The Reality of Contact Centres
Welcome to The Reality of Contact Centres, formerly known as Contact Centre Focus. This podcast is your essential resource for industry insights and expert advice tailored specifically for advisors, agents, team leaders, managers, and directors of contact centres.
Join your hosts, Bob Morrell & Jeremy Blake, the experienced sales trainers and executive coaches behind Reality Training, as they share their wealth of knowledge from training thousands of contact centre professionals across the globe. With decades of experience, they're here to empower you and your team to thrive in today's contact centre environment.
Our mission? To help your contact centre - whether it's a traditional call centre, a web chat team, or a virtual setup - succeed. Each episode offers actionable tips to boost customer engagement, improve results, and refine your leadership and management skills.
In The Reality of Contact Centres, we go beyond reinforcing the status quo. We challenge behaviours, explore leadership strategies, and delve into the latest management techniques. Whether you're seeking to adopt best practices or innovate your approach, we provide fresh ideas and perspectives that will inspire and invigorate your team.
The Reality of Contact Centres features original music composed by Charlie Morrell.
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The Reality of Contact Centres
IVR (Interactive Voice Response): The Switch From Bot to Adviser and The Hurdles to Overcome
The frustrations customers face when interacting with automated systems can leave them with an incredibly negative customer journey experience. The challenges you, the advisor, then encounter to provide a seamless transition and make it so much better, is a tough ask after these dreadful responses.
The handover from bot to human often feels likes starting from scratch and companies struggle to make it work efficiently. We’ve not found a company where it does work yet! For something that is supposed to makes things easier, it really doesn’t. It's time to break this cycle and deliver a streamlined experience.
Advisors need to be trained to seamlessly continue conversations where the bot left off; bridging the gap between automation and human interaction and ensuring customers feel heard and valued at every stage. Don't settle for the illusion of assistance - learn how a genuine, integrated approach can transform your customer service, positively impacting your NPS and overall experience.
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