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U NDERSTANDING CTQ M ETRICS (C RITICAL TO Q UALITY )
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CTQ Objectives
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
Build a CTQ tree with Voices,
Understand the principals that define the Critical to Quality (CTQ)
Requirements, CTQ, and Causal Factors
Utilize Fishbone and Kano tools to
Identifying and define what a voice means
demonstrate Metric and Causal Factors
Understand how Causal Factors influence your business
Find the requirements for the voices of your business
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Introducing a CTQ Tree
A CTQ Tree builds on a foundation starting with identifying the Voices and building to identify Causal Factors.
There are 4 components of a CTQ Tree…
Critical to Quality (CTQ)
Causal Factors
Voices
Requirements
CTQ Trees are used to accomplish the following:
Define your key performance metrics Define input metrics and/or processes Map the relationships between input and output metrics
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Defining Voices
The important first step is to understand how we define voices of the busines.
A “voice” is:
What are business voices?
A key stakeholder An entity that wants/requires input into the center
The Customer (the end user) Executives Employees Finance Board of Directors The Market Investors
The Process The Industry
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Translating Voices
To translate a voice, begin with “Voice of…”
Contact Center Voice Voice of Stakeholder
Acronym
The Customer
Voice of the Customer
VoC
Executives
Voice of the Executive
Employees
Voice of the Employee VoE
Finance
Voice of the Business
VoB
Board of Directors
Voice of the Board
The Market
Voice of the Market
Investors
Voice of the Investors
The Process
Voice of the Process
VoP
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Identifying Requirements of Voices
To translate a voice, begin with “Voice of…”
How can we listen to these voices?
A “requirement” is:
The Customer (the end user)
What a voice requires of our center; their expectations
Executives
Employees
To identify a requirement for a voice, we need to “listen” to what the voice tells us
Finance
The Market
The Process
The Industry
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Characteristics of CTQ
CTQ characteristics help us to identify metrics of focus for our voices and requirements.
Characteristics of CTQ:
A “CTQ” metric is:
Must be measurable
Must be an OUTPUT metric
The single most relevant metric to measure a voice’s requirement
Must have a target
Must link to a
voice’s requirements
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Identifying a CTQ
What is a good CTQ Metric for each requirement in your business?
Voice
Requirement
CTQ
On-time orders
Customer
???
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Identifying a CTQ
What is a good CTQ Metric for each requirement in your business?
Voice
Requirement
CTQ
???
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Business
???
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Characteristics of Causal Factors
Causal Factor characteristics help us to identify what influences the outcome of the CTQ Metric.
A “Causal Factor” in a contact center is:
Characteristics of a Causal Factor:
Must be measurable
A metric that measures the input processes to a CTQ
Must be an INPUT metric
Must have a target
Must link to a CTQ
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Identifying Causal Factors
What are some Causal Factors of each CTQ?
Voice
Requirement
CTQ
Causal Factor
?
On-time orders
Customer
?
?
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Identifying Causal Factors
Identifying Causal Factors
What are some Causal Factors of each CTQ?
Voice
Requirement
CTQ
Causal Factor
?
Conversion Rate
Enrollments
?
?
Business
?
Service Levels
Adherence
?
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Exercise – Causal Factors
Together we will define Causal Factors and the impact on customers.
Approximately 20 minutes
Each team will be assigned a CTQ
Identify & list all the associated Causal Factors
Identify a presenter
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Linking CTQ Trees to Your Business
How can CTQ Trees add value to your business?
Organize reports with a CTQ/Causal Factor hierarchy; great approach for dashboards
Improve the ability to identify root cause of a poor performing CTQ
Decrease the time to execute an improvement project
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Applying The Kano Model
The Kano Model is a prioritization analysis designed to help customer service teams prioritize improvement initiatives and KP I’s (Key Performance Indicators).
KANO Model applied to CTQ’s:
Classify your metrics into 3 categories
Identify the metrics that should be
continuously improved compared to those that need to achieve a minimum threshold
Identify metrics that should have 1 target or 2 targets
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Implementing The Kano Model
Implementing The Kano Model
Utilize the following steps to implement The Kano model:
Metric
Must Be
More is Better Delighter
Comments
Metric 1
Metric 2
Metric 3
Metric 4
Create a table like the one above:
List your key metrics
Classify each metric
Note specific comments/logic where appropriate
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Implementing The Kano Model
Implementing The Kano Model
Utilize the following steps to implement The Kano model:
Metric
Must Be More is Better
Delighter Comments
Service Level
AHT
Attrition
Conversion Rate
Create a table like the one above:
List your key metrics
Classify each metric
Note specific comments/logic where appropriate
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Thinking about defining targets
Thinking about the metrics in your center
Do metrics have
▪ 1 target
▪ 2 targets
▪ Or many targets?
Do all metrics need to improve all the time?
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Defining metrics objectives Now you are able to:
Define and implement a CTQ Tree
Define and implement a KANO model
Define the relationships between contact center metrics
Utilize a quantified process to set metric targets
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Interpreting Performance with Run Charts
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Interpreting performance with run charts By the end of this module, you will be able to:
Interpret a run chart
Implement a run chart
Analyze a run chart
Apply a run chart to contact center metrics
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Example run chart Run charts are graphs that display observed data in a time sequence.
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Interpreting a run chart When interpreting a run chart, look for patterns or trends in your data that indicate special-cause variation.
3. Understand the direction of positive performance
2. Understand the data presented on the chart (y axis)
4. Understand the target
1. Understand the time interval (x axis)
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Implementing a run chart Insite best practices.
Execute the following steps and best practices to implement a Run Chart for your contact center metrics:
Format the data along a time scale • It is best to have 20+ data points • When working with a monthly scale, 12 data points is acceptable-24 is preferred
Initiate the Run Chart tool & follow the steps
Insert a descriptive title
Insert descriptive labels for the x and y axis
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Implementing a run chart continued Insite best practices.
Define the y-scale a) Define a significant performance change for a specific metric – the following are benchmarks for a typical department • Service Level: 5% • Critical Error Accuracy: 1% to 2% • Customer Satisfaction: Link to Precision/Confidence Interval
Insert the target(s) There are 3 methods to insert a target: • Drawing a line • Drawing a box (only when there are 2 targets) • Insert a series for the target
Define the direction of “good” performance
Insert a linear trend line (if appropriate)
b) Set the “major unit” – the increment width – to the
percentage identified in “step a” c) Modify the minimum & maximum to display 9 to 11 increments
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Instructor led exercise Practicing run charts together.
Format the data along a time scale Initiate the run chart tool and follow the steps Insert a descriptive title Insert descriptive labels for the x and y axis Insert the target(s) Define the directions of “good” performance Insert a linear trend line
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Answering run chart questions What are your answers?
R U N C H A R T A N A L Y T I C S
The following are Insite’s Analytics Questions
What % of the time is the target achieved? • Good performance is 75% or greater
How much variation exists between data points? • Low variation is when 75% of the data points do not have “significant” performance changes
What is the trend (getting better, flat, getting worse)? • In some cases, inserting a trend line can assist with interpreting the trend – only do this when the metric is “More is Better”
Are there any special causes?
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Team exercise Practicing run charts together.
Spend a few minutes becoming familiar with Insite’s ccData Identify a metric for each member
Each team member uses that metric to independently create a run chart Convene as a team and review each run chart-be sure to: Interpret the results Analyze the chart Check that all guidelines have been implemented
Identify potential improvement initiatives Define what actions to take on “Monday”
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Interpreting performance with run charts Now you can:
Interpret a run chart
Implement a run chart
Analyze a run chart
Apply a run chart to contact center metrics
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U NDERSTANDING V ARIATION WITH B AR C HARTS
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Variation with Bar Charts Objectives By the end of this module, you will be able to:
Identify and analyze outliers in the Bar Charts
Understand how to interpret and analyze Bar Charts
Understand outlier variation in the Bar Charts
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Interpreting a Bar Chart Bar Charts have 3 components to be aware of:
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Interpreting a Bar Chart Your data can be organized for a clearer perspective
Utilize the sort function in Excel to get a clearer view of your results
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Analyzing a Bar Chart
Using organized Bar Charts can help you formulate the right questions
3. The bottom 25% of Agents AHT is below 4.50 minutes . Why are they spending so little time on the phone?
1. 25% of Agents have AHT of 6.59 or higher. What are they doing on their calls that others are not??
2. The Majority of your Agents lie in the middle. How can they be motivated to improve?
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Analyzing Outliers
Outliers are data points on either side of a Bar Chart
Outliers can be both benchmark Agents and/or opportunity Agents
Benchmark outliers are the top 25% and excelling at a secondary metric
Opportunity outliers are the bottom 25%
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Answering Questions
B A R C H A R T A N A L Y T I C S I n s i t e ’ s A n a l y t i c s Q u e s t i o n s
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Are there data integrity issues?
Is the variation high or acceptable?
Who are the outliers?
Are there any special causes?
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Team Exercise
Group Exercise
Use the excel spreadsheet to create a bar chart for the agents on your team. Add the axis titles and chart title.
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Identify the top and bottom 25%.
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Discuss possible reasons for outlier performance. Identify
Agents
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Analyzing Process
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Analyzing Process Objectives By the end of this module, you will be able to:
Explain why monitoring is important
Identify which monitoring method is best for each scenario
Communicate the steps of conducting a process analysis
Use the correct symbols in a process map
Implement a process analysis
Identify variation in a process analysis
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Why Monitor Agents?
The Importance of Monitoring We have been learning how to analyze data, in order to more effectively diagnose where we may have process breaks that could be impacting the business. But what now? We need to roll up our sleeves to start monitoring agents. By monitoring agents we identify good and bad behaviors that we can acknowledge appropriately.
Why is monitoring agents so important ?
By monitoring you will be able pinpoint process breaks
Uncover opportunities for improvement in
Document processes as they are happening to uncover gaps
Ensure tools are being used properly
training, systems, process etc.
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Monitoring Methods Monitoring your Agents will have different outcomes using different methods.
Side-by-side
Remote Monitoring
Recorded
Peer Monitoring
Comprehensive view of Agent work process and skills
Allows view of normal Agent behavior during the interaction
Allows view of normal Agent behavior during the interaction Higher assessment accuracy Interactions can be replayed Partial view of Agent’s skills Partial view of Agent process
Comprehensive view of Agent’s behaviors and skills in live interactions Less intimidating than side-by-sides
Pros
Tends to alter Agent behavior
Partial view of Agent’s skills Partial view of Agent process unless screen share is enabled
Observation process conducted by an SME
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Monitoring Method Exercise Which monitoring method would best fit each scenario?
Side-by-side
Remote Monitoring
Recorded
Peer Monitoring
Which monitoring method would best fit each scenario?
Using a lead SME assist and mentor a new Agent
When following up on a coaching to verify the behavior change
To assist an Agent with a difficult call and offer live assistance
When doing multiple calls or follow ups for efficiency purposes
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Introduction to Process Mapping Process mapping uses shapes & arrows to show a process in motion
Beginning / End
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Decision
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Process
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Paper Document
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Shapes are used to describe a step in the process Arrows connect the steps to completion
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Process Mapping Symbols Follow these best practices while building a process map.
Standard Process Mapping Symbols
Activity – Actual task
Decision – Exercising discretion
Example: Review a form
Tip: Indicate what % of volume takes which path
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Tips: 5 words or less
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Beginning or end of process
Documents – Any form, template, job aid or spreadsheet utilized as part of the process
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Direction of flow
Major Opportunity – Potential cost saving or business improvement
Outside of Process – Use it to draw attention
Example: How to reduce 70% of rework at this step
Examples: Hands off to
another department, inputs from strategy
Tips: Quantify
opportunity as possible
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Process Map Example
Where are possible steps in the process that would affect AHT performance?
Acknowledge call in PureCloud
Is call from candidate?
Verify full name & last 4 of social
Explain results and questions on report
Notate STORM candidate tab only
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Search in STORM
Locate in GoodHire
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All mail is opened, scanned and uploaded to the documents queue in PureCloud
Support agent will open and interpret type of work
Retask document to the proper queue for workflow
Is this paper mail?
Office assistant gets USPS mail 3x weekly
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Provide status update of current report
Notate STORM candidate tab & employer tab
Search STORM for employer
Verify user email & PIN
Is issue about candidate?
Access candidate tab in STORM
Is report within time of service?
Explain estimated turnaround time
Disposition in PureCloud
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Yes
End
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Agent accesses fax task in PureCloud
Begin process to expedite to Reports or Verifications
Explain turn around time to candidate
Notate STORM candidate tab only
Search STORM for employer account and company account
Receive task through PureCloud queue
Valid no Candidate Alert or pending?
Open candidate in STORM
Note content of file in STORM
Save As candidate name
Is issue for invoice?
Search STORM for all recent invoices
Clarify invoice details
Match customer expectation?
Notate STORM employer tab
Customer Support contact queues
Open file
Yes
Print letter as PDF
Attach file in STORM
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Request W-9 business license or support documentation
Submit ticket to account team (Ethan Peters) for customer contact/support
Open Alert letter template for employer
Update candidate name and address
Open Documents tab in STORM
Disposition in PureCloud
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What ideas from your own
What processes do you know of within Inflection that have an opportunity to improve AHT?
experience could improve this process?
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Understanding Variation Understanding Variation Reducing variation is important to improve performance. In order to reduce variation, we must understand:
At first glance it seems we hit our target. This is an example of a process that is centered around the target, but very seldom meets the requirements of the customer.
Here is an example of a process that has results well grouped together. But is well off target from hitting the customer expectation.
This displays a process that is centered and is within the tolerance of the customer’s requirements. This is where we want all our processes to be.
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Team Exercise Group Exercise
Listen to a call from one of our agents
Step 1
On a flipchart document the process steps taken on the call by our agent
Step 2
Can you identify any process breaks from the agent? What risk could occur if just one of the required process were not followed? Once documented, as a group review and discuss the documented steps. Once in agreement that all steps have been captured, move on.
Step 3
Step 4
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Virtual Floor Management
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Skills Delivered
Insite’s leadership development breaks down into two complimentary skillsets:
What to Coach
How to Coach Metrics and performance Performance
Understanding the correlation of metrics Focusing on basic statistics to drive results Analyze processes
Methodologies
Coaching for Success Driving
Differentiated Performance
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Course Objectives By the end of this module, you will understand:
Establishing communication cadence to maintain performance
Identifying outliers to know where to put focus
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Best practices for communication channel vary based on the audience There are many communications channels, and they all have their strengths and weaknesses. Utilizing the proper channel for each situation will reduce confusion and allow your team to operate more effectively.
Phone
Text
Works well for in-depth conversations
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Useful for when employees are not online to communicate important updates
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Using with video provides the added benefit of body language
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Chat
Group chat
Great for instant conversational communication Direct questions and answers
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Keeps teams connected Best for brief questions and collaborative responses
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Message board
Good for important but not urgent communication Limit messages to 1 to 2 paragraphs
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Use to communicate business and team updates
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Social media
Webcam
Having a social presence will allow employees to still feel connected and help them adjust to change
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Facilitating meetings with video will keep your team connected
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Use daily huddles to keep everyone engaged Scheduling daily team huddles will keep your team connected and working toward your organizations KPI’s. Connection to leader s and peers, when working from home, is critical to maintaining performance and keeping everyone focused on the areas that matter the most.
Important updates and KPI review: Share updates and changes to policies. Also spend time reviewing KPI successes and opportunities. This is a good time to have the team collaborate on best practices. Take time to connect: Spend some time on nonwork related topics. This will develop relationships and set the tone for the rest of the meeting
Use video: When possible, use video during the meeting. This will help the team to connect more fully. This gives you the ability to pickup on facial expressions and body language.
Q&A: Ending the huddle with a question and answer session will ensure that everyone is on the same page.
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Team meeting agenda templates help to drive message consistency Setting an agenda for the team meetings will bring structure and direction to the interaction. Ultimately, it will keep the focus on the most important goals and lead to successful results. Be sure to send the final form to team members and your leadership after the meeting.
Team Meeting Agenda: • Performance should be focused on the most critical KPI’s. Limited to 3 allows the agents to remain focused on what’s most essential. • Focus areas and tips should be specific and impact the aforementioned KPI’s. • Observations - can be sourced from areas such
as quality observations or CSP phone behaviors. These can also be positive
• Team lessons learned can be requested ahead of time or asked during the team meeting and typed out in real time in front of the group. • Recognition - can be for big or small accomplishments
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There are several activities that leadership can enact to help drive core KPI’s Leading your team in an at home environment will create new challenges. Being intentional about implementing effective behaviors will lead to a cohesive team and, ultimately, successful results.
Schedule coaching sessions, evaluation time, and team meetings in advance.
Maintain a schedule
Ensure that CSPs can reach out during stressful customer interaction. For especially rough calls, debrief with the agent after the interaction.
CSP frustration outlets
Establish and utilize chat rooms to connect with the team. Team chat rooms also facilitate peer collaboration and best practice sharing..
Team chat rooms
Help agents break goals down to basic components to ensure understanding and success
Establish a clear path for success
Prioritize activities that will have the largest impact on the KPI’s that need the most attention.
Prioritize activities
Reward top performers to keep motivation high in the new at home environment. Call out great customer interactions to the team or have contests throughout the day
Incent great work
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Setup daily success plans to drive transparency and communication When leading in the work at home environment, creating daily accountability around tasks will lead to success. Maintaining a daily success plan will limit distractions and create the proper focus on the most important tasks. Success plans align leaders and CSPs so that they are working together to achieve impactful results.
Daily reporting Establish email reporting checkpoints at the end of each day. CSPs should report daily on accomplishments, challenges, and next steps. Supervisors should also send a report to their manager outlining the same areas at the team level. This is a good time to call out challenges or success with specific individuals. Validate understanding At the beginning of each week review the goals with the agents to finalize the plan. Validate that they are realistic and discuss specific plans for achieving them. Adjust as needed As goals are reported on leaders and team members should work together to adjust as needed. Detailed daily breakdown Once high-level goals are established, break them down into daily tasks. In the transition to an at home environment, this create needed clarity to ensure that the goals are achieved.
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Re-assess processes and fine tune based on needs
With the changes in a work at home environment, processes may need to be modified to accommodate remote work. Discussing foreseeable challenges and changes with your team helps the transition go smoothly.
Quality: • What changes are being made for the at home environment? • Example: quality form changes to factor in things like background noise? CSP support: • Planning is needed to ensure that CSPs get questions answered and stay connected with the team • Update training modified to account distance learning Escalated contacts: • Are there modifications needed for the customer escalation process? Real time management of queues: • Adjustments will be needed for checking on and providing assistance for long call • Recruiting overtime or approving time off will be different
HR processes: • Logistics of participating in unemployment hearings
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Providing agents with an avenue for peer communication helps keep teamwork strong Because agents lose the ability to communicate in-person, they need other ways to connect. Consistent peer communication facilitates the sharing of ideas and best practices.
Peer communication Setting up a communication channel allows CSPs to ask questions and provide ideas on how to be successful when working from home.
• Establish a chat room specifically for CSP communication
• It might be helpful to have a channel for business conversation and another one for non-business team commination
• Invite ‘Real Time Analysts’ to the room to help with activity callouts
• Supervisors can use the room for public recognition • Keep in mind, not all CSPs prefer their recognition to be public
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Constant attention to real time management is critical to drive productivity Traditional queue monitoring processes need to be modified in an at home environments. Maintaining consistent vigilance of the queue becomes even more critical when your workforce is not localized in the same building.
Queue monitoring considerations • Communicate without taking the “standing over the shoulder” approach • Establish thresholds to check on long calls • Utilize chat to reach out to see if any assistance is needed • Establish a clear call escalation path • Make allowances for a ‘time out’ after a difficult call • Have an escalation process in place for agents that are unresponsive • Have a logout process for agents that leave themselves logged into the queue Real-time adjustments to staffing • Overtime recruiting • Don’t make the mistake of assuming that because people are working from home, they are always available for OT • Work with the team to create an OT availability schedule for each person • Time-off during availability • Make offers based on need, agents may be more willing to be flexible with adjusting shifts in at home environments • Have a plan for split shifts if needed • Avoid continuously relying on the same employees
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Identifying outliers allows you to know where to put focus Here are some principles used to identify outliers.
Keep the following things in mind:
Average/Mean – Most common output type but can be susceptible to limited results causing a skew in results
Median - The middle value of observations arranged in order of magnitude. Particularly helpful with quartile reporting.
Mode - The most frequently occurring value in a data set. Helpful to know where most performance is grouped
Range - The distance from the lowest data point to the highest data point. Best when used in tandem with the other methods.
Potential outliers
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Establish a cadence to virtually assess customer impacting red alerts It’s important to keep a pulse on the customer experience as agents are transitioning to working at home. Increasing the freq uency of call monitoring sessions and keeping a closer eye on Conversion Rates and Quality will lead to consistent and sustained performance.
Quality
CR
Increase monitoring sessions
Monitor Conversion by agent daily
Listen for background noise
Look for drops in performance Review any written or voice recorded feedback that the customer shared Address poor behaviors immediately and set consistent follow-up schedules
Review with each agent trends in quality performance over a series of quality audits Charts work well to detail performance by category This helps to isolate the development conversation to focus on trends instead of anomalies
Document escalating corrective actions/agent counseling
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The performance management process must be documented
The most common method of addressing a performance result, a documented improvement plan allows for structure in supporting an employee to achieve their results.
Performance Improvement Plans should all utilize the S.M.A.R.T. goals methodology.
Were targets reached?
Yes? Celebrate success!
Timely
Relevant
Attainable
Measurable
Specific
No? Was improvement made?
Yes – Decide if escalation is needed or just a revised plan
No - Escalate with revised plan Repeat in accordance with HR policies until targets met or movement is required
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Align with HR to overcome any documentation which require acknowledgements Special considerations are needed to maintain consistency with HR processes in the work at home environment.
Provide a channel with which employees can have a safe and secure avenue to reach-out through Ensure consistent treatment of employees and void the perception of favoritism Use remote solutions to ensure documentation requirements are not halted, and utilize video conference technology to facilitate any disciplinary meetings with employees Collaboration between operations leadership and HR is crucial when making decisions on someone’s employment status.
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Module Summary You are now able to:
Establish a communication cadence to maintain performance
Identify outliers to know where to put focus
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W HAT TO C OACH HOW TO C OACH
October 2021
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Overview & Objectives By the end of this module, you will be able to understand:
Implement the 6 step Coaching flow with your agents
Create SMART Goals and Objectives
Identify different Personality Types and Personas, and how to adaptt your coaching
How the ways we observe our agents changes the output
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Insite’s Coaching Methodology
The Coaching Model is a 6 Step Process.
1. Explain How 2. Provide Examples and Proper Tools 3. Role Play to Success
POSITIVE
POSITIVE
OPPORTUNITY
EXECUTE
STEP 1
STEP 2
STEP 3
STEP 4
STEP 5
STEP 6
WOW You Were Great Here!
Where Do You Think This Broke Down?
Reaffirm
Thank you for your time!
Open With Questions
Establish A Safe Place
B ehavior E ffect E xpectation S ecure Commitment
You Can Do This! Name their Motivation:
B ehavior E ffect T hanks
• Income • Job • Goals, Happiness
• Timeframe • Method of Follow Up • Next Steps
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Insite’s Coaching Methodology: Step 1
Step 1 focuses on creating a warm and welcoming coaching environment.
Create a welcoming environment
STEP 1
Attempt to deliver coaching in a private setting to maintain confidentiality and avoid
outside distractions and interruptions.
Establish A Safe Place
Avoid confrontational postures. Bear in mind that 93% of communication is
non-verbal. Therefore, consider implementing the following:
Manage your voice through tone, volume and delivery making sure that your message will be positive and optimistic.
Manage your eye contact; too much will be seen as aggressive, too little will suggest a lack of interest.
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Insite’s Coaching Methodology: Step 2
Be curious during Step 2 and ask questions to engage on a personal level.
Engage on a personal level to set the stage for dialogue
Show that you care about them as a person, not just as an employee:
STEP 2
• How are you doing today? Having a good week? • Identify what is important to them – what motivates them.
Open With Questions
Transition to how they feel they are doing in their role: • What are their struggles? • What are they doing well?
Dig deeper into performance struggles and what they are
currently doing to address them:
• How is your approach working for you?
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Insite’s Coaching Methodology: Step 3 Focus on what is going well and build from there.
Transition on a positive note
POSITIVE
Recognize and reward high performance, highlighting strengths and recognizing
STEP 3
incremental improvements.
WOW You Were Great Here!
Utilize the BET approach to remove their emotional barriers around the
coaching process.
• Behavior – Your focus on being confident on this call was great! • Effect – Staying confident ensures the call goes smoothly and Operations has
B ehavior E ffect T hanks
confidence in what you are saying! • Thanks – I really appreciate that!
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Insite’s Coaching Methodology: Step 4
Empower your team to create opportunities for personal and professional growth.
Let your employees own their improvement process
OPPORTUNITY
Ask the employee to assess the situation to uncover the performance gap.
STEP 4
• What do you think could have gone better?
Where Do You Think This Broke Down?
Utilize the BEES technique to establish a plan of action: • Behavior – What do you think we could have done better? • Effect – How do you think that impacted the outcome? • Expectation – Going forward, what do you think we should do? • Secure Commitment - Provide timeframe, follow-up method and next steps.
B ehavior E ffect E xpectation S ecure Commitment
1. Explain How 2. Provide Examples and Proper Tools 3. Role Play to Success
• Timeframe • Method of Follow Up • Next Steps
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Insite’s Coaching Methodology: Step 5
Emphasize the benefits of ongoing improvement and development.
Share with your employee the benefits of improving
POSITIVE
STEP 5
Show the employee “What’s in it for me” when they improve.
Reaffirm
• Allows them to be eligible to receive monetary incentives. • Provides career pathing opportunities. • Taking great care of real time actions is what fulfills them in their role.
Use a statement that shows your belief in their abilities to execute the
You Can Do This! Name their Motivation:
behavior.
• Income • Job • Goals, Happiness
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