Aspect

MAY 15, 2018

Looking specifically at the contact center industry, we have seen a recent flurry of activity around chatbots, intelligent IVRs and virtual agents. In a world where the customer experience is the holy grail, contact centers naturally apply new technologies first to their customers and then to their agents and internal processes.

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Contact Center contact center workforce Airlines Virtual Agent 68

NICE inContact

AUGUST 22, 2019

In Part One of this two-part series, we sought to demystify the forecasting and scheduling components of contact center workforce management. RTA is one of the most underrated metrics in the contact center, but undoubtedly one of the most important. Intraday management. Real-time adherence.

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Contact Center Management contact center workforce Employee engagement 54

NICE inContact

AUGUST 22, 2019

In Part One of this two-part series, we sought to demystify the forecasting and scheduling components of contact center workforce management. RTA is one of the most underrated metrics in the contact center, but undoubtedly one of the most important. Intraday management. Real-time adherence.

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Contact Center Management contact center workforce Employee engagement 54

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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NICE inContact

AUGUST 12, 2019

For seasoned workforce managers, predicting contact volumes and creating perfect schedules are second nature – even although, to those of us on the outside, they seem to speak a whole different contact center language! This blog is Part One of a two-part series that aims to demystify these four components.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 25, 2019

There is extensive research that shows moving your contact center to the cloud is an inevitable requirement to staying competitive and relevant. Thus, it’s no longer a matter of “if” your contact center will move to the cloud, but rather “where” and “when” that cloud transformation begins.

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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. The post 7 Tips for More Inspiring Quality Feedback in the Contact Center appeared first on Monet Software.

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Noble Systems

MAY 4, 2021

We get a lot of questions about managing contact centers, building successful customer contact strategies, and how new technologies can help impact the customer experience. In this blog series, we’ll take a look at some of the questions that we hear most often when talking with customers.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 12, 2019

For seasoned workforce managers, predicting contact volumes and creating perfect schedules are second nature – even although, to those of us on the outside, they seem to speak a whole different contact center language! This blog is Part One of a two-part series that aims to demystify these four components.

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Contact Center Management contact center workforce Employee engagement 54

BlueOcean

MARCH 31, 2022

If you’ve been a reader of Blue Ocean’s blog for any length of time, you probably know we love sports and particularly baseball. Let’s look at what sports can teach us about consistency in achieving contact center service levels—and how to adapt to even the most unexpected outcomes. Practice Makes (Almost) Perfect.

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Contact Center contact center workforce Service level Coaching 118

NobelBiz

MARCH 26, 2024

Interactive Voice Response (IVR) At the core of intelligent contact center automation lies a well-calibrated IVR system. This powerful tool serves as the cornerstone, revolutionizing the way your contact center operates. These components work together to create a cohesive, automated customer service ecosystem.

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Best practices Interactive Voice Response Customer Experience Contact Center 52

Monet Software

JUNE 10, 2021

8 Tips for Optimizing Schedules and Enhancing Contact Center Workforce Engagement.at Many contact center managers, however, don’t realize how much more value their scheduling activity can deliver to employees, beyond letting agents know when to show up for shifts. the Same Time. We all love a win-win.

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Monet Software

JANUARY 20, 2021

As a long-time industry analyst focused on the contact center workforce optimization market, I have long questioned why small to medium-size (SMB) businesses do not get more love from the major WFO vendors. There are approximately 70,000 contact centers in the United States, and 88 percent of these have 150 or fewer agents.

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contact center workforce Contact Center Service level Engineering 118

Concentrix

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A hybrid contact center workforce model is not a new concept—in fact, Concentrix has over 16 years’ experience operating in this way. The post Adding Hybrid to the Workforce Anywhere Equation appeared first on Concentrix.

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contact center workforce Contact Center 71

Calabrio

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Your contact center is a superhero? You might be surprised—after all, contact centers are often: Under-valued by the larger organization. Viewed purely as a cost center. But for customer-centric organizations, the term “contact center superhero” is an accurate—and multi-faceted—description.

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Aspect

JANUARY 12, 2018

Other industries are quickly catching on for services such as furniture moving, dog walking and at-home makeup styling and the contact center isn’t far behind. In the contact center, you can think of customer contacts as representing the work to be done (or the packages to be delivered in the case of Amazon).

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Monet Software

MAY 27, 2020

You can explore new ways to help maximize workforce productivity, empower your workforce, listen to customers and employees, move to the cloud and prepare for recovery leveraging your customer engagement solutions. Want to start with what really resonated with our live attendees? Bosses get cranky.

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contact center workforce Education Analytics Contact Center 83

Aspect

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Yogi Berra didn’t know much about contact centers, but he seems to have had great insight into the first phase of the workforce planning process when he said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future”.

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Contact Center contact center workforce Wait times Education 185

Aspect

JUNE 2, 2020

Aspect Workforce Management ( WFM ) has been a leader in the contact center workforce management industry for decades and we plan to keep it that way. The post Webinar: See What’s New with Aspect® Workforce Management™ appeared first on Aspect Blogs. Want to learn more about ASUGA?

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contact center workforce Management Contact Center 62

Aspect

APRIL 2, 2020

All of this sounds good for certain types of roles, but we know our contact center workforce needs to work at times when customers need to communicate with our company, which we have painstakingly planned and update d continuously using w orkforce m anagement. C an the contact center offer that to them ?

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contact center workforce Morale Contact Center Surveys 129

Verint

AUGUST 17, 2017

The question was, “What’s keeping you up at night when you think about your contact center in 2017 and beyond.”. Clearly, employee engagement is of paramount importance to an overwhelming majority of contact center executives today. Figure 2: Contact Centers Willing to Change to Accommodate the Millennial Workforce.

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Serenova

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

If you’re a contact center leader, there’s a lot about Millennials and Generation Z worth understanding. In fact, these younger generations just may be your contact center’s BFFs. Tapping into these generational shifts is one of five trends highlighted in our e-book, Contact Center Trends You Need to Know 2019.

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Aspect

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

When efficiency is your focus, many organizations implement strategies with the assumption that workforce management (WFM) should be entirely separate from customer-focused considerations. The post Optimizing Your Workforce with WFM appeared first on Aspect Blogs.

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contact center workforce Enterprise Contact Center Management 62

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Contact center agents are the most monitored, micromanaged workforce in existence. The post Increase Contact Center Agent Productivity and Satisfaction with CXone Agent for Salesforce® appeared first on inContact Blog. All that switching can burden productivity, but there is something that can help.

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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.

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TLC Associates

JULY 17, 2019

Yet when the stakes are even higher, i.e. a business searching for a contact center to represent their brand and increase their revenue, some still choose to jettison quality in favor of a lower cost. Here are some of the benefits of nearshore contact centers that show they might be right for you.

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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.

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contact center workforce call center workforce Contact Center Marketing 56

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 ). Contact Center . The new paradigm of Work.

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USAN

MAY 10, 2022

Most contact centers have been optimizing the customer experience for years. But for contact centers operating in an age of evolving workplaces and workforces, this is increasingly important. But for contact centers operating in an age of evolving workplaces and workforces, this is increasingly important.

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Gamification Contact Center contact center workforce Employee engagement 52

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Contact center agents are the most monitored, micromanaged workforce in existence. The post Increase Contact Center Agent Productivity and Satisfaction with CXone Agent for Salesforce® appeared first on inContact Blog. All that switching can burden productivity, but there is something that can help.

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Contact Center contact center workforce Customer Experience 48

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? If you’re seeing symptoms of burnout in your SMB contact center, or in online interactions with certain remote agents, it’s time to do something about it.

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Morale Agent burnout Contact Center Coaching 100

Aspect

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

G2 Crowd Grid ® for Contact Center Workforce Software. What do G2 Crowd reviews show about Aspect Workforce Management software? The post According to Customers, Aspect Workforce Management Leads the Pack appeared first on Aspect Blogs.

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Verint

APRIL 13, 2015

In our first blog discussing the webinar we held earlier this year with Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino, Debunking Employee Productivity Myths, we addressed two decision-making biases that impact employee productivity: A bias for action and a bias for completion.

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NICE inContact

JULY 12, 2016

A comprehensive Workforce Optimization (WFO) solution is no longer a luxury. It is a necessity that gives the contact center the flexibility, agility, and power required to optimize agent performance while responding to customer needs quickly and effectively. It will be flexible, adaptable, scalable and efficient.

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teleopti

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The next step is to revisit the ‘out of the ordinary’ events that can adversely impact the efficiency of the contact center such as systems outages, negative comments on social media or news in the press. You’ll be rewarded with better contact center performance and customer satisfaction on all channels, all year round.

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Average Handle Time contact center workforce Contact Center CRM 48

Verint

MARCH 23, 2015

With the help of Verint’s Craig Seebach, vice president, back-office workforce optimization, she presented some ways we can close the divide between perception and reality with system-generated activity data and performance metrics. In this first blog, we will address the first two biases: A bias for action and a bias for completion.

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contact center workforce Contact Center Metrics Management 34

Verint

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

You may know from personal experience that low-performing, partially effective contact center technologies and overwhelmed customer service employees are not a winning combination. Being mindful with your contact center IVR and WFO strategies can help you get better at the things you care about for your business.

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