Effective call centre coaching raises employee engagement, boosts customer happiness, and improves performance. By offering the proper assistance and advice, call centre managers can assist their agents in performing to the best of their abilities. This article looks at seven crucial suggestions for call centre coaching. 1. Self-Assessments It is crucial to motivate call centre…
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In the fast-paced world of customer service, contact centre agents need more than just technical skills to thrive. A successful agent should possess a range of soft skills, also known as interpersonal skills, to provide exceptional customer service, build rapport, and handle challenging situations with grace. This article will explore the top five must-have soft…
Read moreCustomer Service Training for Call Centre Agents
Every day, call centres handle an enormous volume of customer interactions – traditionally via phone calls, but increasingly via email, chatbots or social media too. With this volume of exchanges, you can see it’s vital to get one thing right: customer service. Many organisations have developed their own unique definitions of customer service to reflect…
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Read more5 Must Haves in your Contact Centre in 2023
From AI to Analytics and everything in between, we’ve been busy finding out what the Contact Centre must haves are for 2023! As the world continues to evolve and change, it’s important to regularly assess your systems and make any updates as necessary to insure you’re keeping up with the latest trends and technology that will take your business to the next level.
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3 Coaching Templates To Help You Have More Effective Conversations
Holding effective 1:1 coaching sessions with agents is known to have a huge impact on employee motivation. In a recent survey, more than half of customer support workers said they wanted more communication and feedback yet inconsistencies across large teams are common. One supervisor may have created their own coaching form, whereas another could simply…
Read moreOne-to-Ones: How to Make Every Meeting Count
One-to-ones are a fantastic tool for improving agent performance, activity and engagement. But, you don’t get all that time for free. Every one-to-one you run takes an agent away from frontline customer interactions for a period of time. And, of course, any team leader will tell you that the process of scheduling, preparing for, running…
Read more3 Barriers To Successful One-to-Ones and How to Overcome Them
There’s no doubt about it – One-to-Ones are one of the foundational pillars of strong contact centre performance. Without a clearly defined commitment to One-to-One sessions with your frontline agents, you have limited opportunity to identify improvement areas, provide targeted coaching and improve agent performance over time. You’ll also starve your agents of the recognition…
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