Call Center Outsourcing: Evolving for Better Quality Services
Call centers have been known for their zero tolerance policies for quality and standards of services as they treat it as the prima facie reason why companies outsource. Outsourcing call center services is considered as a cost effective options by corporate and beneficial too as call centers promise to never compromise on the services they offer.
However, the beginning of outsourcing was not this sunny and bright. According to a leading agency's survey in the year 2004. Only 55.8 percent of the 870 call center professionals admitted that their quality assurance team have had the time and resources to led an effective quality program. Only 25.8 percent and 27.4 percent of call centers monitored IVR and Web self-service contacts. Live calls were the only things that were monitored duly. 72.4 percent call centers explained that monitoring is to ensure a general understanding and acceptance of programs and projects among call center workers where as 71.1 percent thought that quality monitoring empowered agents to evaluate their skills and abilities.
How things have changed during 2004-2010?
Quality is now imperative in call center outsourcing services be it inbound call center services such as Customer Service, Order Taking, Up Sell / Cross Sell, Lead generation, and IVR etc or outbound call center support like telemarketing, appointment scheduling, surveys or debt collection services; quality is the benchmark which every call center worker has to follow and cannot afford to mess up with. Also, call center management impose strict rules and guidelines to oversee that the quality is maintained throughout the processes.
A) 64 percent of call centers are into dutifully monitoring.
B) 55 percent of monitoring was conducted by Supervisors with able tools and resources. The percentage of call center staff which are monitored is:
Quality assurance specialists (48.1%), Team Leaders (44.7%), Managers (40.7%).
Call centers technology has evolved for better and thanks to that- agents, back office team, IT divison and front desk system can be monitored closely.
Why quality services are important?
1) Providing quality services can help a call center to bring back client. Moreover, the client can give you a competitive edge by providing mouth to mouth advertising resulting in many more work and reputed names as clients.
2) It can bring you financial gain by increasing your clientele. You can attract more clients with positive word of mouth or taking previous clients as referral.
3) The most important thing is reputation. You would not like to be termed as call centers which half lies or make tall promises with nothing to offer.
4) You will not make your clients happier with extraordinary results and quality services but ensure your business success also.
However, the beginning of outsourcing was not this sunny and bright. According to a leading agency's survey in the year 2004. Only 55.8 percent of the 870 call center professionals admitted that their quality assurance team have had the time and resources to led an effective quality program. Only 25.8 percent and 27.4 percent of call centers monitored IVR and Web self-service contacts. Live calls were the only things that were monitored duly. 72.4 percent call centers explained that monitoring is to ensure a general understanding and acceptance of programs and projects among call center workers where as 71.1 percent thought that quality monitoring empowered agents to evaluate their skills and abilities.
How things have changed during 2004-2010?
Quality is now imperative in call center outsourcing services be it inbound call center services such as Customer Service, Order Taking, Up Sell / Cross Sell, Lead generation, and IVR etc or outbound call center support like telemarketing, appointment scheduling, surveys or debt collection services; quality is the benchmark which every call center worker has to follow and cannot afford to mess up with. Also, call center management impose strict rules and guidelines to oversee that the quality is maintained throughout the processes.
A) 64 percent of call centers are into dutifully monitoring.
B) 55 percent of monitoring was conducted by Supervisors with able tools and resources. The percentage of call center staff which are monitored is:
Quality assurance specialists (48.1%), Team Leaders (44.7%), Managers (40.7%).
Call centers technology has evolved for better and thanks to that- agents, back office team, IT divison and front desk system can be monitored closely.
Why quality services are important?
1) Providing quality services can help a call center to bring back client. Moreover, the client can give you a competitive edge by providing mouth to mouth advertising resulting in many more work and reputed names as clients.
2) It can bring you financial gain by increasing your clientele. You can attract more clients with positive word of mouth or taking previous clients as referral.
3) The most important thing is reputation. You would not like to be termed as call centers which half lies or make tall promises with nothing to offer.
4) You will not make your clients happier with extraordinary results and quality services but ensure your business success also.
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