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Recently CCNG members and area contact center professionals were invited to the Alcon North America Customer Service Operations Center in Fort Worth Texas for a group discussion into Alcon's journey of digital transformation over the years. Below are some of the highlights shared at the event as provided by a CCNG member in attendance.
In this article, I would like to discuss some of the common mistakes made in conducting customer surveys and then lay out how a complete customer feedback program should be organized. To take that one step further, I once had a car dealership inform me that if I brought back a completed survey, they would give me a free oil change.
The strongest point of alignment between senior management and frontline leaders revealed in our survey was a consistent appeal for more training. Twenty-two percent of senior managers in our survey named training as the most useful thing provided specifically to supervisors to help them succeed.
recently led a discussion for CCNG members that focused on Retaining your Number 1 Asset Through Leadership & Culture. With such a great group of attendees we were able to spend time digging into what culture is and what it is not. The number one reason they stay is organizational culture. Why should people stay with you?
Strategy #3: Foster community Kendra (not her real name) asked to speak one-on-one with me after a large virtual group meeting. At the time, as Director of the global learning group, I was only holding large group meetings monthly and relying on the managers of the teams to hold weekly meetings to keep groups connected.
Customers are time-starved, so surveys may soon be a thing of the past. The Northridge Group team partner with CCNG as a corporate member providing insights on a variety of contact center and customer care topics including workforce management, coaching, training, customer experience and much more…
A 2021 Gallup survey found that a mere 23% of U.S. Engage employees continuously via coaching, polls, surveys and informal check-ins. A UnitedHealth Group study found that U.S. Greg Salvato is a CCNG member and regular contributor, CEO of TouchPoint One LLC based in New Albany, OH.
It is little wonder that a recent Mercer survey found that, when compared to all job functions in the business world, the contact center associate position has one of the highest average voluntary turnover rates. At the same time, Forbes reports that 56% of workers would quit their jobs if they couldn’t continue working remotely.
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Martech Alliance, 2021) Nearly half (48%) of survey respondents said the customer experience they deliver falls below or significantly below their customers’ expectations. 77% have a centralized customer experience group, and 68% have a senior executive in charge of customer experience across products and channels. Qualtrics, 2022).
We were surveying new hires almost daily to see where we could improve. We’ve set up rotating “supervisor office hours” so that a group of supervisors would be available to help agents. We all know that people learn differently and at different paces. These special tutors were top-performing agents on our customer-facing teams.
Dale is an active member and conference speaker at SOCAP, ICSA, and CCNG. With over 300 responses to the survey, this is what we learned: Only 1 in 10 Consumers are Contacting Your Brand. Our survey indicates that in addition to online search, using digital channels like brands’ websites and e-commerce websites is also very popular.
Two of my most active associations are the Customer Experience Professionals Association ( CXPA ) and the Call Center Network group ( CCNG ). In a 2012 report released by Kenexa® they stated that the average employee engagement of the six major economies surveyed (U.S.,
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