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How to Learn About Your Customers’ Complaints – Even When They Don’t Tell You

ShepHyken

Direct feedback is a gift. Short of direct feedback, which in my opinion is still the best way to learn if your customers love you (or not), read competitor reviews on their websites or in the B2B world and partake in industry forums to find out what customers are saying about the companies they do business with.

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Empathy in Customer Service: A Key Differentiator for Top Call Centers in the US

TeleDirect

Use role-playing exercises to simulate real-life scenarios and teach agents how to respond empathetically. Feedback and Continuous Improvement: Gather customer feedback to identify areas for improvement. A: Yes, empathy can be cultivated through targeted training programs, role-playing exercises, and ongoing feedback.

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How to Make Agent Feedback Stick in High-Pressure Environments

Vistio

Providing feedback is one of the most powerful tools for improving agent performance, but in high-pressure environments like contact centers, its not always easy to make that feedback meaningful. Generic coaching, delayed reviews, or feedback that lacks actionable steps often gets lost in the daily rush of customer interactions.

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5 Steps to Transform Callers into Loyal Customers

TeleDirect

Solicit feedback to identify improvement areas. Preparing for real-life scenarios with role-playing exercises. Follow Up After Resolution Following up shows that you care about the customers experience and satisfaction. Best Practices: Contact the customer to confirm the issue has been resolved.

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Is Outsourcing Your Customer Experience Really A Good Idea or Just Wrong?

Beyond Philosophy

Working with an insurance company in England, we engaged in a few of these exercises. In the flood exercise, we uncovered a few third-party bumps in the road. The insurance paid for everything, but it wasn’t effortless for the team member to make a claim, which was vital feedback we gave the company.

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Welcome Aboard! 7 Tips for Building CX into New Employee Onboarding

CX Accelerator

Wide-eyed and brand new to the organization, it’s important that new employees behave like customers and share feedback about the company as they experience it. Bill Staikos makes it official with his new employees: "We're doing a lot of journey-based exercises with our new hire onboarding process.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of October 17, 2016

ShepHyken

The Differences Between Feedback From Paying Customers vs. Free Users by Elias Torres. I’m surprised at how many companies haven’t gone through the exercise of creating a formal journey map.) Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. Here are my top five picks from last week.