Empowering Your Contact Center: The Inside Scoop

Take a look at this brief video interview with CCNG member Daniel Weiss as he shares his thoughts about participating in a recent CCNG networking event at the Coca-Cola customer operations center in Charlotte, NC. Listen as Daniel discusses the high level of interaction and engagement that took place, and how willing everyone is to share with the group.

Consumers are not as likely to fill out surveys as they once were. Survey programs across all industries are struggling to obtain both the quantity and quality of data required to make intelligent decisions. Does this mean that customers are providing less feedback to organizations? Hardly! Feedback is happening all around in new and exciting ways. It’s time that we evolve our ability to listen. Learn the best ways to capture unstructured feedback and take your Voice of the Customer program to the next level!

Do you survey your customers? Are you getting the quality or quantity of data that you did in the past? How do we evolve to break the survey mentality and tap into the "treasure trove" of data? Watch this 4-minute interview with Nate Brown as he shares some highlights for an upcoming live webinar on August 14th.

Gartner says that by 2022 contact centers will be handling 12 customer channels on average. Some are emerging and some are shrinking…Which channels you adopt will depend on your specific situation. Join Noel Roberts, CTO at Aria Solutions, to learn about industry trends and understand what your peers are doing to support omnichannel.

We invite you to participate in our member feedback regarding omnichannel support and emerging channels. Listen to this 2 minute video and take a moment to answer 3 questions. Then register and join us for the live discussion on July 25th.

What do Uber, Starbucks, United Airlines, Wells Fargo, and Southwest Airlines have in common? They are all working on repairing their brand and customer experience reputations.

We are halfway through 2018 and it's time to reflect and adjust course. There have been so many daily events that impact our corporate and personal brand that it is important to pause, reflect, and determine what we want to do and be as human beings.

Roger Lee, aka Dr. WFO, Founder and Principal Evangelist for Contact Center Advocates, will share how some of these world events have and will impact people, process, technology, and strategy as we continue to provide customer service and customer experience moving forward.

Don’t miss this CCNG member webinar as we discover how Best Western Hotels and Resorts’ Contact Center used a continuous cycle of improvement to drive employee engagement 20% higher. You’ll hear Best Western’s step by step process and be provided with specific examples of how it worked in their contact center.

Kathy Rodine, Vice President Customer Care, VSP shares the philosophy and internal programs that enabled VSP Vision Care to be named 2017 Contact Center of the Year by SQM Group. Highlights: Service Philosophy, FCR, Employee Engagement, and Culture.

Join this live discussion with our speech analytics experts Chris Lawson and Scott Bakken as they discuss the trends of companies leveraging speech as well as those who have struggled and why. Regardless of the speech platform used, users often face common challenges. This is your chance to ask the experts. No matter where you are on the speech analytics spectrum, don't miss this opportunity to get answers from the insiders.

Chris Lawson, founder and president of Lawson Concepts, puts his more than 25 years of Fortune 500 IT contact center experience to work helping organizations harness information to reduce customer effort. His firm specializes in aiding companies with speech analytics blueprinting and high-performance knowledge management, thus enabling contact centers to better leverage their technology investment with solutions that redefine both the agent and the customer’s experience. Chris has served as both president and director of various customer technology/solution advisory councils for speech analytics vendors and is a regular speaker on the agent versus the customer experience, speech analytics, and service excellence.

MainTrax has been in a leader helping organizations with their speech analytics needs for more than 12 years and building more than 300 project with 10 different speech platforms. As co-founder and CEO of MainTrax, Scott Bakken helps organizations harness speech and text analytics technology to optimize contact center performance, regardless of technology platform. His firm specializes in developing projects with complex business rules and building language patterns present in text data to ensure clients are generating high value business insights. Free of allegiance to any one analytics company, Scott is recognized as an independent voice in the speech analytics industry and was named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. He facilitates numerous workshops, and has been published in a number of industry trade journals.

It takes an average of 11.5 weeks to onboard just one agent - and one in three agents will leave your organization within the year. The time to reimagine your approach to onboarding has never been more critical.

With a new way of thinking about onboarding agents, you can speed up time-to-competency, mitigate early turnover, and continuously build capability on-the-job, which will ultimately drive better business performance. We’ll give you 3 key principles that call center leaders, including BT Consumer, the UK’s largest provider of broadband services, are applying to their business to improve results.

As customer loyalty is tested by limitless options, the need to understand and manage the customer journey has become essential to competitive differentiation. And far from being the domain of only large corporations – organizations of all sizes must now seek to gain insight into how customer experience is executed and ways to improve.

Join contact center veterans Alton Harewood, Contact Center Consultant, and Kara Allen, Global Workforce Management and Optimization, to hear how the fundamental building blocks of CX strategy are being used today, as well as which technology enablers provide the insight and oversight needed to adjust and administer the modern customer engagement team.

Are you building a contact center culture that the right people want to be a part of? We are under constant pressure, as leaders, to engage our employees, drive productivity, and meet business goals. If you have the right people, you can easily achieve it all.

Join us for “Onboarding, Cross-Training, Hiring and More!.” During this webinar, we will discuss how you can think differently about your people programs, how to increase retention, and how to drive better engagement. Hear the challenges your peers are facing and how they address with key solutions.

Join us to discuss:

• Making better use of your current resources without depleting them
• New techniques to ensure your people are happy and committed
• How your peers are dealing with this same issue and how it's making an impact on their business

Join us for a deep dive into 3 top trends in the contact center. Each trend will be explored on its own and then brought together at the end in a picture of what is actually happening in contact centers today.

Chatbots seem synonymous with artificial intelligence and are certainly sparking the imagination. We will explore the reach of AI in the contact center, both obvious and subtle.

OmniChannel success is in the eye of the beholder. From a customer experience perspective, it requires more than channel choices. Learn about the implications for your center.

Cloud is the favorite child today, but does it make sense for your organization? Learn some of the questions you need to ask to determine your best deployment strategy (cloud, premise, hybrid).

As customer service professionals, we sit in the midst of the most important paradigm shift within the industry today – the Digital Transformation. This shift has brought more focus on and relevance of the business potential of contact centers than ever before. In this session, we’ll take a look at why Digital Transformation matters, what it means, and how organizations are successfully redefining their contact centers for extended reach and impact. No longer can we hide behind old technological limitations that may have prevented responsive, personal interactions. Today customers are demanding great experiences and are driving change. Either we give them the TLC they are looking for…. or our competitors do it for us.

Delivering an outstanding Customer Experience while maintaining or reducing costs is a dichotomy – On the one hand you’re under pressure to improve both self-service and contact center efficiency, and on the other hand you have a mandate to improve the customer experience across a number of metrics such as NPS and more. These goals are seemingly at odds and makes your role as a CX practitioner all the more difficult.

Join this webinar to explore the CX challenges organizations are facing today and how to most effectively accelerate your CX initiatives. The discussion will cover three primary topic areas that are hot in the industry: (1) How to improve self-service utilizing Visual IVR, Natural Language and chatbots, (2) Techniques for improving contact center efficiency while removing the digital to voice disconnect, and (3) How to optimize your back office processes with Robotic Process Automation.

This is an interactive session and participants are encouraged to submit questions.