Champagne Moments - Call Centre Tips
Champagne Moments is sponsored by Verint
This month’s winner of a bottle of champagne
As a coach for BT I always encourage my teams to smile when they are on a call.
You can actually hear the change in an advisors voice when they smile and it also helps when dealing with a complaint.
It makes for a much nicer experience overall and EDCSM (event driven customer satisfaction measures) results have proved that it really works.
Deb Evans, BT Coach, Newport (South Wales)
Do you have a Champagne Moment to share with Call Centre Helper?
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We’re looking for suggestions relating to ANY AREA of the call centre business. It doesn’t matter whether you’re an agent or team leader with an exciting idea around motivating people, a trainer with a particularly interesting tip on boosting success rates in coaching, a technologist with some advice on implementing new kit, or a managing director wanting to offer up guidance on bringing in new business.
Whatever your area of business, and whatever your Champagne Moment, we want to hear from you.
And as an extra incentive, we’ll be sending a bottle of champagne to the author of the best tip every month.
So make sure you write in TODAY. After all, you could be toasting your Champagne Moment with a glass of bubbly tomorrow!
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Champagne Moments is sponsored by Verint.

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your views are really outstanding.
Comment by Ayuk, Asam — April 9, 2008 @ 2:21 pm
When training an Agent for inbound Hotel reservations and we have to direct the caller back to the Hotel for a specific reason. Always make sure you let that guest know that the Hotel looks after their requests because they are special and they like to handle the special rates or special requests personally. This way the guest does not feel like they are being put back and forth and the ‘call center’ does not know what they are doing. Making that guest feel special is always important and always do it with a smile they can hear.
Comment by Susan McLeod — April 29, 2008 @ 11:09 pm