Do Group Email Boxes Work in This New Work-From-Home Situation?
Meet Anna – Anna is a supervisor or manager and might work in the contact center of your small, medium, or large company. Anna might work in Customer Support, Sales Support, or Tech Support but she manages a team that does a lot of emails from shared Outlook inboxes.
Anna can work in a highly regulated business, with strict guidelines around complaint handling and clearly defined compliance processes. She spends a significant part of her day sorting emails and distributing emails to the team for them to reply.
She monitors productivity and helps her team members when they need it. She gathers information on trends, why people are emailing, what they are emailing about, and how the team is responding and turns that information into reports for management. She does this by counting emails manually, transferring information into Excel files and producing nice pie charts and bar charts.
BUT, now that everyone is working from home, Anna has a problem. While email is a tried and tested, popular means of communication with customers, it doesn’t work well for the new “work from home” (WFH) situation. Most businesses run their enterprise email service on Outlook or Business Gmail, neither of which provides any form of oversight into what Anna’s agents are working on, how efficient they are doing, and who needs help. Even before WFH, Anna had a hard time measuring KPIs, so setting SLAs to her text-based channels was impossible. She needs the right tools to better understand and motivate her team. Without the right tool to see trends, the analysis which was difficult before as a manual process is now impossible in this work from the home world. In short, without being able to see her team, Anna is left in the dark.
How ThinkOwl Remote Email Management Can Help
After voice, email is the preferred option for customer communications. The average contact center agent is handling between 100 and 150 emails per day. Emails can take up a lot of time! And it doesn’t get any easier when everyone is working from home.
With ThinkOwl Response Management Anna has a Single View of workload and not just email but also Chat, SMS, Fax, Social Media, and messengers like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Her enhanced view of enterprise-wide shared email accounts includes information on:
- Email Volumes
- Topic Trends
- What People Say Heat Maps
- KPI Dashboards
- Productivity Charts
Now that Anna has ThinkOwl, functionality includes auto-ae emails, attach notes, tag, track processes, and intelligent routing of emails to the right teams & even to specific agents. She can set and manage SLAs. She has dashboards to monitor email volumes, response times, and overall performance. Anna can see the workload, response rates, while helping with escalations, check that agents are coping, and provide help where needed. All of this in real-time.
Training for Anna and her team is quick and easy with ThinkOwl, by doing their everyday work. ThinkOwl learns how to classify emails and routes to the right department. Based on that ThinkOwl learns how to extract the important information and search third-party systems CRM, ERP, Billing systems, and FAQs and will suggest a Smart Response with appropriate documents, forms, and links. This is an accurate and compliant reply. Anna can even provide a wrap-up workflow which speeds up the process for the next email. What is more, she can see how people are interacting with ThinkOwl, she can see which topics are more popular, and identify areas of improvement. ThinkOwl learns from your best agents and then passes to the entire team!
Anna can track and control what her team is doing with ThinkOwl’s features that are similar to what you would traditionally use in a voice environment. She can ensure they all use the same template, that their responses are consistent, and avoid both emails “Cherry Picking” (people picking only the easy emails) and the dreaded “Double Dipping” (two people answering the same email)!
With ThinkOwl Anna can empower her remote team with a professional, well-designed OmniChannel tool for Email, as well as Chat, SMS, Fax response, and any newer social media channels.
ThinkOwl is practical AI our company has been delivering for the biggest global companies since 1996. This is the true OmniChannel customer experience solution and guarantees a 25% cost savings based on real KPIs. ThinkOwl learns from your experts, for increased accuracy, speed, and quality. You could see a 60% improvement in average handling time. ThinkOwl also cuts the agent’s search time by 30% and can lower training time by 50%
ThinkOwl helps Anna to proactively manage her people, provides a faster and more precise service to customers like a Superhero.
Thank you for reading. Please reach out of you have any questions or would like a 1on1 demo.
Cheers,
James Wilson
404-936 4000