Recently, I recorded the Lynda.com course “Quality Standards in Customer Service.” Here is an excerpt from that course on five secrets to quality service. If you enjoy this video, check out the entire course at the Lynda.com Library. >Quality Standards...
To many, optimization is synonymous with driving costs out of the business — moving contacts to lower-cost channels (self- service, etc.), reducing human contact with the customer, and driving down handling times. “This is all wrong,” says consultant Mary...
A popular trend in process improvement is the effort to correlate specific contact center activities to overall customer satisfaction. For example, some consulting organizations have been convincing clients to lower service level objectives because their scatter...
As a primary customer touchpoint, the contact center has enormous potential to provide other business units with valuable intelligence and support. This can include input on customers, products, services and processes — information that, when captured, identified,...
