Many call centers spend a huge portion of their budget to improve their employees’ skills. They create and implement their own customer support training programs specially tailored to their agents’ needs. While these may be effective, they alone may not be enough to raise the quality of agents’ performance.
It’s important to resolve any form of disagreement between and among employees before it escalates into a full-blown chaos. An unhealthy workplace may dampen employee engagement and productivity, both of which are crucial in the customer service industry.
The agent’s journey refers to the series of processes or steps that employees go through when delivering customer service or performing other tasks. It’s an area that’s often overlooked when companies assess the customer experience. Typically, call centers would only focus on the consumer’s journey. But this one-dimensional approach leaves a gaping hole in your overall business strategy.
Staff and project management—which is the primary role of leaders—is a massively challenging task. It’s thus not surprising that many professionals, even those handpicked for this task, underperform or fail outright once they move into this role.
Rewarding high-performing employees with extra cash or a higher pay is one of the most common engagement tactics that companies employ. It’s especially common among customer service firms, which are known for staggering cases of employee burnout and turnovers.
As productivity-driven companies, most contact centers encourage agent productivity by rewarding individual employees’ exemplary performance. Agents are asked to end calls within a set time limit, handle an x number of transactions in a day, and so on. Those with the highest productivity as defined by these metrics are incentivized and hailed as “Agents of the Month.”
