Learning & Development · Customer Experience
Posted: June 5, 2019
PSA: I don’t want to come across like one of those judgemental vegans/vegetarians that everybody hates, so there’s no blame in this blog post. I’m not even going to go deep into the reasons why I believe dietary change is necessary for a sustainable future – it’s up to you to research and decide for yourself. Today is World Environment Day – an event created…
Customer Experience|Learning & Training|Technology
Posted: June 4, 2019
Since the dawn of time, humans have used technology to improve the way we live. From our earliest forays into fire-making to building the first cars, it’s human ingenuity which has helped us take raw materials around us and transform them into new inventions to make our lives easier. In the present day and the realm of the contact center, we’re on the cusp of…
Customer Experience|Learning & Training
Posted: May 29, 2019
ICMI Expo 2019 took place from the 13th-16th May at the rather glamorous Diplomat Resort, Hollywood Beach, Florida. My time at the Expo was a breath of fresh air in more ways than simply letting me escape the heat outside. Expo 2019’s theme was “Navigate the tides of transformation” and as well as covering a lot of the type of best practices CX pros are familiar…
Customer Experience|Technology
Posted: May 28, 2019
You can’t build a house on a weak foundation. In the same way, the standard of customer experience that consumers expect isn’t achieved without technology to bring together disparate channels and make consistent, seamless experiences an easy thing to achieve. Thanks to the growth of omnichannel strategies in recent years, there’s no shortage of customer experience (CX) platforms out there. But in the same way that CX can…
Customer Experience|Technology
Posted: April 17, 2019
Agent: “How can I help?” You: “Well, it’s a long story…” Have you ever uttered these words when you’ve got in touch, yet again, to ask an organisation to solve a persistent problem? If you have, you’ll know that one of two things can happen. Either, the agent stops you right there, looks up your history, and troubleshooting carries on from where you left off. Or you’ll need to repeat the whole sorry story to a new agent. Even then,…
Customer Experience|Technology
Posted: April 3, 2019
Picture this: A screen with four applications open, arranged in windowed tiles so you can still access the other five other applications hidden behind. The click-clack sound of keyboard toggle shortcuts punctuating conversations between each back and forth. A chorus of “Hold, please” to buy time needed to manually copy and paste the customer information that was just provided via the IVR maze. Sound familiar?…
Customer Experience|Technology
Posted: March 27, 2019
Another Forbes mention! 😊 Dan Gingiss did a great write-up of Comm100’s Live Chat Benchmark Report and drew out a number of interesting findings – including that live chat customer satisfaction is on the rise. This benchmark report is a big effort by all of us at Comm100 every year, and I’ve been involved since our 2016 report. It’s an original piece of research that’s based on all…
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…