Call Center Training: Escalating Issues Call Center Training: Escalating Issues

When you're handling customer issues, you always want to be able to solve it yourself. This is what's known as First Call Resolution, or FCR, and it's what every call center hopes will happen. But sometimes there are problems that are too complex, customers who are too demanding, or issues that are outside your scope. In those cases, you may need to escalate the issue. In this program, we'll talk about what that means. We'll go over some common reasons to escalate a call, and we'll also cover how it should be done.

When you're handling customer issues, you always want to be able to solve it yourself. This is what's known as First Call Resolution, or FCR, and it's what every call center hopes will happen. But sometimes there are problems that are too complex, customers who are too demanding, or issues that are outside your scope. In those cases, you may need to escalate the issue. In this program, we'll talk about what that means. We'll go over some common reasons to escalate a call, and we'll also cover how it should be done.