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How to Teach Call Center Soft Skills

Fonolo

Make a soft skills scorecard that reflects the needs of your contact center. A great activity you can use to help train agents on communication, active listening, and patience is the “Copy Me” game. Role play games are always popular for soft skill development as well. . Have agents pair off.

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What’s the Downside of Tying Agent CSAT Scores to Their Performance?

SurveySensum

More than 90% of customers are likely to make repeat purchases from companies that provide excellent customer service. Furthermore, 86% of customers are willing to pay more to receive a better customer experience. Now, to understand and improve customer satisfaction, what metric do businesses measure?

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7 Steps to Better Call Center Quality Monitoring

Fonolo

The main goal is to ensure your customers are receiving consistent, top-notch service and customer satisfaction (CSat) scores are high. After all, what is a contact center without happy customers? Depending on the size of your contact center, you might need to step up your tech game. Why does it matter?

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Quality, Productivity, and Striking the Right Balance

Customer Service Life

For email, text, and social media it’s often a guessing game as to how long they take agents to complete. This increases the likelihood that customers receive replies that only partially address the issue, resulting in a dive in customer satisfaction and increased follow up emails from customers.

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How the Latest Outsourcing Trends and Strategies Are Reshaping the Industry 

Execs In The Know

Exceptional customer service is an investment, and brands that care truly respect it. When your BPO can deliver an exceptional customer experience, it’s a dollar well invested. The goal isn’t to just hit a number on a scorecard. The goal is to have a better overall customer experience.

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3 Reasons Why Customer Satisfaction Should Not Replace Quality Assurance

Customer Service Life

Not long ago I saw a demo of a cool product for gathering customer feedback called Stella Connect. They have a fun angle on customer satisfaction where customers are invited to rate their experience with the specific agent that helped them. Customers can then recommend that agents be rewarded. CSAT can be gamed.

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5 Lessons Learned While Attempting to Boost Contact Center Productivity

Customer Service Life

We built a dashboard or scorecard that allowed us to show each team member their emails sent per hour metric in comparison with both a team average and an overall team goal. Also on this scorecard, we share a few other metrics that are at least partially impacted by productivity.