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Top Contact Center Trends for 2023

Balto

With an increased emphasis on agent empowerment, your teams can feel increased confidence and morale, and provide an improved customer experience. Involve them in the script-writing process. One cheat code towards empowered agents? Annette Franz, Founder and CEO of CX Journey.

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Call center cost reduction strategies

TechSee

However, these drastic measures are usually short term as they negatively affect CX and employee morale. These suggestions often appear as pop-ups, offering agents pertinent knowledge that enables better customer assistance without requiring manual searches or long wait times. Techniques to optimize staffing.

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Average Handle Time: A Comprehensive Guide

Hodusoft

Also, by considering AHT, they can ensure that calls are directed to the appropriate agents or departments to minimize waiting times. Such tools can provide agents with quick access to relevant information and streamline their workflow, reducing handling time. It also increases agents’ morale.

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How to Keep Your Customers Happy in a World with the Highest Expectations: 6 Data-Backed Methods to Put People First and Build Positive Experiences

SharpenCX

Showing understanding and empathy makes customers happier than sticking to a tightly-knitted call script. Internally, it breaks down team morale. Reduce your wait times. More than half of consumers will wait less than an hour before reaching out to your company a second time for help.

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5 Common Customer Support Inefficiencies & How to Solve Them

Solvvy

The moral of this stressful story is that customers want – and expect – to get support 24/7, 365 days a year. But many companies are plagued with slow customer service, including long wait times, department-to-department transfers and delayed, unsatisfactory resolutions. It just makes good business sense. .

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What to Do With the Data: Become a Better Support Team Coach

aircall

Scheduling periodic training sessions around these subject areas will pay off in terms of call duration, calls per agent, and customer wait times. If this is the case, take time to bring all team members up to speed — maintaining product fluency is an ongoing task. Feel free to go beyond the statistics as well.

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Winning Live Chat Training for Your Customer Service Team

Comm100

The activities in this eBook can be great training materials to improve customer service or morale in your team. Live Chat Scripts. Most telephone-based agents will have a set of standard scripts they use in conversations, for example, their greeting and closing messages to customers. In The Live Chat Customer’s Shoes.