CCW Workshop:

How to Write Help Guides that Make Agents Proficient in Less Time

What's the workshop about?

This year, we ran a workshop at CCW's digital conference. It was about writing help guides that make agents proficient in less time.

What will you learn?

In this workshop recording, you'll learn the 4-part framework we follow when we review call center guides, protocols, and call flows:

  • Clearing the weeds
  • Identifying the critical path
  • Improving readability
  • Making certain they are complete

We discuss each phase in great detail, going through examples and exercises so that you have a clear understanding of how to improve your guides so that your reps can can use them to handle calls proficiently.

What will you be able to do?

After this workshop, you'll be able to review your existing guides and determine what's missing and how to make improvements to them. 

If you are noticing that your reps aren't using your guides, or that your guides aren't helping your reps handle calls proficiently, but you haven't been able to articulate why, this workshop will show you. You'll learn the exact framework we use when we evaluate our client's guides and begin to make improvements.

How will this workshop help your call center metrics?

If your guides are formatted correctly, then your reps:

  • Can handle any call proficiently without spending months memorizing
  • Won't need to put callers on hold to figure out what to do
  • Don't need to ask you so many questions

In other words, your metrics will improve dramatically. Handle/hold time goes down, time to proficiency goes down, quality scores go up, and the volume of calls that your reps can handle increases.

You'll also be able improve your training curriculum – something that is critical right now as reps are working remotely and you can't get them all into a training room to explain updated procedures. Your reps will be able to implement changes to internal processes much faster.

How long is the workshop?

The original workshop was about 90 minutes. We edited out the parts where we did breakout rooms etc. so that it's now just over 70 minutes.

Watch The CCW Workshop Recording

What's the workshop about?

This year, we ran a workshop at CCW's digital conference. It was about writing help guides that make agents proficient in less time.

What will you learn?

In this workshop recording, you'll learn the 4-part framework we follow when we review call center guides, protocols, and call flows:

  • Clearing the weeds
  • Identifying the critical path
  • Improving readability
  • Making certain they are complete

We discuss each phase in great detail, going through examples and exercises so that you have a clear understanding of how to improve your guides so that your reps can can use them to handle calls proficiently.

What will you be able to do?

After this workshop, you'll be able to review your existing guides and determine what's missing and how to make improvements to them. 

If you are noticing that your reps aren't using your guides, or that your guides aren't helping your reps handle calls proficiently, but you haven't been able to articulate why, this workshop will show you. You'll learn the exact framework we use when we evaluate our client's guides and begin to make improvements.

How will this workshop help your call center metrics?

If your guides are formatted correctly, then your reps:

  • Can handle any call proficiently without spending months memorizing
  • Won't need to put callers on hold to figure out what to do
  • Don't need to ask you so many questions

In other words, your metrics will improve dramatically. Handle/hold time goes down, time to proficiency goes down, quality scores go up, and the volume of calls that your reps can handle increases.

You'll also be able improve your training curriculum – something that is critical right now as reps are working remotely and you can't get them all into a training room to explain updated procedures. Your reps will be able to implement changes to internal processes much faster.

How long is the workshop?

The original workshop was about 90 minutes. We edited out the parts where we did breakout rooms etc. so that it's now just over 70 minutes.