There are more Zoomers than Boomers in the workforce now. The World Economic Forum projected that by 2025 Gen Z will make up 27% of working people in the 38 OECD countries and one third of the world population. They are likely to become...
Not only are performers like Harry Styles and Pink having objects thrown at them on stage, your agents have abuse thrown at them regularly. There are ways to support agents even with consumer rage on the rise....
Businesses must evolve as the people who work them and those who buy from them evolve. Changes in CX and EX in customer service have to come at the speed of change in the world as a whole....
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are a necessary part of the business-customer relationship. They need to be created with both your company’s unique needs and the needs of your customers. However, there is little point in going through the trouble of creating these agreements if they...
Streamlining customer experience benefits businesses, their workers and their customers. Generative AI acts as a powerful streamlining tool improving efficiency and accuracy, driving decision-making and fostering innovation....
You know that your business needs to provide great customer service to compete. You also know that you need to allocate your human and monetary resources to tools that provide a great return for your investment. Now CSAT.AI can help your business save more time...
Employee engagement and CX are powerfully connected. Empower employees with information and invest in them as people for great customer experience and business....
Today we’re following up on our improper ticket closing blog. What happens to a ticket before it reaches the closing stage (if it ever does) impacts metrics and CX too. These are six ticket handling problems to avoid. ...
An in-house customer service team that is steeped in company culture sounds great. But it isn’t a practical fit for all businesses. A customer service business outsourcing, or CS BPO, makes sense to save time and money....
Documented customer complaints have been around since, well since the first record of one in 1750 BC (which was much harder a complaint to make than sending an email). Closed tickets are happy customers. Or are they?...
It’s important to effectively escalate the customer issues that need more attention. Whether from self-serve to your agents or from your agent to a manager or other department, a plan for customer service escalation is an important part of your successful support strategy....
Like most industries, customer service has its own jargon - chock full of acronyms (context is everything). Here is a customer service dictionary of 65 common terms and acronyms....
The right answer benefits both your business and your customer. It's especially good when that answer comes via the first contact....
For the customer service industry, how can generative AI tools like ChatGPT impact the future of contact centers?...
The negative nickname of ‘cost center’ applied to contact centers works against the success of quality customer service. Recognize opportunities for contact center revenue and cost reduction. This helps get bosses on board with investing in customer service as a profitable sales tool. ...
There’s a lot of talk around the work from home and return to office debate. What’s fueling it and where it’s happening is part of the discussion. But does this debate apply to the contact center work from home model? ...
Digital customer service options are able to help manage the support challenges businesses are facing. The question is, should they be the only options customers have? ...
The new year brings new trends besides inflation, staffing issues and severe weather. The contact center and customer support industry continue to evolve. Data and customer service professionals have insight into 2023 customer service trends and the reasons behind them....
You survived the holidays and you’ve got new customers! Now what? To make the most of these new relationships use segmentation of holiday customers to your advantage....
A customer first policy is not always best, even for the customer, when it’s missing key components for success....
Streamlining saves money and time in contact centers or customer service departments just like in any other area of business. That time is more profitable when spent on value-added activities that improve customer experience and product offerings or on efficient actions that support these. ...
Research released in November found 45% of businesses are having trouble staffing contact center and back office roles. For the 2022 holiday season customer service staffing it’s critical to keep the agents you have during your most profitable season. ...
It’s Thanksgiving week! Time for family get-togethers, big meals and Black Friday. You can help your agents feel valued. In a time where retaining quality employees is vital, remember to thank your customer service agents, now and all year round:...
Customers are leaning into automation and 95% of contact center leaders are using or plan to use automation in the next year. If you’re one of them make sure you’re using quality automation in your customer service strategy....
Times, they are always a-changing. No longer silently taking poor treatment, employees and customers have pushed back against companies: employees via the Great Resignation, and customers with changing brand loyalty. Inflation in the US is at a decade high on the heels of two already...
Per The Quality Assurance & Training Connection (QATC) 2018 study, turnover in US contact centers alone is "between 30-45% which is more than double the average for all occupations in the U.S." Intense. There are many reasons why there is so much turnover in call centers. ...
Phrase based models use natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning which allow AI to derive meaning from human language. This is a powerful customer service technology in multiple ways....
What goes into a quality QA process? Updated October 2022 (Originally posted February 2019) Grab a cup of tea, coffee or liquid of choice and let’s talk quality assurance. It’s not the most exciting topic but a vital one to your company’s longevity. There are...
Nudges don’t remove freedom of choice, they make a certain choice more attractive. The aim is to make those preferred choices beneficial to the chooser. We’re not focusing on negative nudges or those meant to manipulate for the benefit of another party. In the case...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released their newest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) yesterday. A new report but not much new movement: minimal change in openings, hires, and separations (which include quits, layoffs and discharges) for July compared to June 2022. However, in...
According to a Salesforce report from February 2022, 71% of agents have considered leaving their jobs in the previous 6 months with 86% saying they require more from their companies in order to stay. Are you using the following methods to reduce agent churn and...
Don’t underestimate the power of the empathy metric in customer service. To get the most out of this metric though, you need to manage empathy fatigue and avoid using inauthentic empathy that backfires....
Jimi Hendrix loved to fling his guitar around to get weird and wonderful sounds from the feedback.” Jimi Hendrix and his guitar virtuosity aside, we are focusing on their business use of the word feedback: information about something such as a new product or someone's...
Latency, language differences, awkward auto-corrects, improper use of emojis (no, the poop emoji is not chocolate and 'LOL' doesn’t mean lots of love): there are many challenges for communication in contact centers with omnichannel customer access. Upgrade your approach to communication. ...
An unhappy customer service agent is more than a meme, they are a person with difficulties that have solutions.Customer service whether it is as a content moderator, contact center agent or customer sales rep is emotionally taxing....
Ann started her day with a double espresso and a quick lap around the block, but by 2pm she has been staring at the same customer service ticket for ten minutes and can’t remember what her last action on it was. She’s so tired she...
Yeah, we know. Relationships are hard. But human beings (and businesses) don't do well on an island alone. Build your CX and EX together....
Remote and offshore work is a growing field with projections of growth to $19.5 Billion by 2025. Let’s look at the reasons, benefits and challenges of offshoring contact center operations in a multilingual world. ...
The 2021 holiday buying season is riddled with post-pandemic challenges including. Let’s look at the current crazy state of affairs....
Research shows it’s not worth sacrificing quality for speed, though. Average Handle Time (AHT) as a tool to organize and estimate rather than to motivate agents is more advantageous. This HBR article by Pete Slease, Rick DeLisi and Matthew Dixon argues that AHT is the...
Another group that was shown to be lost in the shuffle of remote work is Gen Z. The Microsoft report revealed this group was more likely to feel isolated, struggle with making a quality home work environment and feel less connected with work. As the...
Make managing your remote customer service team easier with CSAT.AI....
When we put out our blog last week on facing changes we didn’t yet know how big they would be. This week we are in a new paradigm due to COVID-19, where remote work is a necessity. For some of you this may be new...
Using soft skills like humor, creativity and empathy in customer service, agents are able to change a mediocre customer experience into a memorable one. ...
Welcome to CSAT.AI for customer experience and quality assurance, your new best friend. With this innovative tool QA monitoring is automated, covering all of your chat and email interactions. CSAT.AI supports your agents with real time feedback enabling them to provide excellent customer experience....
Conceptual photo illustrating burnout syndrome at work...
High stress, low wages, abuse. We’re not talking about indentured servants, we’re talking about customer service. Unfortunately, customer service agents are often treated badly. It’s time for businesses to take responsibility for the environment their employees work in by reducing employee harm....
One of the things I feel most strongly about is that customer service professionals should never ever be sworn at, demeaned or abused...
Happy Customer Service Week! Last week in prep for #CustomerServiceWeek2019, we celebrated customer service successes. This week we are celebrating the power of employee engagement with The Ritz-Carlton. Employee Engagement Experts and reports agree, treating employees well is linked to business success. As Micah Solomon states in...
In Hubspot’s recent The State of Customer Service in 2019 report, they mentioned the earliest recorded customer complaint from 1750 BCE. Wow. This industry has some history. What about the feel good moments? In preparation for Customer Service Week we’re celebrating some customer service successes...
Are your customers caught in a customer experience time loop? Your customer facing AI solutions, like chatbots, never tire of repetition. However, your customers and agents do....
Gender inequality and unequal pay have come to light with the help of things like the #MeToo movement and detailed worldwide studies on the state of gender disparity. These issues are common in the call center and contact center sector. How do we go...
Customer service agent support is key. Agents have a tough job. Let’s be honest, the work is repetitive and dull. These are human beings tethered to a headset at a desk for hours listening to people complain. There are many demands from supervisors and executives....
There is the doom and gloom approach that AI will take over jobs and dehumanize the experience. When used strategically, AI enhances CX, and shows human and machine are best together. ...
Abuse is not high on the list for most job seekers, customer service employees included. Though there are many reasons for agent turnover in contact centers, one cause is harassment from customers. Here are three ways contact center agents are abused and tools to improve...
If you make customers feel good they are likely to stay and more likely to share, like, subscribe, re-post and buy more....
Captain Marvel is not only a powerful super heroine, her catchphrase has business applications - higher, further, faster. Take some tips from this superhero’s motto and raise your customer service game....
You can teach employees a slogan or a marketing soundbite, but what company culture truly is beneath the polish is the foundation upon which the company soars, or falls. It is what people feel about a company and how they talk about it when the...
45% of agents don’t feel they have sufficient tools for success. Why is that? How can you support your customer service agents and improve customer experience?...
“Too much information, running through my brain…” The Police have it right. We're drowning in the amount of info available to us. However, what use is data that isn’t sifted or that comes too late? In customer service it means loss of clients and...
Despite her best performance, the customer service script Jessie was required to use didn’t win her an Oscar and it didn’t answer the customer’s questions. Though they have some useful applications there are reasons not to use a script in customer service....
Sick of hearing about the gig economy yet? If you haven’t heard the term likely you’ve been living under a proverbial rock. Is the gig economy rising? That depends on which source of data you read. Still, the customer service gig is rising. Tell Me What You...
If your customer has been through the online FAQ, searched the product manual, tried finding a solution on Youtube but still needs help, their next step is a call to your customer service team. The quality of agent service they receive reflects directly on your...
“Have you tried turning it off and on again?” The phrase spoken by many IT pros and made even more famous in the Britcom The IT Crowd. The character Roy has repeated this question so much he made a recording of it that he plays...
“The Buck Stops Here”. Former POTUS Harry S. Truman had that saying on his desk as a reminder that when it came to ‘passing the buck,’ (an expression that means passing the blame) he was the very last stop. Where businesses are concerned, contact centers and...
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