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Donna Earl's Ten Top Tips
From Webinar
"Help Your Help Desk Deliver Top Notch Support"
From the Help Desk Coach
- Create guidelines for a good beginning for your help desk calls. Monitor
and make sure all agents are following your good call beginning
guidelines to consistently make a good first impression on your callers.
- End users value consistency on the help desk. With professional call
beginnings and agents who connect with the callers, your user base will
recognize the help desk as a team of professionals.
- If callers prefer certain agents over others, increase training efforts
to assure consistency in call handling.
- Effective help desk agents are able to manage their own emotions
and defuse the emotions of frustrated users. Remember that emotions
matter.
- End users can be grouped into 3 categories:
a. Advanced, tech savvy users
b. Moderately comfortable with technology
c. Confused and resistant
- The approach to dealing with the user must match their level of comfort
and sophistication with technology.
- Promote self-help following resolution of the user issue, and follow
up with email link.
- Campaigns to promote self-help within organizations must be user-centric
and follow the WIIFU benefits rule.
- Every good call ends with a good ending. Summarize, recap, follow
up with an email, and offer future help.
- Consistently professional endings yield positive surveys.
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