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		<title>Who will you call in 2022?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jorobinson</dc:creator>
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In ten years, how will organisations interact with their customers?
Dani Muir explores how a member of the public might contact an organisation in 2022.
iPhone 8 anyone? 
Unsurprisingly, all mobiles will be smartphones and 4G will be standard by 2022. Information is available faster – owing to superfast internet access. PCs and laptops are declining in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 strategies for improving your NPS score</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
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Many of you will have used Net Promoter Surveys (NPS) to gauge the perception of your customers towards your company, products and services and to turn your existing customers into promoters of your business. The surveys can be a useful tool for learning what your customers like and dislike about your company and using their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Training Cheat Sheet &#8211; Emotional Intelligence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we launch the final cheat sheet in the series of downloadable training materials on Emotional Intelligence.    
This training module will help you to:

Recognise and manage your own emotions
Motivate yourself
Recognise and understand the emotions of others
Manager the emotions of others

Click here to download the Emotional Intelligence Cheat Sheet.
These cheat sheets are all available in a downloadable Microsoft [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customer service – the disconnect between spin and reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jorobinson</dc:creator>
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Want to understand why customer service doesn’t get better?  Paul Cooper highlights a key disconnect.
I was talking to someone the other day, who happens to be the regional director of one of the top 5 high-street banks. A jovial and optimistic guy, I sympathised over the events of the last couple of years and hoped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to reduce agent time spent on data entry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aspect Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infinity CCS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mplsystems]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Plantronics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Data entry is essential to customer service, but it can also be time consuming and inefficient. Our expert panel share their top tips and experiences on how to reduce the time agents spend on data entry.
Take a step back and find the wasted time
Contact centre agents spend around 12.5% of their time on after-call work, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get your customers to do your mystery shopping</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rather than using external companies to do mystery shopping you could get some of your customers  to do it for you.  They know more about your products and could probably do a better job.
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		<title>Training Cheat Sheet &#8211; Effective Questioning</title>
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		<comments>http://www.callcentrehelper.com/training-cheat-sheet-effective-questioning-25184.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we launch the second cheat sheet in the series of downloadable training materials on Effective Questioning Techniques.    
This training module will help you to :

Use a variety of question types
Add more structure to your questions
Listen properly
Summarise customer issues and avoid call-backs

Click here to download the Effective Questioning Cheat Sheet.
These cheat sheets are all available in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to survive and prosper in a multilingual contact centre</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luke Turner shares with us the trials and tribulations of working in a multilingual contact centre.
I work abroad running the MI and WFP team in a contact centre that covers 11 different languages and multiple channels of communication, and having spent many years working in UK contact centres.  I have had to adapt my management style [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 tips for improving customer experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jay Reilly of SoundBite Communications provides 5 tips to shape the customer experience in an evolving, multi-channel world.


Listen to your customers. 75% of customers say that in the past year the quality of customer service provided by companies has stayed the same or got worse. There is a clear disconnect here as 50% of employees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to encourage a learning culture in the contact centre</title>
		<link>http://www.callcentrehelper.com/how-to-encourage-a-learning-culture-in-the-contact-centre-25143.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.callcentrehelper.com/how-to-encourage-a-learning-culture-in-the-contact-centre-25143.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Skill levels in the contact centre can vary considerably and product knowledge can often be poor.  With the internet and social media we sometimes find that the customer is more knowledgeable than the agent they are talking to.
So how do we encourage a learning culture in the contact centre?  Sarah Mackie provides some pointers.
While most of [...]]]></description>
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