Callminer

JULY 23, 2019

Providing feedback to agents in your call center is entirely needed to maintain and improve a quality facility. However, knowing how to deliver feedback can be tricky. Unfortunately, there are a number of pitfalls that can derail the process of delivering effective feedback.

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Best practices Feedback Call Center Coaching 140

Myra Golden Media

JANUARY 15, 2019

One of the things I’m working on for 2019 is giving you tools to help you coach your employees and hold them accountable so that they are positioned to deliver the best possible customer experience. Before going into a meeting with an employee, identify, and write down, what you want them to Know, Feel, and Do. Use what I call KFD.

Coaching 220

Coaching Accountability Feedback Personalization 220

ShepHyken

AUGUST 6, 2019

If you and your company don’t meet and exceed those expectations, you will lose customers to a company that does. About : Jeff Gothelf works as a coach, consultant, and keynote speaker. What should I do with customer feedback? Exemplary companies and technologies have universally raised customer expectations to a higher level.

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Customer centricity Coaching Consulting Consulting 303

Tethr

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

But in today’s bustling work environment, supervisors are struggling to find the time needed to effectively coach staff for continual performance improvement. Coaching is more important than ever before in today’s call center environment, as calls continue to increase in complexity. But are you really coaching?

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Coaching Management Calibration Feedback 111

CX Accelerator

JUNE 8, 2020

As he points out, “The customer isn’t actually using their voice to provide feedback.” Motteram also suggests setting up a customer advisory board where you “Invite a representative cross-section of your customers into a room on a periodic basis to provide feedback on things like company people, processes, and product.”.

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Surveys Contact Center Consulting Consulting 345

Call Center Weekly

MARCH 1, 2018

One thing I have found to be true across most companies is this shocker: contact center team meetings suck! At the beginning of my contact center career I lived through some awful team meetings. I just couldn’t take it anymore and I started the journey to improve my team meetings. Your team meetings don’t have to suck!

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Contact Center contact center associations Coaching Feedback 136

Myra Golden Media

JULY 12, 2019

This means you must take care to be fair and to be perceived as fair, particularly when it comes to performance feedback. What I did is I began meeting weekly with my supervisors to calibrate. On August 9 th I am hosting a webinar, Quality Form Development & Coaching. That was a problem.

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Calibration Coaching Contact Center Call Center 238

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. This is where I fit into the project—I facilitated each meeting as a neutral party.

Calibration 244

Calibration Schedule adherence Coaching Employee engagement 244

Myra Golden Media

JANUARY 1, 2019

Are you coaching and holding employees accountable? If you want to see change, you have to set expectations, have coaching conversations, and be willing to deal out consequences. 2) Then you must commit to addressing all issues that don’t meet your expectations. Prepare for Coaching Conversations. I hope you say yes.

Coaching 195

Coaching Accountability Feedback Personalization 195

Expivia

MAY 15, 2021

Call center coaching is just like coaching a little league team. A talented kid will master swinging the bat on their own, but a coach can help them perfect the move. However, they need that extra coaching to truly become incredible agents. However, they need that extra coaching to truly become incredible agents.

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Coaching Call Center Average Handle Time Feedback 98

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 28, 2015

Expectations are important to meet (and ideally exceed), particularly when this is the person who decides if whether you stay or go at an organization. Request feedback. I tried to coach her on saying no in a positive way, but she couldn’t adjust her ways. What are the taboo subjects? How do people get on in the company?

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Customer emotions Customer centricity Consulting Consulting 366

SharpenCX

JANUARY 23, 2020

Only one in four employees think that their managers deliver meaningful feedback, or that the feedback they get helps them work better. Contact center managers struggle to coach for better performance. And coaching backed by the data that lives in your contact center is even more powerful. Get the guide.

Coaching 98

Coaching Contact Center Benchmark Management 98

Myra Golden Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

So, last night I had the idea to coach my son using the same three-step method I tell my clients to use when they have to help an employee through a problem or to give someone constructive feedback. You can use Know, Feel, Do to coach employees on a process, attitude problem or any performance issue. My gift to you! It’s a fact.

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Construction Coaching Feedback Contact Center 189

Myra Golden Media

JULY 16, 2019

Monitoring Sans Coaching. This seems obvious, but you’d be surprised to know how many companies take the time to rate customer service contacts – and then penalize employees for lousy performance without bothering to meet and discuss variances with employees. Expecting Coaches to Coach Without Training.

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Calibration Contact Center Coaching Construction 153

Callminer

APRIL 24, 2020

Quality monitoring software , such as speech analytics , automatically monitor and score 100% of calls, helping managers deliver objective feedback and improve agent performance. In addition to call monitoring and scoring, managers and supervisors should also make it a point to schedule in time for targeted coaching sessions with agents.

Best practices 182

Best practices Call Center Coaching Schedule adherence 182

CCNG

MARCH 4, 2021

The survey of managers and executives responsible for training revealed a mad rush to deploy technology, with 68% of respondents investing in better training delivery via virtual and collaboration meeting tools and 30% investing in better eLearning utilization.

CCNG 195

CCNG Contact Center Surveys Coaching 195

CX Global Media

MAY 24, 2018

Feedback : Known as one of the most underutilized tools in a leader’s kit, Adrianna’s focus was on individual team members. It was thrilling to get to meet her and see the wisdom she has obtained in her young contact center career. The post 8 Vital Lessons from an Award-winning Supervisor appeared first on Call Center Coach.

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Contact Center industry standards Morale Call Center 257

The Northridge Group

AUGUST 19, 2020

Let’s say you have a secure process in place, your wait times are acceptable, and you’re meeting many industry standards. Organizations that have transitioned from good to great stay away from solely coaching to the numbers and instead put more focus on improving behaviors. Clear coaching for continued development of staff.

Contact Center 145

Contact Center Coaching Call Center Wait times 145

Myra Golden Media

JULY 15, 2019

Need some guidance on how to develop and execute a quality program that is robust, fair, and that your employees buy-in to – and one that doesn’t make your supervisors need to sip wine just to get through a coaching discussion with employees? Design Coaching Strategy. Design Coaching Strategy. I have help for you.

Calibration 153

Calibration Coaching Morale Feedback 153

Myra Golden Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Meet needs customers don’t even express. Give employees constructive feedback on their service interactions. Coach your employees always to be friendly and engaging. Provide quality assurance monitoring of all interactions, giving feedback to employees. Rest assured, I’ll do my best to help.”. Seek out customer contact.

Customer Experience 249

Customer Experience Construction Scripts Coaching 249

Playvox

JULY 12, 2022

It takes work on their part and on yours, but CSRs can learn to write better if you coach them properly, and if they take your coaching seriously. How Should You Coach to Improve CSRs’ Writing Skills? For coaching to work, it has to be frequent, consistent, focused, and brief. Give them feedback on their own work.

Coaching 78

Coaching Contact Center Feedback CRM 78

CCNG

JULY 10, 2024

Introduction Contact Centers are transforming rapidly to meet the demands of a digital age. These tools offer post-call perks too, with personalized training modules and real-time feedback mechanisms that drive continuous improvement and accountability. But the benefits don’t stop there.

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Contact Center Gamification Brand ambassadors CCNG 195

Customer Service Life

OCTOBER 13, 2020

I recently wrote an article about a new quality process where I coached my team without showing them a score. So far it’s going great and the team has been receptive to the coaching. Ask members of your team to monitor your interactions and provide you with honest feedback. Image by Daniel Reche from Pixabay.

Accountability 185

Accountability Customer Service Coaching Contact Center 185

SharpenCX

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Direct the focus of your coaching, your 1:1 time, and your available resources to support agents where they struggle. If there are trends in testing that show many of your agents are weak in a particular area, use it as a chance to assess your internal processes and resources so you can meet the needs of the whole group.

Contact Center 137

Contact Center Coaching Employee engagement Call Center 137

Myra Golden Media

JULY 12, 2019

The goal was to motivate customer service employees to deliver a better customer experience by monitoring calls and giving feedback on calls. Before you coach the call, ask, “How did that call feel to you?” Make It About Coaching Employees to Optimal Performance. So often I see management in companies coaching the numbers. “We

Contact Center 136

Contact Center Calibration Coaching Feedback 136

Callminer

MAY 11, 2020

Ongoing training and coaching are equally important to ensure that your employees are equipped with the skills and knowledge they need to do their jobs effectively. And, coaching sessions provide an ideal opportunity for managers to check in with their agents or employees to get their feedback on how things are going from their perspective.

Management 273

Management Customer Experience Customer Service Coaching 273

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Collect feedback at each point of their journey. Use good data and feedback to create a more positive experience. You can rely on more than one source of information to get the right feedback. Learn about your customers’ experiences through feedback, Net Promoter Score, member satisfaction score, diary study, and more. .”

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Coaching Feedback Customer Experience Customer Support 34

CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Zenarate expands its AI Coach language capabilities to 79, the most in the industry, and adds new agent feedback reporting for AI simulation training. The company’s AI Coach platform now supports 79 languages, the most options in the industry.

Coaching 59

Coaching Feedback Telecommunications First call resolution 59

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Meeting your clients’ needs and delivering stellar client service is what drives sales and generates revenue. If you are already running your own business, and your clients are sharing their honest feedback with you, it’s bad business sense to ignore what your clients are telling you they want!

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Coaching Marketing Feedback Sales 0

Callminer

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Meet Our Panel of Call Center Experts & Business Leaders: Kevin Lee. Call center managers and supervisors need to train agents on the course of action to take for a vulnerable customer, and they also need to communicate regular feedback to agents to help them get better. Coaching needs to happen in real time from management.

Call Center 345

Call Center Contact Center Finance Consulting 345

delighted

DECEMBER 8, 2021

SupporTrends applies natural language processing to all customer conversations – whether they’re in a help desk, 3rd-party review site, Zoom meeting, or you guessed it, Delighted survey feedback. MaestroQA: Enrich agent coaching with real-time customer feedback. Planhat: Improve customer health with feedback.

Feedback 77

Feedback Coaching Surveys Marketing 77

Customer Service Life

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

While I’ve spent a lot of time working with contact center teams on quality assurance, I, myself have not actually done a quality evaluation and coached an agent in over a decade. A quality coaching reboot. After evaluating a series of interactions, it was time to coach the members of the team.

Coaching 130

Coaching Contact Center Feedback Customer Service 130

SharpenCX

AUGUST 4, 2021

And when you have to run from meeting to meeting, slip in training sessions and handle escalations, you’re left exhausted. Project #1: Consistently Coach and Train your Agents. Implementing consistent coaching and training for your agents is an essential first step in giving your customer service strategy a jump start.

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Customer Service Coaching Contact Center Interactive Voice Response 128

Callminer

JULY 5, 2018

When they don’t receive consistent performance feedback, agents often experience burnout and lose their drive to perform efficiently resulting in agent churn and poorer customer experiences. Coaching or training agents on areas that they already excel is a waste of time and resources for your call center. Customize trainings.

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First call resolution Call Center Average Handle Time Contact Center 157

Callminer

APRIL 21, 2020

Call center managers may be involved with hiring and training call center agents , monitoring call center metrics tied to agent performance , using speech analytics tools for ongoing quality monitoring , providing ongoing feedback and coaching, and more. Meet Our Panel of Call Center Managers & Business Leaders: Adeel Shabir.

Call Center 182

Call Center Management Scripts Coaching 182

ShepHyken

MAY 1, 2023

Then, constantly reinforce it throughout the time that they are with you, whether in weekly meetings, daily huddles, or sharing customer feedback and make sure what they have learned translates into their day-to-day engagement with your customers. Invest in your employees’ training and onboarding.

Coaching 170

Coaching Customer Service Feedback Sales 170

Callminer

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

If you see a business contact for the first time in months and they appear not to be interested in what you have to say, your desire to meet them again is likely to be low. If they also appear keen to move on to their next meeting rather than listen to you, then you’re unlikely to want to invest in that relationship.

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Scripts Call Center Call center experience Contact Center 186