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How to Successfully Implement a New Channel in Your Contact Center


How to Successfully Implement a New Channel in Your Contact Center

Air Date: March 24, 2016
Time: 1 PM Eastern Time
Speakers:

Cheryl Helm , Coty Smith

Moderators: Erica Marois
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Watch the webinar video below.


Gain insight on things to avoid, tips and tricks to utilize, and demonstrated best practices when implementing new channels within the contact center.


Implementing new channels, systems, or processes is one of the top challenges facing today’s contact center professionals.  From systems integration challenges to agents that adamantly resist change, the struggle to adapt a contact center’s infrastructure to the shifting customer landscape could not be more real.

ICMI’s research over the past several years has revealed substantial growth in the number of organizations adopting new channels and technologies, but more specifically, that have implemented live chat to effectively deliver seamless omnichannel customer experiences.  Through our research, we’ve gained deep insights on things to avoid, tips and tricks to utilize, and demonstrated best practices for how to successfully implement new channels within the contact center.
 
Attend this webinar to learn:

  • Tips to prevent the most common mistakes during a new channel/technology implementation.
  • Why chat is a fundamental channel for contact centers to most effectively provide omnichannel service.    
  • How to determine whether or not your channel and/or technology implementation was successful.
  • Best practices for delivering new channel and technology training to your staff.

 

Join us for this interactive and informative hour—complete with audience polls, case studies, best practices and live Q&A.


Speakers
Cheryl Helm - ICMI Business Associate
Cheryl Helm
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Cheryl is a contact center/telecommunications consultant and educational instructor. She has been involved in these two areas for over 21 years. Her career began in England as a technical instructor of contact centre technologies developed by Nortel. Cheryl has worked with and instructed clients all over Europe, Australia, Japan, the Caribbean, US and Canada. She brings a wealth of experience to her clients as a result of the broad range of businesses with which she worked - insurance, health care, airlines, hotels, automobile associations, software developers, helpdesks, manufacturers, telephony and mobility, utilities both gas and hydro (electric), along with governmental agencies. To develop a well-rounded and in-depth perspective of contact centers, Cheryl teamed up with ICMI in 1998 and has instructed courses, web seminars and engaged in consulting projects with ICMI ever since.

Cheryl’s specialty is with customer contact/call flow design ensuring the design meets the customer and business needs, along with the statistical requirements. Translating those requirements into workable solutions is her forte,and she has a proven ability to provide interpretation of statistics for clients from the ACD, work force management and IVR systems.

Coty Smith
Coty Smith
Sr. Solutions Consultant, BoldChat by LogMeIn

Coty Smith, Sr. Solutions Consultant, has worked very closely with the BoldChat product, working in roles that related to helping organizations find success through customer engagement strategies. Coty’s specializations include engagement optimization, customer experience strategy, and mobile device engagement. These areas of focus have helped etailers, network service providers, and financial organizations implement and enhance their approach to customer experience.

Prior to LogMeIn, Coty worked in a variety of roles at Bold Software, LLC with a focus on customer engagement and experience, which led to an acquisition by LogMeIn in 2012.



Moderators
Erica Strother headshot
Erica Marois
Content Marketing Specialist, 8x8
A passionate connector of people, Erica Marois is a customer and employee experience enthusiast who loves helping others find unique solutions to their biggest challenges. She has 12+ years of experience in content creation and community building and volunteers as a facilitator for CX Accelerator. A content marketing specialist with 8x8, Erica works from home in Richmond, VA, where she lives with her husband and their lab-mix, Quinn. Outside of work, she loves cooking, traveling, and reading.

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