What if you could coach every member service representative on every call?
You can't be everywhere at once, obviously, but what if there was someone - or something - that could?
The secret to helping member service representatives be at their best is finding a best-in-class, real-time representative assistance solution.
Here's what to look for:
First and foremost, the solution should be built for outcomes.
So much of what we measure in a contact center is about activity and not outcome. Calls made. Time spent in-call. Time spent in wrap-up.
But don't we actually care about outcomes? Isn't the result of the call what we're really interested in?
If your credit union's success is driven by the outcome of member interactions, then your conversations should move you closer to those outcomes.
That's what real-time assistance does. It guides representatives toward outcomes, helping them reach the goals you are looking for. Here are eight benefits you'll get from using a great member service representative assistant tool:
What constitutes an effective engagement? In the competitive borrowing and lending environment your credit union is living in, you're looking for a solid financial relationships as well as a positive experience for your members.
By analyzing and learning from the best calls, your representative assistant will help your team reach those outcomes more efficiently.
With the right representative assistance solution, everyone in the member contact center can apply knowledge about:
By knowing which actions are most likely to drive the best outcome, every one of your representatives can become more effective.
Hiring and retention are tough right now for everyone, but in a high-stress members services role, that pain is even more intense.
That means time-to-value for new hires is crucial. With real-time representative assistance, constant, engaging reinforcements of the things that you cover in months of training can reduce training expenditures and time taken for representatives to get up to speed.
A great representative assistance tool will help you reduce activities that are not outcome or value-focused (such as training, feedback sessions, recalibration, and training refreshers) and let the representative learn by doing.
No matter how many modules you read or scripts you follow, you can’t replace a great in-call mentor that guides you to the right responses.
Real-time representative assistance improves in-call time of agents by over 20 percent.
You know compliance adherence is central to your work, but it's just one thing in a long list your representatives need to remember.
A world-class representative assistance solution will let you add legacy compliance guidelines and configure and deploy new guidelines within minutes, and coach and remind representatives about compliance in every call.
Real-time assistance allows representatives to improve their compliance adherence by 10-15 percent.
Let’s be clear: Improving the experiences of credit union members is not a footnote. Member experience is the most important outcome you can work toward because it plays into every other metric for success.
Looking to enhance the member experience happens at the conversation level. A great conversation is focused, empathetic, and draws on the right context.
Having a tool to guide representatives through the process of making sure their interaction is all those things pays off with positive member connections and better outcomes.
Representatives have a lot to pay attention to on every call, and every one of those distractions can make a difference in their effectiveness.
Bringing in an representative assistant to support your team through the guidelines and technical flow of the conversation allows them to focus their attention on crafting and building a better connection and conversation with every member. That's vital for member retention.
In order to help representatives through calls, they've traditionally been asked to go through scripts and scenarios long before each conversation, or, worse, during the call, when they're trying to stay focused on the conversation (see #6).
What you want from an assistant is one that works in real time, offering up a clear next action exactly when they need it, keeping them focused and engaged.
Better performers are much less likely to churn compared to low performers. And how do good representatives become great representatives? Through practice and excellent coaching.
Combining in-the-moment interaction with engaging gamification and leaderboards can make work just that much more interesting — and that much more rewarding.
All of that focus on the member and the conversation can fuel a contact center built on the member experience that delivers the outcomes you're looking for.
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