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Training Your Call Center Agents to Sound the Alarm on Harassment in Abusive Customer Interactions Instantly Can Fuel Your Agents’ Empowerment

SharpenCX

And training call center agents to see and squash abusive is vital to their well-being (and yours). According to a 2016 study, 74% of call center agents were at risk for burnout. And, 30% of those agents are desperately hanging on to workplace sanity by a measly thread. From Bullying to Burnout. It’s pretty terrible.

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Contact Resolution and Agent Empowerment will Increase Customer Loyalty

NICE inContact

However, studies show that in customer service, making the mistake isn’t what really impacts customer loyalty; rather, it’s all about how the mistake is handled and how things are made “right.”. Our same study showed that customers put a lot of weight on first-time resolution of those issues. Agent empowerment is part of the process.

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Agent Empowerment: Putting Firstline Employees First in the Contact Center

Noble Systems

Businesses that continue to ignore the needs of firstline employees – such as contact center agents – do so at their own peril. Agent Experience Demands No Friction and Easy Access to Data. Power 2018 Insurance Digital Experience Study. Why is this important?

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Contact Resolution and Agent Empowerment will Increase Customer Loyalty

NICE inContact

However, studies show that in customer service, making the mistake isn’t what really impacts customer loyalty; rather, it’s all about how the mistake is handled and how things are made “right.”. Our same study showed that customers put a lot of weight on first-time resolution of those issues. Agent empowerment is part of the process.

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How to Fearlessly Empower Your Contact Center Agents

Speaker: Jeff Toister, Employee Training Expert, Bestselling Author, Speaker

An ICMI study revealed that 86 percent of contact centers don't fully empower their agents to deliver an outstanding customer experience. Agents worry about doing the wrong thing and getting in trouble. Contact center leaders worry about agents giving away too much or serving customers inconsistently.

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Agent Empowerment: Putting Firstline Employees First in the Contact Center

Noble Systems

Businesses that continue to ignore the needs of firstline employees – such as contact center agents – do so at their own peril. Agent Experience Demands No Friction and Easy Access to Data. Power 2018 Insurance Digital Experience Study. Why is this important?

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

Callminer

Successories motivational posters were part of a study at a call center, and they found office art and motivational posters increase productivity by 33% compared to barren offices. And our studies have shown that constant recognition reinforced with small, cost-effective gifts can increase productivity by 20%.