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Outsourced Sales Activities

July 3rd, 2010

Outsourced Sales Activities PhotoIf you already have a business but the performance of your business is not improving, then there must be something wrong with your business and you have to immediately inspect to prevent worse condition like unavoidable loss or even bankruptcy. There are many things that you need to inspect to know where the unsettle section is in your business like the human resource. You should assess all of your employee to know the quality of them more over employee who face the customers directly. The next thing the you need to inspect is all the procedures and internal control of all activities  in your business. The authorization, reporting line or the flow of information should be inspected so that efficiency can be increased. The last thing to inspect if you have your own business but you think that the performance is not increasing is the sales, marketing and promotion activities or knows as supporting activities. These supporting activities, although seem simple but they hold a quite important role in a business to maintain the loyal customer so that they will not move to another company and to find new prospective customer. the supporting activities has one main purpose which is to increase the sales volume which can directly increase the profit of the business.

Because these activities are so important, many business owners leave these supporting activities to third party company so that they can concentrate more on the main business activities like the products and services development or raw material purchasing to make sure the manufacturing process is keeping ongoing. One of the examples of the company which can give sales solution is Cydcor which is a quite famous outsourced sales solution company.

Cydcor was established in 1994 and now it has more than 200 offices in North America and more than 3000 representatives. What makes this Cydcor company success in bringing the other company fulfilling their sales target is the 3 key success factors that they have. They are company mission which fulfill the needs of growing, collaborative cultures that will results in excellence and proven model of business that will give good results. Besides that there are also seven behaviors of the company that reflected on the employee of the Cydcor Company with some of them are, integrity service, open communication, collaboration and respect.

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Call Center Agents Coaching

May 13th, 2010

Call Center Agents Coaching PhotoThe call record method is one of the best approaches to coaching agent phone calls and ensuring quality. Here’s a 9-step plan for effectively coaching call center agent phone calls:

1. Randomly record 2 –3 telephone calls. Random recording is important. Do not record 3 calls back to back or on the same day, as your employee may be having a bad day and this may be reflected in all of one afternoon’s calls, but is not necessarily reflective of their typical performance.

2. Review the calls and note strengths and opportunities. Before meeting with your employee, listen to the calls and note what they did well and identify 1 –2 opportunities for performance improvement.

3. Play one tape and let your employee listen. During the playing of the tape, you do not need to respond.

4. Have your employee respond to the tape. After the tape is played, ask your employee to respond. Most employees will be overly self-critical. Your employee will likely note many opportunities for improvement and struggle to articulate what they’ve done well.

5. Coach the call. Use the “sandwich” approach. Tell your employee what s/he did well, followed by constructive feedback, and then end with positive feedback. When offering constructive feedback, share only one opportunity for improvement. The employee has likely observed and stated several improvement opportunities so there is no need to bring these up again Try to mention one thin g the employee did not bring up and offer this as your constructive feedback.

6. Gain commitment for performance improvement. Ask the employee, “What specific steps will you take over the next 5 days to improve in this area?” Write down what the employee states and repeat it to her. Summarize the session by reiterating strengths and offering a vote of confidence that she can improve in the identified area.

7. Repeat steps 2 – 6 with a second and perhaps third tape if necessary. The point of numerous recording is that an employee may respond defensively stating that was just a “bad” call. If that is the response, you may choose to review a second or third tape.

8. Follow-up before the next agent coaching session. Check with your employee in between coaching sessions to keep the commitment top of mind. You can touch base with your employee via email or a personal conversation.

9. Discuss improvement in next coaching session. Before listening to calls in the next coaching session, ask your employee how she’s progressing toward the goal of the last session. Look for improvement on calls reviewed in this session.

This 9-step call center agent coaching model is simple, clear and it both praises employees and offers support for improvement opportunities.

When you follow this 9-step process, you will set clear performance expectations, coach effectively and consistently and at the same time you will be motivating your employees.

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