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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 today’s environment, surveys seem to be everywhere. We are sent a survey after nearly every transaction. The mix of transaction and relationship surveys has at times become indistinguishable to customers. Having tools to monitor the number of surveys sent to customers is important. Biased surveys are indeed useless.
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.
A recent CCNG panel webinar, Why Performance-Based Training Requires Automation , featuring Mike Roberts, Technology Leader for Learning at Citibank, who adopted simulations to automate role play and coaching exercises in 2020 and Trey Fischer, an industry-leading consultant, discussed today’s impact of automation on performance-based training.
During May 2020, 5th Talent International delivered a survey to more than 4,000 agents and supervisors across 7 countries. For more info on 5th Talent, contact Michelle Porterfield at CCNG for a direct connection to Ted or visit their web site at www.5thtalent.com. 5thtalent.com.
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.
With the increased demands, Covid thrust upon contact center organizations, SymTrain, in conjunction with CCNG, sponsored a survey on the impact of converting to remote work. The survey results led to this white paper on the 5 Reasons Performance-Based Training In Contact Centers Requires Automation.
In a recent CCNG Town Hall, Rick Denton helped walk the community through key elements of customer experience that were fundamental pre-pandemic as well as during the pandemic, and will remain fundamental post-pandemic. We’ve all heard how 2020 is the year everything changed. Three key themes did not change: 1.
CCNG recently spoke with Bob Azman about his contributions in the latest collection of insights from CX leaders included in the book Customer Experience 3. Shelve the surveys. Bob Azman works with CCNG members sharing experience and perspectives in Customer Experience and Customer Care.
recently led a discussion for CCNG members that focused on Retaining your Number 1 Asset Through Leadership & Culture. We discussed that we can understand and learn through anonymous surveys – what makes them stay, what makes them happy, and what companies can do to understand the ideal culture and their current culture.
During May 2020, 5th Talent International delivered a survey to more than 4,000 agents and supervisors across 7 countries. For more info on 5th Talent, contact Michelle Porterfield at CCNG for a direct connection to Ted or visit their web site at www.5thtalent.com. 5thtalent.com.
It may not surprise you that the next day I got a survey, they wanted my feedback! The airport wants a survey from you on your bathroom experience. I can’t go to any website without someone wanting me to take a survey. After every call, email, purchase, there’s a survey. Let’s start with what happens with all the surveys.
Rick is a CCNG member, a CX Advisor and Keynote Speaker who enables companies to achieve Customer Experience Transformation, guiding them to stop Survey & Score and start Listen & Act, using a Total Voice of the Customer approach. The “Warm Welcome” at the Ritz Carlton Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt stunned me!
Start with your customers’ voices and the friction points they articulate on calls, surveys, and social media. Last, but very much not least, ask CCNG. Ryan has been a senior leader contributor to the CCNG member network for over 7 years including presentations at CCNG’s Executive Summit and various regional events.
If your company is small enough, this can be a survey asking: Do you feel you can be your authentic self at work? Just make sure you have the infrastructure and resources to absorb and action the information you gather from this surveying. Do you feel you're empowered to make decisions? Do you feel that someone at work cares about you?
In a survey of over 20,000 respondents, it was found that 33% of the worldwide population experienced regular feelings of loneliness. Submitted to CCNG by Lior Torenberg, Head of the Conversation Excellence Lab at Balto where she conducts academic-level research and creates thought-leading content around the CCaaS industry.
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…
In the latest “National Customer Rage Survey” conducted by the Customer Care Measurement and Consulting organization, a whopping 74% of consumers said they had experienced a product or service problem in the past year, up from 66% in 2020. ENGAGE YOUR CUSTOMERS BY TALKING WITH THEM, NOT SURVEYING THEM. Nope, not on my watch.
A 2021 Gallup survey found that a mere 23% of U.S. Engage employees continuously via coaching, polls, surveys and informal check-ins. Greg Salvato is a CCNG member and regular contributor, CEO of TouchPoint One LLC based in New Albany, OH. Create an environment of trust, transparency and accountability.
Dump the personnel surveys and really take time to listen through roundtables, open forums, discussion boards and social media. Bob Azman is Founder and lead consultant for Innovative CX Solutions and a CCNG Academy member. Bob can be reached via the CCNG website member directory or on LinkedIn. The time for choosing is now.
I hesitantly agreed to hold large group meetings twice monthly, and we surveyed the broader group before we launched the new meeting cadence and again after some time to see if the increased frequency was having the desired effect. Those monthly meetings took a long time for me to plan, as well-executed virtual meetings usually do.
Optimizing Remote Workforce The shift towards remote work in contact centers is here to stay, with CCW Digital Surveys indicating that 68% of contact centers plan to maintain remote work post-pandemic due to increased agent productivity. CCNG would like to thank our colleagues at Venturesathi for sharing these insights.
Connecting the Dots A March 2024 burnout survey by MyPerfectResume provides data that demonstrates a vivid connect-the-dots illustration. CCNG would like to thank our contact center colleagues for sharing these insights. Note the italics which highlight the thoughts/emotions/behavior/physical connections. So How Do We Flip the Switch?
Greg Salvato is a CCNG member and CEO TouchPoint One, a leading provider of employee engagement and performance management solutions for contact centers. It's incumbent on contact center leadership to equip the workforce with the vision, tools, and support that reveal the truth in performance, value, process, and voice.
When surveying telecommuters who work from home all/some/most of the time, 71% said it was due to the work/life balance it provides. According to a survey by Zoom, the number one reason your employees come to the office is to socialize, and this bonding positively affects employee mental health.
Customer Feedback as a Tool for Improvement Customer feedback, whether it's through surveys, reviews, or social media, can provide valuable insights into how well your emotional connection strategies are resonating with your audience. These metrics are also important to drive internal support for your customer engagement and loyalty programs.
Younger participants in the survey showed more irritation with agents not knowing the answers than older participants. The exact same age pattern was found in responses from those who listed “Different customer service agents give different answers”, as shown in this graphic: Certainly, these survey results are a wake-up call for managers.
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.
One way to gauge customer satisfaction is using surveys that contain OSAT related questions, such as “What was your overall satisfaction with the experience?” Satisfaction surveys are one solution. A lot of BPOs will have their own satisfaction surveys. The one thing they do not want is to have to make multiple calls.
Martech Alliance, 2021) Nearly half (48%) of survey respondents said the customer experience they deliver falls below or significantly below their customers’ expectations. Forrester, 2016) The average email survey response rate is 24%. Fluid Survey, 2014) 75% of people complete surveys on their mobile.
For now, I would like to point out a few things that could help call center operations curate their approach to the unique needs of today's call center agent: Agent satisfaction surveys - How many call center operations bother to take internal CSAT or NPS surveys of their employees? Not enough, I assure you.
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.
Decreased training time Decreased call handling time Increased uniform call handling Increased accuracy Increased compliance Increased customer service skills Reached higher productivity levels faster Increased agent retention/decreased attrition Increased agent engagement When we surveyed people which benefit was most important, they said: Benefit (..)
We were surveying new hires almost daily to see where we could improve. We all know that people learn differently and at different paces. So, with every class of new hires, we were tweaking our nesting process to try to help new agent speed to competency improve more quickly.
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., I participate in various events with different associations.
workers describe their companies as being understaffed, and these workers are more likely to say they have recently considered quitting, according to a new (10/2021) CNBC workforce survey. Exactly half of U.S.
Surveying employees twice a year isn’t a dynamic way of measuring true employee engagement. Include a once-a-week survey, or utilize a discussion board for comments on each pilot program. Vicki Brackett is a contact center industry veteran, a long time CCNG member and regular contributor in member programs and events.
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