As contact centres come to terms with the disruption caused by COVID-19, what are the trends to focus on in 2021? Based on our experience and talking to partners and customers, we’ve highlighted 5 key areas that will impact customer service in the coming year – starting with employee well-being...
The rise of self-service means that the interactions personally handled by contact centre agents have become more complex and involved. This dramatically changes the skills and support agents need to be effective and meet changing customer needs. How can organisations find and nurture the ‘super agents’ required to deliver this more involved, empathetic level of customer service?
Organisations understand the value of empathy to strengthening the customer relationship, boosting satisfaction, and increasing loyalty. But many still struggle to build empathy into their customer service interactions – why is this? Noted CX expert Adrian Swinscoe explains in our latest guest blog...
Understanding changing customer needs is vital if companies are to increase engagement, satisfaction and long-term revenues. Listening to the Voice of the Customer (VoC) is central to this – but where should organisations start when it comes to implementing and scaling their programmes?
Thanks to the pandemic this year the Christmas shopping season will take place increasingly online, with consumers embracing ecommerce, many for the first time. What does this mean for customer service and how can companies prepare?
Customers today expect a high quality, integrated and personalised experience, whatever channel they use to make contact with you. Ensuring organisations deliver this efficiently requires them to integrate systems (such as CRM) and channels to provide agents with a complete picture when answering calls....
Collaboration and communication are at the heart of creating a successful, customer-centric business. That’s why an increasing number of organisations are adopting Microsoft Teams to bring their people together seamlessly, wherever they are located...
Lockdowns caused by the pandemic led to contact centres switching to remote working for their agents, often overnight. But as businesses look forward the solutions they quickly put in place to enable remote working may no longer meet their ongoing needs. How can they plan for remote working 2.0?
How can organisations put in place the right strategy for self-service to boost satisfaction and efficiency? Our latest blog outlines the key benefits of self-service and how to deploy it effectively...
While customer service and contact centres have been dramatically impacted by the pandemic, longer-term trends are also reshaping the industry based on changes in customer demand and how companies operate...