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Florida Corporate Training Center - Inbound Call Centers

Call Center Floor Management is a powerful coaching course for any type of call center performance expectations. If you have your own selling or customer service performance model, but need help with the way your managers provide coaching, Call Center Floor Management is for you.

   

Whether your call center focuses on sales results, quality scores, system proficiency or customer service, the floor manager is the secret to long-term success. Supervisors with excellent coaching skills are able to cultivate employee performance and growth. Call Center Floor Management helps you achieve this goal.

Floor-Coaching vs. Floor Problem-Solving:
Floor managers will always be called on to put out fires, answer questions and take escalations, but proactive coaching is different. In most centers, floor managers spend little time proactively observing and coaching the telephone associate’s communication skills.

All In One:
This workshop enables floor managers with proven coaching skills. Additionally, your managers will learn how to spend more floor time each day in a true coaching capacity. The end result? Expect more motivated and effective managers, and watch your center achieve new levels of performance.

This 3-Day Workshop Includes the Following Modules:

Day One
Welcome, Introductions and Course Overview:
Participants begin the workshop with a unique activity. As part of the introduction, participants break into teams of two and receive a “coaching problem” that they must determine how best to solve. Upon completion of their planning time, teams demonstrate – through a one-minute role-play – their coaching solutions. This fun, interactive activity gets the ball rolling quickly and establishes the importance of great coaching skills.

Today’s Call Center Coach:
Today’s call center coach wears many hats, and sometimes the coaching hat is neglected. This module offers a number of critical principles about how to develop and lead others, as well as personality styles and thorough developmental analysis tools. Additionally, participants learn how and when to toughen up as coaches, as well as how and when to soften up. Managers identify their coaching strengths and learn tips for improving their coaching skills where necessary.

Five Critical Coaching Skills:
This module covers the five most important coaching skills necessary for on-the-floor coaching. Supervisors and managers learn how to employ the various coaching tools to improve employee performance and morale instantly. They also learn how best to maintain these improvements for the long-term. All skills are centered on driving employee effectiveness and increasing the frequency of on-the-floor coaching discussions with telephone associates.
 
Day Two

Motivational and Formative Feedback:
The previous module covers Balanced Feedback, the most common feedback tool used in corporate America today. This module introduces two new feedback skills. Motivational Feedback is used to reinforce positive telephone behavior in an extremely uplifting and recognition-oriented conversation. Formative Feedback is used to eliminate dysfunctional behaviors like returning late from smoke breaks, negative attitudes, using slang with callers, etc. Formative Feedback is one of the most important tools for managers and supervisors who tend to be too soft on and protective of their telephone associates.

10 Coaching Strategies:
Over the years we have picked up fantastic performance-generating strategies from our call center clients. In this module we introduce the top ten. Participants break into teams of three and develop many of the strategies for use in their centers. The best part is that each team creates a completely different and unique plan from any other previous team. One strategy, for example, is Motivational Only Day, when supervisors and floor managers can only give positive, motivational feedback for the entire day. Telephone associates have a lot of fun with this one and it creates an enthusiastic, performance-focused feeling around the center.
Overcoming Associate Resistance:
Most floor managers deal with resistance from telephone associates on new methods and procedures. In this module, managers get some needed relief in the form of a great process for dealing with employee resistance. Supervisors that use this process will still get their way, but without angering employees or turning others against them.
Conducting "On-The-Fly" Role Plays:
Rather than waiting for employees to start using their telephone skills correctly, smart supervisors supplement coaching discussions with on-the-fly role plays. These role plays are staged by the supervisor and require the telephone associate to demonstrate one or more telephone skills. This tool can be used as part of a meeting or delivered spontaneously. Managers learn the best ways to facilitate these on-the-fly role-plays.
 
Day Three

Developing a Coaching Strategy:
The final day is dedicated to building coaching strategies. These strategies incorporate various analysis tools and an easy-to-use worksheet. The goal of this module is to develop strategic thinking and coaching mindsets for supervisors, not extra paperwork. Supervisors and managers that correctly use this process will plan much more useful coaching events for their telephone associates and will see improvements manifest quickly.

Final Activity:
Making A Coaching Plan: Participants use all their new analytical tools as well as all the coaching skills from Days One and Two to build a thorough strategy for several of their employees. They implement these new strategies as soon as they return to the center floor.

Pricing:

Delivery Price for Workshop: $ 8,500.00 (12 participant maximum)
Two/Three Workshops Booked at Once: $ 7,900.00 (each)
One-Day, “Test It Out” Demo: $ 1,450.00
About Call Center Floor Management

Call Center Floor Management will improve or eliminate the following issues.

Floor managers* do not spend enough time on the floor
Floor managers spend too much time with escalation requests from customers and other “fires” that seem to require their help.
Telephone associates prefer to get answers from floor managers, rather than finding the answers for themselves
Floor managers do a lot of floor problem-solving (e.g. helping an agent fix a system problem) but no proactive floor-coaching
Floor managers don’t coach because they have not done the telephone associate’s job, or because the job has changed since the floor manager was in that position
Floor managers try to go on the floor and provide coaching, but they are inundated with help requests from telephone associates.
Floor managers are much too soft when they provide floor-coaching
Floor managers are much too hard and directive when they provide floor-coaching
Floor managers have too much paper work to be on the floor

* “Floor manager” includes managers, supervisors, team leads and anyone that should be on the call center floor, providing coaching.

Benefits of Call Center Floor Management

A More Motivating Work Environment:
Some floor managers imagine that their associates will say, “Big brother is watching,” if they spend too much time on the call center floor. The opposite actually occurs. Associates will feel appreciated because their managers are trying to help them grow and develop.

CCFM Coaching Skills Can be Used for Coaching All Types of Performance Expectations:
Coaching sales, customer service, quality or system proficiency requires the same skills. Call Center Floor Management includes every critical coaching skill. Your floor managers will be great coaches for improving any important skill in the call center.

Performance Will Improve Instantly:
It’s a fact. The call center floor is the very best place for your floor managers to be. When they “hang out” on the center floor, everyone behaves better. Customer service and sales results improve because telephone associates do what they are supposed to do. After CCFM, we have heard many floor managers say, “When I was out on the floor observing, my telephone agents did better than I thought they would.” This is because the floor manager was in view on the center floor. And things get even better when the manager provides effective floor-coaching!

If you are also interested in powerful selling skills designed specifically for call centers, contact us about Telephone Sales Mastery. This program shows telephone professionals how to maximize their sales opportunities by utilizing a unique sales approach when speaking with callers.
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