CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Yishay Carmiel, Founder and CEO of Meaning , explains how AI-powered assistive voice technology is set to power the customer service industry by minimizing barriers created by language and cultural nuances. Call centers are known for notoriously high employee turnover.

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Customer Service Call Center Culture Communication 52

BlueOcean

JUNE 26, 2018

We sat down with Paul to discuss his views on best practices for creating incredible customer service. Do you have a “process” for consistently creating exceptional service experiences? Today, what matters most is the cultural fit. How do metrics and standards play a role in customer service? Empathy is key.

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Customer Service Hospitality Contact Center Hotels 353

Brad Cleveland Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The most customer-centric organizations build on a foundation of employee engagement. What’s behind that level of engagement? As it turns out the key driver is purpose.

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Employee Engagement Engagement Customer Centricity Video 50

Magellan Solutions

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Outsourcing a call center is a promising idea, especially if you want to lower costs. What Is An Outsourced Call Center? Call center outsourcing is a business activity of subcontracting call center services like customer care and sales-related tasks. Inconsistent service.

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Call Center Call Center Solutions Contact Center Training 49

Playvox

MARCH 12, 2024

When you’re working in a contact center, this is your reality — taking contact after contact, call after call, from people who either need support or are angry about their experience with your company’s product or solution. The importance of agent motivation in a call center cannot be overstated.

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Contact Center How To Call Center Gamification 78

ShepHyken

JUNE 12, 2020

This week we feature an article by Chloe Sesta Jacobs , Head of People & Culture at Deputy. She provides crisis management strategies for call center employees during challenging times such as COVID-19. But customer service in the time of COVID-19 looks remarkably different. What Should I Tell Customers?

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Call Center How To Policies Culture 92

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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Rewards Programs Call Center How To Contact Center 40

Brad Cleveland Blog

APRIL 14, 2022

When you peel back the layers of any customer-centric organization, you’ll find a culture of honoring employees, encouraging their insight, and engaging them every step of the way. Customer experience is built on a foundation of employee engagement. What is employee engagement?

Employee Engagement 29

Employee Engagement Engagement Customer Centricity Culture 29

ShepHyken

MAY 27, 2022

This week, we feature an article by Sowmya Juttukonda, content developer & digital media specialist at Knowmax , a knowledge management system to enhance customer service. She shares how organizations can create an environment that motivates employees to become more productive and improve customer experience.

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How To Call Center Employee Engagement Resources 126

Brad Cleveland Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Supply chain problems and the Great Resignation have caused challenges on every aspect of customer care. The work we’re handling has surged and become more complex, while the employees … Continue reading → The post Do your goals and metrics foster employee engagement? appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

Employee Engagement 46

Employee Engagement Metrics Engagement Contact Center 46

Brad Cleveland Blog

APRIL 14, 2022

When you peel back the layers of any customer-centric organization, you’ll find a culture of honoring employees, encouraging their insight, and engaging them every step of the way. Customer experience is built on a foundation of employee engagement.

Employee Engagement 26

Employee Engagement Engagement Customer Centricity Culture 26

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Customer experience is about so much more than call-center scripts or proper protocol around customer complaints. The best companies, the ones we know as customer experience leaders, adopt a customer focused view to everything. Silos make understanding the customer journey that much harder.

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Customer Focused Employee Engagement Call Center Social Media 275

Clarabridge

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Once employees understand the strategy, it is up to the management team to provide the skills and resources to deliver that strategy consistently. And don’t forget it’s a 24/7 effort – employees need to know how it translates across mobile, online, in-store, and in the call center.

Employee Engagement 68

Employee Engagement Engagement Hotels Effort Score 68

Stella Connect

JUNE 28, 2018

Just imagine what you could accomplish if call center attrition were a non-issue. Customer service agents would be careerists, loyal to the brand and enthusiastic about serving customers. As you built out your team, established agents would help guide newer agents and keep them engaged.

Call Center 40

Call Center Contact Center Effort Score First Call Resolution 40

Stella Connect

JUNE 28, 2018

Just imagine what you could accomplish if call center attrition were a non-issue. Customer service agents would be careerists, loyal to the brand and enthusiastic about serving customers. As you built out your team, established agents would help guide newer agents and keep them engaged.

Call Center 40

Call Center Contact Center Effort Score First Call Resolution 40

Brad Cleveland Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The most customer-centric organizations build on a foundation of employee engagement. What’s behind that level of engagement? As it turns out the key driver is purpose.

Employee Engagement 26

Employee Engagement Engagement Customer Centricity Video 26

NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Are you a call center operations manager striving to enhance your team’s productivity and deliver hyper efficiency in your daily operations? Hyper efficiency is a term used to describe the streamlining of processes to increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve customer service. Look no further!

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Contact Center Call Center Management Gamification 52

Steve DiGioia

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Guest Post by Tal Schnall - Leadership and Customer Service Mentor This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. With 20 years of hospitality experience he writes about what ‘true leaders’ can do to provide great customer service. Many companies seek easy ways to fix their customer service challenges.

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Customer Service Hotels Leadership Culture 100

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 3, 2015

So it’s up to the leaders of any organization to seek out your customer service superstars and discern the ways they make things just a little better for your customers. Here are some of the ways we’ve seen customer service superstars stand out: 1. Empathetic and engaging behavior.

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Customer Service Call Center Social Media Consulting 110

Up Your Service

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

What are the main ways companies can differentiate their offering based on the quality of their service culture? This is a fundamental question that we challenge all clients to consider as they embark on building a “service culture” versus simply training customer service skills. Employee engagement.

Culture 55

Culture CEM Social Media Employee Engagement 55

Retently

JULY 28, 2023

How do you approach customer happiness in your company? Do you simply rely on the generic “the customer is always right” speech, or do you have a customer-centric culture in place that’s overseen by a professional who understands how customers think and feel, and who knows how to get that point of view across to other employees too?

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Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Call Center Metrics 132

Brad Cleveland Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

These organizations see both employee engagement and business returns improve. I explain these seven key principles in this video from my LinkedIn Learning course “Customer Service: Motivating Your Team.” As … The post Want engaged employees?

Culture 26

Culture Engagement Employee Engagement Video 26

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Deputize someone in each department as the customer advocate. It’s their job to truly represent the customer in every meeting. Include customer tasks in YOUR to-do list every day or week. Call the call center, try to order something online, or just talk to front-line staff. Make sure they do.

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Customer Journeys Customer Experience eBook Employee Engagement 306

Brad Cleveland Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Supply chain problems and the Great Resignation have caused challenges on every aspect of customer care. The work we’re handling has surged and become more complex, while the employees … Continue reading → The post Do your goals and metrics foster employee engagement? appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

Employee Engagement 26

Employee Engagement Metrics Engagement Contact Center 26

Clarabridge

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Once employees understand the strategy, it is up to the management team to provide the skills and resources to deliver that strategy consistently. And don’t forget it’s a 24/7 effort – employees need to know how it translates across mobile, online, in-store, and in the call center.

Employee Engagement 40

Employee Engagement Engagement Hotels Effort Score 40

BlueOcean

JUNE 21, 2017

Where do your current customer service efforts show weaknesses or blind spots? What are your competitors doing in the customer service space? When you have a thorough view of what your current customer service situation looks like, you can start gathering your specific requirements. Are you able to scale?

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Contact Center Tips Culture Call Center 174

Michel Falcon Experience

JANUARY 16, 2020

This company’s leadership team has made a conscious decision that is negatively impacting their customer experience. What they should be doing is allocating a higher labour budget to afford more call center agents to ensure 80% of calls are answered within 20 seconds or less (this is a common call center service level agreement).

Customer Journeys 88

Customer Journeys Strategy Customer Experience How To 88

BlueOcean

JUNE 6, 2017

Across every industry, the fact that people leave their jobs and move on is a basic truth, but in the contact center, the attrition metric receives quite of a bit of negative attention. In fact, the International Customer Management Institute pegs the average call center turnover rate at 33%.

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Contact Center Call Center Employee Engagement Employee Experience 218

Brad Cleveland Blog

MARCH 20, 2019

Do you need to make the case for your efforts to improve employee engagement? These numbers may help: 51% of US workers are not engaged, while 17.5% are actively disengaged.

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Employee Engagement Engagement Contact Center Call Center 26

Brad Cleveland Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

These organizations see both employee engagement and business returns improve. … Continue reading → The post Want engaged employees? Create a supporting culture appeared first on Brad Cleveland. I’ve seen that seven key principles are always at work in great organizations.

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Culture Engagement Employee Engagement Contact Center 26

Magellan Solutions

MAY 25, 2018

To keep the customers satisfied, you must first create a great corporate culture. And finally, to ensure a meaningful customer engagement, you must first teach and expose your employees the ins and outs of customer service. Start with the basics — customer service training.

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Customer Service Training Training Customer Engagement Engagement 70

Kate Nasser

MAY 31, 2017

The ultimate customer service culture is not about employees first. The post Ultimate Customer Service Culture: It’s About Unity Not Employees First | #custserv appeared first on KateNasser.com. It's about unity.

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Culture Customer Service Leadership Customers 41

Brad Cleveland Blog

JANUARY 9, 2020

Employee engagement should be a key metric in all service environments. Research shows that employee engagement influences – even drives – customer satisfaction and loyalty. Retention, productivity, and quality are all strongly and positively correlated with employee engagement.

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Employee Engagement Metrics Engagement Course 26

Playvox

JULY 14, 2023

Here’s the blueprint for achieving greater agent productivity in your call center. Contact Center Agent Productivity Defined Call center agent productivity is based on the efficiency and effectiveness with which your agents handle customer interactions, such as incoming calls, emails, chats, and social interactions.

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Contact Center Measurement Call Center How To 74

BlueOcean

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Sounds like a dream come true (and truth be told, templates for call center services RFPs have improved by leaps and bounds in just the past year or two,) but you need to know the potential limits. These factors require some creativity when responding to and differentiating through the contact center RFP.

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Contact Center Call Center Report Transportation 149

Brad Cleveland Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The impact of employee engagement is incredible. In fact, engaged employees are four times more likely than non-engaged employees to go beyond what’s expected of them according to the Temkin Group, a US firm focused on customer experience.

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Employee Engagement Engagement Study Groups 26

Brad Cleveland Blog

MARCH 20, 2019

Do you need to make the case for your efforts to improve employee engagement? These numbers may help: 51% of US workers are not engaged, while 17.5% Source: Gallup) Compared with disengaged employees, highly engaged employees are 4.7x are actively disengaged. Source: Temkin …

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