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I Did Quality Assurance Without Scores and I Liked It

Customer Service Life

I’ve written and spoken extensively in the past on whether or not quality scores are essential to contact center quality assurance. While I’ve spent a lot of time working with contact center teams on quality assurance, I, myself have not actually done a quality evaluation and coached an agent in over a decade.

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Simulation Training: The Time is Now

CCNG

I just finished teaching a two-week training, and the most common thing I heard from the learners was, “When are we going to practice?” High-quality simulation training requires realistic customer/agent dialogue and the agent’s process’s application and data side built into the tool. How do you get to Carnegie Hall?

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The Anatomy of an Effective Contact Center One-on-One Conversation

Customer Service Life

In a recent article on Why Contact Center Quality Assurance Matters I stated my case for a robust and consistent quality assurance program. But here’s the thing — quality assurance is useless unless feedback is delivered to the contact center agent in a way that will help them improve their performance.

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A Guide to Improving Call Center Operations

Fonolo

Overhauling your call center operations can seem outright impossible without a little guidance and know-how. Have I built a good rapport with my team members? FACT: According to Zippia, only 48% of employees surveyed believe their company’s leadership abilities are “high-quality”. Consider asking yourself these questions: 1.

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How to determine your wildly important goal for your inbound call center

Quality Contact Solutions

Back in the early ’90s, as a college student, I found myself working in an inbound call center , which at the time was an industry that many didn’t fully understand or appreciate. I was an agent taking inbound calls for vehicle rentals alongside 199 other agents. Goal setting & metrics for the inbound call center.

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Setting the Record Straight on CSAT, NPS, and CES

Customer Service Life

Did you get a chance to read the article in the Wall Street Journal titled “The Dubious Management Fad Sweeping Corporate America?” They also found that not once did an executive report that their scores decreased. They also found that not once did an executive report that their scores decreased.

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A Miscellaneous Lot of Thoughts on Quality Scoring

Customer Service Life

Over the past year or so I’ve had many conversations about contact center quality assurance — some of which I’ve shared in past articles. As I was scanning my list of blog post ideas, I realized I had some miscellaneous thoughts that fit under the quality umbrella and it’s about time we discuss them.