The Reality of Contact Centres
Welcome to The Reality of Contact Centres, the essential podcast for advisors, agents, team leaders, managers, and directors in the contact centre industry.
Hosted by Bob Morrell & Jeremy Blake, experienced sales trainers and executive coaches, this podcast draws on decades of training thousands of contact centre professionals worldwide. If you're looking for expert advice, fresh strategies, and real-world insights to help your contact centre excel, evolve, and exceed expectations, you’re in the right place.
What You’ll Learn:
📞 How to boost customer engagement & satisfaction
📊 Proven strategies to improve contact centre performance
💬 Leadership & coaching techniques to develop high-performing teams
🔄 The latest innovations shaping the future of customer interactions
🎯 How to drive results in traditional, digital & hybrid contact centres
We challenge industry norms, explore the realities of leadership, and share actionable takeaways to help you adapt, improve, and lead your team to success. Whether you run a call centre, web chat team, or virtual operation, we’ll help you stay ahead in today’s fast-moving customer service landscape.
🎵 Original music by Charlie Morrell.
🔗 Learn more about Reality Training & how we help contact centres thrive: www.realitytraining.com
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The Reality of Contact Centres
Retention or Reselling?
Many CCF listeners will work in Retention or ‘Save’ departments where the task is to keep customers and stop them from cancelling.
Another word for retention is ‘reselling’ - essentially you are reminding the customer of the value they bought originally and reselling it again. The calls have a different dynamic to new business calls, or complaints, because there is an implicit agreement at the beginning - one knows that the majority want to remain customers and yet the game of renegotiation must be played.
This podcasts positions retention as an essential business function and highlights certain mistakes that are endemic in these departments.
Please listen and share!
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