The lasting reputation and ultimate sustainability of any organization rests heavily on the shared efforts of every agent on the call floor. If half-hearted, unfocused efforts are the peak of the customer care on offer, contact centers and the organizations financially supporting their existence can, and have, crumbled overnight.
It’s a crowded global marketplace out there, bursting at the seams with consumers who each have very different requirements, at different times, via different support channels. With that in mind, many organizations still strongly believe that it's as impossible to make a sweeping generalization about what every single customer expects than it is to sneeze with your eyes open.
E-learning, irrespective of subject matter, is described as the process of utilizing electronic technologies to access educational content outside the four walls of a traditional classroom. Quite a broad description, right?
Working from home provides agents with the ability to perform the tasks they’d usually perform on a contact center floor, in the comfort of their own homes. As home agents communicate with telephone customers, respond to questions on social media, and answer email queries, many still question their focus, in their absence from the physical call floor.
Here at The Call Center School, we’ve always been firm believers in the philosophy that learning by doing empowers students to strive for technical excellence. Not only does it instil confidence in students to solve problems autonomously, but they immediately become active participants on their very own learning journey.
A typical Google search for “Why e-learning?” yields approximately 3,950,000 results within seconds. Seems pretty impressive at first glance, right?
From agents engaging with customers on a bustling call floor to trainers delivering essential training to a classroom of students, we understand the daily logistics of the everyday contact center.
Albert Einstein once said, “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”. We thought about this for a while. We then considered that Einstein also said, “wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it”. It sent our minds spiraling into a state of creative overdrive.
Agent training shouldn’t stop as soon as the new-hire orientation and initial training period is complete. Contact center training is an ongoing evolutionary process. The goal of any contact center’s ongoing training program is to provide training for the skills necessary to perform the job, plus training for skills necessary to enhance ongoing performance.
The rise in e-learning popularity is showing no signs of slowing any time in the near future. It’s rapidly changing the way we look at knowledge and skill acquisition and provides students with a much more impressive, and more effective, learning experience than ever before. Seems like a perfect addition to any contact center.
