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European Contact Centre Week
Transform your customer’s experience, drive brand promotion through your front-line & dramatically increase your profits
March 11 - 14, 2008 · City West, Dublin, Ireland


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Day Three: Conference

Thursday 13th March 2008

8.00 Registration & Morning Coffee

8.45 Chairman’s Opening Remarks

9.00 Opening Keynote: Exceeding Your Customers Expectations With The Best Agents

Nancy believes that happy agents lead to lasting business success and her recent success proves her right, but how does Nancy ensure that her staff continue to go that extra mile with Virgin’s customers? Having the Wow factor is great but maintaining it is critical.

  • Understand how Nancy ensures Virgin can maintain outstanding customer service with a highly people-centric contact centre.
  • Instilling brand loyalty among your agents by continually recruiting the right people
  • Inspiring your staff to go that extra mile, exceed customer expectations and drive customer loyalty
  • Empowering and respecting your staff to improve staff retention: Can learning and development create a culture of success or do you need more?

Nancy Tichbon
Head of Customer Experience
Virgin Mobile Canada

9.45 Lower Your Costs And Improve Your Customer Service With Virtual Contact Centres

New technologies, like IP-telephony, bring new opportunities for your contact centre performance, which can result in better customer service at a reasonable cost. Currently, most new contact centre implementations are IP-based. However, new technology is a means to reinvent business processes, not an end unto itself. The only way to truly support your business is to support your people. Virtual contact centres are one example of how IP telephony can benefit your customer service. During this session Ilkka and Iris will describe and demonstrate what virtualisation means for your contact centres and what the advantages are that you can gain from it? Understand how Deutsche Bahn have improved their customer service with the help of a virtual call centre and how this could also make dramatic improvements to your service.

Ilkka Kivimäki
Senior Vice President, SAP Business Communications Management
SAP

Iris Gassi
Director, Customer Solutions
DB Dialog Telefonservice GmbH

10.30 Coffee

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Stream C

11.00 Guiding The Employee Journey: Best Of Class Talent Development

The cost of poor employment to your business is obvious and an age-old problem, but still a problem nonetheless. How are you dealing with this at a senior level? How is it affecting you day-to-day and how can you implement a simple strategy to ensure that this problem goes away? With first hand experience of dealing with this challenge. Garry will look at how you can implement simple highlevel strategies to ensure middle management:

  • Understand the true cost of poor recruitment and subsequent attrition
  • Reduce turnover while ensuring you continue to attract higher quality agents

Garry Luxford
Head of Telesales
E.ON Energy

11.45 Innovate Your Customer Service Globally By Turning Your Customer's Feedback Into Root Cause Actions & Training

As Director of Customer Services at Avis Europe Plc, Angie is responsible for the Customer Services in 112 countries. During this session Angie will discuss how Avis use systems and customer feedback to improve service delivery and recovery across EMEA. Angie works remotely through staff who report into different country managers, so also faces the challenge of implementing Customer Service strategy across a remote team.

  • How to make dramatic improvements to your service delivery and recovery
  • Successfully turning customer feedback into root cause actions
  • Developing training programmes to improve service delivery based on your customers needs
  • Delivering your strategy remotely across a geographically diverse organisation

Angie Court
Director of Customer Service
Avis Europe Plc

12.30 Lunch

14.00 Incentivisation, Motivation And The Employee: Achieving ‘Peak Performance’

  • Focusing on the employee first – driving employee engagement and motivation
  • Defining the characteristics of an employee focused contact centre
  • Establishing a robust set of employee focused objectives

Christina Ezard
General Manager Contact Center
Nedbank

14.45 The Best Things In Life Are Free: How To Learn From Both Customers And Employees And Build Better Customer Experiences

  • How do organisations need to flex and adapt to the rapidly changing needs of the 21st Century Customer?
  • How can organisations use their customer data more effectively to proactively manage churn?
  • How does Web 2.0 start to blur the boundaries between organisations and their customers?

Nicola Millard
Customer Experience Futurologist
BT

15.30 Coffee

16.00 Dramatically Improve Customer Service By Implementing A Mystery Calling Programme

  • Designing a process to improve internal benchmarking and boost quality globally
  • Turning complaints into compliments through a clear understanding of the workings of your contact centre
  • Globalising quality: Rolling out your successes

Cameron Dougherty
Director of Global Contact Centres
Jumeirah Hotels

9.45 Dramatically Reduce Call Volume And Cost By Delivering Excellent And Consistent Service By Aligning Brand And Quality Your Contact Centres

  • Establishing the point of customer contact as the key customer service differentiator
  • Harnessing the tools available to lower costs and drive higher satisfaction among your customers
  • Empower your front line staff to retain existing customers and drive the acquisition of new ones

Andrew Mends
Head of UK Call Centres
Coca-Cola Enterprises

11.05 The Contact Centre At The Core Of The Business: Creating Tangible Value To Meet Company Objectives

Richard Ray
Senior Business Consultant – EMEA
Verint Systems

Client case study to be confirmed. Please visit the website for details: www.contactcentreweek.com

12.30 Lunch

14.00 Driving An Inbound Sales Push To Improve Your Bottom Line

  • How to effectively upsell through your global contact centres
  • Successfully delivering and selling products through your front line
  • Improve your sales figures by optimising your contact centre resource

Dieter Poller
Head of Customer Contact
Telekom Austria

16.00 Defining And Implementing An Award Winning Balance

In 2007 Gerry won the Belgium Contact Centre Award for his contact centre strategy. During this session Gerry will outline how Belgacom went about achieving this level of Customer Service

  • Introducing a massive call and cost reduction programme by implementing different actions, including technology, people and products
  • Increasing customer satisfaction and revenue generation alongside implementation

Gerry Cools
Sales Strategy & Development Manager
Belgacom

16.45 Chairman’s Close

17.00 Close Of Conference

9.45 Inspire Employee Engagement To Dramatically Improve Your Contact Centre Performance

The National Australia Group have been using some innovative methods to encourage knowledge sharing and develop employee engagement. During this session Kevin will discuss their recent programme, which enabled NAG to enhance employee engagement and develop their continuous improvement programme

  • How to confidently engage your staff through voluntary knowledge share
  • Successfully encouraging knowledge share and employee engagement

Kevin Page
Head of Direct Banking
National Australia Group

11.05 Session Break

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12.30 Lunch

14.00 Empower & Develop Your People For An Award Winning Contact Centre: Presentation Delivered By AOL Broadband: Contact Centre Of The Year 2007

Hear from the people behind 2007’s Contact Centre of the year. Hear how AOL won an award for contact centre productivity and award winning service excellence.

  • Achieve optimal productivity with robust processes, from first call resolution to call reduction
  • Provide outstanding customer service by empowering your people
  • Ensure you can work successfully with local and remote teams

Alain Meric
Executive Director
AOL Broadband

Heather Roche
Director of Customer Experience & Performance
AOL Broadband (Contact Centre Manager of the Year 2007)

16.00 Improve The Efficiencies Of Your Contact Centre And Delight Your Customers Using Direct Customer Feedback

Dell have been using structured continuous improvement methodologies to delight Customers while improving the efficiency of their contact centres across Europe, Middle East and Africa. The approach uses direct Customer feedback to:

  • Reduce Contacts – Assessing the drivers of orders that cause contacts but also the reasons behind repeat contacts
  • Satisfy Customers - Deliver a service that Customer’s value ensuring the key moments of truth are executed flawlessly
  • During this session Tommy will discuss how Dell have been developing these strategies and implementing them across their EMEA operations

Tommy Geary
Director, EMEA Business Operations & Customer Care
DELL

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