Toister Performance Solutions

MARCH 2, 2023

Burnout is defined by the American Psychological Association as "physical, emotional, or mental exhaustion accompanied by decreased motivation, lowered performance, and negative attitudes towards oneself and others." That study found 74 percent of contact center agents were at risk of burnout. Wait, accountability?!

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Skybridge

JUNE 10, 2020

How are your agents doing during this unprecedented, often confusing, sometimes painful time? When I’m asked to share tips on keeping at-home agents engaged, I can’t avoid the obvious first answer: either invest in the technology, the management team, and the process redesign – or choose a BPO that has made that investment.

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SharpenCX

MAY 6, 2020

How you manage your contact center and develop your agents has a direct impact on customer outcomes and your bottom line. It’s time to break down your call center management by the numbers to see how you’re adding value each day. Coaching your agents improves the quality of service they provide.

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Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

Just like agents are protecting your company, contact center leaders and managers need to protect them and their mental health. Signs And Effects Of Poor Agent Emotional Well-Being In Your Contact Center Working with customers requires a lot of emotional labor from your customer service center agents — even if customers are happy.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

While leaders often ask agents to ‘walk in the customer’s shoes’, such advice usually exacerbates these negative consequences. Understand that the problem is not empathy in itself but how it is coached. Automated Workforce Management (WFM) solutions help to balance efficiency with effectiveness by optimising multi-skill scheduling.

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Playvox

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

While the issue is not unusual, it’s easier to manage if you have a solid call avoidance policy in place. When you create the right policy, you’ll get call avoidance rates down — to the benefit of both your customer satisfaction metrics and your agents’ experiences. Reduce Call Avoidance With Coaching And Training.

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SharpenCX

APRIL 29, 2020

Workforce management in your contact center is all about finding balance. You balance the needs of your customers with the workload of your agents (and their development). And, you shouldn’t have to worry that running a lean contact center puts agents at risk for burnout and disengagement. Because modern WFM is shifting.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 3, 2021

A high first contact resolution (also known as first call resolution ) means your agents are knowledgeable and highly effective in their work. On the other side of the spectrum, a low percentage means that there is room for coaching and training to improve your agents’ product and service knowledge. Customer feedback.

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Talkdesk

JULY 16, 2019

What is Performance Management? Call Center Performance Management is a program, generally led by a contact center operations manager, dedicated to calculating and improving the performance of contact center agents. That’s where leveraging contact center performance management software can help.

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Fonolo

MARCH 25, 2021

When agent satisfaction is left unaddressed, agent burnout comes into play. This is a huge factor in contact center attrition rates, so it’s in management’s best interest to support their staff’s well-being. Do you feel you would benefit from a mentoring or coaching program? Perception of management.

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JustCall

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The need of the hour is for managers of work from home call centers to assist, interact and engage with their home agents using a range of reporting, monitoring and management tools. Call Center Online Management Tips. It can be difficult to manage remote call center agents. Image Source.

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Monet Software

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Frequently when the outward signs of burnout finally appear, call center managers have only a short window of opportunity to prevent the worst outcomes. These can include performance declines, adherence problems and eventually the loss of a highly experienced agent. Unusually negative reactions to managers and coworkers.

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Babelforce

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Managing Utilization Rates. Utilization measures how much of an agent’s paid time is spent on the contact center floor, handling contacts and waiting for them to arrive. These include paid breaks, restroom visits, and coaching sessions. If rates go higher, the recuperation time agents have between calls gets shorter.

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CCNG

MAY 11, 2022

If you interact with call center agents in the U.S., then you know firsthand the diverse makeup of the agent population - from millennials to individuals near retirement age and career call center professionals to persons seeking short-term employment. In fact, today's advanced tools were not available just a few short years ago.

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SharpenCX

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Where would you be without your agents in the first place? It’s vital that you know where your team’s strengths and weaknesses lie, so you know how to coach to better performance. Use the DISC Assessment or the StrengthsFinder Test to identify how your agents thrive and collaborate. Use these times to build customer engagement.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Training, coaching, legacy technology, and lack of career opportunities top the list of issues for agents along with handling irate customers. Training/Coaching. A recurrent response by agents is that they want to be empowered to help customers. Requesting support from a manager. The Technology Gap.

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Nicereply

MAY 28, 2019

All those factors can combine to cause agent burnout. If you’re not familiar with the term, agent burnout refers to when someone starts feeling cynical, disengaged, overwhelmed, and even depressed as a side effect of overworking. Outside of the negative effects on your agents, burnout also impacts your business.

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JustCall

MAY 23, 2023

During this session, you will learn how AI-powered coaching, guidance, and sentiment analysis along with integration and analytics, can help engineer better conversations. With 100+ phone system integrations, JustCall ends agent burnout and initiates smarter workflows.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 15, 2023

Agents need time to take a breath and collect their thoughts between calls; If they don't get it, their performance suffers, followed by higher absenteeism and, eventually, agent attrition. Consider an agent who is engaged in call-related work for 45 minutes during a 60 minute period.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 6, 2023

Predictive dialer software can also play pre-recorded messages, such as greetings or appointment reminders, before connecting the call to an agent. Moreover, it can provide real-time analytics to managers, allowing them to monitor call center performance and make adjustments as needed.

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Balto

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Here’s why: The contact center is a people person’s dream job —agents get to work on their social skills, form relationships with others, and solve problems for customers. There’s plenty of room for advancement: 68% of tenured agents were actively working towards a promotion and 84.7% Basically, they’re happy where they are.

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SharpenCX

APRIL 1, 2020

You can create specific goals and benchmarks to help your agents reduce customer churn, like improving CSAT and positive customer outcomes. On the flipside, a corporate goal like improving workplace culture and manager training isn’t actionable to your customer service team. What about each week?

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Anexa BPO

AUGUST 11, 2022

Today’s customer-facing workers are describing unprecedented levels of burnout, with many claiming that their employers prioritize the customer experience over employee wellbeing. These same workers are feeling left behind when it comes to the specialized coaching and training opportunities needed to deliver optimum performance.

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Robert Davis

APRIL 5, 2018

Let’s face it; the outbound agent will encounter many more “no’s” than “yes’s.” Agent burnout is high due to the aforementioned “rejection factor” inherent in outbound selling. The agent turnover rate for outbound programs can often be two to three times higher than for inbound or other call center functions.

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Playvox

AUGUST 25, 2021

One Solution for Workforce Engagement Management and Quality Assurance. Playvox and Dialpad have integrated their industry-leading workforce engagement management (WEM) tools and contact center solutions to deliver a unified offering that helps businesses improve both agent and customer experience.

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Robert C. Davis and Associates

APRIL 5, 2018

Let’s face it; the outbound agent will encounter many more “no’s” than “yes’s.” Agent burnout is high due to the aforementioned “rejection factor” inherent in outbound selling. The agent turnover rate for outbound programs can often be two to three times higher than for inbound or other call center functions.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This is where the need for better management of callbacks in contact centers emanates. And the best practices and tips for managing callbacks Agents proposing the best product or service is no longer a sure bet for success. Indeed, Callbacks are an excellent way to make interactions easier for call center agents and clients.

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JustCall

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Many growing businesses are struggling with this very hidden blocker that’s making it hard for their agents to work efficiently. It’s called the “agent tech stack mess”. The agent tech stack mess primarily breeds agent burnout. However, they don’t need more tools instead better coaching.

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Balto

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Technology can also help contact centers guide and coach agents by easily identifying their strengths and weaknesses. These inefficiencies can be a result of low agent morale, high turnover rates, agent burnout, and a lack of self-service channels. This results in happier, more loyal customers.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Real-Time Agent Assist uses AI and Machine Learning to analyze customer needs and emotions, then deliver real-time coaching so contact center agents can take the best next step for customers. Real-Time Agent Assist. Qualtrics Real-Time Agent Assist and Automated Call Summaries are available in private beta today.

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CX Global Media

JULY 1, 2017

Obvious Contact Center Agent Burnout Problem Revealed. If you stop and think about contact center agent burnout and turnover problems, why have you not considered musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs)? The post 2017 Conference Recap: ICMI Contact Center Expo appeared first on Call Center Coach. Get the full article.

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Balto

MARCH 29, 2023

Some common use cases for AI in the contact center industry include routine task automation, real-time language translation, customer interaction analysis, real-time quality assurance, and agent assistance and coaching. This can help you target your coaching and enhance the quality of your customer interactions.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2023

It’s a welcome shift because for most contact centre managers, agent stress is the biggest labour issue on their minds and it’s diminishing the customer experience (CX). 93% of contact centre managers say agent stress has impacted CSAT scores and they have nowhere to hide.

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Playvox

APRIL 27, 2023

The contact center technology trend toward more sophisticated and AI-driven workforce management software is paying big dividends for customer service centers that adopt these solutions. Today, though, customer service agents handle a variety of channels that operate far differently.

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Hodusoft

AUGUST 9, 2023

Improving Customer Service in BPOs with Multi-Tenant Contact Center Software Noted management guru Peter F. Multi-tenant contact center software is a cloud-based solution that allows multiple clients (tenants) to use the same software infrastructure and manage their customer service in the best way possible. Outsource the rest.”

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Playvox

DECEMBER 13, 2022

During my career in workforce management, call avoidance was always an issue — regardless of the location of the business, the nature of the business, or the location of the agent. Call avoidance , now known as interaction avoidance, denotes the steps an agent takes to avoid handling a customer interaction. And Why it Matters).

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SharpenCX

AUGUST 4, 2020

It takes on the simpler tasks eating away at your time so you can properly manage losses in demand or changes in customer expectations. Automation also benefits you, manager. Use it to automate scheduling your agents, route coaching lessons to your team, and even alert you to KPI thresholds that need attention.

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