Call Center Start-ups Don’t know where to start with opening your new center. Let us help you avoid making costly and time consuming mistakes associated with new center start-ups. The areas we can help include:
Strategic planning
Site selection
Facility design
Technology selection and implementation
Organization design
Workforce management planning, recruiting, hiring
Training development and delivery
Quality Assurance and monitoring processes
Standard Operating Procedures
Work-At-Home Agents Are you looking for ways to increase the quantity and qualified of job applicants, improve agent retention, provide new incentives to your existing agents and improve your service levels, all without any additional overhead? Work-at-home agents may be the answer. A remote agent program has numerous benefits for both the agent and the company, but not without its unique challenges that traditional brick and mortar centers may not have encountered.
Last Call TeleServices has deployed and managed remote work forces for over two decades and can guide you through this process by helping with:
Supporting technology implementation
Employee classifications
Recruiting and hiring strategies
Compensation programs
Training, webinars and blogs
Quality assurance
Coaching and agent development
Do you need to start a new customer service or telesales department, add work-at-home agents or improve your centers current performance?
Last Call TeleServices has successfully helped start new call centers, audit existing centers for quality and productivity improvements, manage remote workers and improve service and sales effectiveness to maximize retention and revenue from each customer contact
Call Center Audits How does your call center compare against and others? Our audits review the people, processes and technology of your center compared to industry best practices. The areas we audit include:
People: Recruiting and hiring practices, foundational training, coaching and agent development, supervisor training, compensation, career path programs.
Technology: Application of existing technology including IVR menus, ACD call routing, WFM software and CRM tools and reporting. Outbound B2C includes Predictive Dialer adherence to DNC laws and dialing efficiencies.
A summary report will be provided that shows any gaps in your centers performance against best practices, with prioritized recommendations for improvement. The benefits from our audit suggestions typically include:
Inbound
Improved First Call Resolution (FCR)
Reduced Average Handle Time (AHT)
Improved Service Levels (SLA)
Improved call forecasting and workforce scheduling
Improved technology utilization
Improved Customer Satisfaction Index scores (CSI)
Outbound
Scripting review with alternate approach suggestions
Quality Assurance Improvements To improve overall center quality, each agent must know exactly what is expected of them on each step of their call and the behaviors they need to change to drive quality and effectiveness.
The areas we can help improve your center’s quality include:
Documenting the call handling expectations in key areas that include: greeting, call control skills, communication skills, customer service skills, telephone selling skills, product knowledge and desktop application navigation.
Developing call monitoring forms, analytics and procedures.
Developing supporting documents and processes to prepare for and deliver an effective agent coaching session.
Defining the roles and responsibilities between the back office QA team who catch the agents doing something wrong, and the team leaders who catch the agents doing something right.