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Most Call centers spend a lot of money and resources to keep their best agent interested; however turn over is high, usually above 33%. The SpiceCSM Customer Engagement Platform is equipped with all of the sought after features you’ll need to greatly improve your agents and customer satisfaction. We aren’t your ordinary Call Center CRM and ticket tool. We are a unified cloud based platform and one of our special ingredient that makes us unique and valuable is the Guided Process Workflows. By using a Guided Process Workflow, each separate variable is taken into account and the agent is guided to the right solution. With this approach, you can hire agents less tech-savvy but agents with more soft skills. The Guided Process workflows make it easier for your agents to solve complex technical issues with relaxed and personalized manner.
Take Out the Guess Work As Training Manager for Fused Solutions, LLC. I am lucky to have SpiceCSM at my disposal. It takes the guess work out of the process. I am able to teach agents to think critically and focus on customer service. Agents don’t have to know all the answers, just how to find them. Spice CSM not only provides them with an innovative and intuitive Guided Process, but serves as a memory bank.
Your call center agents are an extension of your company during a customer service call, so it’s essential to hire top talent. Not only must these people handle troubleshooting and support issues, but they’re also responsible for building the goodwill that can lead to future sales. Soft skills and an ability to master the required tools are top criteria companies must consider, but there are other factors. Therefore, organizations must take a best practices approach to the hiring process in order to properly leverage call center operations. Develop an Agent Persona
Increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of your agents can help to dramatically improve the results of your call center. Your SLA’s and service metrics will begin to reach their goals and even surpass them, with a few simple steps. Here are 7 ways to increase agent efficiency in your contact center:
New hire call center training represents a significant investment for many contact centers with typical training times ranging from two to six weeks or even more. Fortunately, there are ways to train new hires faster and improve their on-the-job performance.
3 Ways to Reduce Training Time Using Technology If you really want to reduce training time, we challenge you to look at the technology your agents are using. Is it simple to use? Does it proactively help agents? Does it make their jobs easier? If you didn't answer YES to all of those questions, you could be complicating your training efforts out of the gate due to the technology your agents utilize to manage the customer journey. One of the unsung heroes of SpiceCSM's Business Process/BPM tool is the ability to reduce the amount of time agents need to start producing at the levels of longstanding employees. Typically when bringing new agents onto the team there's a period of training, usually involving some classroom knowledge transfer, exercises, role playing, and a variety of other methods to give the agents resources to solve requests efficiently. Depending on the organization and type of business, this could take anywhere from 1 - 12 weeks, or longer. In higher turnover environments this only exacerbates training challenges and emphasizes the need to make new employees more productive in less time. Here are 3 ways you can utilize technology to help reduce training efforts:
What is iPaaS: Explaining Integration Capabilities What is iPaaS? iPaas is a cloud-based platform that allows businesses to connect their existing systems together. It provides a single interface where users can access their data from across different software platforms. This means they can view information from one application within another without having to switch between them. The platform also makes it easy for people to build new integrations by providing low-code tools that allow connections to be made with external systems.
LCAP - What is a Low-Code Application Platform The vision that SpiceCSM has from our inception was to have an application that provided the tools to customize the user experience easily and orchestrate data without the need for technical expertise. What we've been calling an "Enterprise Application Builder" is now being recognized by leading analysts as a Low-Code Application platform, or LCAP for short.
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