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How to Train Your Call Center Agents to Exercise Empathy

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Over the lockdown period, the public turned to their phone lines looking for human support, but instead found contact centers overwhelmed and in disarray, with little time to exercise the comfort and care that today’s consumers want. Agents should exercise intuition for each unique interaction, rather than blindly following a script.

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How to Avoid Roadblocks to Great Customer Service

ShepHyken

This exercise, as simple as it sounds, was her way of creating a process improvement initiative that has been wildly successful. This is similar to an exercise that we do in our customer service workshops. What responses you get from Diane’s question or our workshop exercise will vary. Some answers will be major “aha!”

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Small Improvements in Customer Service Create Big Wins

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The good news is that if you haven’t done it yet, you don’t need to get to the level of detail you normally would for this exercise. This is the type of exercise that is not a “one and done.” Identify: If you haven’t already done a journey map of what your customers experience as they do business with you, it’s time to do it.

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The Customer Service Ritual that Takes Place at Every Meeting

ShepHyken

By the way, this is the same exercise we teach in our customer service training programs. We have clients that have been doing this exercise for years. It helps us keep customer service “front-of-mind” and is a positive way to start a meeting. Because it works!

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Developing Agent Empathy Through Emotional Intelligence

Speaker: Dave Seaton CCXP, Founder & Principal at Seaton CX

Take away valuable exercises and job aids to coach agents and improve empathy skills in your contact center. Emotional Intelligence provides a framework for understanding and managing human emotions. Learn how to name emotions instantly with a practical emotional model.

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The Three Words that Describe Your Company

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So, as we approach this year’s customer focused holiday, I want you to consider working through an exercise that will help you create a better customer service experience. Now, back to the exercise. Sounds like a simple exercise, and for some it will be. The easiest way to get to it is www.ShepTV.com. If so, you’ve delivered.

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Compare Yourself to the Best

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Even though I want you to think beyond your competition, you should still do the exercises in this step and the next. You must be able to keep up with your competition, and this exercise helps. The key is having a diverse group of thinkers. List your competitors and ask two questions: “What are we doing that they don’t do?”