Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

Managing forecasting, scheduling, and agent productivity in a call center is a lot like searching for the fountain of youth. While we don’t have a roadmap to the proverbial fountain, we can help steer you in the right direction for better call center workforce management (WFM). But getting to this nirvana is no picnic.

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Stella Connect

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Customer service is only successful with a lineup of agents who feel motivated and engaged — use employee recognition program examples to understand how you can appreciate your customer service team for its efforts. If it’s not already clear, customer service directly impacts revenue.

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Stella Connect

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

When it comes to setting priorities for the call center, it’s important to keep rewarding and recognizing your customer service agents top of mind. After all, call center incentives aren’t just a “nice to have.” 5 Types of Call Center Incentives and How to Decide When to Use Each. #1:

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 25, 2024

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. How Employee Experience Connects with Customer Experience by Francesca Di Meglio (HR Exchange Network) Positive employee experience begets customer experience. That’s where it starts!

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InMoment XI

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The event brought in senior leadership from analytics, CX, insights, and VoC programs from 44 different brands, all with the common goal: sharing how integrated CX is making groundbreaking changes to their companies, customer experiences, and the market as a whole.

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Stella Connect

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

You’ve dealt with it before and there’s no doubt you’ll face the same challenge again: call center turnover. In customer service, the revolving door of agents joining your team and exiting in a few months or only a year seems to be normal. Call center turnover occurs for several different reasons.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 3, 2015

Ask any group of customers what they liked about any recent customer experience, and they typically mention the same thing. So it’s up to the leaders of any organization to seek out your customer service superstars and discern the ways they make things just a little better for your customers.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

An essential part of customer service leadership is understanding what customers want. But what do they expect? And how are those expectations changing?

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Kate Nasser

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Listen to the customer voice if you want your business to thrive. Customer experience insights from Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ | #CX #Leadership. The post Customer Voice Speaks the True Customer Experience | #CX #Leadership appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Kate Nasser

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Listen to the customer voice if you want your business to thrive. Customer experience insights from Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ | #CX #Leadership. The post Customer Voice Speaks the True Customer Experience | #CX #Leadership appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Consider examples like long call center wait times blamed on “high call volume” or companies deflecting responsibility for faulty products or order issues by passing the buck to manufacturers. However, the consequences bear a sharp contrast to the benefits of taking responsibility, especially in leadership roles.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Customer experience is more than a full-time job. The best organizations spend plenty of time considering how to deliver exceptional experiences. Create or revise your customer experience mission statement. Deputize someone in each department as the customer advocate. It’s more than a project.

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TechSee

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The discussion around how to reduce customer service costs is not a new one. For decades, service organizations have been proposing innovative ways to cut operational costs in customer service: Let employees bring their own coffee? ??. Limit call times to 3 minutes each? field services. self-service.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 17, 2019

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 7 Powerful Customer Service Phrases You Need to Use by Josh Carlyle. Qminder) Here are 7 powerful customer service phrases that can support your interaction with customers.

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Magellan Solutions

JULY 5, 2021

Let’s take a look at the best and worst Philippines Call Center Companies this 2021. There are more than 700 Philippines call center companies – many of which work specifically for small and medium enterprises. So, here are some of the other factors that SME owners should look for in a call center company. .

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Magellan Solutions

MARCH 26, 2024

Outsourcing Customer Service: The Smart Move for SMEs So you’re a business owner, always on the edge trying to keep up with the competition. Sure, you know it’s the happy customers that matter, but doesn’t customer service management look like a time-consuming skydive into a pool with no bottom?

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Myra Golden

APRIL 10, 2017

George was a bright, energetic, proactive frontline customer service representative. At 2:30 I have a customer loyalty task force meeting. George jumped at the chance to get out of the call center and sit in on a meeting with managers and directors. I held monthly staff meetings with my call center. (I

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Brad Cleveland Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

An essential part of customer service leadership is understanding what customers want. But what do they expect? And how are those expectations changing?

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COPC

APRIL 19, 2022

to improve customer service. Twenty director and supervisor-level Express International employees completed COPC® Contact Center Management training.?? . The individual-level COPC Contact Center Management training improves customer experience operations based on the ? (April 15, 2022)— COPC Inc.

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InMoment XI

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Hotel guests have lofty expectations for excellent experiences; they also have feedback data coming at them from all directions. It’s a common struggle to effectively analyze this data, and then leverage it to optimize their customer experience (CX) efforts. At the Forefront of ESG Leadership. ( [link] ). Access 1/19/24.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

There’s a lot riding on customer experience leaders right now. Our organizations, our customers, our employees are counting on us.

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CX Accelerator

MAY 25, 2022

This may be self-service, in-person, phone, email, chat, social media or text message. Your company will choose which channels to configure for customers to reach out. A customer experience team had to plan it out and set this all up on the back end. You may use some or all of them. Back to CX Accelerator Blog

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Michel Falcon Experience

JANUARY 16, 2020

I’ve leveraged customer experience strategies within my career for more than ten years now. I’ve seen companies thrive (some of which I’ve advised), some commit but not fully exhaust the benefits and others that say customer experience matters but do nothing at all. that’s having a customer experience strategy!

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Second to None

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

One pillar of the brand experience that is especially influenced by employee engagement is customer support, especially within your organizational call-center. Regardless of the service request, your call-center team members need to be fully equipped to handle any situation. 1,2 [link].

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Kate Nasser

JANUARY 13, 2019

As we explore customer experience leadership, it’s amazing how much we learn from asking the simple question, What do customers wish we would do? The answers to this question ensure that our customer experience leadership focuses on what truly matters to customers. Image by Michael W.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 31, 2023

This week, we feature an article by Josh Centers, a Business Journalist at TextExpander , a platform that empowers teams and individuals to save time and eliminate repetitive typing with just a few keystrokes. He shares the challenges that customer service representatives face and how companies can overcome them.

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Kate Nasser

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Resist these customer service urges that you will otherwise regret. Latest tips fr Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ | Leadership Customer Experience. The post How to Resist These Irresistible Customer Service Urges | #CX #CustServ appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Win the Customer

OCTOBER 5, 2016

It should be obvious that how you treat your customers is a vital factor in business success, yet many companies become so focused on implementing their policies and procedures that customer satisfaction can get overlooked. It’s absolutely essential to continued success to provide the best possible customer experience you can.

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CX Accelerator

JULY 1, 2020

Before Covid-19, customers chose companies that differentiate on experience, and 81% of customers switch to another brand as a result of bad customer service (American Express). Now more than ever, the customer experience is the battleground for brand loyalty. Two specific examples come to mind.

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Upstream Works

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Before the term “customer experience” (CX) became widely used in the industry, the contact center was focused on “customer service.” ” When customers needed service – whether a question, a complaint, or technical support – they reached out to the contact center.

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Playvox

MARCH 12, 2024

When you’re working in a contact center, this is your reality — taking contact after contact, call after call, from people who either need support or are angry about their experience with your company’s product or solution. The importance of agent motivation in a call center cannot be overstated.

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Bold360

AUGUST 24, 2020

Since COVID-19 is a respiratory virus, and since air filtration is recommended by the CDC to help mitigate the spread of the virus indoors, it’s no surprise that Filters Fast has witnessed a spike in outreach to its call center. Pre-COVID-19: Enabling Self-Service to Provide 24/7 Customer Engagement.

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Customers That Stick

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

I am a Customer Experience and Contact Center Manager with over 15 years of contact center experience. My years in contact center leadership have provided me a solid understanding of the call center environment. Customer Service > Customer Experience.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 27, 2017

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. Customer Experience, Innovation and the Slow Death of Famed Brands by Augie Ray. Sure, things have changed, but the fundamentals can still be found in many of the “new ways” we approach creating customer loyalty.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 7, 2019

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. CEOs Who Are Transforming Customer Experience by Robert Reiss. ” Beyond Chatbots: How Artificial Intelligence Can Humanize the Customer Experience by Dan Gingiss. .”

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JULY 21, 2023

But, as many leaders have learned (some the hard … Continue reading → The post Engaging Your Team: Leadership Principles for Lasting Success appeared first on Brad Cleveland. Success depends on creating an engaging environment and bringing out the best in everyone who is part of it.

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Talkdesk

MAY 11, 2016

They are the companies where leadership bases their decisions on preset metrics that they regularly track. All this is great, but how does that play with customer service? Many companies use the Net Promoter Score® (NPS) to convert customers’ qualitative reactions into actionable data. NPS in the Call Center.

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