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Customer
Satisfaction Surveys
By
Rosanne D'Ausilio, Ph.D., President of Human Technologies
Global, Inc.
Do
you have customer satisfaction surveys in place?
In a recent report from BenchmarkPortal.com, the top 3 post-call survey methods were:
1) Live telephone interviews 33.7%
2) Post-call IVR surveys 23.8%
3) Email surveys 15.8%
The significant findings as a result of this report include:
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26.1% do post call surveys up from 19.6% in 2006
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17.4% do not conduct any post call surveys, down from 25.8% in 2006
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26% conducted surveys immediately after the call up over 50% from 2006
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70.4% shared the survey reports with top management
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63.4% agreed that agent training had a major impact on caller satisfaction
When asked when do you conduct your survey, the answers were:
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Immediately after the call 26.0%
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More than 10 days after 17.3%
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2 day or less 14.4%
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2-5 days 13.5%
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5-10 days 7.7%
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We don't survey 17.4%
The significant question for me was: Based on customer satisfaction survey inputs, your organization made the following operational improvements: And the top 2 were:
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Added, changed or improved training for agents 25.2%
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Increased First Call Resolution 19.3%
When asked whether improvements to training programs resulted in improved caller satisfaction, 63.4% agreed with the statement.
In
a survey of over 2000 senior human resource executives (Novations
Group*), 2 out of 3 organizations are experiencing growing
demand for customer service training.
Do you survey your customers? And then if you do, do you
use that information to kick your customer service up a
notch? I hope the answer to both of these questions is a
big "YES."
This goes back to previous articles on asking your customer. If you want to know how you are doing as a company; if you want to know how your customer service is being perceived; then ask your customer. Don’t rely solely on metrics, but rather, remember that the best measure of how you are doing is available to you in your customer.
Our recommendation is for post call surveys to be within 2 days of the call. Beyond that it is a mere memory and people could give you what you want to hear rather than what is true for them. If you were to ask me a week later—unless it was a truly bad call experience—I would answer yes quickly to get you off the phone and I might not be accurate in my responses. Of course, if it were a bad experience, I probably would take the time to give feedback.
However, if you are going to take the time to do post call surveys, use the information to:
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Upgrade, change, improve your agent training
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Increase your first call resolution
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Change your IVR or skill based routing
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Empower your agents to do more without requiring a supervisor’s approval
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Decrease wait time
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Share the information with management and all other touch points
In the Purdue University database of contact enters, only 61% report that they have a formal method for collecting caller satisfaction. More important, of those centers that collect customer information, only 33% of them use the information to influence change in the contact center, and even fewer use information to influence other areas in the organization.
In today’s competitive marketplace, what distinguishes one company from another is its relationship with the customer. And that’s a ‘people’ responsibility, not technology or process. Who has that responsibility? Each and every person from your front line agent to your CEO—anyone and everyone who has interaction with a customer, current, potential, or future.
About
the Author
Rosanne
D'Ausilio, Ph.D., industrial psychologist, President
of Human Technologies Global, Inc., specializes in human
performance management for contact centers, providing needs
analyses, instructional design, and customized, live, world
class customer service skills trainings.
Known as 'the practical champion of the human, she authors the best-sellers, Wake Up Your Call Center: Humanize Your Interaction Hub, 4th edition, Customer Service and The Human Experience and Lay Your Cards on the Table: 52 Ways to Stack You Personal Deck, and hot off the press How to Kick Your Customer Service Up A Notch: 101 Insider Tips as well as her popular ‘tips’ newsletter on How To Kick Your Customer Service Up A Notch! available at http://www.HumanTechTips.com. Reach her at Rosanne@human-technologies.com.
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