Learning & Development · Customer Experience
Culture|Customer Experience|Emotional Intelligence
Posted: March 20, 2019
We spend 1/3rd of our entire lives at work, so it’s vital to be tuned into what you need to be happy and healthy there. What’s more, customer experience and customer service are difficult fields to work within. I’ve written before about the impact of emotional labour on call center employees, and the difficulties that come when call center work is stigmatised. Because of this,…
Here’s a post I contributed to with a lot of comments from people across the web on what CX is in 2019 – both what it looks like today, and where it’s going in the future. Here’s my section, covering where I’m seeing CX going over the course of the year. A big part of this is that I’m pretty excited about automation opportunities for…
Customer Experience|Emotional Intelligence|Learning & Training
Posted: March 11, 2019
The word ‘script’ can strike fear into the hearts of agents and managers alike. Nobody wants chat agents to sound robotic or to take away their freedom to express their personality and demonstrate their expertise. Having said that, your agents are the voice of your organization. Because of this, it’s important that your agents can speak appropriately to your customers, providing an experience that’s cohesive…
Culture|Emotional Intelligence|Team Building
Posted: March 4, 2019
As a contact center leader, you will know the importance of feedback to help your agents continuously learn and improve their work. Truly effective contact centers recognize that agent development should continue to occur even long after initial call center training, and that constructive feedback and coaching should be a part of the entire employee lifecycle. Many management development programs teach the basics of giving…
Customer Experience|Learning & Training|Technology
Posted: February 22, 2019
It’s 2019, and our contact centers are changing fast. The proliferation of new channels over recent years means that now, some 67% of customers prefer using self-service options instead of speaking with an agent. If you started your career as an agent and remember trying hard to treat every call like it was your first despite having already heard that query ten times that day, this stat…
This webinar was a blast. Jeff and I are good buddies, so it’s always fun presenting with him. However, this webinar was especially significant as it aired just before we launched Comm100’s 2019 Benchmark Report, so we got to share some sneak peeks at the stats before it was even live. As well as discussing the findings from the latest benchmark report, we chatted about…
Every year, we at Comm100 release our live chat benchmark report, tracking trends and themes across not only live chat but the state of mobile, AI and automation too. I’ve worked on this report since 2016, and my involvement has spanned writing copy to working with influencers and giving my own thoughts and ideas too. This is the project I most love getting my teeth…
Have you seen the show “Nailed It!” on Netflix? Home bakers with a terrible track record take a crack at re-creating edible masterpieces for a $10000 prize. It’s part reality contest, part hot mess. Nailed It is a great analogy for problems with much organisational learning today, and why we need to change the model. Contestants on Nailed It are enthusiastic amateurs aiming to recreate…
I always said a life goal was to be published in Forbes, and happily, today my friend Dan Gingiss posted my CX New Years Resolution along with a compilation of resolutions from other CX friends to Forbes. This was a nice thing to see today. I’m still determined to get published by Forbes in my own right one day though! 😛 Here’s the post, thanks…
Culture|Customer Experience|Learning & Training
Posted: November 28, 2018
I really enjoyed presenting at this webinar with Tony Medrano of RapportBoost and my friend Nate Brown, co-founder of CX Accelerator, the online CX learning community I’m proud to help facilitate. We chatted about customer preferences, channels, employee engagement and more! Listen to the recording here.