BlueOcean

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The highest performing companies will ensure these disciplines coexist, transforming their contact centers (and much of their business) to maximize their business outcomes. Read on for more insight into the total experience strategy. This is how you create brand advocates and reduce customer churn and employee turnover.

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Myra Golden

JUNE 2, 2016

.” This training is perfect for: Customer service professionals who deal with difficult customers on a daily basis. New hires who are inexperienced in handling aggressive and difficult customers. Employees who come across as aggressive or blunt with difficult customers. Call Control Using Conversational Aikido.

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Myra Golden

JUNE 2, 2016

This training is perfect for: Customer service professionals who deal with difficult customers on a daily basis. New hires who are inexperienced in handling aggressive and difficult customers. Employees who come across as aggressive or blunt with difficult customers. How to Handle Difficult Customers Using Verbal Aikido.

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Myra Golden

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. Each dimension on the score sheet was rated on a 5-point scale after supervisors listened to a random sample of calls between employees and customers.

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Interactions

JUNE 18, 2020

Therefore, it should be a big focus in the contact center. With this increase of AI and technology, it’s important to understand that the best results will come from strategically integrating technology in the contact center that works in synergy with live agents. What is agent experience? Here are three ways: 1.

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Myra Golden

APRIL 11, 2023

A whopping one-third of contact centers have laid off employees in the last 12 months, reducing their headcount by about 33%. Despite fewer resources and fewer employees, contact centers are expected to achieve the same or better results. But how can they achieve this? Learn more about Balto AI’s solutions here.

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Myra Golden

APRIL 28, 2021

When we moved to Q & A, Sherry asked a question about training and supporting remote agents: Our contact center agents will work remotely for the foreseeable future. I’m a contact center supervisor who trains, yet I don’t have a training background. What advice can you give me? Be supportive.

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Myra Golden

JANUARY 17, 2017

The goal was to motivate customer service employees to deliver a better customer experience by monitoring calls and giving feedback on calls. Each dimension on the score sheet was rated on a 5-point scale after supervisors listened to a random sample of calls between employees and customers.

Contact Center 45

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Myra Golden

JANUARY 17, 2017

The goal was to motivate customer service employees to deliver a better customer experience by monitoring calls and giving feedback on calls. Each dimension on the score sheet was rated on a 5-point scale after supervisors listened to a random sample of calls between employees and customers.

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Myra Golden

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

One of the biggest challenges for contact center representatives is controlling conversations and guiding customers to the next steps and off the phone. This is particularly difficult when you give bad news or deny a request. Follow my five psychological steps to controlling calls and getting your Average Handle Time (AHT) Down!

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Myra Golden

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Twice in the last week, Contact Center Agents have reached out to me for help on reducing Average Handle Time (AHT). You can move customers out of venting, rambling, and storytelling using Reframing Statements. I’m listening, and I have an answer.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

One of the most disruptive technologies of our time is Artificial Intelligence (AI) which makes it possible for machines to learn from experience, adjust to new inputs and perform human-like tasks. Increases contact center productivity. AI is a crucial part of improving both agent and customer experience.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 28, 2020

Your customer experience strategy should aim to tie the customer experience design, measurement, insights and improvements with the desired organizational business outcomes. Creating a Customer Experience Habit means knowing what success looks like. Start with your company’s goals.

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Myra Golden

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

You are a contact center supervisor or manager who is looking to improve your customer experience in telephone, chat, and email interactions, but you’re having trouble with call control and escalations. I’d love to hear your thoughts on something I’m working on. Is this you?:

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Myra Golden

JANUARY 3, 2022

And if you’ve ever worked in retail or a contact center, you know how challenging this time of year can be. Returns and exchanges make things more complicated because customers making returns are more likely to be already unhappy. After the busy Christmas and Boxing Day shopping season, returns start.

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Myra Golden

JUNE 23, 2020

. ” Like many customer service professionals, Andrea is experiencing what I now call the “COVID-19 Effect.” ” Customers are on edge about their money, whether to wear a mask or not, and from cabin fever. Employees serving customers have pandemic pressures on all sides. So, what’s the solution?

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Interaction Contact Center Course Customer Experience 87

Myra Golden

JULY 12, 2019

I remember managing a contact center and having an employee say to me , “Tammy does the exact same thing, yet the supervisor doesn’t take off points for her. I may not have a bubbly tone like Tammy, but I’m good with customers.” You, no doubt, have employees who notice the little (or big) things just like my son.

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Myra Golden

JUNE 10, 2019

When I listen to phone calls ahead of training for contact centers, medical practices, and customer service departments, I spot five glaring problems in almost every company I work with.

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Heart of the Customer

DECEMBER 4, 2014

If customers press 0 on your IVR, the answer isn’t teaching them how to use it better (“Please listen carefully as our options have changed.”) The CEB reports that 58% of callers to your contact center started out on your website. Design them well and they make life easier on your customers.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2019

Build, Retain and Empower the Ultimate 2020 Workforce: Streamline hiring and onboarding, augment your workforce with automation, knowledge systems and accurate sentiment analysis, and let workforce optimization guide you seamlessly into the future of contact center support. Senior Director, Customer Care, Hilton.

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Myra Golden

MARCH 27, 2018

Online Training Customized For Your Company! Online training is completely customized to your objectives. For contact center clients, we like to review a random sample of phone calls to help us understand where you are today. We meet with you to learn about your challenges and your goals. Flexible output.

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Myra Golden

JANUARY 16, 2019

Bonus Takeaway: 9-Steps for Coaching Customer Service Employees In Contact Centers. A 6-Step Template For Exactly How to Address Unacceptable Behavior or Performance. An Easy 2-Step Conversation Starter for Talking About Smaller, Yet Important, Performance Issues. Join Me for This Webinar!

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Myra Golden

JANUARY 15, 2019

Ruins the whole experience.” I have respected Brad’s work in the contact center industry for years. ” Exactly. A highlight of my week at LinkedIn was running into Brad Cleveland, Senior Advisor, ICMI. It was an honor to stand with the guru himself.

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Myra Golden

OCTOBER 26, 2016

To be clear, the role of customer service now ranks as one of the 10 most stressful jobs in the U.S. One of the things I’m working on right now is how to find ways to relieve the stress contact center agents face on a daily basis. Dealing with the customer who demands to speak to your supervisor is stressful.

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Myra Golden

JANUARY 23, 2017

I remember managing a contact center and having an employee say to me , “Tammy does the exact same thing, yet the supervisor doesn’t take off points for her. I may not have the bubbly tone like Tammy, but I’m good with customers.” You, no doubt, have employees who notice the little (or big) things just like my son.

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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. Customer: “Hi Bill. Here’s how the Agent opened the call.

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Myra Golden

JANUARY 8, 2018

My popular video: How to Solve Your Biggest Problems with Coaching Contact Center Agents. When you do, you’ll be fiercely focused, and things will be more comfortable than you likely envisioned! My gift to you! It’s a fact. Most managers don’t give employees the constructive feedback they need to develop and grow.

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SurveySensum

MARCH 4, 2021

So you’re looking at strategy, organizational adoption, accountability, the voice of customer, experience design and innovation, and measurements. Now you take the voice of the customer and the voice of employees and then put it side by side the voice of the business. . That’s when you see what is going on!

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Myra Golden

AUGUST 27, 2016

To be clear, the role of customer service now ranks as one of the 10 most stressful jobs in the U.S. One of the things I’m working on right now is how to find ways to relieve the stress contact center agents face on a daily basis. Dealing with the customer who demands to speak to your supervisor is stressful.

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Myra Golden

JANUARY 23, 2017

I remember managing a contact center and having an employee say to me , “Tammy does the exact same thing, yet the supervisor doesn’t take off points for her. I may not have the bubbly tone like Tammy, but I’m good with customers.” You, no doubt, have employees who notice the little (or big) things just like my son.

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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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Myra Golden

AUGUST 27, 2016

To be clear, the role of customer service now ranks as one of the 10 most stressful jobs in the U.S. One of the things I’m working on right now is how to find ways to relieve the stress contact center agents face on a daily basis. Dealing with the customer who demands to speak to your supervisor is stressful.

Social Media 40

Social Media Customer Service Representative Contact Center Customers 40

Myra Golden

OCTOBER 26, 2016

To be clear, the role of customer service now ranks as one of the 10 most stressful jobs in the U.S. One of the things I’m working on right now is how to find ways to relieve the stress contact center agents face on a daily basis. Dealing with the customer who demands to speak to your supervisor is stressful.

How To 40

How To Social Media Customer Service Representative Contact Center 40

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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NICE inContact

MAY 18, 2017

. – and aligning the data and systems into tech stacks is the first step to delivering an enhanced customer experience. Here are some scenarios to building a simple integrated stack with Contact Center, CRM and eCommerce systems. The above are a few starting points to delivering an exceptional customer experience.

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Myra Golden

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Questions are a double-edged sword for customer service professionals. You have to ask questions to get to the root of the problem, log issues, and in general, to help customers. Years ago, when I managed a small call center, I realized that my team had to ask our customers seven questions.

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Stella Connect

JANUARY 4, 2022

Customer service coaching refers to the practice of ongoing communication between the agent and their manager to hone in on how to improve on specific skills, achieve specific goals, and develop their craft so they can handle even the most difficult customer interactions. Coaching Customer Service Agents for Individual Growth. “A

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