Driving Customer Satisfaction via Corporate Culture (Call Center World, Berlin)

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Gearing up for the Multilingual Gen Y in Global BPO CCW 2014, Europe February 19, 2014 Call Center World 2014, Europe Driving Customer Satisfaction through Corporate Culture Jeffrey Puritt President, TELUS International @TELUSint telusinternational.com | telusinternational-europe.com

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Presented at Call Center World 2014, Berlin – Europe’s largest call center industry event. Learn about the latest trends in customer satisfaction and how corporate culture holds the key. See where customer service is headed and why Generation Y is critical to business success. Key takeaways from this presentation include:  Gain insights into North American & European customer satisfaction trends  Understand the business impacts of culture on employee engagement, attrition & CSAT  Learn how our call center teams in Bulgaria & Romania developed a unique culture serving clients in 32 languages, including 20 clients served in German

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Gearing up for the Multilingual Gen Y in Global BPO

CCW 2014, EuropeFebruary 19, 2014

Call Center World 2014, Europe

Driving Customer Satisfaction through Corporate Culture

Jeffrey PurittPresident, TELUS International

@TELUSinttelusinternational.com | telusinternational-europe.com

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Top 500 global brand worth over $3.6 billion (2.66 billion EUR) - Brand Finance

$11.3 billion (7.5 billion EUR) in annual revenue

Over 13 million customer connections spanning wireless, data, Internet, TV

Top 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures

13 consecutive years – Dow Jones Sustainability

World Index

World’s Top Philanthropic Corporation

Our parent company: a full service telecommunications provider & global leader in telecom financial strength

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Over 16,000 highly-engaged team members

Customer support solutions in over 30 languages

Serving the world’s largest brands

Nevada, USA

Philippines

1,200 workstations

Guatemala

4 sites6,000 workstations

El Salvador

3,000 workstations

3 sites7,500 workstations

Romania / Bulgaria & UK

5 sites 1,500 workstations

TELUS International

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Global delivery, local expertise

Including:

20 clients served in German, 7 of them with headquarters in Germany

TELUS International Europe – “one stop shop” for BPO in Europe

Bulgaria Romania

20,000 employees working in call centers and BPO

10,000 graduates every year with skills suited to the outsourcing industry

35,000 employees working in call centers and BPO

23,000 graduates every year with skills suited to the outsourcing industry

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Big shifts are underway

Generation Y is a game-changing force:

Generation Y will be nearly half (50%) of all U.S. workers by 2020

Generation Y is 80% of our workforce at TELUS International

Consumers are mobile:

By 2015, more U.S. consumers will access the Internet through mobile devices than PCs (IDC)

Social media is expected:

Within 5 years, social media interactions at call centers will be equal to the number of voice interactions (DMG Consulting)

Brands realize the value of culture to attract & serve customers

Companies see the effect of behavior on performance – example: Zappos Culture Book – captures what culture means to employees

Insights & Trends

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How we see it

What’s impacting customer satisfaction today?

Generation Y – the next big customer service & employee wave1

Omnichannel service – access to brands in all channels at all times

Culture holds the key – brands need to stand out from the crowd

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Insights & Trends

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The next big customer service & employee wave

Generation Y matters to business:

Trend 1: Generation Y

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Generation Y world population (ages 14-34) is just over 2.4 billion people

Generation Y will be nearly 50% of all US workers by 2020

Generation Y is spending almost $200 billion (153 billion EUR) / year

By 2017, Generation Y will have more spending power than any other generation

The workforce is changing.Consumers are changing.

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Adopting the Generation Y mindset

How do you hire & attract employees that communicate like this?

Trend 1: Generation Y

“Omg jk!! LOL u kno ily. Nyway watchu doen 2nite? I g2g 2 din wit da rents but bbl. U hangen out?”

Translation: “Oh my gosh I’m just kidding! Laughing out loud. You know I love you. Anyway, what are you doing tonight? I have to go to dinner with my parents but I’ll be back later. Are you hanging out?”

Tap into Generation Y communication trends –

work socially.

Video: http://youtu.be/OEtgkWV1oSM

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Customers demand omnichannel service 2 Virtually ALL channels are growing (voice, email, chat, social) with

customers creating more interactions than ever before

Serve customers where they are, when they want, in the language they choose – consistently across all channels

Trend 2: Omnichannel Service

Case study:

Customer support via voice & email

Social media monitoring for Facebook & YouTube

22 languages

32 countries

Over 100 agents

Support for all client’s products

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Brands need to stand out – but how?

Corporate Culture!

Great companies are enabled by great corporate cultures Attracts & keeps the best people Makes emotional connections Creates memorable moments Encourages quality customer service

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Trend 3: Culture!

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Why corporate culture holds the key?

What we’ve found:

Trend 3: Culture!

Corporate Culture

Agent Engagement

HigherNPS/CSAT

Top-Line Growth

Lower Attrition

A “Culture Value Chain” impacting top-line growth

Source: TELUS International & Frost & Sullivan, 2014

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Team members in Romania & Bulgaria

Culture = people

Focus on attracting & retaining the right people to serve your customers:

Generation Y serving Generation Y Gamers serving Gamers Economics Graduates serving Financial Clients

Invest in your frontline where happy, engaged agents = happy, satisfied customers

The Culture Value Chain

Corporate Culture

The Culture Value Chain

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Culture = community

Build a community – not just a company

Bring emotion into the workplace

Measure happiness

The Culture Value Chain

Our community walls around the globe

Corporate Culture

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Agent Engagement:

Happy, engaged employees = happy, satisfied customers

“Our focus on putting customers first” – 91%

“Respect for team members’ diversity” – 92%

“Our role in the community” – 89%

= Best Employer Status

Source: Pulsecheck Survey, Aon Hewitt 2013 Best Employers

The Culture Value Chain

Agent Engagement

Why culture matters?

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Attrition:

Attrition is expensive (recruitment, training, productivity lags)

Tenured agents = efficient customer experiences

Our attrition is 50% below industry average

The Culture Value Chain

Lower Attrition

Why culture matters?

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Customer Satisfaction: “culturally aligned” teams/partners = better NPS, CSAT & more

HigherNPS/CSAT

The Culture Value Chain

Why culture matters?

Top-Line Growth

A customer-centric culture drives customer satisfaction

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In closing: create a culture with meaning

Both consumers and employees want companies to stand for something bigger

The Culture Value Chain

Video: http://youtu.be/JNOLh0PNDrA

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Questions?

1 500 Arbeitsplätze an 5 Standorten in der EU

ONE-STOP-SHOP Servicemodell in 30+ Sprachen

Kundenbetreuung der DACH-Klientel von 20 Partner-Unternehmen

“DACH-Fit” : 300 deutschsprachige Mitarbeiter (30%)

Spezialisierung auf folgende Branchen: e-Commerce, Touristik und Freizeit, Finanzdienstleistungen, BITKOM und Pharma

Nehmen Sie Kontakt mit uns auf!

Wir sind für Sie da: CCW, Halle 4, Stand C14

TELUS International Europe – who are we?

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Danke! Connect with us!

TELUS Internationalhttp://telusinternational.com

Jeffrey PURITT

President, TELUS International

Toronto, Canada

René LÜDEMANN

Director Sales & Business Development, Germany

Düseldorf |  +49(0)171-5550833

[email protected]

 

Stefan ABADZHIEV

Sales Manager, DACH

Sofia |  +359 894 37 77 14

[email protected] 

Philippe OUGRINOV

VP, Sales, Marketing & Solutions, Europe

Sofia |  +359 88 600 88 64

[email protected]

 

TELUS International Europe http://telusinternational-europe.com