Tag: Customer service

Gamification: employee retention strategies in customer service

It’s no secret that employee retention is one of the largest operational issues facing companies around the world. From profitability to workplace morale and service quality, a high staff turnover rate can be detrimental to all aspects of a business. As...

The journey to effortless customer care: digital workflow solutions need to be simple

Operating a business in 2020 is challenging in ways that few of us could ever have predicted. Rarely have we seen change occur with such magnitude or velocity. Customer-demand fluctuations, fractures in supply chains, workforce disruption, and rapidly evolving government...

Medallia Collaborates with Oracle Cloud CX to Help Brands Reinvent Customer Service Engagement

Medallia, a global leader in experience management and a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork today announced it plans to integrate with Oracle CX Service to deliver real-time feedback on what customers think and feel about customer service interactions with a brand....

A New Age of Customer Service? What does Teams mean for the Contact Centre?

The adoption of collaboration tools within many enterprises has created a revolution that’s driving a new age of customer service. This revolution is shifting to an evolution as businesses over the years have looked to extract added value from services such...

Human Customer Service Is A Major Opportunity For Customer Experience

With digital transformation and unexpected events such as the current pandemic, customer service calls’ volume keep increasing. Companies that get caught into obsessing on costs invest in strategies that will back-fire and miss out the major opportunity that human customer...

Yearning for Human Engagement: Customer Service in The Next Normal

Human interaction is critical to our wellbeing, which is why many of us struggled with the COVID-19 lockdown. As Nicholas Christakis at Yale put it “The world called on us to suppress our profoundly human and evolutionarily hard-wired impulses for...

Companies Still View Customer Service as an Expense, Report Finds

According to the 2020 State of Customer Service Annual Report by leading growth platform HubSpot, a third of customer service professionals believe that their organisation do not view customer experience as an opportunity for growth, which is an increase from...

The Challenges of Implementing Chatbots for Customer Service

Technology is consistently progressing through new developments that affect everyday life and business. Customer service has seen the benefits of tech through the implementation of chatbots. But there are also challenges that come with chatbots, even as they change our...

You Can’t put a Price on Being Nice: Top Tips for Call Centre Staff

For many organisations, the contact or call centre is still the shopfront of the business. At last count, there were 6,175 contact centres in the UK, employing some 772,500 agents. As the first port of call for clients and customers,...

Sharpening Skills at the Contact Centre Masterclass

A fresh crop of eager professionals has benefited from the expert knowledge of CX and contact centre guru Daniel Ord at the latest High Performance Management for Inbound Contact Centres Masterclass. Delegates from across the UK arrived in London for the two-day...