Strong and effective leadership is crucial in call centers. A management approach that suits your organizational culture and reflects employees’ interests can help reduce attrition and turnovers.
What may seem like a trivial mishap is enough to make customers think you don’t care. Customer experience matters now more than ever. It’s not just a business strategy, it has become brands’ primary selling point—the most important factor that sets them apart from their competitors.
This year’s CES isn’t just about consumer electronics. The show highlighted several tech trends that could revolutionize business processes in powerful ways. In a previous post, we enumerated three CES 2017 trends businesses should embrace to improve the customer experience.
Will artificial intelligence (AI) tools eventually gain enough power to drive all humans out of call centers? Several customer support roles have already been replaced by software and machines. There are now bots that can make consumer purchases for customers, sell travel tickets, approve requests, and others. In many parts of the world and across […]
Yet again, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) impressed everyone with its exciting whirlwind of some of the coolest gadgets and tech trends in consumer electronics. And although these technologies are developed for the mainstream market, their applications in business are impossible to miss. We wouldn’t be surprised if the world’s most innovative brands are already […]
Bad work habits can seriously damage your team’s productivity and engagement. How can you help agents break these negative practices? Upon spotting employees’ counterproductive habits, most managers immediately confront them and tell them off. More often, however, this isn’t enough to shake away people’s stubborn behaviors. But why are habits so hard to break?
The big data craze isn’t likely to quiet down anytime soon. It’s continuing to build a positive reputation for itself, as it helps organizations solve business-related problems in innovative ways. Across industries, entrepreneurs see data—coupled with the ability to understand it—as a means of fully understanding their customers and business processes. Indeed, plenty of companies […]
Throughout the years, customer service has evolved from being an unavoidable expenditure to a crucial component of brands’ business strategies. Company leaders now treat customer support as a brand differentiator, something that would help them tower over their competitors. This 2017, it will continue to be a requisite to organizations’ success. Unsurprisingly, the entire customer […]
The new year is always a good time to set new customer service goals and resolutions. During this time, most companies review their performance from the previous year and overhaul their business plan. So customer relations experts and business managers can’t afford to give in to the holiday hangover at this time of the year. […]
