Stella Connect

MARCH 12, 2018

Employee engagement is one of the biggest drivers of customer service quality and employee retention. Most customer service leaders know it’s important (critical, even) to recognize and reward service excellence. But many of them don’t have a formal call center rewards program in place.

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Stella Connect

APRIL 17, 2018

If you’re in a contact center performance management role, you’ve probably invested a lot of time and energy in your customer service training and customer service coaching programs. To help you get started, we’ve compiled a list of 29 customer service training and coaching tips.

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Integrity Solutions

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

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 Today, the organizations that are delivering a superior customer experience are proving just how outdated that perspective is. But great customer experiences don’t just happen.

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Stella Connect

MARCH 2, 2018

For growing companies with ambitious customer service goals and limited resources, staffing call center teams can be tricky. What’s the magic number of agents you need for a team just big enough to meet demand and serve customers well? The Erlang C Formula: Balancing Customer Service Goals with Call Center Costs.

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Stella Connect

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Contact center attrition is one of the biggest challenges brands face. The continuous cycle of hiring and onboarding new agents and ramping them up to full productivity can cost a customer service organization roughly $10,000-$15,000 per employee. Then there’s the impact on service quality.

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Comm100

JUNE 19, 2018

The ICMI Contact Center Expo which took place at the end of May was no different – with a strong keynote lineup and insightful sessions to attend, it was a fantastic event for anyone looking to top up their knowledge on everything CX. I think there’s a few things here that can be applied in any contact center.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 21, 2022

My Comment: Another great list, and this time the Five C’s of customer service which includes Care, Competency, Culture, Consistency, and Communication. Customer Experience in the Age of AI by David C. Shep Hyken is a customer service expert, professional speaker and New York Times bestselling business author.

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Myra Golden

JULY 28, 2016

How to Talk to Customers: Human relations skills to help your employees deliver a delightful customer experience. How to Talk to Customers: Human relations skills to help your employees deliver a delightful customer experience. Empathy: A short experiential course designed to inspire a true culture of empathy.

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Myra Golden

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Let’s take a look at the reasons agents fail at the customer experience, and explore what you can do about it. . They aren’t establishing rapport with customers. This morning I was monitoring calls for a contact center client; something I do often. Here’s how the Agent opened the call. Customer: “Hi Bill.

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Myra Golden

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A corporate trainer in one of my client organizations is gung-ho on the Zappos culture and she is convinced that what her contact center needs is agents trained to make small talk with customers and empowerment so agents can consistently deliver wow experiences – “Just like Zappos does,” she says.

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Stella Connect

JANUARY 25, 2018

In recent years, we’ve seen a major shift in brands’ approaches to customer service delivery and contact center performance management. How will emerging and growing trends change the customer service equation? More Companies Will Make Customer Service a Strategic Priority.

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Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

Arie’s industry specialties include: Financial Services, Credit Card, Consumer Lending, Retail, Internet, Telecommunications, and other services companies. Arie is also an effective leader of call center performance improvement projects, and is particularly adept at balancing the company, customer, and frontline perspectives.

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Vonage

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Mobile and wireless technology is also enabling field reps to connect to the CRM system remotely, allowing them to easily input data and access real-time data – both of which ultimately enhance the customer experience. Find out how our gamification system, Motivate for Service , could help to keep your team motivated. Social media.

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Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

Arie’s industry specialties include: Financial Services, Credit Card, Consumer Lending, Retail, Internet, Telecommunications, and other services companies. Arie is also an effective leader of call center performance improvement projects, and is particularly adept at balancing the company, customer, and frontline perspectives.

Customer Experience 130

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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. ” “Customers come first.”

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Myra Golden

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A corporate trainer in one of my client organizations is gung-ho on the Zappos culture and she is convinced that what her contact center needs is agents trained to make small talk with customers and empowerment so agents can consistently deliver wow experiences – “Just like Zappos does,” she says.

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Comm100

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Contact center management is a difficult job. Even as an outsider, if you’ve spent any time at all working alongside a call center or contact center you’ve probably seen the same mistakes being made by management over and over regardless of the company, the market, the product or customer base.

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ShepHyken

JULY 11, 2022

Implement These 5 Customer Experience Analytics to Upgrade Your Call Center by Emily Gregor. Aircall) Data used in customer experience analytics can be drawn from any interaction between an organization and its customers. Go to The Customer Focus to learn more about our customer service training programs.

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SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

She is an internationally recognized Customer Experience Thought Leader, Coach, Keynote Speaker, and Author of ‘Customer Understanding: Three Ways to Put the “Customer” in Customer Experience’ (and at the Heart of Your Business). LinkedIn : [link]. Website : [link].

Customer Experience 132

Customer Experience Consulting Multi-Channel Leadership 132

Myra Golden

JULY 29, 2016

How to Talk to Customers: Human relations skills to help your employees deliver a delightful customer experience. How to Talk to Customers: Human relations skills to help your employees deliver a delightful customer experience. Empathy: A short experiential course designed to inspire a true culture of empathy.

Customer Service 53

Customer Service Training Course Customer Service Training 53

Myra Golden

JULY 29, 2016

How to Talk to Customers: Human relations skills to help your employees deliver a delightful customer experience. How to Talk to Customers: Human relations skills to help your employees deliver a delightful customer experience. Empathy: A short experiential course designed to inspire a true culture of empathy.

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Comm100

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Quality management means proactively improving the customer experience by researching the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of the customer journey. Here is a framework you can use to manage the quality of your customer experience. Free Download] 50 Customer Service Training Activities for Live Chat and Telephone Teams.

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Integrity Solutions

JULY 26, 2019

When call center and customer service teams are trained to recite from a script, they spend more time talking about products than listening for cues, asking the right questions and creating true customer engagement. Contact Center Challenges: Behind the Numbers. And guess what?

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Free Download] 50 Customer Service Training Activities for Live Chat and Telephone Teams. The activities in this eBook can be great training materials to improve customer service or morale in your team. Author of The Service Culture Handbook. Share with us in the comments below!

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