Only 2% of Advisors Have Great Levels of Rapport and Empathy

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Written by Robyn Coppell

According to our poll, only one in every 50 contact centres have advisors with great levels of rapport and empathy. Instead, the majority of those in the industry, 52%, believe that advisors in their contact centre vary considerably in levels of emotional intelligence.

Poll – “How Emotionally Intelligent is Your Contact Centre?” – answers

Great levels of rapport and empathy – 2%
Not very much – 5%
We try our best – 7%
Generally good but somewhat inconsistent – 34%
Varies considerably between advisors – 52%

Source: Call Centre Helper Webinar Poll – Webinar: Building Emotional Intelligence into the Contact Centre        Sample size – 67      Date: November 2016

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Robyn Coppell

Robyn Coppell has worked as Digital Content Manager for Call Center Helper since 2021. After University her first job was in a contact centre and has stayed in this space ever since.

She has experience of contact centre operational management, software systems, css and php coding. She edits a lot of the guest content that is published on Call Centre Helper.

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