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The New Essential Business Skill: Storytelling

Beyond Philosophy

But stories aren’t just useful tools for entertainment and customer engagement. Gallup’s CEO thinks the answer is “high performance coaches” who will help employees develop through ongoing conversations that focus on employee strengths. Each realtor was coached and then told a story to the group about a grandparent. In the U.S.,

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5 Powerful Capabilities of Gamification

Call Design

Providing your employees with a sense of advancement and purpose can be achieved with regular personal development and upskilling. The introduction of gamification can help build a competitive and entertaining element to training programs that might otherwise be perceived as boring. Empowers Employees.

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25 Call Center Leaders Share the Most Effective Ways to Boost Contact Center Efficiency

Callminer

Make onboarding & ongoing coaching as stellar as possible. James Pollard is a marketing consultant who works specifically with financial advisors over at The Advisor Coach. If someone is making a mistake for two months waiting for his/her quarterly coaching session, thousands of dollars can be lost. James Pollard.

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Vital CX lessons from 3 Fortune 500 companies

Vonage

There's also a search option, and when things get more difficult, live chat delivers more personable replies with a one-minute response time. All new employees get over 300 hours of on-the-job training, a dedicated learning coach and an additional 120 hours of further coaching every year. How Disney approaches customer service.

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Vacation to Staycation

C Space

Research with particularly ‘resilient’ consumers during the pandemic has shown that behaviors of highly resilient people boil down to 1) close personal connections 2) exploration of the world (even on a small scale) and 3) learning, personal enrichment and creativity are the things that those with low resilience neglect.

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Little Things Matter, Get More Leverage With a Customer Delight Formula

Connecting the Dots

A customer delight formula does not require personal interaction on the phone. Companies spend boatloads on diffusion of anger training and tough-call monitoring and coaching. How much time does your company spend on training and coaching simple calls that could become delight calls or chats?

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Mastering Call Queuing: The Ultimate Guide to Efficient Customer Communications

NobelBiz

But that’s not all – we’ll also explore how intelligent call routing and customer data integration create personalized interactions that leave a lasting impression. When customers feel informed and entertained, their perceived wait time reduces, leading to enhanced satisfaction levels.