Celebrating Contact Center Excellence at Citi Retail Services

Perspectives On Leadership is an executive interview series from the CCNG Magnet Program. These one-on-one conversations with Contact Center Leaders explore their perspectives, insights, and experiences on effective leadership. Part of the CCNG Executive Perspectives webcast series.

Contact centers are evolving, allowing customers to self-serve more complex tasks without agent involvement. But when agents must step in, customer experience suffers due to limited access to critical information.

Join us for this live webinar as we discuss how best-in-class organizations are building a unified customer engagement center through the use of softphones and omnichannel widgets - where agents are empowered to focus on the business processes to better serve their customers.

CCNG spoke with member Metro by T-Mobile, a 7-time J.D. Power award winner, to discuss how they achieved this most recent award. Watch this brief interview to learn about the Metro by T-Mobile contact center structure, culture, and leadership that enabled them to be recognized as a leader in the wireless industry.

Let’s face it … we can no longer abide by the working rules of yesteryear. The new generation of contact center agents have grown up using mobile devices, and that means companies need the ability to quickly communicate with their agents and provide a real-time, two-way communication stream. To be successful, organizations need to engage their employees with a WFM mobile app. Empowering your agents with a mobile app leads to a better work-life balance, enhanced communications, and a streamlined scheduling process.

This webinar will explore the impact a mobile app can have on your contact center agents, business, and customer experience.

When your customers communicate with you via chat, phone call, etc., do they have to repeat information already provided when being routed to an agent? Do your call center agents have the tools they need to provide an effective customer service? Watch this 3-minute video and then register to join us for a webinar as we discuss how the tools your agents have access to plays a key role in delivering the right data so you are able to provide the best possible customer experience.

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What are companies with superior customer experiences doing differently? Join industry leaders John Irey and Greg Cummings as they share the strategy behind an effective omnichannel customer care success model. Participate in a discussion on how self-service, AI, and digital tools are shaping the customer journey and how to leverage that knowledge to build a better digital plan. Benefit from shared examples of the best and worst attempts at omnichannel and get equipped with the tools necessary to build your own strategy.

Greg Cummings - Greg has 20 years of industry experience in consulting, operations, and contact centers -- helping to drive process improvement through an outcomes based methodology. He is currently Manager Global Channels with NICE inContact.

John Irey - John, a contact center Principal Consultant at Mindsight, is an 18 year veteran assisting in the full life cycle of contact center engagements. His experience in both solutions and deployment engineering roles gives him deep insight into the strategy behind developing an omnichannel contact center solution for every business need.

The digital customer experience is moving at a rapid pace. Many of us have engaged in the digital conversations taking place, but how are you addressing CX in this digital age? Are you looking ahead and planning for the future? We need to begin now to develop a strategy so we are prepared to address customer concerns via social, mobile, and more. Watch this brief 5-minute interview with Greg Cummings as he shares some highlights of our upcoming webinar on October 16th.

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Join us for an interactive discussion where you can ask key questions and take away practical recommendations for calming the chaos in your contact center.

Every modern contact center seems to struggle with common challenges including:

*Applying interaction data to improve customer experience and retention
*The quarterly "wrangling" of operational costs
*Maintaining quality performance standards across decentralized teams

Keeping all these "balls" in the air makes it hard to think strategically about how to generate greater efficiency and value. Don't miss this conversation as we work to minimize the chaos so you can see the overall picture more clearly.

Greg Cummings - Greg has 20 years of industry experience in consulting, operations, and contact centers -- helping to drive process improvement through an outcomes based methodology. He is currently Manager Global Channels with NICE inContact.

Wade Myers - Wade has 10 years of experience in voice and data recording solutions for a wide variety of industries focused on solutions high in quality, ease of use, and customer satisfaction.

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.