Active listening in the contact centre is about agents fully concentrating on what is really being said in any interaction with a customer or a prospect, rather than just passively ‘hearing’ the message of the caller. It’s about remaining silent when the customer is speaking and not interrupting but then positively acknowledging what the customer has said. It avoids the pitfalls of advisors jumping to conclusions. Continue reading Five Top Tips for Optimising the Use of Active Listening in the Contact Centre
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Has Intelligent Assistance Entered the Trough of Disillusionment?
A few weeks ago, Gartner revealed a pretty stunning prediction: by 2020, 40% of bots and virtual assistants launched in 2018 will have been abandoned. This development was actually pretty predictable. Core technologies to build intelligent assistants have matured rapidly and are widely available. Continue reading Has Intelligent Assistance Entered the Trough of Disillusionment?
Cross-Functional Cooperation is the Key to AI Success
When you ask customers what they want from their experiences with your organisation, simplicity and ease top their list. Furthermore, they want to know that they can trust whomever is providing them with service. For those reasons, customers may respond negatively when they realise that a machine, not a human, is providing them with service. Continue reading Cross-Functional Cooperation is the Key to AI Success
Insight 2018: Q&A with Ed Creasey, Consulting Director, EMEA at NICE Ltd
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Insight 2018: Q&A with Todd Carothers, SVP at Counterpath
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The First Step to Integrating AI in your Customer Experience
When adding artificial intelligence to your organisation, the best first step is to create a plan for integrating AI and robotics into the omni-channel experience that you’ve already developed. It doesn’t mean that you need to change everything about the customer experience just because you’re implementing new capabilities. Continue reading The First Step to Integrating AI in your Customer Experience