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PROGRAMME: Innovative contact centre strategies to build a world class customer experience

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Day 1

 
08:30 - 09:15
Registration and Networking
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09:15 - 09:20
Introduction
Alan Young - Member of PA Consulting Group's Management Group, PA Consulting Group  
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09:20 - 10:05
Engaging the workforce to deliver your Sales and Service Targets

  • What is a customer orientated approach and how to achieve it?
  • Developing a systematic way to build a world class experience
  • Maximising customer satisfaction through effective organisation framework applied across your bank
  • Incorporating business operations into your daily operations to achieve higher customer centric approach
  • What has been achieved over the last 12 months
 
Rob Hawthorn - Customer Service Director, Barclays Commercial Bank  
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10:05 - 10:50
Making the multi-channel customer experience real

 

Today’s customers are more sophisticated and demanding than ever.  The secret to winning and keeping them is to significantly exceed their already elevated expectations.  Customer Experience Management (CEM) lies at the heart of maximising customer relationships and restoring the intimacy that once existed between companies and their customers.  It is becoming ever more crucial to proactively manage and synchronise interactions and transactions throughout the customer journey, from incoming inquiries, claims, requests via phone, e-mail or chat in real time, through to personalised correspondence, delivering the right information at exactly the right time via the right channel.  Easy-to-use solutions enable agents and employees at all touch-points to efficiently engage with the customers and provide the customer satisfaction your company wants.

Among other things, you will learn:

  • Business drivers behind the decision to implement a solution that proves the customer experience across multiple channels
  • Business benefits of the chosen solution
  • Future plans – where to go from here
 
Trent Fulcher - Customer Experience Solutions Director, Cincom Systems  
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10:50 - 11:10
Coffee break - Networking
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11:10 - 11:40
That's interesting, and...

  • Being buried in statistics
  • Separating what’s valuable from what’s interesting
  • The value of an external perspective
  • Benchmarking
  • And what does it mean for the customer?
 
Kevin Langley - Vice President Customer Services, Visa Europe  
Greg Roche - Director , The Leadership Factor  
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11:40 - 12:10
Practical Hints & Tips for Utilising Voice of the Customer to Develop Employee Training
  • Collect your Customers’ perception of your service through a variety of metrics and channels Understanding the customer voice – not just the scores
  • Applying NPS in a practical way
  • Turning the messages into useable actions
  • For an international customer facing environment – training programmes to satisfy cultural expectations
 
Angie Court - Director of Customer Service , Avis Europe plc  
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12:10 - 12:30
Interactive discussion - Q & A
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12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
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14:00 - 14:45
Come on a Journey……
  • Who are we – our brand and our values
  • Turning customers into fans
  • The changing customer in the 21st Century and experience economy
  • Walk a mile in the customers shoes – listening to   and getting inside the heads of our customers
  • Applying the ‘So what?’
  • Journeys and the branded Customer Experience 
 
Jane Read - Head of Service Experience Development, Telefonica 02 UK Ltd  
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14:45 - 15:30
How do we balance customer experience and behaviour in a call centre?
Customer Experience has become the mantra of organisations across the world. While this is a vital metric, what is the cost and how do we balance experience and behaviour?  
  • Moving towards a relevant customer experience
  • Recognising the cost to serve
  • Maximising channels to deliver great customer service
  • Balancing the cost of Customer Experience with driving Customer Behaviour
  • The role of an outsourcer in supporting relevant customer experience
 
Andrew Hall - Director Financial Services EMEA, Convergys EMEA  
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15:30 - 16:00
Interactive discussion - Q & A
  • Refresments will be available during the session
 
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16:00 - 16:15
Summary
Alan Young - Member of PA Consulting Group's Management Group, PA Consulting Group  
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16:15
Close
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Day 2

 
09:00 - 09:30
Registration and Networking
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09:30 - 09:35
Introduction
Alan Young - Member of PA Consulting Group's Management Group, PA Consulting Group  
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09:35 - 10:20
Keynote: Re-thinking our way to the Future - The business climate has changed and so must the call centre industry.
Today’s call centre models are not designed to meet the needs of the modern customer or respond to unprecedented challenges from global competition and the constant arrival of new and disruptive technologies.

To meet these challenges we must change the way we think about the design, management and leadership of call centre operations.

This talk will describe how re-thinking the principles and practices of service we can transform service enterprise and whole industries forever.
  • Why today’s business models do not support the modern customer.
  • Challenging the accepted wisdom.
  • Understanding how much value you create for customers.
  • How customer satisfaction, cost reduction, employee satisfaction and profitable revenue growth can all be achieved together.
  • How to create sustainable service enterprises which are able to operate successfully within environments of constant change.
 
Stephen Parry - Corporate Transformation Leader, President, See Business Differently  
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10:20 - 10:50
Living the Brand and the Impact on Customer Experience from the Contact Centre Perspective
  • Rebranding from the inside out or outside in?
  • How to deliver your brand essence message to colleagues
  • Understanding the importance of emotions in customer experience
  • Defining and developing a customer experience statement based on values and vision
  • Bringing the brand to life through a unique shared experience 
 
Carl Sharples - Head of Customer Propositions, Co-operative Financial Services  
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10:50 - 11:25
Coffee break - Networking
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11:25 - 11:50
Creating a Customer Culture for Commercial Success

  • Engage the Frontline: Burning Platform is the Customer
  • Intense focus on the Basics: Identify the Best Practices – Foster the best and help the week.
  • Value Customer Time over Productive Time.
  • Customer focused Service & Support over Product focused Service & Support
 
Denis Lucey - Director, EMEA Commercial Technical Customer Services, Dell  
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11:50 - 12:30
Interactive discussion - Lean Management Techniques - Q&A
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12:30 - 13:45
Lunch
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13:45 - 14:15
How to drive Customer Intimacy in a B2B relationship
My presentation will be an overall sharing of experience relating in particular to Corporate Customers. I will cover off the following topics which are essential to get the true balance of the Customer Relationship when servicing Corporate Customers:
  • Contact Strategies – the optimum but also the reality we all live with!
  • Single Point of Contact Service desks – ownership of issues and end to end view
  • Building Customer Intimacy and Business awareness within your teams
  • Quality and capability requirements for your team versus the productivity challenge
  • Balanced scorecards
  • Proactive Communications both Externally and Internally
 
 
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14:15 - 14:45
The Coaching Culture - Advanced QM Practices in a distributed Environment'

The customer is at the heart of everything we do.  The contact centre is at the forefront of the business’ drive to understand the customer experience, identify best practice and improve performance across the organisation.
 
Wendy Berry discusses the challenges involved in driving the organisational transition to a coaching culture - From corporate ambitions and agent buy-in to embracing the latest technologies
 
Wendy Berry - Coaching Team Manager, Customer Services, Orange  
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14:45 - 15:15
Tea break and networking
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15:15 - 15:45
Measuring change in your customers at the call centre coal face
In day to day contact with customers, contact centres have a unique opportunity to test the temperature of a company, brand or product in terms of customer satisfaction and engagement. In the new world companies and their management are being judged by their net promoter score-which asks the simple question-‘will you recommend this company to a friend or colleague.-according to business experts it’s the best single indicator of a company’s ability to grow; we’ll discuss
 
  • The 4 key components-customer, company, competitor and context
  • The 2 challenges-gradual change and cataclysmic change
  • Enabling your contact centre culture
  • A new approach to training
 
Kevin Byrne - Contact Centre Director, CPM UK  
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15:45 - 16:15
Interactive session – What are we going to do differently?
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16:15
Summary & Close
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