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Exceptional call center leaders use a coaching philosophy to manage their teams. This is especially critical when it comes to leading a team of reps who are based out of their homes. Just because at-homeagents lack opportunities for in-person feedback doesn’t mean they aren’t entitled to efficient and effective coaching.
In today’s post, I’d like to highlight how your coaching process will need to change. They need to be secure enough to ask for feedback from their teams and make adjustments as needed in order to nurture strong virtual relationships with their at-homeagents. However, these natural office occurrences don’t “just happen.”
Whether you are seriously considering only hiring at-homeagents or some of your current agents are looking to make the permanent transition to a remote basis, remote-specific trainings should be offered. Managers can surface impactful coaching opportunities to help reps reach their goals.
Using listening enterprise software like Tethr , you can offer each rep a personalized training program based on actionable insight from their calls. Tethr’s technology works to combine what’s going on in real time with historical data for context to lead your agent to the best practices. Preparation all around.
Technology: Tech teams must be able to provide support in a virtual environment instead of face-to-face, including the use of screen sharing to show agents how to fix issues as they arise. To secure VPNs for at-homeagents, we leverage a two-factor authentication on the VPN via an RSA key. Want to get “intouch”?
Luckily, 2021 is projected to be a promising year for call centers , with agents performing at a high level. But to truly succeed, call centers need to empower supervisors with training to support their agents. And it’s only gotten harder for supervisors to effectively coach their agents with the shift to remote work.
It demands a continuous, long-term investment in monitoring best practices, technology upgrades, and ongoing agent and management training. Myth: At-HomeAgents Feel Neglected and Become Disengaged. The key is allowing your at-homeagents to enjoy the best of both worlds. Those people exist.
Work From Anywhere, or similarly a ‘Hub and Spoke’ or hybrid model, allows a phased-approach to transitioning at-homeagents back to campus. Some ways in which this approach works is by having coaching, Academy Bay, and up-training of agents conducted on campus.
“All standard contact centre processes have been virtualised such as eLearning, virtual-side-by-side nesting, remote access, face-to-face coaching via video conferencing, virtual breakrooms, persistent SmartChat and town hall meetings. What sort of an environment do Work-At-Homeagents need? At COPC Inc.
The new generation of workforce management software is giving employees options for when and where they work and empowering agents to balance their personal and professional responsibilities by themselves, without having to ask for permission.
This team leader is home based, but your company guidelines require all supervisors to work from the office. Unfortunately, this outstanding employee cannot travel to the office 5 days a week, due to personal commitments. Contact centers should develop a supervisory training class that provides instruction in how to coachagents.
M any team leaders have become ‘mother hens’ to their work-at-homeagents, caring for their wellbeing and motivation. In the awful event of a key planning individual becoming ill and that person being the only one who understands how the master forecasting and scheduling spreadsheet works, the entire contact centre is at risk.
It’s easy to alienate customers by forcing them to self-serve when they want to talk to a person. When customers are dealing with problems they can’t easily solve on their own, contact centers need to make the transition to an agent quickly and seamlessly. Support and Collaboration of Remote Agents.
Forrester has observed that following the pandemic and the move to remote work, companies have had success using “online video game leagues” to “improve social cohesion for at-homeagents.” Be sure to communicate that coaching is a tool to identify where they need help, give them the resources they need, and make them more successful.
Providing feedback to agents in your call center is entirely needed to maintain and improve a quality facility. The right encouragement, or even criticism, could dramatically alter agent performance, both for on-site employees and at-homeagents. Leverage analytics to offer targeted agent training and coaching.
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