customer experience – McKee Consulting

Contact Center Consciousness About MONEY – Make it EASY and Convenient for a better customer experience

CASH! WOW! I love that word, Cash. I love everything about it. Like MONEY in the Mail. Cash In and get your prize today! or Would you like Check or Cash? I’ll take CASH, Please.

Let’s have a better Consciousness about MONEY. We have an economy, we have goals, we have sales, we have up-selling and cross-selling, but do we have the Consciousness for Success where money is concerned?

The leadership, the trainers, and the coaches need to have a deep sense of “MONEY is a GOOD thing”. The Price is Right! Trainers and teachers cannot teach what they do not experience. Words don’t matter much. Words don’t teach, you have heard me say that before. Experience teaches. PERIOD. MIC DROP! OLD mother’s words about money doesn’t hold up. Learn this and your agents will be trained in how to give up the old story and apply the new one but IT’S UP TO YOU. So, what do you believe? Check yourself first.

Here is why it’s important in the Contact Center. People are always freaking out over money. Most of them learned the myths about money from their parents. Here are a couple of things they heard.

Money is short.
There is never enough money.
Don’t carry cash, you may lose it.
Money is the root of all evil. Now that’s just wrong. Maybe the LOVE of it is the root…

How about when you’re in the Contact Center, and your agents must talk about the purchase price, the value, […]

Contact Center Consciousness About MONEY – Make it EASY and Convenient for a better customer experiencewebmaster2018-08-14T00:51:19+00:00

Communication is a Function of INTENTION

Everyone sure learned that lesson this past week! The news is giving us all a lesson. If you say you’re joking but the words are mean, you’re NOT joking, you’re mean. In all our classes we teach Customer Service Reps to be kind in word and in deed. Sarcasm just doesn’t work. Words that deride the company you work for make your business suspicious. Hedging on speaking the price makes the customer fearful and nervous. Let’s use words that communicate what we really mean. L-A-M-A Lessons on AMAZON . . .

Instead of: “I understand your concern.” This almost always sounds canned and expressionless…say this instead and mean it. “We are so sorry that happened. You did the right thing to call and you have the right person. I will get on it immediately. What happened exactly?”

“What is your account number, do you happen to have that handy?”

Instead of: “Why do you want to cancel?”

Demonstrate you care by acknowledging the customer has the right to change his or her mind and you just want to know why so that you may find a way to solve, dissolve, or resolve the matter completely. NEVER ask “Why?”

Say THIS: “I am so sorry to hear that. Our job is to assist you with your account and any other thing that may make your experience with us a good one. May I ask what caused you to make that decision?”

Check out the words you use and the intent behind […]

Communication is a Function of INTENTIONwebmaster2021-03-11T22:17:08+00:00

Customer Experience is Not just a department, but a Philosophy!

My thoughts today: Customer Experience, Customer Care, and Customer Service is NOT just a department, but a PHILOSOPHY!

“It is a STAND YOU TAKE and you Take a STAND about the Stand you Take. YOU believe in the STAND You TAKE!” Werner Erhard said that in 1982. I still operate from this thought system. Taking a stand for the Stand You Take is so important. My stand is this: The Customers must never be made to feel wrong or stupid even if they are wrong and stupid. We do not get to make the judgement call. My STAND is THIS: We must use feelings, and no computer can do that yet. I hope they never will.

The Philosophy needs to lead the technology…not the other way around

How can we make it EASIER on the CUSTOMER to SAY YES without coercion or manipulation, but use Education and Good Offers?
What can we do to make the Customer Experience friendlier and kind and use our Technology to help?
What do the Customers WANT?
- They want to find answers themselves, even before they call the company (FORBES said this)
- If the company doesn’t respond personally and fast…
- They GOOGLE the information

So, Ask yourself these questions:

What am I NOT seeing about my customer that would make us more profitable and the customer happier with us?
What is ALSO true about our relationship with the customer that I have NOT thought of?
What does the customer want from […]

Customer Experience is Not just a department, but a Philosophy!webmaster2021-03-11T22:17:08+00:00

Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places

Call Center Love needed – but don’t look for it where you don’t want to find it – Find it and give it to the agents

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. We are all looking for love. My thought for this month is, let’s look for love where we WANT to find it. Call Center Agents need love too! It seems the world is bent on finding love in all the wrong places, because they think that if they can only find the problem, they could fix it. This is NOT TRUE. You can always find challenges, but “Where is the love?” Find THAT!

Call Centers have their problems, issues, and challenges. But supervisors don’t need to find them. They aren’t lost. They are still there. Issues constantly come up, and I always feel that the Agent is the one taking the heat! They bear the brunt of every irritated customer, and are taught not to take it personally. RIGHT?

Yesterday, I spoke to an Agent with my cable company; she was delightful! She was helpful, quick, and she cared about what I wanted…my way. The Agent thanked me for my complimentary attitude and said that, she sometimes gets frustrated because the hold times are so long, and when she can finally answer, the customer “yells at me.” She corrected that to say “The customer gives the me a piece of his mind! If you know what I mean.” (This is in case she is heard on the recorded call.)

I […]

Looking for Love in all the Wrong Placeswebmaster2021-03-11T22:17:08+00:00

Quotas Never Work – Intention Does

Training in Contact Centers is all devoted to RESULTS based on Goals! HA! That’s funny…

To learn that words don’t teach is the hardest lesson that I know. The world’s management seems to think that the numbers they generate, and the words they use to express those numbers, work. Well, here is the bad news for them, but the good news for you. Words DO NOT TEACH…Only Experience, and Emotional Experience at that actually teaches.

Now, you understood that. So, how would the training department, the marketing department, the Supervisors, the Managers, the Coaches, and the Agents relate to that? I spent my life teaching agents to come from their experience and intention. It never fails to be successful because these words never rely on the STATS. I never have the Agents Set Goals. “First Intention Then Enlightenment.” I teach through experience of personal stories, relationships, and train the Agents to find the emotional need of the customer, the buyer, and even their own. This works because it’s the experience that teaches. When the Agent relates, they own it…they own it because it is theirs.

There is no substitute for Aliveness or the Experience of Agent Satisfaction. There is no substitute for Intention. What you call goals isn’t it! There is no substitute for The Experience of the Customer.

The Customer Experience is so big in all discussions today yet it appears that all the work is being done on the level of technology and not on the level of the HUMAN BEING EXPERIENCE. Doesn’t that […]

Quotas Never Work – Intention Doeswebmaster2021-03-11T22:17:08+00:00

Digitize Those Defining Moments! LAMAtize the chats, texts, and twitters!

It’s an idea whose time has come

Life Lessons in the Call Center are very real. Here is a quick story about how one company used their new Salesforce Program (NO I am not a Salesforce salesman) to save a very upset customer! (I am always looking for defining moments on a phone call, email, or chat.) THINK L-A-M-A, then call us.

Here is the story about how one call center discovered that a customer had contacted their company four different ways, in just one hour. And Salesforce did all the work. The CX manager was pinged with a customer issue, and when he put in the information, Salesforce created a list of all four contacts, and the text of those issues. (Could this happen to you?) Here is what happened.

The customer contacted the company by chat…and hung up after waiting. Unsure of where the agent had gone.
The customer tried chatting again – was still left on hold…hung up again!
The customer sent an e-mail, and received a terse, yet accurate return response.
The customer received a CX survey. They proceeded to send it back, blasting the company for terrible service but a great product.

The Coach/CX Manager gave the original Chat Agent a pass…she was handling so many chats at once, and he thought the customer could have been a little more patient. The Coach also gave the e-mail agent 100% for accurate information and a speedy response. Although the agent got good grades, the customer wasn’t happy. Are […]

Digitize Those Defining Moments! LAMAtize the chats, texts, and twitters!webmaster2021-03-11T22:17:08+00:00