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Creating engaged and empowered agents

Carolyn Blunt FCIPD

April 2018

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Nice to meet you

▪ Managing Director Ember Real Results.

▪ 15 years contact centre operational and L&D experience.

▪ Leading award-winning performance improvement projects for clients focusing on people skills.

▪ Using the latest digital L&D approaches and thinking.

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Customer Engagement Consulting

Delivering Change & Transformation

Executive Search & Recruitment

Insight & Analytics

Learning, Training & Development

About Ember:We are a business services group providing specialist management consultancy, analytics, training and executive search.

Our purpose: We’re joined by a shared ethos, of doing the right thing for our clients, and a shared focus on the customer experience and how to improve it – with the end goal of increasing value for our clients.

What we deliver: We help you maximise the value from your customer engagement initiatives.

Ember GroupWe’re the customer engagement & CX specialists

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Where are you starting from?What do your people say engages them?

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Learning Opportunities

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Learning Opportunities

▪ Employees are pushing for continuous skill

development and dynamic careers.

▪ The ability to learn and progress is now the

primary driver of a company’s employment

brand.

▪ Only 1/3 of Millennials believe their

organization are using their skills well.

▪ 42% say they are likely to leave because

they are not learning fast enough.

Source: Deloitte 2017

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Micro-learning –minutes at a time.

Digital learning, content curated and pushed or self-directed.

Social learning.

Dedicated learning ‘zones’.

Gamified, rewarded learning.

Clear learner pathways and resources available to address ‘gaps’.

Peer-to-peer coaching, self assessments. Real-time feedback.

Modern Learning Opportunity

in a CC?

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Reward & Recognition

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What reward and recognition can I effect

in a CC?

1. Positive reinforcement- specific, public, private, individual & team. What is the impact of what they have done well?

2. Sharing best practice – how you dealt with that difficult customer was outstanding, let’s post the link to the recording on Yammer so others can listen to how you did it.

3. Non-financial rewards –early finishes, inexpensive gifts, certificates, awards, learning opportunities.

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Leadership

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What can I do as a leader

in a CC?

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Engaging Leadership▪ Listen and coach.

▪ Don’t spoon feed the answers.

▪ Ask what motivates them?

▪ Be human, be authentic.

▪ Be visible and involved.

▪ Be consistent –use data not just opinions.

▪ Delegate and empower. Trust, no blame.

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Not an arse

Get shit done

Know how to have fun

Dream big

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E: [email protected]

T: @realresults101

L: linkedin/company/ember-real-results

W: www.emberrealresults.com

© 2018 The Ember Group

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