Many companies want to increase contact center agent productivity. Most contact center agents actually want to be productive, too, but are often hamstrung by the tools available to them.
Here are five areas where improved technology could result in a boost to agent productivity:
For the contact center running their quality program in spreadsheets, Google forms, or a tool that’s not integrated with their contact center platform, upgrading to an integrated quality management platform provides huge productivity gains for both agents and supervisors.
Helping supervisors evaluate interactions and coach more efficiently means they can evaluate more interactions, giving agents more frequent feedback on how they can be more productive. These platforms can help with the following:
• Select the right interactions. With integrated speech analytics, supervisors can quickly identify the right interactions to review. Often supervisors spend more time searching for interactions than evaluating them.
• Evaluate interactions in a single window. Integrated with the contact center platform, supervisors can evaluate interactions in the same window where they’re reviewing the interaction. The less toggling they do between windows the better.
• Deliver instant feedback to agents. With robust levels of permission, agents receive timely, specific feedback about their performance directly in the system.
Have you ever contacted customer service and entered your account number or other personal information into the IVR, only to be asked for that same information again by a live agent?
Computer telephony integration (CTI) or CRM integration automatically presents the customer record to the agent upon being connected. Typically this means the agent has complete visibility into the customer account, making it easy to access important information like order or shipping status, and a history of previous conversations with customer service. This integration can shave seconds or even minutes off customer interactions and free agents up to connect with customers and solve problems, a part of their job they enjoy.
No customer likes being placed on hold for an unspecified amount of time. And they certainly don’t appreciate the additional delay caused when a case has to be escalated. This is symptomatic of agents not knowing the answer, not being empowered to answer, not knowing where to find the answer, or some combination of the three. Agents dislike these delays and want nothing more than to resolve the customer’s issue in a timely fashion.
• Connect agents with the right expert. Often the collaboration tools used within a business are not connected to the applications in a contact center, making it almost impossible for agents to reach out to SMEs throughout the organization. A way to combat the issue is to ensure your agents have access to a complete directory of employees within the entire business to readily engage for expertise and answers to those complex customer issues.
• Use AI to serve up intelligent suggestions. When natural language processing and machine learning are connected to these knowledge resources, agents are automatically presented with the most accurate answers faster. Imagine an assistant sitting alongside a contact center agent, listening to the conversation and suggesting intelligent direction to make sure the information provided to the customer is correct and timely.
In many contact centers, agents are required to navigate several complex desktop applications to support a single customer. Factor in agents who interact with customers across multiple channels and you can quickly realize just how frustrating and mangled the work of the agent becomes.
Clearly there’s a huge opportunity to unify the agent desktop, bringing all channels into one interface and seamlessly integrating with other applications. Your agents should delight in their experience as the technology offers simplicity, support, and a truly cohesive environment in order to effectively and productively service your customers.
About ZRG
Since 1994, ZRG has been offering innovative and flexible solutions for multi-channel Contact Center, CTI, IVR, Call Recording, Complaint Desk, Ordering and Workflow Management needs. We have successfully delivered Enterprise level projects to prestigious organizations in the banking and financial services, telecoms, insurance, courier, pharmaceutical and energy service industries in the national and international market. To discover how you can enhance customer satisfaction and improve team productivity in your organization, contact ZRG solutions team today.
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