QualityDesk brings AI to simplify everyday leadership in companies
QualityDesk has implemented AI features into its application, revolutionizing customer interaction analysis, automatic evaluations, and coaching support.
Customer Service Day 2025 in Finland: Insights, Changes, and Future AI Solutions
Customer Service Day 2025 is now behind us – a day full of inspiring speeches, new insights, and valuable encounters with industry leaders.
Continuous Monitoring and Feedback: Building a Process for Ongoing Development in a Contact Center
Continuous monitoring and feedback are cornerstones of a contact center environment, enabling high-quality customer service and supporting employee development. Isolated improvement measures are not enough—what’s needed is a systematic process combining real-time monitoring with regular feedback. But how does this work in practice? This will be revealed in the final article of this series on […]
How to Create a Success-Oriented Work Environment in a Contact Center
Working in a contact center is fast-paced and demands precision, empathy, and adaptability from employees. A success-oriented work environment encompasses not just the physical space but also the tools, organizational culture, and employees’ understanding of their role within the broader framework. Transforming the environment to support individual and team success is crucial, with quality assurance […]
Engaging Employees in a Contact Center Environment – Motivation and Participation
In a contact center environment, employee engagement, motivation, and participation are essential for achieving high-quality customer service and improved results. In a fast-paced and sometimes challenging work environment, employee commitment can be a challenge, but with the right practices, it is possible to build a motivated and involved team.763
Coaching as a Tool: How to Build Lasting Change in a Contact Center Environment
In a contact center environment, coaching is one of the most effective ways to support behavioral change and achieve long-term results. Unlike traditional feedback, coaching focuses on growth, learning, and leveraging individual strengths rather than solely evaluating past performance. But how is coaching implemented in practice, and why are tools like QualityDesk pivotal?
Leadership Commitment: The Key to Successful Change in a Contact Center
This is the second part of a six-part article series. You can read the previous article through this link. Here, we focus on leadership commitment and its importance in driving change. Leadership commitment is crucial for the success of any change initiative in a contact center environment. This involves not only allocating resources but also […]
Clear Goals and Effective Communication in a Contact Center Environment
A contact center is not just the heart of a company’s customer service; it also serves as a strategic pillar that directly impacts business success. It is where the customer experience comes to life, the brand is built, and customer loyalty helps win the competition.
The Key Aspects of Measuring and Analyzing Contact Center Performance
Measuring the efficiency of a contact center is a multifaceted process that depends largely on its primary function: whether it focuses on customer service or sales. The selection of metrics and their analysis significantly influence the organization’s operational flow and goal achievement. Here you can read the key aspects of measuring and analyzing contact center perfomrance.
Coaching Leadership in Practice: An effective coaching form for achieving goals
A coaching leadership style does not require certification, training, or any other initial investment. Anyone can start using a coaching leadership style right away and learn as they go.
Improving the Quality of Customer Service – How to Ensure Quality and Achieve Goals?
The quality of customer service is crucial to business success. It’s not just about providing quick and correct answers but also delivering consistent and customer-focused service. In this article, we will go through how to ensure the quality of customer service and achieve the set goals.
QualityDesk evolves based on customer feedback
A high-quality customer experience requires continuous development and interaction, and at QualityDesk, we want to ensure that our product meets our users needs.
How to create an excellent quality assurance process for a contact center?
Quality assurance in a contact center and generally in managing customer interactions is extremely important.
Coaching Leadership in Practice: An effective coaching form for achieving goals
A coaching leadership style does not require certification, training, or any other initial investment. Anyone can start using a coaching leadership style immediately and learn as they go.
Customer service as a competitive tool: What is good customer service?
What is good customer service? Excellent customer service includes the following elements: The service is friendly and consistent, regardless of the customer service representative. The customer feels heard and understood and knows what will happen next. The matter is resolved in a single contact. Listening to hold music is kept to a minimum. There is […]
Why Giving Feedback is Not Coaching
Both giving feedback and coaching are essential tools in leadership and personal development. While each has its place and can complement the other, they are not the same. In this article, we’ll explore the reasons why giving feedback is not the same as coaching. 1. Objectives and Goals Feedback: The primary objective of feedback is […]
5 perspectives for managers as to why coaching leadership is worth it
What is coaching leadership? Coaching leadership means inclusive, appreciative and caring leadership. It is a form of systematic, goal-oriented leadership, where the person who is being led is given the main responsibility for personal development. Without systematic leadership, you cannot achieve the desired results. Coaching leadership can therefore significantly contribute to achieving the organization’s strategic […]
How to monitor the success of your campaigns?
You have launched your campaign and you feel good about it. But how can you be sure that your campaign is really having the desired effect? In this post, we’ll give you some tips on how to monitor the success of your customer service campaigns. By doing so, you can make the necessary adjustments and […]
5 (critical) reasons to integrate a quality management system into your customer service system
A customer service system is an important investment for an organization. Compliance, usability, integratability… There’s a lot of things to consider. The ultimate purpose of a customer service system is to improve work efficiency and make work easier for users so that they could provide a smoother service and better customer experiences. You should also […]
Importance of coaching leadership in employee development
Skilled and trained employees are the most important resource of a company. This is true for every single company, but the significance of skilled employees is particularly relevant in the customer service industry. Customer service agents come across a diverse range of situations and people in their work. All these interactions need to be conducted […]
How to achieve customer service goals?
Quality assurance is probably one of the only ways to ensure that the goals set for customer service are achieved.
How to make the most of the contact center’s quiet moments?
Summer is usually a quiet time for customer service. Seasonally and regardless of the sector, there are quiet moments throughout the year. So this is a good time to do a little deeper analysis of what happens in customer encounters.
QualityDesk sponsors Kontaktadagen 2022
Kontaktadagen is the biggest conference of the year for those who work with customer meetings via telephone and digital channels and want to create tomorrow’s customer experiences. Kontaktadagen 2022 will focus on customer relationships in the digital world, customer experience and new technologies, including AI, which is increasingly impacting today’s customer relationships. We are excited […]
Our invoicing address is changing 1.2.2022
Our company is now able to receive invoices electronically and therefore our invoicing address has been changed. Please update this new data found below into your customer database. Business ID (Finland) 2808647-5VAT identification number (Global) FI28086475E-invoicing address (Finland) 003728086475E-invoicing service provider (Finland) OpusCapita Solutions OyE-invoicing service provider ID (Finland) E204503Email invoicing address (Global) QualityDesk.FI.P.158168-5@docinbound.com Paper […]
How does quality assurance help with peak times?
QualityDesk and Puzzel have agreed on an integration partnership that allows contact centers to carry out quality assurance easily, fluently and systematically. Many contact centers even today still rely on Excel or other similar tools for quality assurance. These tools are tricky to use and rarely provide a full picture of quality or the current […]
Leveraging the protégé effect in customer support
The importance of customer support can never be underestimated. Your agents are at the frontline of your business, and often also the last person your customers interact with after a sale is made or when they have issues with your services. Customer support agents are the ones handling your company’s reputation, and the satisfaction of […]
Promoting leadership excellence, QualityDesk Ltd gathers funding of more than 200,000 euros for internationalization
The lead investor is the Finnish Impact Venture Builder investment company Fiil Good that invests in companies aiming to resolve social problems and improve the wellbeing of the environment and/or people. The other investors include Sofokus Ventures that invests in scalable digital products and services.
QualityDesk and Puzzel join forces
QualityDesk can now be found in the Puzzel Marketplace and it is easy to add to the Puzzel contact center system.
Everything related to coaching leadership now in one place
LocalTapiola Group is a mutual group of companies owned by its customers. It serves private customers, farmers, entrepreneurs, corporate customers, and organizations. LocalTapiola’s products and services cover non-life, life, and pension insurance, as well as investment and saving services. LocalTapiola employs 3,500 people and the number of owner-customers is nearly 1.5 million. QualityDesk was first introduced at […]
Over 20,000 coaching sessions and thousands of hours saved each year! – QualityDesk in numbers 2021
It’s time to bring the numbers of QualityDesk up to speed. Our operative birthday, 13 July 2021, is here! Now is the perfect time to look back at our achievements over the past four years.
Attracting and keeping millennials
The way we look at work has changed. It’s no secret that retention rates for millennials are in decline and have been for a while. The average turnover in call centers is around 33 %, and in some cases, this rate can be much higher – even reaching three-digit numbers fast.
5 ways to boost a contact centre’s efficiency!
First impressions are important. You only have one chance, and a first impression is created quickly. This is the time for a company’s customer service to show what it’s made of.
Too much information is overwhelming – also during orientation
Contact centers usually have a higher employee turnover than many other businesses. Because of this, the orientation period needs to be efficient, but also pleasant to the employee.
Discussing expectations – get to really know your team!
Of course, as a supervisor you surely know your team, but the expectations you have of each other may often be a little unclear. What do the employees expect of you? Discussing results, giving more feedback, coaching, helping, letting them be?
10 ways of creating a bad customer service experience
Customer service, in itself, is not quite the same thing as the customer experience.
Emotion trumps reason. Every time.
What are you feeling right now? Why do you feel that way? These are questions that you should definitely think about every now and then. Especially when emotions are running high: you may be feeling angry, frustrated, disappointed, happy, successful or thankful.
Managing change: how should you implement the changes that automation brings to people’s jobs?
Technology is developing at a rapid pace, which means that in many industries, jobs that people used to do will be automated and handled by robots. So where does this leave people?
Top problems for contact centres, #2: Employee commitment
The commitment level of your employees has a huge influence on company culture, and as a result, it also influences the way your strategy is realized and, ultimately, the profitability of your business.
Top problems for contact centres, #1: Excel files
Excel is great. Please believe me when I say that I really do like it! In practice, this is because I have used it to create a wide variety of reporting solutions over the past 14 years that I have spent working in the contact centre industry.
Link quality to your reward system
As I have mentioned before, the customer experience is one of the hottest topics in the business world right now.
QualityDesk helps you fine-tune your quality assurance process
Let’s bring your organization’s quality assurance up to a gold standard!
If you are using Excel, Word or something similar to evaluate customer contacts, your quality assurance process is already broken. If you want to know why, read this article.
3 reasons behind quality assurance failures
Are you still using Excel as a quality assurance tool? Are you writing down evaluations in Word or using questionnaire software actually meant for opinion polling?
6 tips for telemarketing coaching!
Earlier I wrote about six tips that a telemarketer can use to achieve better results and to create excellent customer experiences. However, the fact is that with the help of modern telemarketing technology, one employee can achieve up to 100 customer contacts per day. At this pace, a telemarketer may easily lose their focus, which will lead to lower customer contact quality and lower sales rates. None of us are machines, so how can we prevent this from happening? Of course, supervisors are the answer.
6 tips for better results and customer experiences in telemarketing
My first experience with telemarketing goes back to 2003, when I tried doing telemarketing in an agency located in Joensuu.
AI and robotics – will they take customer service jobs?
Within the past couple of years, there has been much discussion about the revolution of automation, robotics and AI. I have participated in webinars where many people working in European customer service centres believe that robots will replace at least some people in customer service within the next five years.
The best ways of providing feedback
This is an extremely broad topic, and, in addition to opinions, there are sure to be as many facts as there are people providing feedback. But let’s not let that bother us right now! In this article, I will focus on feedback in general and highlight some things that you should consider when giving feedback. This article only concerns feedback situations between a supervisor and an employee.
Five tips for practical monitoring
The monitoring of customer service, telemarketing and customer interactions in general is often neglected. It is generally seen as a bothersome, time-consuming activity. At the same time the benefits it offers might be ignored – especially if the monitoring is not done “right”.