Contact Center Show

Amas and Bob tell you how to separate the hype from reality with GPT: - AI will eliminate 75% of call center jobs. AI will even make your bed. These are some of the real headlines about what generative AI things like Chat GPT will do to the contact center. - I think the next knowledge will be the impact. It's going to affect the way that we write knowledge articles. Marketing is an example of how knowledge is going to be second in the contact center. And then the last step is talking to the agent where generative AI actually talks to the customer. - Generative AI is still on the way up in the Gartner Hype cycle. That means that the peak of inflated expectations are not over yet. Greene: It'll make the biggest impact on the agent, not the customer. Companies should be paying attention to it. - You sound like you have a bias for disrupting and helping the agent as opposed to replacing the agent by putting this thing in front of the customers. Is this one of those kind of, hey, start here because it's safer? I still believe we have a place for an agent. - What I want to do is help my agent versus replace my agent. Typical contact center probably has four to 500 knowledge articles. Think about having Chat GPT rewrite those articles through the lens of the customer. There's tons of improvement to the experience if you start there. - Google CEO Sandar Pachaya said Artificial intelligence is one of the most profound things we're working on as humanity. That silence after that is what tells me we've got to understand what this impact is. I hope we helped you guys get smarter this week. "It you know the demise of the contact center has been going on since since the IVR so. The reality is, is that contact the percentage of contact center jobs in companies have gone up compared to where they were before those technologies came into play." - Bob " I want to point out to people who you heard me say that the most popular car in the 1890s was an electric car." - Amas

Bob and Amas discuss the world of knowledge. "I'm going to date myself that we had knowledge on paper in binders at every desk." - Bob "In fact, I believe that if used correctly, knowledge or technical product content in this case is and should be seen as marketing." - Mike "So we have this issue. There are 1400 page PDFs running out there. How would you think about the problem and and how? How have you advised people to begin to think about solving it?" -Amas Connect with Mike Stock at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikestockactual/

Amas and Bob discuss the role of the CFO in the Contact Center: "Yeah, there is a the metric but there reason your are measuring FCR, repeat call rates, average call rate, they should lead somewhere." -Amas "I gotta be ready to tell the story of the history, the real-time and the future." -Bob

Amas and Bob discuss the outbound call center: "This is giving me flashbacks of my teenage years when I was doing telemarketing." - Amas "Time is money! Interactions to Sales matter - from a cost perspective." -Bob "Well first of all it's a tough job, in that job I was talking about I called 60 people maybe 20 talked to me, that's a lot of negativity." - Bob

Bob interviews Amas about his latest book "Waiting for Service" "If our industry could get the waiting part right before worrying about the quality of service..." Amas "So if you are listening to our podcast, he is not talking about you, he is talking about the other contact center professionals." - Bob

Amas and Bob welcome Caryn Fried and Glen Stoffel to the Contact Center Show to discuss the reality of soft skills. Quotes "People drive the success of contact centers. I had someone say to me this week - I think people are going away in contact centers. ChatGPT and the future of voice bots and digital bots will replace the human. But I disagree. Technology will never replace the humans in contact centers." "Professional Teams practice. If it looks effortless It didn't come easy, the effortless is earned" "These skills are not soft skills, they are tough skills" Interactions are harder because we have scraped off most of the transactional contacts and sent them to an IVR, to self service, to chatbots… so what is left takes human intelligence - takes the ability to listen and think through solutions. About our guests Glen Stoffel is a master Strategist and Co Founder of Camp 4 connect with Glen at https://www.linkedin.com/in/glen-stoffel/ Caryn Fried is a leadership development savant and CEO of Camp4, connect with Caryn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/caryn-fried/ https://camp4network.com/

Do you use social media to address your complaints or concerns with companies? What are the pros and cons of social service? Does anyone do it well? It is quite overwhelming to monitor the entire internet so where do you start? "how would you feel if every decision you make privately on a contact center ends up on the front page of a newspaper or on facebook?" "If it is written information, it is public:" - Amas "Customers will figure it out...social is better" - Bob And much more Contact Amas and Bob. http://linkedin.com/in/amastenumah/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobfurniss/

Bob and Amas continue the conversation about Social Service: "You know that quote from 10-15 years ago 'if you do something good your customer will tell 3 people and if you do something bad they will tell 10' now customers are like 'let me tell my 100 followers, 500 followers...." - Bob And much more Contact Amas and Bob. http://linkedin.com/in/amastenumah/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobfurniss/

You dial a 1800# and it tells you someone will hold your place in line and call you back when it is your turn? Is someone actually holding your place in line? Key Quotes: "It allows you to not have to listen to Michael Bolton sing "when a man loves a woman for the thirteenth time." Or even worse, here the "your call is important to us" for the 25th time!" "Yes it is lipstick on a pig- but I am not sure you want your pig to walk around all the time with lipstick on - instead, only use the lipstick for special occasions." - Bob

Amas and Bob take a deep dive into the success of ChatGPT. Chatbots are not new, why is this one capturing hearts and mind? What the heck is a chatbot anyway? Why do most customers hate chatbots and will it change? Will it replace humans in the contact center? How do I start building a bot customers will want? And much more Contact Amas and Bob. http://linkedin.com/in/amastenumah/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobfurniss/