Digital channels have become as beneficial for agents as they are for customers, whether by empowering users to self-serve, allowing agents to handle multiple customers at once, or gathering necessary intelligence before phone calls. They enable contact centers to deliver consistent quality amid significant uncertainty. Consider these four realities about the post-COVID digital transformation detailed in our latest report.
The pandemic introduced many businesses to work-from-home, and the most employee-centric companies are thinking critically about the optimal role of remote work. Many studies have found that remote work makes people more engaged, satisfied and less likely to quit.
What does it take to deliver a customer-centric experience amid the coronavirus pandemic? The same qualities it took to deliver a customer-centric experience prior to the outbreak. Make no mistake: the current climate requires tactical changes. Brands have to focus on different product lines. They have to implement new customer service policies. They have to reshape their sales and marketing messages. Here are 5 tips to harness digital and remote work capabilities.
Chances are if you’re reading this, your business is advertently or inadvertently centered around the art of customer experience. Chances are, your business has remain customer-centric, even while working from home. No question, work-from-home policies have existed long before the mass hysteria of the COVID-19 pandemic, and all of the behavioral economic shifts that tagged along. However, this is the first time we are witnessing “WFH szn” on a global-enterprise scale. Take a look at these 6 ways to maximize productivity and keep your teams motivated as we continue to navigate this new era.
Learn strategies on how to sustain effective work-from-home framework, expand digital services, rethink business continuity plans, and support new methods of agent training.
The only constant is change. As a contact center VP, you know this has never been more true. You lead your teams through what feels like a supercharged wave pool of dynamic business demands, technology challenges, and evolving customer expectations. And, success depends on your ability to adapt to those pressures to deliver world-class experiences for your customers. You can’t press the pause button on your contact centers to redesign processes or improve the tech stack. You have to fix the car while you’re driving it. This report includes checklists, developed by the CCW Digital analyst team, that will guide you toward opportunities for improving the operational and service issues in your contact center.
The only constant is change. As a contact center manager or director, you know this has never been more true. You lead your teams through what feels like a supercharged wave pool of dynamic business demands, technology challenges, and evolving customer expectations. And, success depends on your ability to adapt to those pressures to deliver world-class experiences for your customers.
You can’t press the pause button on your contact centers to redesign processes or improve the tech stack. You have to fix the car while you’re driving it. This report includes checklists, developed by the CCW Digital analyst team, that will guide you toward opportunities for improving the operational and service issues in your contact center.
Companies of all sizes are redefining how they engage with their employees and customers in this new era. Customer contact executives, in particular, are managing significant changes in contact volume and have pivoted from operating brick-and-mortar facilities to leading agents in a home-based environment. The following checklists reflect operational readiness and remote workforce management priorities of individual members of the Customer Contact Week Advisory Board.
Without a doubt, COVID-19 has drastically affected workforce management, digital transformation, consumer behavior, and financial forecasting. For many organizations, the disease has significantly slowed capital growth. But if you’re looking for a positive amid the pandemonium, look no further.
In the post COVID-19 world, the virtual contact center will become a long-term norm for most businesses. This report will provide 5 actionable takeaways to help you tackle the logistical challenges of equipping a virtual workforce in the long term.
Ali Lichtenstein, Head of CX Design at Dow Jones, talks to our analysts about taking the time to check in with agents and to actively listen to their questions and concerns at different points throughout the week.
In an era of competing on the customer experience, we can never settle when it comes to the way we empower agents to engage with customers. The 2020 CXNext virtual conference’s theme of “reimagine customer engagement from start to finish” perfectly encapsulated this reality. It spoke to a professional community that is constantly looking for new ways to add value to its customer journeys and contact center operations.