Effective contact centre analytics is vital to delivering efficient, high-quality customer service. However, customer service operations produce vast amounts of data. This covers everything from metrics on call length to more in-depth quality assessments of individual interactions. This data is often siloed within individual departments or software systems, adding complexity. Additionally, it can be difficult to understand or visualise by…
Utility customer service teams face multiple challenges in delivering the right experience to meet customer needs. They have to handle a growing number of increasingly complex interactions, across channels from traditional letters to social media. No wonder that the latest ContactBabel Utilities Guide finds that they are struggling in some of key areas. Average speed to answer a call is…
Interaction recording has become a key contact centre technology, vital for compliance, training, and quality assurance. It has evolved from its roots in call recording to provide multichannel capabilities, enabling companies to take a more holistic approach to evaluation. This includes the ability to record and compare the activity on the agent’s screen during and after a call, as well…
Call centre agents are on the customer experience frontline, representing your organisation to consumers. In an increasingly digital world, they could be the only employee that a customer actually interacts with. Being an agent is not easy. Customers are becoming more and more demanding, often upset and angry, which adds to agent pressure. These stresses can lead to agents burning…
Consumer expectations are continually rising when it comes to customer service. What does this mean for contact centre priorities for the year ahead? The 2022 ContactBabel UK Contact Centre Decision-Maker’s Guide, sponsored by Enghouse Interactive, has researched current key pain points. And to help customer service teams it includes guidance on how to overcome these problems. Top of this list…
This article is based on ideas from my recent book, Meaningful Measurement of the Customer Experience, now available everywhere. If you ask most business leaders what their primary measures of success are, they can probably tell you pretty easily. But when they are given reports with statistics on a regular basis, the information presented starts to cloud the judgement of…
As Microsoft Teams becomes a core part of the contact centre, organisations must find a way to integrate all of their existing functionality into the platform. Call recording is an essential part of this, providing compliance and quality assurance. However there are multiple approaches to call recording within Teams. So how should you go about ensuring this key piece of…
Call accounting software is essential for any business that needs to capture, record, and control the costs of telephone usage events. By enabling you to track what calls have been made, to what numbers and how much they have cost, it increases visibility over your network, enabling you to identify and prevent fraud, billing errors and telephone misuse. Analysing call…
Driven primarily by the impact of the pandemic, 2020 has been a year of dramatic change in the way contact centres are run. We’ve seen the kind of evolution that you might expect to happen gradually over 5 years compressed into 5 months, as companies were forced to embrace remote working for the majority of their employees overnight. The positive…
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