Customer Centric Support

JULY 18, 2017

Tips for creating a customer-centric quality management program. When implemented well, a Quality Management program has the potential to revolutionize both the agent and the customer experience. I look forward to my weekly coaching sessions because it shows that my supervisor really cares about my success.

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SharpenCX

MARCH 25, 2021

As customer service leaders continue to embrace the life where agents can work from where they’re most comfortable, new challenges catapult to the top of priority lists. Gartner research shows in two years, nearly nine in 10 leaders think 20-80% of the customer service workforce will still work from home.

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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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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

You’ve heard of quality management (QM), and your contact center probably has a quality program in place today. But what’s all this hype about using analytics to perform quality activities, and could it help you? This means fewer – but higher quality- evaluations. The post What is Quality Management Analytics?

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Monet Software

JANUARY 15, 2019

We all know the importance of quality management (QM). But we also know there are only so many hours in the day, and that a quality management program can sometimes take a lot of them. Still, this is not an optional pursuit for a contact center to maintain optimal customer service.

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Monet Software

JULY 18, 2018

If your contact center is already recording calls and monitoring calls, then you are two-thirds of the way toward an effective quality management program. Aligning these efforts toward specific performance goals will keep service from sagging. So why not make it a point to score those for quality management?

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Playvox

JANUARY 30, 2024

There’s more to engaging, motivating, and empowering employees than simply giving lip service with buzzwords like “you’ve got this,” “quick win,” and “continuous improvement.” Numerous studies link employee satisfaction, performance, and engagement with management’s ability to provide actionable, positive feedback and coaching.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A related term, workforce engagement management (WEM), recently coined by Gartner, has rapidly become the business strategy, processes, and related technologies of choice. AI-driven tools and platforms are shaping the way contact centers engage with and manage their workforce. But it goes beyond enabling automation.

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Playvox

MARCH 12, 2024

This, in turn, leads to higher customer retention and increased profitability for the business. In contrast, low agent motivation is linked to high attrition rates in contact centers, resulting in increased recruitment and training costs, along with a negative impact on overall team morale.

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Monet Software

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The college and pro football regular seasons are wrapping up, and every year that means one thing – some coaches will be out of a job. Coaching is important, whether you run a football team or a contact center. And if you’re not getting the most out of your coaching efforts, it will impact customer service.

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Myra Golden Media

JULY 16, 2019

After I deliver a customized, engaging customer service workshop, I help my clients reinforce the main ideas. One way I do that is by teaming up with the company’s Quality Assurance team. When working with the quality people to help make sure employees apply the soft skills I teach them, I find six typical mistakes.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

By optimizing call center operations, organizations can enhance the overall customer experience, leading to increased satisfaction. Streamlined processes, well-trained agents, and effective tools contribute to smoother operations and faster issue resolution. Elevate Operational Efficiency : Efficiency matters.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In the most engaged teams I’ve seen, there are solid coaching principles at work. But the ultimate leadership secret is to approach training, coaching and performance standards as opportunities to empower your employees to coach themselves.

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Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

Signs And Effects Of Poor Agent Emotional Well-Being In Your Contact Center Working with customers requires a lot of emotional labor from your customer service center agents — even if customers are happy. To keep turnover under control, you have to make sure your managers are trained to keep engagement up and morale high.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

They are under constant pressure to reduce operational overhead costs, lower recruiting, onboarding and training costs – all while exceeding customer demands and delivering exceptional customer service. In combination, these often boost customer service agents’ efficiency and help improve KPIs.

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Verint

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The latest technology to feel the touch of automation is quality management—the most widely deployed and utilized solution in the U.S. The results of Saddletree Research’s 2017 survey of end users, completed during the third quarter of 2017, reveals the relatively high level of market penetration of quality management in the U.S.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In the most engaged teams I’ve seen, there are solid coaching principles at work. But the ultimate leadership secret is to approach training, coaching and performance standards as opportunities to empower your employees to coach themselves.

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DMG Consulting

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Contact center and customer service technology vendors are applying generative AI to enhance their solutions, speed up implementation, and improve the accuracy of their findings. Training Data Is Key The underlying training data leveraged by the solutions is essential for the application’s success.

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Playvox

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Not being in the same space as your agents means you have to go the extra mile to keep team communication, training, and motivation running smoothly. Being engaged regularly and offered training opportunities. For their part, the managers in our study believe they’ve done a good job supporting their remote customer service teams.

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8x8

MAY 23, 2018

But technology will only get you so far in your quest to provide great customer service. Acknowledging the importance of pairing world-class software with world-class practices will help you optimize your customer service practice. Here are the top 3 ways to optimize your customer service strategy: 1.

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Serenova

OCTOBER 24, 2019

And that makes scary customer service potentially more damaging than ever. According to a recent Vanson Bourne survey of 3,000 US and UK consumers, the vast majority (94%) of respondents say customer experience impacts whether they would make the decision to move from one brand to a competitor. Read the whole story here.

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JustCall

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

So, let’s take a consistent approach to the fundamentals of call center quality assurance: 62 % of US customers have stopped doing business with a brand because of poor customer service. This is the essence of a call center quality assurance. 3 Methods Of Contact Center Quality Management.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

MAY 24, 2016

The post Connecting Hiring, Training and Coaching appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Better yet, having a more engaged workforce makes your task of managing remote teams effectively a little easier. The best Quality Management (QM) systems also enable agents to provide commentary on feedback provided and dispute anything that the agent may not agree with the analyst about.

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SharpenCX

AUGUST 31, 2021

A customized dashboard offers many benefits : Focused insights to improve training and coaching methods Compiled data to improve decision making Transparency to increase agent productivity Clarity around team goals and benchmarks. Your leadership cares about the health of your customer base.

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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. Smart Quality Management.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Back in the contact centre, supervisors might not even care about the overall average handle time focusing instead on how to improve individual team member scores through better training or systems. While leaders often ask agents to ‘walk in the customer’s shoes’, such advice usually exacerbates these negative consequences.

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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. Smart Quality Management.

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Playvox

APRIL 5, 2022

For high performance to be sustainable, it needs to be embedded in the culture and practices of the customer service organization. Customer service organizations that leverage these capabilities are able to take their employee experience – and customer experience – to the next level.

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Playvox

MARCH 12, 2023

Providing noteworthy customer experiences is a top priority for any business, and a well-run help desk, support center, or customer service center is the key to improving contact center performance. This leads to undesirable outcomes that have a snowball effect, such as poor customer service, which leads to angry customers.

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CSM Magazine

APRIL 18, 2023

The current cost-of-living crisis combined with the usual stresses of managing a hybrid workforce and higher customer expectations put tremendous pressure on customer service organisations today. These widespread challenges are also holding many organisations back from delivering an exceptional customer experience (CX).

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DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 2, 2022

It uses this information to deliver guidance to agents (and possibly supervisors) to enable them to address customers’ issues properly. These solutions are also well received by agents, as they provide a positive and practical approach to coaching and training.

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Verint

APRIL 14, 2016

Thinking back on my time in Operations, like so many other people I spent a significant amount of time trying to understand the root cause of the quality management (QM) opportunities in my organization. Should we improve our classroom training, should we do more on-the-job training, or were we hiring the right kind of people?

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Playvox

OCTOBER 18, 2022

There’s a storm brewing in customer service centers, and the aftermath could create some big challenges for contact center management. In our 2022 study of customer support agents and managers, 68% of agent respondents said they didn’t want to return to an office. Leanne Y.,

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Playvox

MARCH 5, 2024

And behind the scenes, how do you ensure your quality management (QM) processes are keeping up? Let’s examine the role of AI in streamlining quality management processes to help modern contact centers rise to the ever-changing customer experience landscape. Artificial intelligence (AI) can play a part.

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DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Should Customer Service be a Sales Channel? Some recordings are reviewed by a quality management team who evaluate, score, and coach agents on their performance. And agents surely participated in training courses where they were instructed in how to improve their sales skills. Monthly DMG Newsletter.

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CSM Magazine

APRIL 25, 2023

Paul Stemp, Supervisor, Customer Success Management, at Calabrio shares his top confidence-boosting tips for building strong, fearless teams. Contact centres are an integral part of delivering customer service. However, the role of the agents working in them is rapidly changing.

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