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Three reasons not to hire a customer service consultant

Inside Customer Service

They were: Focused on a specific goal. 1 You are not focused on a specific goal A good consulting engagement requires a client to know exactly what they want to achieve. . #1 1 You are not focused on a specific goal A good consulting engagement requires a client to know exactly what they want to achieve. Open to change.

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Strategies to avoid burnout and manage your workload

Intercom, Inc.

Communicating your process to other teams and colleagues, and clearly setting realistic, sustainable expectations, is a key part of this self-protection. Depending on your discipline or the size of your team, this process can evolve into a fully fledged request intake system, with set criteria determining the prioritisation of projects.

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Destiny and the Revolution: How the future of Uniphore is the future of customer experience

Uniphore

Contact centers have the same goals and challenges around first call resolution and customer wait times as they always have. But there is a new set of challenges as well. As Yochai highlighted, a big challenge with this environment is recruiting, hiring and training agents–all from home.

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Before you go whaling – automate your sales follow-up for the long tail

Intercom, Inc.

My colleague Patrick calls this the problem of the big whale and the long tail. With a high volume of inbound leads, you have a long tail of small accounts that individually are worth less in ARR but collectively could mean a big pay day for your company. Separate the big whale from the long tail. The big whale.

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Is scoreless quality assurance right for your contact center?

Inside Customer Service

I didn't do myself any favors by just setting the score sheet down in front of him at the start of the conversation. We find reps react more positively to this method as it creates less anxiety or 'big brother' feelings." Goal performance: provide the correct answer 100% of the time. Wrap-up by discussing goals for future calls.

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Improve your one-to-ones with these three coaching models

Logicalware

So in this blog, we’re including three coaching form templates you can use to make your coaching and quality assurance process more effective and consistent across your contact centre. The acronym stands for goal, reality, options and will. The first step of GROW is to set some goals. OSKAR model.

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The Year of the Vision Board

CX Accelerator

It quickly became overwhelming and the advice was plentiful: make SMART goals, track your progress weekly, break your goals down into smaller goals. I knew it wasn’t reasonable or sustainable to make my goals feel like work or require a lot of heavy lifting. Find her work on the Tin Cans & String blog!

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