Playvox

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Working with virtual teams of agents in your contact center can sometimes mean you feel disconnected from them — or even worried that you aren’t able to properly manage their performance. Agents who felt their contact centers were handling remote work well told us they appreciated: Clear expectations.

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Playvox

APRIL 5, 2022

But without getting contact center performance right, all other CX elements – such as marketing, user experience, etc. How do you build a high performance contact center? Of course, getting to this point is a journey, and taking the first steps towards improvement can be intimidating. will ultimately fall flat.

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DMG Consulting

JANUARY 8, 2018

Question: How can we improve our contact center coaching? Answer: In recent years, coaching has evolved from a monthly one-on-one session between a supervisor and an agent/representative into an ongoing dialog and two-way exchange of data. periods of low volume) to minimize customer and contact center impacts.

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Playvox

MAY 2, 2023

While it might seem like just about everything is in the cloud these days, many contact centers still haven’t taken the leap. But moving to a cloud contact center can have big benefits for your company, your customers, and your agents. Remote work continues to be a highly desirable benefit for contact center employees.

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Playvox

MARCH 21, 2024

Let’s face it — no one contacts your contact center to tell the person who answers the phone, text, or chat to tell your organization that they love your brand, service, or product. Most interactions that contact center agents have daily are to solve a problem or issue, adjust a payment, or ask a clarifying question.

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Morale Contact Center Quality management Coaching 90

NICE inContact

JUNE 17, 2019

If the answer is “no” or “I don’t know,” it might mean you’re among the vast majority not evaluating these channels as part of your quality program. 90% of businesses support phone, and 83% measure phone quality — great! Well, now you don’t need all the time and resources in the world, you just need Quality Management Analytics.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 17, 2019

If the answer is “no” or “I don’t know,” it might mean you’re among the vast majority not evaluating these channels as part of your quality program. 90% of businesses support phone, and 83% measure phone quality — great! Well, now you don’t need all the time and resources in the world, you just need Quality Management Analytics.

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Quality management Analytics Customer Experience Management 54

Playvox

OCTOBER 18, 2022

There’s a storm brewing in customer service centers, and the aftermath could create some big challenges for contact center management. In our 2022 study of customer support agents and managers, 68% of agent respondents said they didn’t want to return to an office. The State of Remote Work in Contact Centers.

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Playvox

MAY 4, 2023

Unlike my favorite fruit seller, you’ve got hundreds or thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of customer issues that require sophisticated, efficient customer care through the right contact center solutions. What Is A Digital Contact Center? Is your contact center omnichannel? We, the customers, of course!

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Playvox

OCTOBER 12, 2022

For many remote contact centers, it’s time to shift into a busier season, when the stakes are especially high for customer experience. Most people, including customer service agents, are ready for a restart, which makes now the perfect time for contact center leaders to revisit their remote work playbooks.

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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Quality assurance and monitoring is a tough, but necessary part of operating contact centers for consistently high customer experience at scale. Quality scorecard monitoring ensures customer service standards are met and exceeded using an adapted set of metrics to measure agents’ performance. What are QA Scorecards?

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Metrics Contact Center Coaching Quality management 52

Playvox

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Agent burnout directly harms the quality of customer service your business provides and significantly hurts your company’s bottom line. It’s hard to ignore the fact that contact centers are plagued with high agent burnout and turnover rates. Some contact centers experience almost no turnover at all. Consider this.

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8x8

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Most companies have implemented some sort of training or coaching program within their corporate structure and contact center. However, simply training your contact center personnel is not enough. To analyze the benefits of the training or coaching, a systematic evaluation process needs to be put in place.

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8x8

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Most companies have implemented some sort of training or coaching program within their corporate structure and contact center. However, simply training your contact center personnel is not enough. To analyze the benefits of the training or coaching, a systematic evaluation process needs to be put in place.

Contact Center 48

Contact Center Coaching Quality management contact center solutions 48

8x8

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Most companies have implemented some sort of training or coaching program within their corporate structure and contact center. However, simply training your contact center personnel is not enough. To analyze the benefits of the training or coaching, a systematic evaluation process needs to be put in place.

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Contact Center Coaching Quality management contact center solutions 48

Serenova

APRIL 10, 2020

For contact centers, this means finding ways to keep agents safe while maintaining business continuity and effectively handling volume spikes. Ultimately, the long-term success of your contact center depends on motivated, engaged and happy agents delivering positive customer experiences.

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NobelBiz

AUGUST 3, 2021

What are the flaws in your contact center? In order to find the accurate answer to these questions, business owners and managers must go beyond guesses and instinct and rely on scientific, clear, and quantitative facts. Team Management: how dedicated are your agents? Is your client satisfaction decreasing?

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Playvox

DECEMBER 13, 2022

But now that tickets, emails, and chat have entered the picture, interaction avoidance encompasses any effort contact center agents make to bypass working with customers in any channel. What does that look like day to day in your contact center? Related Article: 3 Tips For Optimizing Your Contact Center Schedule.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In the most engaged teams I’ve seen, there are solid coaching principles at work. But the ultimate leadership secret is to approach training, coaching and performance standards as opportunities to empower your employees to coach themselves.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In the contact centre, where customers may be anxious, angry or upset, the effect often throws agents off course, impacting their mood, amplifying disengagement, and increasing AHT. Understand that the problem is not empathy in itself but how it is coached. Calabrio is a trusted ally to leading brands.

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Average Handle Time Agent burnout Coaching Finance 59

DMG Consulting

APRIL 16, 2019

Workforce Optimization Ushers in the Real-Time Contact Center. It’s hard to overstate how much the contact center technology sector has progressed in the past 15 years. Thirteen years ago, DMG Consulting published the book The Real-Time Contact Center. By Donna Fluss. who interact with them.

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Myra Golden Media

JULY 15, 2019

Need some guidance on how to develop and execute a quality program that is robust, fair, and that your employees buy-in to – and one that doesn’t make your supervisors need to sip wine just to get through a coaching discussion with employees? Here’s the 8 Step Quality Program we use at Myra Golden Seminars.

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Calibration Coaching Morale Feedback 153

Enghouse Interactive

JULY 7, 2021

Contact Center call volumes are increasing exponentially, resulting in supervisors dealing with agent assessments on more of an exception basis than as a normal course of business. But unfortunately, agent supervision and quality assurance capabilities have not evolved to meet these new realities.

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Serenova

JUNE 5, 2020

Heightened stress levels also have a detrimental impact on employee retention—an ongoing problem for contact centers that becomes more damaging during crisis, when call volume can peak. It’s not just your contact center agents who are working from home. See what matters to your contact center with customizable dashboards.

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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. This way, the learning curve is more manageable and agents can celebrate their progress. #2 But QA can be so much more!

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Morale Quality management contact center workforce Employee engagement 48

Verint

APRIL 14, 2016

Thinking back on my time in Operations, like so many other people I spent a significant amount of time trying to understand the root cause of the quality management (QM) opportunities in my organization. What could it be?

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Quality management Management Coaching Employee engagement 21

Aspect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Over the past few months Aspect customers have been reaching out to discuss their plans to implement a work from home strategy for their engagement centers (contact centers), and it has inspired me to share more globally what we have seen in the industry, and what’s driving this interest. Implement effective online training.

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SharpenCX

OCTOBER 22, 2019

More often than not, your agent’s apathy stems from a larger problem brewing in your contact center. Maybe Heather hasn’t been clued into your contact center’s performance and her larger social impact on the customer experience. In a contact center, you’re in the business of serving customers. What gives?

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Metrics Call Center Abandon rate Customer Service 64

Fonolo

MAY 7, 2015

Simply knowing how to run a call center isn’t enough for success. Not for the weak at heart, only some call center managers have the grace, tenacity, and skills to handle the extreme pressures of the contact center manager’s job. Make Your Contact Center a Great Place to Work.

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Call Center Management Contact Center Coaching 126

DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Wells Fargo is no longer making daily news headlines, but the impact of their overly aggressive cross-selling culture will be felt by contact centers throughout the United States for a long time. Setting the Record Straight: It’s highly unlikely Wells Fargo’s management was unaware of what was happening in their contact centers.

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Sales Customer Service Contact Center CRM 48

DMG Consulting

JUNE 29, 2017

Wells Fargo is no longer making news headlines, but the impact of their overly aggressive cross-selling culture will be felt by contact centers throughout the United States for a long time. For the record, it isn’t possible that Wells Fargo’s management was unaware of what was happening in their contact centers.

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Sales Customer Service Contact Center Consulting 48

Noble Systems

MAY 20, 2021

The global Contact Center Intelligence Market, including speech solutions, is expected to see a CAGR of more than 25% through 2027. Most contact centers only have the resources to review a very small percentage of their call volume. Some insights are just too good to keep within the contact center.

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Serenova

OCTOBER 24, 2019

In fact, according to industry data—and anecdotal evidence from the contact center leaders we talk to every day—consumer expectations and the service levels they demand are only increasing. Implementing a workforce optimization program that includes ongoing quality management can be a powerful tool.

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Customer Service Quality management Airlines Scripts 67

Customer Centric Support

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Typically when a change is made in a contact center environment, it is leadership reviewing a set of metrics, deciding on a course of action, and announced to the agents as “the new thing.” Most change should flow in the opposite direction. As Petra Coaching says, “A players will not play with C players for long.”

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Customer Service Gamification Quality management Customer centricity 48

Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The two qualities can also create a competitive advantage, which is key priority for growing organizations. While agents hold the keys to your company’s success, they are also the most expensive resource you have – accounting for 60% to 70% of expenses in a contact center. Business Intelligence.

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call center workforce Call Center Technology Management 54

Enghouse Interactive

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Businesses will continue making strides down the road to automation and AI, of course, and there are a broad range of benefits to be had from doing so as they look to streamline the customer journey and make straight through and self-service approaches faster and more efficient. How are they going to get the best out of it?

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Netomi

JANUARY 5, 2022

A former CEO group leader, and executive coach with the world’s largest chief executive organization, David has worked with thousands of CEOs and business leaders on their business brand, customer experience, and competitive advantages. Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach and founder/president CAS, Inc. Kate Nasser.

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