04-01-2006, 17:57
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About time
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Workers at Lloyds TSB call centres have been told they must no longer read from scripts when talking to customers because it makes them angry.
Researchers found that 90% of people got annoyed when they were talking to call centre workers who were obviously reading from a script.
Most customers said they thought this led to staff failing to listen or answer questions properly.
Scripted conversations were impersonal and often went on too long, they said.
Call centre staff agreed that reading from scripts slowed down the process and 86% of them backed scrapping them.
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So that's one company seeing sense on call centers.... how about the rest of them 
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04-01-2006, 18:01
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Re: About time
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Originally Posted by Paul
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So that's one company seeing sense on call centers.... how about the rest of them
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Agreed! 
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04-01-2006, 18:11
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Re: About time
I wonder how many millions they wasted writing scripts in the first place, and how many millions they wasted on consultants to find out the customers and the staff hate them ... 
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04-01-2006, 18:17
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Re: About time
It get my thumbs up,
Agree about the wasted money though !
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04-01-2006, 18:35
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Re: About time
Lets hope that this is a return to speaking to humans in call centres and not robots!
ala - Computer says no....
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05-01-2006, 08:16
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Re: About time
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Originally Posted by Paul
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So that's one company seeing sense on call centers.... how about the rest of them
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In the article it also says:
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Other banks already follow different procedures.
Barclays, for example, said their call centre staff did not follow scripts, ...
Meanwhile, First Direct, part of the HSBC Group, said it only scripted its security clearance questions.
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So it seems this lot is hardly breaking new ground.
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05-01-2006, 09:58
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Re: About time
Hopefully MacDonalds will follow suit. If I want large fries I'd have asked for them in the first place!
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05-01-2006, 10:22
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Re: About time
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Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo
Hopefully MacDonalds will follow suit. If I want large fries I'd have asked for them in the first place!
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I never get asked that .....
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05-01-2006, 10:25
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Re: About time
It would be nice for them to get rid of there "is there anything else I can help you with" line - I don't like speaking to callcentres so I like to get off the phone as quickly as possible so when they come out with that as I'm trying to say my goodbyes is SO annoying.
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05-01-2006, 10:26
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Re: About time
You might not need fattening up then........ but any way Im all for call centres removing scripts, but Id still say bring them back to the UK too. As polite as the operators in the Indian call centres of Abbey National are, I can see myself losing my temper even quicker if they didn't have a script to follow.
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05-01-2006, 10:47
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Re: About time
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Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo
You might not need fattening up then........ but any way Im all for call centres removing scripts, but Id still say bring them back to the UK too. As polite as the operators in the Indian call centres of Abbey National are, I can see myself losing my temper even quicker if they didn't have a script to follow.
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Erm, any time I have spoken to them, the operators in the Indian Call Centres for Abbey National have been anything BUT polite.
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