Training the Call Center Rep. (CSR)

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Background

In order to achieve the strategic corporate customer service goals, all people need to be trained to accomplish their portion of the corporate objectives.  The CSR play a critical role in that they touch the customer more than most people in the organization.  This outline details the areas that need to be part of that training program.

Training consists of:

 

Course outline

  

Corp. strategy towards the customer  … making the customers job easier

Outward customer facing responses   … learning about inquiry and advocating questions

New technology   … how it increases the touch points and provides consistency

Processes, building self-correcting structure

Metrics … using metrics to achieve goals and strategies

Understanding the whole CRM process

Change agents within the CSR organization … looking for continuous improvement and best of breed processes

 

Type of training

  • Face to face  … initial training to set the stage and reinforce the critical role the CSR are in the process. 20% of the training time.
  • eLearning  … provides course ware for the CSR  based on the course outline above.  Provide an internal mentors  that CSR can speak to . 80% of the training time

Focus by the Top

Management needs to be an integral part of the use and ownership of the CRM process.  That means they use the system to check status, review reports and make the success of it as part of peoples financial goals

Metrics

Measurements should general follow the Balance scorecard approach.  It should look to measures that focus on what the company is looking for i.e. customer satisfaction, cross selling success, schedule adherence (% time agents are available to serve)

Professional organizations

Review what professional organizations are saying about training as  a bench mark to what you are doing.

  • Digital Consulting Institute(DCI)
  • Customer Relationship Management Association (CRMA)
  • Association for the Advancement of Relationship Marketing (AARM)

 

 

  Prepared by Sharon Levy.  Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved Shared Memory
Last Updated Oct,2002.   Any comments, please mail