Increasing Revenue in a Customer Engagement Center: Consumer Products

Empowering Service Agents to Increase Revenue at a Leading Consumer Products Company

Client Case Study

Situation

To increase revenue through a strategy of accelerating after-market sales, this global leader in appliances (selling over 40 million products in more than 150 countries per year) realized that they would need to rely upon their Customer Engagement Center for additional sales.

Complications

  • Mindset: Customer service agents were used to providing service but reluctant to sell. 
  • Minimal Experience: The agents had little to no experience in sales.
  • Retention: Agents were not fully engaged and the rate of turnover was unacceptably high.

Approach

  1. Shared Goals: Gained buy-in from team members and engaged the support of front line leadership
  2. Clear Expectations: Leveraged the experience of agents who had been in sales and set sales expectations with every new hire
  3. Targeted Training: Transformed the Center’s service culture into a sales culture by teaching agents
    • The role of a sales professional
    • How to recognize and transition from service to sales opportunities
    • How to close the sale while maintaining a positive experience for the customer
  4. Budget Allocations: Increased funds for training and for Rewards and Recognition programs

Results:  

  • 188% increase in year/year revenue
  • 27% additional increase trend for next year
  • Decrease in attrition for Call Center employees
  • Won the EMA Global Customer Care Award for “Revenue Generation in the contact center” and recognized at the Global level for leveraging customer service contacts as a channel for generating new revenue

Related Information

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Stanley Newman
Customer Service Manager

Shire

We were all very impressed with LSA’s call center consulting efforts and extremely satisfied with the recommendations. Our intention is to take the many recommendations and implement them in our Call Center.

Ron Shell
SVP Business Development

ESCI

We partnered with LSA Global to help us provide the most effective customer service skills for our associates. Guided by our Promoter Satisfaction scores, we sought to partner with an organization that could provide customer service training and consulting programs for a diverse set of employees, communicating with customers via phone, email and in person, and with varying levels of knowledge and tenure. I’ve already gotten emails from customers saying that they’re seeing a change.”

Radiology
Field Service Leader

GE

We engaged with LSA Global to train our Call Center Customer Service Managers and Team Leaders how to be effective coaches. We wanted our CSMs and TLs to be able to conduct the “hard” conversations around performance, to create a coaching environment that encourages our agents to be self-motivated, and ultimately to create a better experience for our consumers. LSA’s facilitator was able to tailor the content and deliver it in way that really demonstrated a deep understanding of our needs and left our CSMs and TLs wanting more!

Jane Pearson-Wray
Continuous Improvement Manager

Electrolux

I want to personally thank you.  The effective presentations skills and leadership coaching  exceeded our expectations.

You gave our consultants practical tools and insights they could walk away with and immediately utilize.

Thank you for being so professional, yet fun, to work with.

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VP Customer Experience

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We found their experts to be collaborative, insightful, prepared, and nimble, especially given that the time frame for the project became compressed.

We look forward to continuing our strategic partnership.

Annmarie Fairweather
Vice President Brand Service

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LSA delivered exactly what we needed and exceeded our expectations.  Thank you.

Hinda Chalew
Vice President of Marketing

Having gone through many leadership development programs it can be said that my approach was reasonably skeptical at first. The analyst in me has concluded it was your method; which was almost conversational and so cleverly delivered I initially missed it, which is the mark of a great facilitator.

In the program several leadership tools were employed, props such as the familiar movie clip, interaction games with peers; the text and reference guides, the analysis and profile of team members by peers and facilitated conversation to name a few. These tools, created scenario based, referenced learning that could be immediately translated into the work place. That coupled with the follow-on coaching sessions have been the key to the development. I am pleased to have attended the LSA Global Program and even more so feel privileged to have had you as teacher and coach.

Edison Stephen
VP Customer Service

Fujitsu

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