QA and Calibration training in the contact center
This workshop, with its focus on practical implementation, explores the importance of QA and calibration and the influence it can and should have across the Contact Center.
Raising awareness of the Customer Experience and customer outcomes offers more appreciation of the role that continuous improvement plays in the quality process.
Who should attend?
This course is developed for Team Leaders and Managers responsible for monitoring and measuring the customer journey and of interest to any employees involved in the Quality Assurance process and activity.
Benefits to your business
- Businesses that consistently make small marginal gains can experience large improvements in performance over time
- Get an upskilled QA function who can deliver more value and insight back to the business
- Effective QA provides an added layer of reassurance to mitigate compliance risk, essential in regulated industries
- An effective Quality Framework is fundamental to the delivery of a world-class experience for customers
- When QA is valued and managed well, staff loyalty is increased and staff turnover decreased
- Getting it right more often and first time round reduces costs and increases efficiencies
- An effective QA Framework has a positive impact on your agent population’s speed to competence
- QA provides improved identification of training needs and enhanced feedback
Learning outcomes
By the end of the workshop you will be able to:
- Learn the fundamentals of best practices in quality monitoring and apply this back in the workplace
- Gain a greater cross-industry perspective of quality
- Consider the Human Element in quality monitoring and apply a holistic approach rather than a tick-box exercise
- Develop awareness of the impact that we have on our customers
- Describe the QA sphere of influence, and the notion of marginal gains
- Identify how to set and deliver quality standards
- Consider how the quality standards (scorecard) and calibration can be used as part of a cycle of continuous improvement
Workshop outline
The sphere of influence
Understand the QA sphere of influence and our role within it.
Identifying critical success factors for your organization
Identify critical success factors for a robust Quality Framework and explore the role of quality in the context of your organization.
Understanding marginal gains
Introducing the notion of marginal gains and identifying how we can practically make small, incremental improvements that increase quality over time.
What can and can’t be measured
What should we measure? Recognize that if we can’t measure it, we can’t manage it. Identify what are our criteria for success and how we can measure this objectively.
Analyzing call performance
Practical exercises that explore the contact center scorecard against customer calls, analyzing the quality of call performance.
The call center calibration process
Introducing the calibration process and how this crucial activity can transform best practice and increase the ability to measure quality objectively. Conducting a practical call calibration task to reinforce learning.
