JustCall

APRIL 9, 2024

Brand reputation: During unexpected peaks, call centers may not have enough agents to attend to the incoming call volume. The extended wait times result in poor customer experiences, and negative feedback can harm a company’s reputation. However, not preparing for them can impact operations and customer experience.

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Noble Systems

JANUARY 29, 2019

But despite innovations like omnichannel and artificial intelligence, the importance of providing firstline employees with the tools to deliver optimal customer experiences has not changed. The post Agent Empowerment: Putting Firstline Employees First in the Contact Center appeared first on Noble Systems.

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Balto

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Agent Empowerment. Agent empowerment is one of the top trends in the contact center space for 2023. Empowering your agents means equipping your teams with the tools, trust, information, and freedom they need to make decisions when customers need it the most. One cheat code towards empowered agents?

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Contact Center Agent Empowerment Self service Scripts 52

DMG Consulting

MARCH 27, 2024

Agent empowerment is a growing area of focus for contact center leaders, and WFM vendors are helping to address these needs by delivering expanded self-service capabilities via enhanced mobile apps. The pace of innovation in the WFM market is rapid and picking up momentum as this IT sector’s size and opportunity grows.

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Consulting Consulting Enterprise Agent Empowerment 59

Fonolo

MAY 30, 2023

Put it another way: if customer interactions are at the heart of a contact center’s success, then effective workforce management is the backbone. It enhances agent productivity, helps you deliver exceptional customer experiences and improves the agent experience , too.

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DMG Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

Workforce management (WFM) solutions remain essential contact center productivity tools, but today they are as important for improving the customer experience (CX), and the newest generation of applications also help to boost employee engagement. But this is just the start of many innovations being introduced into the WFM market.

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Self service Agent Empowerment Contact Center Gamification 48

DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

These technologies vastly improve the accuracy, flexibility, and usability of most WFM modules, including forecasting, scheduling, intraday management, long-term planning, self-service, and handling of vacation and change requests—paid time off (PTO), overtime, voluntary time off (VTO), schedule swaps, etc.

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JustCall

MARCH 9, 2023

Did you know that 70% of customers that had their issues solved favourably in the first call would be willing to return to your business for repeat purchases? This is how important customer experience is, especially in the context of contact centers. This makes it the best contact center software for SMBs.

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Altivon

JANUARY 16, 2018

Companies everywhere have been schooled by the likes of Starbucks and Amazon, which have radically improved customer experience and dramatically benefited financially as a consequence. Customer experience has become a strategic differentiator that is core to long-term success. Citizens are customers. Start there.

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Talkdesk

MARCH 2, 2018

There is, however, an absolute guarantee that agents will not perform properly in a suboptimal contact center environment. If the management directives, processes and technologies are not predicated on driving agents to success, the customer experience will absolutely suffer. Agent empowerment is the key to performance.

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Agent Empowerment Contact Center Customer centricity Self service 40

teleopti

JUNE 5, 2019

Teleopti CEO, Olle Düring, shares some insights around the possibilities the acquisition by Calabrio brings, how we together are on a mission to humanize customer and employee experiences. The importance of human connection in business has come back in focus in recent years with the upward trend for customer experience (CX).

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Callminer

AUGUST 1, 2017

Agent Desktops : Having a user-friendly desktop for agents so that they can efficiently have everything they need in one area is a great way to have a healthy AHT, and most importantly they can assist the customers efficiently and effectively. Provide self-service options to your callers, but don’t force these options upon them.

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teleopti

JULY 15, 2019

Power to the employee – give agents a greater sense of independence, involvement, and satisfaction by way of self-service options for preferred shifts, holiday requests and time off for medical appointments. An extra 5 minutes is often all that’s needed to turn employees from frazzled to fabulous!

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Global Response

MARCH 26, 2024

Are there gaps in your service? Do your agents need a bit more training? It could be as simple as improving your self-service options. This allows customers to solve simple issues themselves. This allows customers to solve simple issues themselves. Ready to perfect your CX?

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First call resolution Interactive Voice Response CRM Chatbots 62

teleopti

DECEMBER 2, 2019

For example, the team at Fexco , Ireland’s most successful financial services and business solutions provider. Theirs is an incredible story that has seen their use and knowledge of WFM grow to add agility and visibility to operations and make their vision for customer experience (CX) and employee engagement a reality. .

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Comm100

DECEMBER 1, 2017

For many organizations, a huge part of this new year task is setting contact center priorities — priorities that can have a colossal impact on the customer experience. Tip: Designing annual priorities will be unique to each contact center, and may depend on company history, culture, and customer experience goals.

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3CLogic

JANUARY 5, 2022

Contact centers have come a long way over the last couple of decades, nearly unrecognizable to an agent from the 1990s. While using social media, chat, and email to communicate with customers was unimaginable at that time, these channels are now essential for delivering a positive customer experience for a modern-day enterprise.

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Tethr

APRIL 30, 2020

We have some predictions on how the pandemic economy will leave its mark on service and customer experience for years to come. Digital service hits hockey stick curve at last. Companies have long been shifting more and more toward self service to keep up with the demands of the people.

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Agent Empowerment Self service Feedback Surveys 68

TechSee

MARCH 7, 2019

By buddying up with a human agent to make his job easier and more satisfying, the VEA will drive agent loyalty, streamline onboarding, improve daily productivity and help the agent provide better overall customer experience. Current approaches to agent empowerment. Team-based models.

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Gamification Contact Center Agent Empowerment Self service 104

teleopti

OCTOBER 3, 2019

As companies embrace digital possibilities to empower their workforce and re-define the customer experience, Magnus Geverts takes a closer look at what’s next for WFM. Here, he explores how self-scheduling technology is raising the bar for employee autonomy, ushering in a new era of contact center freedom.

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teleopti

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Next, use automated WFM technology to allocate quiet time with team members to explore innovative ways of working in a relaxed, collaborative environment away from the pressures of serving customers. Involve and empower – to drive positive customer experience (CX) and business success.

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Calabrio

OCTOBER 15, 2019

We’re all about our customers, and we judge ourselves by our ability to add tangible business value to their contact centers around the world, from easily managing soaring inbound volumes across multiple communication channels to leveraging new levels of customer experience intelligence to drive deeper engagement with customers.

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