Call center quality management leaders are tasked with carrying the torch for agent improvement and driving an organization towards its customer experience goals. But often, it’s a struggle to share the insights needed to demonstrate how an organization’s quality program is contributing to those overarching goals.
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As I searched for ways to discipline my accident-prone, very determined, yet very sensitive and sometimes diva-like 5-year-old daughter, I had a revelation: Dealing with rude customer interactions in the contact center can be similar to this challenge. As customers get more frustrated — whether it’s a product not working correctly, not reaching resolution, or any number of…
Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) are notoriously tough customers when it comes to approving expenditures for new initiatives. They expect to see a solid business case with a strong, defensible return on investment (ROI). When Valvoline looked into centralizing the inbound calls that its 1,300 retail locations were handling, the business case almost wrote itself. The effort was expected…
NiCE research confirms this trend: Agent-assisted digital channels are gaining ground, with the largest growth in the agent-assisted web chat. SMS and mobile apps also have made gains, though less than chat channels (find more details here). Companies face growing customer expectations — they want a true omnichannel experience supporting more and more digital channels. At the…
Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Integrated Services Delivery (IDS) is the state agency that manages the entire process for benefits administration — from application and qualification through delivery. Although the state of Michigan maintains 14 different contact centers for different agencies, DHHS/IDS didn’t have a dedicated contact center. Instead, approximately 5,000 caseworkers around the state…
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a winner is defined as one that is successful, especially through praiseworthy ability and hard. At NiCE, we define winners as those who take customer service excellence and innovation to the next level.
Does your company have a true understanding of what your customers want, need and think? Specifically, how do your customers feel about your customer service? Have they embraced your new, leading-edge, AI-enabled chatbots? How about the latest digital channels? Or are they still most satisfied with a phone call with a competent agent? And what about your company?…