By: Colin Taylor Organizations today look across their customer facing organization and see cluster of call center activities: sales, technical support, customer service, returns, billing, collections etc. These call centers can exist in a companies divisions or operating companies. Even small and medium sized businesses can find that they have five or more [...]
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We are already 1 month into the new year and how is your call center performing, really? Are you achieving your goals? How do your metrics and KPI’s compare to your peer centers? Do you know? What if you had a one time opportunity to invest $50,000 in your call center, would you know where [...] I am not sure if you saw this news story. Zappos got hacked on the weekend and data related to 24 million customer was exposed in whole or in part, see the story below. The most interesting thing about this event from my perspective was the last line in the article which states that due [...] Just recorded this presentation and insights around call center audit value, purpose and opportunities. On the journey to meet your customer experience and organizational goals it is essential that you can judge where you are at as well as where you are going. A contact center audit provides that assessment, guides your journey,… You [...] By: Colin Taylor Last week I asked for your help – I wanted to find out the topics that resonate with you the call or contact center operator. I promised that once you voted for your favorite I would write the article post. Well you did your part and I did mine, you can read [...] Why the Quality Listening program Should Not be a Performance Review By: Colin Taylor Let’s look at the numbers. In a customer service call center where the quality assurance program requires the evaluation of 4 calls per month. The average agent will handle approximately 1,600 calls in the month. This means that the 4 calls [...] The call center doesn’t define the customer experience, but can be held accountable to deliver it. In this presentation Colin Taylor shares how you can mitigate conflicting messages and expectations and align your call center with the desired and expected customer experience. View the presentation here [...] Snapshotz Download The Snapshotz Online Update August 2011 A Snapshotz of August: Conversations and contributions from International contact centre figures A Snapshotz of August: Technology trends in a nutshell, knowledge and skills for the modern contact centre manager, Industry voices and positive health in the contact centre, why customer service is viewed [...] Here is an interesting story of using massages, dinners and beverages to boost morale and keep call center agents engaged. Stressed Christchurch staff get shoulder massages Hard worked Christchurch City Council customer service staff are receiving free shoulder massages every 10 days to boost morale. Call volume at the council’s contact centre has doubled since [...] What Call Center Metrics mean to Customers By Colin Taylor In the daily operation of our call and contact centers we throw around metrics and performance measures like they were candy. It has been said that call centers produce more data and more measurement opportunities than is possible in almost any other communications channel. But [...] |
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