Callminer

AUGUST 1, 2017

If customers are being sent to the wrong department, then they tied up customer service personnel from helping the right people. Make onboarding & ongoing coaching as stellar as possible. Customer service diminishes. Continuous coaching and training helps mitigate this risk. Alex Tebbs.

Contact Center 334

Contact Center Call Center Average Handle Time Real estate 334

ShepHyken

JUNE 21, 2019

Choosing between chatbots and live chat for your customer experience goals means evaluating your customer service and your brand’s values against the expectations of the on-demand consumer. Chatbots are becoming every customer experience professional and marketer’s most prized possession for automated customer interactions.

Chatbots 308

Chatbots Customer Experience Scripts outsourcing 308

Fonolo

APRIL 15, 2020

There’s always a script — a basic list of questions or responses to customers who have issues. Managers and business owners spend countless hours analyzing data and/or speaking with customers to be able to produce at least that: a script. Coaching builds confidence and as a manager, it’s your job to do that.

Coaching 91

Coaching Customer Service Scripts Morale 91

ShepHyken

MARCH 6, 2020

This week we feature an article by Patricia Fripp, executive speech coach and sales presentation skills trainer. She writes about how one negative interaction can affect the customer’s overall experience. At a time when every customer counts, we must never forget how our customers see us. I never received a reply.

Customer Service 156

Customer Service Coaching Advertising Scripts 156

OctopusTech

JANUARY 20, 2025

Quality Assurance (QA) is the act of ensuring that your services meet or exceed the standard of quality that you have set out for them. For call center quality assurance , this may include monitoring and evaluating customer service calls, chats, and other forms of interactions between your agents and customers.

Call Center 62

Call Center Scripts Benchmark Average Handle Time 62

ROI CX Solutions

APRIL 15, 2025

Table of Contents Introduction Effective customer service is built on agent ability to manage and de-escalate difficult situations. Mastering de-escalation techniques is essential for improving customer satisfaction, reducing churn, and protecting your brand’s reputation. Read Time: 8 min.

Customer Service 52

Customer Service Brand ambassadors Wait times Coaching 52

SharpenCX

MAY 26, 2021

“Dunder Mifflin customer service, this is Kelly”. If you’ve watched NBC’s hit series Th e Office , you’ve seen Kelly Kapoor’s mad customer service skills. In fact, some 80% of customers say your agents have the biggest impact on the customer experience. They delivered high-touch sales and customer service.

Scripts 67

Scripts Customer Service Contact Center Finance 67

TeleDirect

APRIL 7, 2025

The Role of Training in Preparing Call Center Teams for Success The Role of Training in Preparing Call Center Teams for Success is an essential topic for any business that values high-quality customer service , operational efficiency, and employee satisfaction. HIPAA, PCI-DSS) 2.

Call Center 62

Call Center First call resolution Best practices Gamification 62

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Preparation should include coaching in how to address customer concerns as well as training in backup and emergency systems that are brought online to manage call spikes. It’s wise to develop some basic scripts or outlines that can guide agents through customer conversations if and when a breaking news event occurs.

Contact Center 211

Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Scripts Coaching 211

Callminer

MARCH 6, 2020

Managers play an integral role in ensuring high quality customer service, from hiring and training call center agents to monitoring performance, keeping tabs on vital call center metrics and keeping agents motivated every day. From my point of view, the most useful customer service interview question for managers is…”.

Management 207

Management Customer Service Consulting Consulting 207

Customers That Stick

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ , is a smart, energizing, experienced speaker, coach, and workshop leader. Her work in customer experience, employee engagement, leadership, teamwork, transforms how people think, act, and interact. Kate, what was your first job and what did you learn about customer service in it? .

Coaching 152

Coaching Government Scripts Employee engagement 152

Global Response

MARCH 27, 2024

An effective call center script balances consistent service quality with personalized customer interactions. The script should serve as a guide rather than a rigid framework. It should enable agents to respond to the unique aspects of each call while maintaining a high standard of service.

Scripts 62

Scripts Call Center Customer Service Coaching 62

Callminer

MARCH 6, 2020

Managers play an integral role in ensuring high quality customer service, from hiring and training call center agents to monitoring performance, keeping tabs on vital call center metrics and keeping agents motivated every day. From my point of view, the most useful customer service interview question for managers is…”.

Management 182

Management Customer Service Consulting Consulting 182

aircall

JANUARY 3, 2018

If you’re managing a customer support team, then you’re as much a coach as you are a supervisor. Good coaches make their players better, but great coaches go the extra mile and continue making themselves better as well. Each customer could be a potential product evangelist or a vocal detractor. How could it not be?

Coaching 86

Coaching Morale Analytics Benchmark 86

Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

By analyzing call recordings, live interactions, and other customer service data, businesses can pinpoint strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities to enhance the overall customer experience (CX). It also includes empowering call center agents with effective training, strong scripts, and targeted coaching.

Best practices 52

Best practices Coaching Scripts Contact Center 52

OctopusTech

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This allows you to instantly turn your computer into a virtual call center, which helps to provide better customer service at a lower cost. Call Whispering and Live Coaching Your frontline agents will often need support during a call, whether they are addressing the needs of a prospect or an existing client.

Call Center 62

Call Center Interactive Voice Response virtual call center Coaching 62

Integrity Solutions

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It’s easy to say that we put the customer first, but what does that actually look like in practice? In the past, customer service centers were viewed as cost centers or expenses. Today, the organizations that are delivering a superior customer experience are proving just how outdated that perspective is.

Customer Service 106

Customer Service Coaching Contact Center Banking 106

CX Global Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They want service with sprinkles…not just okay, pretty good, nothing-to-write-home-about service. As a customer with high expectations for excellence, here is my contact center wish list: Conversation, not checklist. I can spot a script a mile away. Bell and Meredith Simpson. ” – Click to Tweet .

Contact Center 189

Contact Center Call Center Coaching Scripts 189

SharpenCX

APRIL 22, 2021

It’s unavoidable for your customer service agents to steer clear of disgruntled customers. After all, have you ever had anyone reach out to customer service to say, “Hey thanks! The bad news: there will always be angry customers. Coach agents to listen and resist the urge to be defensive.

Scripts 128

Scripts Coaching Call Center Accountability 128

aircall

JANUARY 3, 2018

If you’re managing a customer support team, then you’re as much a coach as you are a supervisor. Good coaches make their players better, but great coaches go the extra mile and continue making themselves better as well. Each customer could be a potential product evangelist or a vocal detractor. How could it not be?

Coaching 81

Coaching Morale Analytics Benchmark 81

SharpenCX

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Earlier this year, I fought for seven months to get an issue resolved with a customer service team. In fact, 73% of customers will stay loyal to a company if they encounter friendly customer service agents. On the flip side, 82% of customers leave a company because of poor customer service.

Contact Center 128

Contact Center Coaching Scripts Average Handle Time 128

CSM Magazine

MARCH 3, 2022

A key to retaining your existing business, growing your brand, and attracting new business is keeping your customers happy. Brian Tuite of Zenarate reveals new technologies that will help improve customer service. Customer service agents are a company’s most important asset to keeping customers pleased.

Customer Service 94

Customer Service Banking First call resolution Best practices 94

Kayako

MARCH 9, 2017

We asked our customer support advocates at Kayako about new activities and skills that helped to further their careers. You can build on each of these eight customer service skills substantially, and give yourself an advantage through your resume, job application, and ace any interview. Here are their great insights.

Customer Service 82

Customer Service Engineering Coaching Self service 82

SharpenCX

DECEMBER 2, 2020

With financial losses of such scale on the line, the stakes have never been higher to deliver good customer service in your call center. As call center trends shift and move, it’s important to keep pulse on how “ good” customer service is changing, plus what you need to do to keep up. . Clarify agent expectations. .

Call Center 128

Call Center Customer Service Contact Center Metrics 128

Tethr

JULY 23, 2020

QA scorecards as they stand present limitations to CX and customer service leaders. Innovations in AI and machine learning can help identify specific agent behaviors that need coaching. Powering agent coaching opportunities. A Fortune 1000 retailer is using AIS to power agent coaching opportunities.

Coaching 68

Coaching Surveys Upselling Scripts 68

SharpenCX

JULY 14, 2021

Let’s say you’re a customer service rep with a long queue of phone calls from customers. Or, have you ever jumped into a customer service chat, and as soon as the customer’s message pops up…poof! … It’s like all the call center scripts you’ve ever read vanish from your brain.

Scripts 67

Scripts Call Center Coaching Contact Center 67

Callminer

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

While customer vulnerability isn’t new, it’s time companies take action to identify vulnerable customers and implement solutions to better equip company representatives and customer service agents to interact with customers experiencing vulnerability. Coaching needs to happen in real time from management.

Call Center 345

Call Center Contact Center Finance Consulting 345

SharpenCX

JUNE 2, 2021

Naturally, I called customer service to track it down. Another time, I spent a good hour of my work day going back and forth with my medical insurance customer service and the billing office of a hospital. We all have bad customer service stories to share. Easier said than done, right?

Coaching 67

Coaching Call Center Scripts Analytics 67

Integrity Solutions

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Customer service used to be viewed as the final link in the overall chain of customer touch points, a responsibility relegated to a department, contact center or automated attendant that would respond to complaints and (hopefully) eventually make things right. Leaders know that customer expectations are higher than ever.

Customer Service 87

Customer Service Coaching Scripts Customer retention 87

Balto

JUNE 23, 2022

“The anti-script doesn’t mean that you should wing it on every call… what anti-script means is, think about a physical paper script and an agent who is reading it off word for word… you’re taking the most powerful part of the human out of the human.” Share on Twitter. Share on Facebook.

Scripts 52

Scripts Coaching Contact Center Surveys 52

SharpenCX

DECEMBER 23, 2019

An agent who lets their bad attitude seep into the customer service experience flips the script and diminishes trust. It makes customers feel unheard and misunderstood. That’s why a whopping 97% of customers say bad customer service changes buying behavior.

Contact Center 107

Contact Center Customer Service Coaching Contact center software 107

SharpenCX

MARCH 25, 2021

As customer service leaders continue to embrace the life where agents can work from where they’re most comfortable, new challenges catapult to the top of priority lists. Gartner research shows in two years, nearly nine in 10 leaders think 20-80% of the customer service workforce will still work from home.

Coaching 67

Coaching Call Center Analytics Quality management 67

Vistio

DECEMBER 9, 2024

To thrive in the modern customer service landscape, personalization isnt just a nice-to-haveits essential. The customer on the other end is angry about an unexpected charge and demands an explanation. The agent fumbles, falling back on a script that doesnt address the real issue.

First call resolution 52

First call resolution Upselling Scripts Coaching 52

SharpenCX

JANUARY 27, 2021

Equip your agents with scripts for efficient and effective support. But don’t let these scripts replace any coaching methods or strategies you have in place (your agents aren’t robots!). These scripts are meant to be a reference–not a copy-paste response. Here are 6 sample scripts for common live chat support scenarios.

Scripts 67

Scripts Coaching Surveys Accountability 67

CSM Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2025

Empathetic interactions often result in repeat customers, great reviews, and increased word-of-mouth referrals. When empathy is part of your customer service culture, it becomes a natural way to build trust. Customers no longer feel like numbers in a ticketing systemthey feel like people, valued and heard.

Customer Support 52

Customer Support Scripts Healthcare Feedback 52

CX Global Media

JUNE 20, 2017

If a customer service manager can easily use a drop-down toolkit to write scripts and create action items there is a greater chance for it to perform better. When people are able to use their experience from directly communicating and interacting with customers, the risk failure should be much lower.

Chatbots 168

Chatbots Contact Center Scripts Call Center 168

Balto

JANUARY 6, 2025

Insightful Data-Driven Reports: Track long-term quality trends and assess coaching effectiveness through comprehensive reports. Dynamic Prompts: Assist your agents during make-or-break moments with timely responses and questions to improve their performance and improve customer satisfaction. Key Highlights: AI-driven Insights: Convin.ai

Call Center 52

Call Center Coaching Surveys Contact Center 52