer service vision, ensure it’s communicated, and be the role models demonstrating how customers and employees are to be treated. And don’t think customers won’t notice.

Coaching 383

Coaching Customer Service Personalization Management 383

Uniphore

JUNE 10, 2021

3 Ways Call Center Coaching is Leading to Customer Churn. It’s no secret that better coaching creates more effective agents and better overall customer interactions. Why then do so many call centers struggle to convert coaching into real, measurable results? Smarter Coaching Is A Smart Investment.

Coaching 59

Coaching Call Center Average Handle Time Contact Center 59

Playvox

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

“Excellence happens when you try, each day, to both do and be a little better than you were yesterday.” — Pat Riley (former NBA coach). You’ll use call recording, live chat, customer feedback, surveys and more to gain a deep insight into agents’ capabilities. Managers may want to get involved in coaching too.

Coaching 40

Coaching Customer Service Call Center Surveys 40

Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

In reality, there is no perfect personality type that will fulfill everything you need. Extroverted personalities are typically highly sought-after for sales and customer service roles. These individuals are generally perceived as more personable, making them ideal in public-facing positions and social situations. .

Contact Center 128

Contact Center Personalization Call Center Coaching 128

IdeasUnlimited

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Once a customer makes, or is close to making, a purchase, it is time to put extra effort in satisfying them in order to build a customer base that keeps returning for more. This is where customer service enters the picture. Customer Trust. This is made simpler with customer service.

Customer Service 104

Customer Service Call Center voip Customer Support 104

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.

Customer Service 90

Customer Service Coaching Wait times Personalization 90

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.

Management 273

Management Customer Experience Customer Service Coaching 273

Call Center Weekly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

By Beverly Mahone As a baby boomer I have held my share of customer service positions over the years. I am a firm believer that no matter what business you're in, you are going to give some level of customer service to someone. Even online merchants must deliver good customer service if they want returning clientele.

Customer Service 143

Customer Service Call Center Coaching Enterprise 143