Sharon Oatway
Customer Service Best Practice: How to Leverage Questioning to Deliver Tailored Advice
Effective and efficient questioning is the quickest and most engaging way to gather information and uncover the root cause of a problem.
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Sharon Oatway
- May 18
- 8 min
10 Tips for Handling Irate Customers Like a Pro
Dealing with angry customers can be tough, but with these 10 tips, you can handle any situation like a customer service pro.
Sharon Oatway
- May 18
- 3 min
Revolutionizing Customer Service Delivery: The Impact of ChatGPT
Explore what ChatGPT will mean to customer service delivery: possible use cases and the impact on 'human' service delivery in the near term
Sharon Oatway
- May 18
- 6 min
4 Reasons to Consider Outsourced Contact Center Quality Assurance
Investigate 4 reasons why you should consider outsourcing your internal call center quality assurance this year.
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Sharon Oatway
- May 17
- 3 min
Contact Center Quality Assurance Specialist Job Description [Free Template]
FREE Contact Center Quality Assurance Specialist / Analyst job description. Updated 2023.
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Sharon Oatway
- May 17
- 9 min
Designing a Call Center Quality Assurance Scorecard [Free QA Scorecard Design Ideas]
This guide highlights the key elements of a robust QA Scorecard that reflects your brand and delivers the customer experience that builds
Sharon Oatway
- May 17
- 6 min
Call Center Scripts, Call Flows, Communication Templates, Interaction Guides
Everything you need to know about call center scripts, call flows, templates and more! See examples and learn about the pros and cons of...
Sharon Oatway
- May 16
- 5 min
Winning Back Customer Trust: 5 Essential Questions for Exceptional Customer Service
This blog discusses the critical importance of customer trust and the role call center agents role play in (re)building customer trust.
Sharon Oatway
- May 5
- 10 min
Strategies for Managing Stress in Customer Service
No matter what you call it, every job has some type of pressure. We present 10 key strategies for managing stress in customer service.
Sharon Oatway
- May 3
- 9 min
Mastering Customer Service in Today's Environment: 5 Essential Customer Service Skills
Customer service is more important than ever in building customer loyalty. Learn the top 5 skills every customer service agent must master.
Sharon Oatway
- Apr 18
- 7 min
Peace of Mind for Outsourced Call Centers: Independent Quality Assurance
You may have taken a leap of faith and outsourced your contact center to a BPO. But your responsibility doesn't end there. Learn more.
Sharon Oatway
- Apr 6
- 7 min
Call Center Quality Monitoring Best Practices
10 Call Center Quality Monitoring Best Practices to take your quality assurance program to new heights.
Sharon Oatway
- Jan 20
- 5 min
60 Days + 5 Ways to Lift Your Customer Service Call Center Loyalty Scores
Whether you are tracking customer loyalty through NPS, CSAT, or some other measure, here are 5 ways to lift your results in 60 days.
Sharon Oatway
- Jan 14
- 5 min
Combat the unconscious bias that lurks in customer service
Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, 'unconscious bias' exists within our customer service organizations. Find out how to address it.
Sharon Oatway
- Aug 16, 2022
- 8 min
5 Common Call Center Training Design Mistakes ... and How to Avoid Them
Learn the five most common mistakes L&D professionals make when developing contact center training.
Sharon Oatway
- May 18, 2022
- 9 min
10 Tips for a Great Call Center Agent Training Experience: Onboarding Agents Successfully
As more call center agents work remotely, it is time for organizations to rethink their approach to new and existing agent training.
Sharon Oatway
- Jun 17, 2021
- 5 min
Call Center Schedule Adherence
In a call center, lateness and absenteeism can wreak havoc on schedules and customer wait times. Most agents don’t understand the impact the
Sharon Oatway
- Jan 20, 2021
- 5 min
4 Reasons Why Customer Surveys Are Challenging ... and 1 Under-Utilized Alternative
We all know how important it is to check-in with our call center customers from time to time to see how we are doing … from their perspectiv
Kirk Dunn
- Jan 5, 2021
- 7 min
Offshore Customer Service Reps Serving North America - Communication Skills
Explore the 10 most common communication issues for frontline customer service agents where English is their second language.
Sharon Oatway
- Oct 21, 2020
- 4 min
Sympathy vs. Empathy ... and why the differences matter
Both empathy and sympathy express concern for another person’s well-being and are often used interchangeably -- but they are quite different
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