Brad Cleveland Blog

MARCH 13, 2018

Calibration is an important tool for ensuring consistency in interpreting performance. It also makes coaching far easier. It allows the coaching process to … Continue reading → The post Bring Quality Standards to Life with Calibration and Coaching appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JANUARY 20, 2016

Our coaches occupy the most critical blocks on our organizational charts. Wedged between those who set the policies for handling customers and those who carry out those policies, it is our coaches—supervisors mostly, but also trainers, QA staff and others—who translate objectives to behaviors.

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CX Accelerator

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Other Actions: Coach your leaders to use the leadership behaviors you'd like to see, taking care to model how you want them to coach their direct reports.Ask your leaders to emulate the service vision when working with employees. From Jeremy Hyde: How do your leaders calibrate on what they “coach” on and how/when they approach it?

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Brad Cleveland Blog

MARCH 13, 2018

Calibration is an important tool for ensuring consistency in interpreting performance. It also makes coaching far easier. It allows the coaching process to focus on achievements and improvement, rather than concerns around whether scores are accurate or fair. Coaching’s not a prescription for …

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CX Accelerator

DECEMBER 20, 2017

When you engage your employees through the narrative of celebrating, calibrating, and cultivating, they will walk out of their review refreshed and ready to attack the new year! CALIBRATE A performance appraisal is not the time for new coaching. You’ve (hopefully) been putting in the hard work of coaching this employee all year.

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Myra Golden Media

AUGUST 5, 2019

On August 9th I am hosting a webinar, Quality Form Development & Coaching. Visualizing, planning, and EXECUTING a quality monitoring program is my summer 2019 focus for my clients.

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CSR Inc.

MARCH 5, 2017

With QA, coaching and accountability are the diet and exercise. Call Center Agent Coaching ‘The more coaching, the better’ is a mantra we drive home with clients. Coaching touch points are critical to making progress. In such cases, a common way to provide coaching comments is on the evaluation.

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Myra Golden Media

JULY 12, 2019

Two months into the new quality monitoring plan, employees were complaining about the “fairness” of scores, supervisors were stressed as they struggled to find time to listen to calls, coach employees and record all the data. Before you coach the call, ask, “How did that call feel to you?” Let them listen to their own calls.

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Sikorski's Think Abouts

APRIL 5, 2015

What will coaching do? Modify agent behavior through coaching. Provide the calibration function. This week’s question for your employees – Why do you like being coached? Correct undesirable behaviors. Improve communications skills. Increase productivity. Decrease Employee Turnover. Staff will become more engaged.

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aircall

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Maintaining fair and consistent grading with regular calibration sessions. To ensure this, Pipedrive conducts regular calibration sessions to ensure all the graders are on the same page. Before, they used the Pins for Coaching feature to flag each appeal and ensure that it was addressed. Managing agent appeals.

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Customer Service Life

JANUARY 15, 2019

They believe that quality assurance is about coaching agents and making continuous improvement over time and that supersedes a score. Any seasoned coach has seen the look in an agent’s eye when they’re handed a quality review and they go straight to the score. Clearly verifying customers should be a priority when coaching Bob.

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Balto

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Leveraging data and real-time coaching ensures efficiency without compromising service standards. Regular calibration sessions with QA evaluators help ensure consistency and alignment across the team. To prevent issues from escalating, employ real-time coaching tools that notify managers of key moments during calls.

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Monet Software

AUGUST 11, 2020

These individuals take the lead in creating diagnostic tools like monitoring quality in live and recorded contacts, and identifying ways to train, coach and instill a quality mindset at every level. 3 Calibrate Quality Evaluations and Metrics. All of this takes expertise. 4 Drive Quality Organization-Wide. Ask the QM team!

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Serenova

MAY 13, 2020

With this critical information, you can identify exactly where each agent is delivering great service while uncovering opportunities for additional training, coaching and tools. You can determine the coaching and training that will have the greatest impact on customer experience. Calibrate the Process Regularly.

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Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

Operational costs – Agents who aren’t invested or lack training, feedback, or coaching tend to be inefficient, ultimately costing your business financially. Prevent and close employee skill gaps with a seamless integration to coaching. Workforce Management The yin to QM’s yang is Workforce Management (WFM).

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CSR Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Calibrations Aren’t Just a Chore. It is the supervisors who coach agents that make or break a quality program. Follow up Coaching the Coach sessions (LINK TO TRAINING MODULE) are great refreshers. Calibrations Aren’t Just a Chore. Calibrations run smoothest when healthy conversation is fostered.

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Integrity Solutions

AUGUST 24, 2022

What they don’t always recognize is that it’s something that can be developed through effective training and coaching. These and other alignment checks should be part of the ongoing performance strategies of the sales manager and coach. Senior leaders prioritize coaching and expect others to coach their teams.

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Customer Service Life

JUNE 17, 2019

Performance on individual objectives on the form to provide targeted coaching and training for the areas where teams and individual agents struggle most. Calibrate with all scorers. Quality calibration is a process by which all reviewers ensure alignment on the way they grade customer interactions. Permissions and access.

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Voxjar

MAY 22, 2018

Good parameters are measurable and clearly defined (something you can test through calibration sessions with management, supervisors, and reps – post on this coming soon). The post 101 Call Monitoring Parameters for Quality and Coaching appeared first on Voxjar. Hanging up before the call is resolved.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

MARCH 13, 2018

Calibration is an important tool for ensuring consistency in interpreting performance. It also makes coaching far easier. It allows the coaching process to focus on achievements and improvement, rather than concerns around whether scores are accurate or fair. Coaching’s not a prescription for …

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

It will use real-time reports, calibration, agent appeals and feedback to improve performance. Automating admin and streamlining workflows, this smarter approach empowers teams to evaluate more interactions, quickly identify areas for improvement and hold meaningful coaching conversations in a single platform.

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Customer Relationship Metrics

JULY 26, 2017

Think about the evaluation, the calibration, and the coaching. During the Survey Calibration process, those survey results would be moved from Suzie to Johnny where they should be based on the customer’s comments. Just like you grade the call internally, your customer should grade the call externally.

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Etech GS

APRIL 1, 2019

If you know there is a bad interaction, do not choose to play it in a calibration session that is attended by a large group. Take the agent into an individual coaching session to discuss the interaction whether it be a chat, call, or social media contact. The ideal coaching session takes no more than 15 minutes.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 26, 2024

This applies to historical and real-time conversation analytics as well as related applications built on its technology, including transcription, analytics-enabled quality management (AQM), real-time guidance (RTG), next best action, real-time coaching, automated post-interaction summarization, and more.

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Taylor Reach Group

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

This point and the futility or calibrating a 5 to 6 on a 10-point scale are why most quality programs actually offer no insight into actual quality. Together this makes for an effective quality program, without expensive and time-consuming calibration and ambiguous results. And why would they?

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DMG Consulting

JULY 26, 2018

Effective QA programs actively engage their agents at all stages of the program, including development, roll-out, calibration and continuous improvement. If you already have a QA program, involve agents in calibration sessions and providing feedback to enhance the evaluation form periodically, but no less often than every 6 months. (If

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NobelBiz

APRIL 3, 2023

Also, investing time into coaching and training can help monitor call center quality effectively. Some other mistakes that we often see are skipping calibration, not training coaches properly, and overwhelming those who monitor and coach. This can all lead to negative outcomes such as burnout and inconsistent evaluations.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Calibrate Contact Center Interactions Fairly and Consistently While we all know that feedback is important, when a call center gets busy, coaching, mentoring, and even quality management may fall to the side as agents and their leaders look at meeting and beating agreed-upon Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

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Customer Service Life

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

In a recent quality calibration with a client, we were reviewing a particular interaction where the agent had given an incorrect answer that would likely require the customer to call back. This is one easy way to insert CSAT into your quality calibrations and coaching. CSAT is sometimes measured too early in the process.

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Call Design

JULY 6, 2021

Calibration is key when measuring quality to ensure any suggestion of bias is removed. Even if it is not set as a KPI, management can use it to coach and train staff to improve the way they handle contacts to get better results. Forecast Accuracy.

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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

QM is more of a comprehensive program that focuses on both performance management & process improvement by using calibration, appeals, motivation, coaching, and gamification. With integrated coaching, you can onboard and train new agents while keeping your whole customer service team engaged to reduce agent attrition.

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Customer Service Life

JANUARY 18, 2019

My rule of thumb for what else to add to a quality form is: Add to the quality form anything that you want to track so you can coach, train, and monitor improvement over time. At best, you’ll coach agents on a bunch of one-off issues but never see the greater impact of that coaching.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Beyond evaluation scores, it also focuses on coaching and includes processes to maintain the integrity of the feedback, like calibration. The right quality management solution will ensure that your agents have clear, key goals to achieve and receive useful feedback and coaching when they don’t.

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CSR Inc.

JULY 9, 2017

Customer Service Starts With Coaching the Coaches Many times when we think about Call Center Quality Assurance , we focus our attention on the front line agents. We also tend to focus most of the training & coaching in a customer service organization on customer service reps (CSRs).

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COPC

APRIL 1, 2022

QA primarily evaluates agent performance and provides information for coaching. Whether we use the information to coach and manage agent performance or for broader decision-making?—?unreliable You will still need to manage, recruit, train, coach, develop, and motivate your staff.?. Certain QA practices have come into question.

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24-7 InTouch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Ongoing coaching also ensures metrics such as First Contact Resolution (FCR) and Average Handle Time (AHT) are achieved, while calibrating for quality and accuracy. This type of approach requires the right resources, such as searchable knowledge bases and extensive soft-skill training.

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Playvox

MARCH 12, 2024

According to a recent Gallup study , best-in-class managers use ongoing conversations to deliver feedback that celebrates successes and calibrates performance. These programs can include regular training sessions, coaching , and mentorship opportunities to help employees improve their skills and competencies.

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