Tag: Customer service

You Can’t put a Price on Being Nice: Top Tips for Call Centre Staff

For many organisations, the contact or call centre is still the shopfront of the business. At last count, there were 6,175 contact centres in the UK, employing some 772,500 agents. As the first port of call for clients and customers,...

Sharpening Skills at the Contact Centre Masterclass

A fresh crop of eager professionals has benefited from the expert knowledge of CX and contact centre guru Daniel Ord at the latest High Performance Management for Inbound Contact Centres Masterclass. Delegates from across the UK arrived in London for the two-day...

Aligning the Competing Agendas of Customer Service

It’s time to rethink connected services and the way we interact with our customers. A lot has changed during the last 20 years in the customer service sphere, and it’s vital that companies engaging in it change too – and challenge...

First Contact Resolution: The key Measure in Contact Centres

There are many common customer service metrics in place in contact centres: CSAT, NPS, FRT, CES, AHT, FCR, the list goes on. Some are more valid than others and some are simply outdated and add confusion and conflict to both the...

Why Contact Centres Should Think Before They Speak

We’re flush with new ways to engage with customers, but businesses should be more data-driven, rather than simply throwing more manpower on the frontlines. In the era of new contact centre touchpoints, the touchpoints themselves matter less and less because...

People, Peaks and Personality: Getting Recruitment Right in Contact Centres

Recruitment has never been an easy task, regardless of which industry is facing the challenge. Difficulties in finding the right people, at the right time, with the right skills, is something all organisations encounter. One such industry is contact centres....

Five Ways Cloud can Empower Your Customer Service Team

As any reader of CXM knows, Customer Experience is a key business differentiator. Businesses working in every sector, from IT to healthcare to retail, needs to deliver fast, effective, and memorable customer service to stand out from the crowd. Consumers...

Putting the Pride Back in Customer Service

Working in a call centre has been seen as the very epitome of the “McJob” – a low-paid, unrewarding role that’s usually viewed as a stepping stone to more responsible, better-paid and more meaningful employment. It shouldn’t be this way. Customer service...

Emotion, Empathy and Personalisation: How can AI Ever Replace Humans?

There is ever increasing interest in the role emotions play when managing Customer Experience in the contact centre. At the same time, there is a drive to introduce technology such as chatbots to make customer service teams more efficient; removing...

Contact Centre Evolution: Keeping up With Customer Demands

In theory, it has never been easier for consumers to communicate with your business…but are the choices suitable and easy to access? Today’s consumers demand instant, fast, on-the-go interaction with companies, which is why web chats, texts, and social media have...