Fonolo

MAY 7, 2015

UPDATED FEBRUARY 2020: The call center is an extremely stressful work environment. Simply knowing how to run a call center isn’t enough for success. Below we look into some of the things call center managers must do every day to be successful, along with tips on how to execute them.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 2, 2024

RELATED ARTICLE How to Report and Analyze Like a Pro: 10 Best Practices for Reporting and Analytics in a Contact Center Workforce Management Tools Sophisticated workforce management tools optimize agent scheduling, forecasting, and performance tracking, ensuring optimal resource utilization and productivity.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 26, 2024

CXA stands for Customer Experience Automation, a strategic approach that integrates automation tools and software within call centers to enhance the customer journey. With its ability to handle customer inquiries and route calls efficiently, IVR enhances customer satisfaction while optimizing agent productivity.

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Aspect

MARCH 8, 2018

In the G2 Crowd Grid for Contact Center Workforce , Aspect Workforce Management software scores in the much-coveted Leadership Quadrant. G2 Crowd Grid ® for Contact Center Workforce Software. G2 Crowd has revealed the unvarnished truth about Aspect Workforce Management. Great software”. “It

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VocalCom

JUNE 22, 2020

To operate the switch, offering intuitive and efficient digital tools for the contact centers workforce is crucial. Finding new ways to engage, train and manage agents is key: a staggering 74% of call center agents are at risk of burnout ( Toister Solutions ). call center is that HR methods adapt too.

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Aspect

MARCH 8, 2018

In the G2 Crowd Grid for Contact Center Workforce , Aspect Workforce Management software scores in the much-coveted Leadership Quadrant. G2 Crowd Grid ® for Contact Center Workforce Software. G2 Crowd has revealed the unvarnished truth about Aspect Workforce Management. Great software”. “It

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Aspect

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

G2 Crowd Grid ® for Contact Center Workforce Software. What do G2 Crowd reviews show about Aspect Workforce Management software? Best scheduling application for a call center ”. “ Nearly perfect “ “ Analytic options are the best feature of this tool. Love Aspect ”.

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Aspect

JANUARY 12, 2018

To empower agents with this flexibility and control while still meeting the needs of the business, the contact center needs to adopt new WFO tools, training, infrastructure, recruiting and management practices. In the traditional call center WFM world, the scheduling of breaks for agents is an important part of the WFM function.

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Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

WFO is often used by call centers to improve workforce management and agent performance – and in turn, the customer experience. How does WFO work in the Call Center? Workforce Optimization provides contact center management with total visibility into quality and performance.

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Monet Software

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

How to treat employee burnout and reinvigorate call center engagement for the long haul. Do you feel it spreading through your contact center workforce? As we mentioned in our previous post about short-term employee engagement for contact centers , burnout isn’t a sudden-onset problem.

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Monet Software

JUNE 29, 2021

The right approach to call center quality management builds agents’ skills and enhances workforce engagement. Quality assurance (QA) sessions are a primary vehicle for skills-building in any contact center. This means a proper QA process must reach beyond call center analytics and reporting.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 12, 2019

While workforce management is a discipline with many detailed moving parts, WFM activities really boil down to four basic components – forecasting, scheduling, intraday management, and employee engagement. This blog is Part One of a two-part series that aims to demystify these four components. Forecasting.

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Etech GS

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Whether the employees are human or robotic, workforce optimization helps teams to work smarter instead of harder. As the name suggests, contact center workforce optimization involves using managerial practices to ensure maximum productivity meets maximum efficiency. How To Implement Workforce Optimization.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 12, 2019

While workforce management is a discipline with many detailed moving parts, WFM activities really boil down to four basic components – forecasting, scheduling, intraday management, and employee engagement. This blog is Part One of a two-part series that aims to demystify these four components. Forecasting.

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Verint

AUGUST 17, 2017

At the end of 2016, I conducted 20 interviews with customer service professionals who were members of the National Association of Call Centers (NACC). Clearly, employee engagement is of paramount importance to an overwhelming majority of contact center executives today.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 25, 2019

You can stay in compliance AND take advantage of more modern workforce optimization functionality in the cloud. For some, it makes sense to start with moving the ACD to the cloud, but for many contact centers workforce optimization is the best steppingstone. No two cloud transformations are identical.

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Monet Software

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Can SMB call center quality management be about more than quality? Monitoring and scoring calls—these quality assurance (QA) tasks are constant at nearly every contact center. Call review and coaching sessions contribute to team building. Yep, it’s the linchpin of employee engagement, too!

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Aspect

JUNE 16, 2017

Get ready for the next big thing in contact center workforce optimization: Speech Analytics. Even though speech analytics was introduced to the contact center industry back in 2003, Aberdeen Group reports that only about 15% of contact centers currently use speech analytics.

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Calabrio

OCTOBER 6, 2016

These leaders: Can communicate the business value and far-reaching, positive business impact of their contact center. Are genuinely interested in the contact center workforce and how to optimize its operations. Contain the contact center environment while allowing agents to be themselves.

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NICE inContact

JULY 17, 2019

Stream our recent webinar , in which Jill reveals the game-changers that make Frontline Group’s remote workforce a success. Relying on mobile call center agents presents unique obstacles and call for unique solutions. The post Going Mobile: Building a Remote Workforce appeared first on NICE inContact Blog.

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Hodusoft

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

That transformed call centers into contact centers. But due to the rising competition, the market now is flooded with many types of contact center solutions. Choosing the right contact center software is essential for success. Cons : Some reports of technical issues.

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TLC Associates

JULY 17, 2019

and even more citizens are underemployed, which makes reliable contact center work an appealing option for Dominicans. However, it’s important to know that not all nearshore options are currently right for your contact center workforce. The current unemployment rate is 5.8% Include TLC in my RFP.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The post 5 Paradigm Shifts Driving the Customer Experience Market appeared first on NICE inContact Blog. Watch our on-demand webinar, Digital First Customer Service: The Future is Here Today , to learn more about the digital transformation and how you can position your company as a leader.

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Verint

DECEMBER 5, 2017

As Ken Landoline, principal analyst at OVUM, stated in his blog, Back-Office Integration Coming to the Forefront in Customer Engagement , a number of trends are making it easier to link these two functions, including: In-sourcing previously outsourced contact center functions.

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Verint

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In my previous blog post , I discussed the rise to prominence of employee engagement in today’s contact center industry. As a reminder, 82 percent of participants in Saddletree Research’s recent survey of end-users ranked employee engagement as a highly important component of their contact center operational strategy.

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Verint

JANUARY 31, 2018

My blog post next month will focus on a key concept mentioned above: determining how to leverage automation to optimize the business and decrease costs—while simultaneously focusing resources on how to invest a reasonable percentage of those cost savings back into the business.

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Verint

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

By simply paying a little more attention to your solutions, you may well find new ways to improve your day-to-day productivity—and the state of mind of many people in your contact center.

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Verint

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

This encompasses both the transactional technology, like enterprise applications, as well as functional areas— particularly the back office where the physical processes which fulfill customer requirements are centered and carried out. The contact center is no exception to this rule.

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