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1. Leveraging Visuals to Build
Your Knowledge GPS
Hosted By
Cory Hartlen
Director-Client Engagement & Solutioning
Cory.Hartlen@procedureflow.com
@CoryHartlen
2. Your Environment
Is your contact centre facing financial
pressures?
Are you confident about the quality of
service delivered to clients?
Is anyone concerned about productivity?
4. The Rules Have Changed
• Learn about brands
• Form opinions
• Buy products
• Express feelings
• Ask for help
• Seek support
• Give feedback
• Look for a job
Connectivity and social channels are
transforming the way we:
7. The Problem
People hate writing stuff down
• People love talking
People hate searching for stuff
• People love winging it
People hate reading
• People love closing cases
People hate maintaining knowledge
• People love knowing more than other people
8. You Might Have an Information Problem
Can you ensure consistency across all customer touch points?
How long until new employees are proficient?
Are you mapping/organizing knowledge and information today?
How are you documenting your customer journey?
9. Bad Information = Bad Customer Experience
How Does Poor Customer Experience Affect a Business?
- Customers Leave
- New Customers Stay Away
- Your Reputation Suffers
- Employees Leave
- Revenues and Profits Shrink
But who’s responsible?
11. The Way It’s Done, Change is Needed
Ambiguity leads to judgement
calls, costing time and money
Training & Memorization
2-8 Weeks
Mentorship & Trial and Error
2-6 Months
Time & More Training
6-12 Months
Company
Information
Technology
Systems
Industry
Knowledge
Sales
Training
Soft Skills
Industry Growth
& Changes
Systems and
Technology
Changes
Government,
Legal & Policies
Company,
Marketing &
Product Changes
Many Call Scenarios
12. How is your company using visuals?
Visual communication is faster,
more efficient and easy to consume
when it’s time to take action
13. Images are the new words
85% of all marketing content is visual
People recall 65% of the visual content that they see in comparison
to about 10% of written content
People follow visual instructions 323% better than written instructions
The brain processes visuals 60,000x faster than text
15. Methodology
A Better Knowledge Experience
Experience Management
Knowledge
Employee
Customer
Leads to a Better Employee Experience
Leads to a Better Customer Experience
16. 3 Keys to Success
Small Hyperlinked
Flowcharts
User Friendly
Team Collaboration
17. Put your Employees First, Improve CX
Brands that improve CX: Increase revenue 10-15% & Lower costs 15-20%
Many Call Scenarios
Industry
Knowledge
Sales
Training
Technology
Systems
Company
Knowledge
Continuous
Learning
Team
Collaboration
Knowledge
GPS
Just in time
Knowledge
18. The Power of Visuals
What if you could
• Customer heroes faster
• Confident agents create better CX
• Leverage expertise of top performers
• Learning by doing
• Enable a better outsourcing relationship
19. Why Learning by Doing is Better
Motivation
• We’re naturally curious, performing tasks creates more motivated and engaged
learners
75% Higher Retention Rate
• Learning by doing changes behavior and this means new employees become
proficient faster
Reduced Costs
• Less time in a classroom, more time on the phone
20. Where do I start?
“I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.”
-Confucius
21. Where do we start?
These five simple steps will get you started:
1. Create buckets for all your call types, include a starting flow
2. Match knowledge articles and process docs to call types
3. Map the technology and all 3rd party systems to these flows
4. Take each call type and map out with knowledge and technology,
including all back stories, exceptions and variables
5. Work with your agents to battle test and improve your flows
22. Step 1, Call Types and Start your Flow
1. Create buckets for all your call types, include a starting flow
Start with your intro, and then move to your discovery phase, it might look like this:
Agent
Greeting
Move to Discovery
Open CRM
to log call
Thanks for calling A1, my name is
_____ how can I help you?
Customer Data
Change
Change Service
Billing IssueRoute to Call
Start ServiceCancel Service
25. Step 2, Buckets for all your knowledge articles
2. Create flows or links for all your knowledge articles, list them out for each call type
Customer
Data Change
Change
Service
Billing
Issue
Route a
Call
Start
Service
Cancel
Service
Knowledge Base to Process Documentation to Knowledge Articles
26. Step 2, Link all your knowledge articles
2. Link all your knowledge articles, list them out for each call type
Cancel Service
Note Reason for Cancellation
If moving to competitor, use
sales save pricing script
Process Cancellation
27. Step 3, Mapping all 3rd Party Systems
3. Map the technology and all 3rd party systems to these flows
Cancel Service
Note Reason for Cancellation
If moving to competitor, use
sales save pricing script
Process cancellation
Track in CRM
Process in Agent Desktop
Link to script in SharePoint
Stop billing in CRM
28. Cancel Service
Note Reason for Cancellation
If moving to competitor, use
sales save pricing script
Process cancellation
Track in CRM
Process in Agent Desktop
Link to script in SharePoint
Stop billing in CRM
Step 4, Putting it all Together
4. Take each call type and map out with knowledge and technology, including all back stories,
exceptions and variables
If cancellation is due
to death, move to
process cancellation
Confirm you’re
speaking to primary
account holder
Ensure you open all
needed technology
31. Step 5, Test & Innovate
5. Work with your agents to battle test and improve your flows
• Create feedback loops so updating is easy
• Have weekly check-ins to ensure adoption
• Involvement is key to engagement
• Have fun (i.e. scavenger hunts, posters, cake)
• Reinforce (Measure, reward, direct back, keep talking about success)
32. Things to Consider
Business Change (The people side of change)
• Consider your audience, get an executive sponsor (senior leaders,
agents, support, managers, quality team)
• What will they like, where will they resist?
• Develop a proactive plan that includes communications and training
Training Considerations
• Training shifts from showing to doing
• Trainers need time to understand the impact on their curriculum
• Determine what to do with the time you get back
33. The Payoff
“This is the first time they’ve done
something just for us”
-Every Agent
34. How we achieve success together
Review Technology Stack
Implementation Overview
Customer Success Stories
35. Where we fit = better than KB
Knowledge Base
KM Scripts
Procedure Flow
FC
Some CustomersToday
Knowledge Base
Procedure Flow
Next Week
Implementation 2-3 Months after adoptionProof of Concept
From signing paperwork to putting your first flow to work, one week!
Telephony
CRM
Telephony
CRM
Telephony
CRM
37. • Cut onboarding time by +75%
• Reduced AHT by 13%
• Increase CSAT by 8%
• 5% savings on cc operational costs
- 100 agents = $265K
• Strengthens Outsourcing Relationship
Customer Success & ROI
38. Happy Customers
“Using ProcedureFlow has decreased our
cross-training time by 61%, and our trainees
are now taking live calls from customers 8
days sooner.”
-Manager of Customer Relations
• Cut cross-training from 13 to 5.5 days,
575 training days saved, 3,840 extra
hours on the phone
• Reduce trainer prep time by 50%, 720
trainer days saved
• Reduce travel costs for both trainers and
trainees, $123,000 saved
• Reduced 7000 mentor assist calls, 700
hours back
39. Happy Customers
“ProcedureFlow simplifies the job of our
customer service representatives. It takes
away stress, helping them focus on the caller
and providing the best service possible.”
- Rachel Mills, Director of Member Experience at
Medavie Blue Cross
Cory’s intro, talk about career path and what he’s learned about the customer experience. It starts with the right employee experience.
Since care is almost always seen as a cost center our leadership keeps pushing for improvements in our KPI’s.
Spend less, increase CSAT or NPS, make your agents more productive.
But it puts the weight on the people in this room to drive that change, and hopefully that’s why you’re here, to learn and drive change in your center for the better.
Let’s start by looking at how our industry got here and how we’ve traditionaly supported our teams.
Then review the sweeping change in society over the past 15 yrs and see if we can learn from these changes
We’ll touch quickly on the experience most centers create for their agents
And finish by solving all your problems so when you’re asked the questions on this slide next year, you’re answers will be no.
This is the space we’re in, trying to get all the amazing information in one experienced persons head, onto another one. Or as we call it, human knowledge sharing. So we bring them into training, but oral training takes too long, written knowledge doesn't seem to be working.
We know our training takes too long, not to mention memory retention over the past decade has diminished to 10-20% with classroom training.
And we need all agents to perform at the level of our top agents, consistency is key to our brands success and the experiences we create.
Doing all of this well is really, really hard
One of the main factors to this reduction in memory retention has to do with the way society has evolved with the advent of the smart phone.
It’s not only changed the was interact with the world around us, it’s changed the way we learn, inform our selves, seek and ask for help. Even the way we look for a job.
It has made us a more fickle consumer, which is why you probably heard that customer care is the new marketing.
If a brand really wows us, we tell up to 6 ppl, but when a brand fails us, we tell up to 15 ppl. And we all know that so called #fail can accelerate in social media.
The good news is that we’re willing to pay more if it means brands can deliver on a better customer experience.
But how do we as consumers feel brands are meeting our expectations today?
A bit of a discrepancy in these numbers. Not a factor of 4 or even 5, this represents a factor of 10 between what brands feel they accomplish vs what the consumer feels the brand delivers. What do we think is leading to this?
Are we measuring the wrong KPI’s and metrics?
Leadership sees that our AHT and first call close metrics are in the right place, so all’s well and they believe they’re delivering value.
What we see is that when employees aren’t given the right technology, or knowledge, or perhaps they’re not incentivized correctly they follow the path of least resistance.
We hate writing stuff down, we’d rather talk it through and have a conversation.
We’ve all clicked through the first 4 or 5 pages of google looking for the best result to match our needs, and when we don’t find it quickly, we move to another channel, like as our friends on FB.
But this is really hard to do when a customer is on hold and your KB returns 400 results. We’d rather try to remember what someone else said and wing it.
And when that customer is on hold, if the documentation is longer than a tweet, we get frustrated. We hate reading long form docs, we’d rather perform an action, like close a case.
Last, we all know that one person in our center, nobody knows how to do what they do, they call it job security.
Human behavior will follow the easiest path if we’re not properly incentivized and supported.
If some or all of this happens in your team, you might, over time end up with an information problem.
How do you know if you might have an information problem.
Can you ensure consistency across all customer touch points?
Are agents capable from day one?
When new processes or documentation is created do you know how it fits into your knowledge management strategy? Is it organized?
Can you see your customers journey and how changes you make impact your agents and their experience?
We all want to focus on the customer experience, but we also need to make sure it doesn’t negatively impact the employee experience.
If you’ve had a hard time answering positively to any of these questions, then you might have an info problem, but what is it costing you?
Unfortunately the costs are high.
Frustrated customers leave, since they told their friends, new customers stay away and if we fail to correct the issue our reputation suffers.
Mackinsey, forster, gartner all report that customer experience sits 50-50 between marketing and care.
But in the end, who’s responsible for creating these experiences?
Every employee who touches your customer, that’s who.
We need to focus on the employee experience so they are given the tools, knowledge and reward structure so they can surprise and delight in every customer interaction they have.
But what kind of experience do we create for them?
We know change can be a challenge but the way it’s always been done needs to adapt to keep pace with the expectations of your customer.
Visually, this is the experience we create for new employees. We give them too many pieces of the puzzle they need to know how to put together to solve a customers need.
In the classroom they cover, product, brand, industry, sales training, soft skills and call scenarios, loads of training and memorization.
Then they move to a nesting or mentoring phase where trial and error are how they learn.
To compound the problems this approach creates, as soon as they leave the classroom, all this knowledge starts to change.
And we know that the ambiguity through the documentation and processes costs you time and money, leading to agents not having what they need to own the customer experience.
For a major health care provider we work with, this ambiguity costs them over $300 million in claims paid in error.
This is what we believe at ProcedureFlow, Visual communication is faster, more efficient and easy to consume when it’s time to take action.
Images are our new words.
85% of all marketing content is visual,
Think about the effects of images on the brain. Ppl recall 65% of the visual content they see vs about 10% of text based documentation.
We follow visual instructions 323% better than written instructions.
Which leads to the big question, how is your company leveraging visualizations & images?
We want to re-imagine the knowledge experience for every employee.
We tailor your account for your processes and documentation, making it highly visual, easy to navigate and give you off line back ups for 24/7 accessibility.
Insuring knowledge is delivered just in time, making it dependable and current.
Here’s a quick peek at what our customers experience with our methodology.
We start by creating that better knowledge experience, which leads to a better employee experience, and when agents find the right information at the right time, every time, your customer wins with a better experience.
And you win with lower AHT, increased productivity and lower operating costs.
We achieve this for our customers with our three keys to success.
Hacking into the way our brains process visual information with our small hyperlinked flowchats.
We also know that those personas that make great agents might not always be the most technological in your organization, so we wanted to make it extremely user friendly.
We also know keeping all knowledge up to date can be a real challenge, we allow team collaboration so you can leverage crowd sourcing from your best agents to keep everything up to date.
When we’re done, Procedureflow becomes your teams knowledge GPS, turning all those pieces of the puzzle an agent needs to memorize into continuous learning, the more you use Procedureflow, the more you learn.
Since we know the only constant is change, you can leverage our team collaboration model to keep all your knowledge up to date. This allows crowd sourcing from your team for small errors like spelling and grammar to large changes like innovating your call flows to decrease AHT.
What if you could create customer heroes faster
Create confident agents to give a better customer experience, from day one on the floor
Leverage and extract the brain trust of your top performers and put it to work for the rest of your team
Helping your team invigorate training so the transition to learning by doing is easy.
Even quickly enable outsourcing where needed.
We know the benefits of learning by doing is real. Here are just 3 of them.
We’re curious creatures, so performing tasks creates more motivated and engaged learners.
It helps us retain more knowledge, up to 75%. This changes our behavior, leading to new employees becoming proficient faster.
And if agents are on the phones faster and they’ve retained more, you save with less time in the classroom and a reduction in escalations.
We know that over the past decade social and digital media have transformed the way we work, seek advice, look for help, even how we find work and leads in our day to day lives. But one media type has dominated the land scape and businesses and organizations alike are just starting to see how they can be leveraged for their teams.
If you care, they will care
Rachel Mills
By now I’m sure you’re interested in how we work with our customers and what kind of success do they see.
Let’s get into it!
We know that most KB or KM projects can take months if not years to perfect and keep up to date.
We take customers from signing to using their first flow in as little as one week.
Most of our prospects have a similar tech stack, CRM, IVR, Telephony, with KB sitting ontop, then leveraging KM, FC and scripting tools to deliver that knowledge to the customer.
Our hyperlinking allows us to connect to all your third party systems, possible to replacing the top layer of your tech stack as a phase one.
Our customers that are leveraging free or low cost KB’s, like visio or sharepoint even look to replace them after a few months.
Instead of linking to long form documents, why not break the text down into smaller chucks of info making it easier for agents to absorb and bring them into ProcedureFlow.
Always looking for more partners across the call center industry. You need your technology to work together, which is why we’ve built these kinds of relationships.
Do you currently leverage any of these tools for your team?
Making our customers successful is something we take great pride in.
One of first metrics we like to measure is the reduction in onboarding time. For a customer like NB Power, they reduced new hire training by 62% for their agents. A company like Wyndham that’s leveraging PF for back of office administration, like processes inbound requests for corporate rates, cut onboarding by 95%. What was once a 5 day training program is now a Monday morning on Pf and following along as agents process requests, by Monday afternoon, they’re ready to take their first request.
For the team at Eastlink, with an average handle time of 8 mins, they knew their documentation and processes needed a review. By breaking their traditional 1.5-3 page documents down into short form text and adding them to the call flows, agents saw a 25% reduction, bring AHT down to 6 mins.
At NB Power, they also saw their 7000 annual calls to the agent assist line vanish, and BCBS saw a 50% reduction in escalations. Both companies estimate a 5% reduction in operational costs, for 100 agents, that equals $265k in savings.
Rachel, from Blue Cross, has implemented us across her team and believes so passionately about our mapping process and solution, she’s getting us introduced across North America.
For Rachel, we’ve simplified the job for their service reps, taking away stress, so the caller is the focus, allowing them to deliver the best service possible.
The numbers tell an amazing tale.
Rachel’s been a great advocate of ours, and for her, we took away the stress of finding the write docs or process and allowed her agents to focus on the caller. Giving her team all they need to improve the customer experience.
We’ve been out on our own for 3 years now, closing in on 60 customers, across a number of industries and use cases.