Key Ways to Improve Productivity of Call Centre Staffs

Alexis Powell · June 14, 2016 · Short URL: https://vator.tv/n/460c

Improve Productivity of Call Centre Staffs

As the customer preferences are shifting with the fierce competition in the marketplace, call centre companies need to focus on improving their staff productivity so that they will address the up surging customer demands. Many businesses in this domain are making attempts to improve the performance of customer service by offering multi-channel communication platforms to the customers. You can build a healthy relationship with a customer by making effective interactions. No matter how skilled and trained the frontline customer care executives are, until and unless they are empowered to make right decisions, it will not work fine for your customers.

If you really want to deliver high-quality customer experiences, it is necessary to improvise and provide excellent solutions for customers, which in turn yields greater customer satisfaction. This can be achieved if you empower your call cente executives and hone their telephone skills to satisfy customer requests or demands properly.

Here are some important steps that you should consider to improve the productivity of your front-desk call centre executives in improving the customer satisfaction level.

Focused training: First and foremost thing is to deliver appropriate training to your front-desk agents. Call centre agents should not attend the calls until they have necessary training and expertise. Call centre business outsourcing companies could organise seminars or training sessions to train employees about various concepts, along with tools and techniques. Frontline staffs should have sound knowledge about products/ service and its features. As these agents are provided with responsibility, it would make them accountable for the mistakes. You should make them acquainted with company’s vision and core revenue generating activities so that they will make the right decision and contribute in the business success.

Encourage your staffs: Once the decision making is entrusted to the staffs, it can’t be expected that they can quickly improve the customer service experience. There is a learning curve for any one, be it executive or manager. Make sure that you don’t throw all the responsibilities at once. Delegate the task in planned and systematic way. In this way, call centre executives learn and adapt the concepts. In addition to this, call centre employees should be awarded with bonus and incentive on the performance basis. It will boost the motivational level of your employees and thereby enhance customer satisfaction.  At the same time, staffs should feel trusted so that they can make use of their best skills and create value for the customers. Frontline executives should be allowed to try new things that come up as an innovative solution for the clients. International call centre companies measure key performance indicators (KPIs) relevant to customer service, such as waiting time, processing time and customer feedback in order to improve their performance.

Effective communication: When customer care executives are delegated with the responsibility of making quick decisions, they could be left on their own. It means that high level management should guide them so that they will perform in a better way.  The presence of effective and fast communication within the department will boost the capability of your staffs and make them autonomous. Customer care executives feel free to ask managers if they experience any road block. It is important that manager should be in loop so that proper monitoring can be facilitated. With the help of monitoring, managers can overcome the drawbacks and put efforts to make agents more productive.

Redesign business strategy to provide customer service: Conventional business model follow strict methods when it comes to decision making. It happens mainly because of the communication barriers. If you want to empower your front-desk call centre executives, it is essential to break down the traditional business protocols so that improved customer satisfaction can be reached.    

These are the important ways to improve the productivity of your important call centre business outsourcing staffs.

 

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