86% of Contact Centres Crave Empathy and Rapport Building Skills

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Written by Megan Jones

According to our poll, empathy and product knowledge are the most sought-after skills in the contact centre industry.

Poll – “What skills are we looking for in our agents?” – answers

Product Knowledge – 78%
Friendliness – 58%
Empathy/ Rapport Building – 86%
Spelling and Grammar – 22%
Speed – 42%

Source: Call Centre Helper Webinar – Making Customers Lives Easier     Sample size – 84     Date: October 2015

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Megan Jones

Megan is Editor at Call Centre Helper. She first started working for Call Centre Helper in 2013 and has held a number of roles - News Editor, Features Editor and now Editor.

She has visited a large number of award winning contact centres such as Tesco, Lego, BT and AA. She is well respected in the industry.

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