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Page 1: Student Facing Customer Contact Service · 2016-03-29 · Student Facing Customer Contact Service Sam Stokell and Lisa Strathie Customer Services March 2016 . Customer Services •Overview

Student Facing Customer Contact Service

Sam Stokell and Lisa Strathie

Customer Services

March 2016

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Customer Services

•Overview of Customer Services across SLC

•Call Volumes

•Who we help

•Quality and Knowledge Management

•Investing in our People

•The Year Ahead

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Call Statistics

Call Stats

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Our Service Levels and Assumptions

•Target of 90% calls answered (PCA)

•Forecasting assumptions based on :

Propensity to Call

Call Handling times

Occupancy levels

30 Minute interval staffing

Investment time

Quality and First Contact Resolution

•Required to operate efficiently across all queues and skills

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Outsource Arrangements

•During 15/16, SLC has worked with 3 partners HGS, Teleperformance and

Kura across sites in Glasgow, Erskine, Bangor, Gateshead, Selkirk and

Preston

•Minimum staffing 2015/2016 is 170 FTE rising to around 870 FTE in

September (this equates to over 1000 advisors)

•Contractual KPI’s are built to deliver minimum quality standards with a

service credit framework for non delivery

•Over 65% of total calls are taken by outsourcers and during peak this rises

to well over 80%

•They are covered by same arrangements for quality monitoring, coaching

and feedback as SLC

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Calls Offered (YTD): 4,053,841 Calls Answered (YTD): 3,886,003

Calls Abandoned (YTD): 167,838 SLA (YTD): 67.5%

Call Volumes 15/16

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SKILL SETS

24+ LOANS

•Residency

•Eligibility

•Learning providers

•Funding available

•Qualifications

•Access courses

PRACTITIONERS

COMPLAINTS

•New complaint

•Update previous complaint

•Attempt at resolve

•MP

ICR

•Repayment

•Interest rates

•Direct debits

•Payment plans

•Overseas students

TIER 2

DSA

•Full Time

•Part time

•Study needs assessment

•Medical evidence

•Invoices

•Specialised equipment

•Claims

•Allowances

•Travel

EU

•Eligibility

•Bursary

•Residency

•Migrant worker

SFE •Full time

•Part time

•Eligibility

•Residency

•Migrant workers

•GFDs

•Childcare

•Independent

•Payments

•Sponsors

•Still to apply

•Applied

•Online errors

SFW

SFNI

SAAS

Complexity of the Role

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Quality & Knowledge Management

Quality

• Overview

• The SLC QA Team

• Site Comparison

Right First Time

Knowledgebase

• Knowledge Accuracy

• Knowledgebase Visits – Internal & External

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• The SLC Quality and Knowledge Management Team is made up of Quality

and Knowledge Advisor’s across our sites in Darlington, Glasgow and Wales.

• The team are responsible for ensuring that QA is carried out on all Contact

advisor’s, and that our Knowledge Management system ‘Knowledge Base’ is

updated to reflect the changes and needs of our business.

• The QA Team spend every Monday taking calls. This is to ensure that their

knowledge and expertise is kept up to date

• The team are also responsible for ensuring that the contractual call sample is

carried out on advisor’s at our Outsource Partners, HGS and Teleperformance.

The SLC QA and KB Team

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Quality: Overview

• Consistent Excellent Customer Service

• Support & Monitor Knowledge Accuracy

• Develop & Maintain our Knowledgebase

• Analysis of Trends

• Manage our ‘Right First Time’ feedback

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Site Comparison

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Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan 14/15 AVG

15/16 AVG

Glasgow

Darlington

Wales

Kura

T/P

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan 14/15 AVG 15/16 AVG

Glasgow 86.83 90.53 89.26 87.61 87.24 88.03 87.97 86.64 88.04 85.8 86.19 88.12 88.51 84.13 87.42

Darlington 84.63 83.72 83.66 83.71 82.12 85.49 85.01 84.43 80.93 80.39 81.82 82.61 83.25 81.52 82.98

Wales 80.67 78.93 89.58 88.79 88.06 84.89 84.7 86.23 83.5 83.8 82.14 79.71 84.62 86.14 84.64

Kura 77.88 75.75 76.69 78.19 75.63 77.25 75.19 74.16 68.12 61.12 68.13 77.25 82.88 74.27 73.79

T/P 76.88 75.19 78.19 77.69 71.88 81.88 73.31 75.5 76.25 63.75 74.06 75.25 79.19 75.60 74.88

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Knowledgebase & Right First Time

Knowledgebase

Ensuring advisors have access to accurate and up-to-date

information/processes

Structured as a response to customer query

Infrequently asked questions

Right First Time

Feedback where improvements required

Trends Analysed

Coaching Support Arranged

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Knowledge

• Overall knowledge accuracy has increased by 0.59% to 87.72%.

• No Account Access doubles again to 1.5% and accounted for 12.2% of knowledge feedbacks.

• There were 95 (55.2%) knowledge feedbacks where there was an appropriate article on knowledgebase that could have provided the customer with the correct advice but knowledgebase wasn’t accessed.

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Inhouse Knowledge Accuracy - Past 12 months

Overall

Glasgow

Darlington

Wales

Glasgow, 65

Darlington, 89

Wales, 18

No. Knowledge Feedbacks per site

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Investing In Our People

• How we support our advisors

• What tools we use to drive our customer satisfaction

• What actions we put in place to develop the skills of our staff

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Investing in our People

• 121’s and coaching sessions

• Calibrations

• Comms sessions

• Buzz sessions

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Advisor overall rating

Customer Insight

Call experience in line

with expectations?

80.7% 73.0% 76.9%

1.3% 1.9% 2.0%

6.13 6.23 6.21

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Jan 2015 (b=456)

Dec 2015 (b=570)

Jan 2016 (b=451)

Top Box Bottom Box Mean score

18.6% 13.9% 24.8%

71.7% 76.7% 67.8%

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Better In line Worse Don't know

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Responding to Feedback

• Focussed Workshops e.g. Knowledge Gaps, Customer Journey,

Manner and Tone etc

• Linked this into our Quality model of R3, specifically focussing on

approach

• People vs Process

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The Year Ahead

•QA Review

•Frequent caller

•IVR

•Additional Products

•Induction Training

•Recruitment

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Lisa Strathie/Sam Stokell

Customer Services

[email protected]

[email protected]

www.slc.co.uk