Building a Successful Contact Center
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Today’s customer is more tech-savvy and informed than ever before. Data is available at his fingertips. He, therefore, expects the best service support and there is no excuse for poor customer support. The stakes are high in the contact center landscape. If a customer has had a bad experience, the chances are your enterprise will not only lose a customer but will face a loss of reputation too. 84% of businesses are aware of the significance of happy customer interactions. But many fall short of being CX leaders. The revenue impact from a 10% improvement in a company’s customer experience score can translate into more than $1 billion, says a Forrester study. Let’s now explore the four must-haves that make a contact center successful:
1. The Robotic Aid
By 2021, 70 percent of organizations will assist their employees’ productivity
by integrating AI in the workplace
– Gartner
AI brings more value to your customer data. It is not possible for a human being
to sift through all of it and produce actionable insights. This is where the
marriage of business intelligence (BI) and AI comes into play. Data unification
is now complete within days and at a fraction of the cost as compared to a few
years ago. AI also produces instantaneous customer insights. With most SaaS
platforms offering APIs and third-party integrations ensuring all touchpoint
data is available. It gives all this data a context. Hence the companies are
aware of exactly how their customer goals are impacted by each element. It
directly relates to revenue, profitability, customer lifetime value, customer
satisfaction, and other factors driving business performance.
Chatbot is the most well-known avatar of AI. It has made interactions swift and
satisfactory while being adaptive. AI also enables prediction and
personalization. This is what sets a company apart in the current market.
Additionally, deploying automation does away with redundant tasks. Thereby
lowering labor requirements and enabling employees to focus on more important
tasks.
2. Utlizing Speech Analytics
“Leveraging today’s innovative speech recognition technology and predictive
analytics is the key to creating a customer-centric culture in the call center.”
– Emily Blazensky, Director of Marketing, Voicebase
Contact centers must utilize speech recognition and voice analytics technologies
to enhance customer interactions. Developments in these areas enable keyword
spotting. They also conduct automatic Net Promoter Score and deep analysis of
recorded customer interactions. Hidden insights are uncovered from this spoken
information to identify business opportunities. This process is otherwise
labor-intensive, costly, and time-consuming. But new tools are accelerating the
call-scoring process, enabling a new level of intelligence to be collected and
bringing in greater savings.
These advancements in speech recognition, AI, and big data enable organizations
to find out what behaviors work and in turn, inculcate them in other contact
center executives. Contact centers can also reward agents better with more
accurate assessments. Finally, they can also build predictive models, test and
adapt them based on the insights.
3. How a Right Coach can Turn Any Team Into a Dream Team
“All coaching is taking a player where he can’t take himself.”
— Bill McCartney, American Footballer
Coaching in its most straightforward form is helping a professional improve and overcome their shortcomings. It is also a two-way process where the coach learns from the student as well. Your contact center could benefit from not only training your agents but also learn what practices are most effective and which are not. With training you can build your company’s next generation of leaders, tap into the wide range of resources already available, and ensure top talent is with you in the long-term.
Coaching technology that involves voice recording enables agents to assess their own performance and managers to clearly illustrate bad practices and reward good ones. It also builds on the two-way dynamics where they can formulate an action plan to improve performance.
4. When you train, you gain!
“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly is the ultimate competitive advantage.”
— Jack Welch, former General Electric CEO
It’s essential to have a technology to assess that your training program is functioning optimally while enabling higher ROI and improved scalability. Such technology ensures an environment that incorporates feedback from customers and agents while being cheaper than human audits. All of this can be done on a daily basis to enhance business efficiency.
The calls that are made and received by the agents are the most integral part to an audit and they are categorized into call classification, call cost/benefits analysis, call flow structure, evaluation of agent skills, evaluation of call effectiveness, and relationship building between the customer and the agent. The results are then compared to the optimal requirements on the same metrics and areas of improvement are identified.
According to Jake Sorofman, Research VP, Gartner, as competition and buyer empowerment compounds, customer experience itself is proving to be the only truly durable competitive advantage. Building a successful contact center involves several significant components that adapt to the current business climate and their focus must be on the customer, not the competition. Utilize technology built for this environment and tailored to your requirement ensures your revenue earnings are 5.1x of those that lag behind (Forrester)
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