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! Scheduling is a critical contact center function, but like forecasting, can be tricky.

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Contact Center Management contact center workforce Employee engagement 54

Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

Does your contact center “talk the customer talk” but sometimes gets stuck when it comes to matching up customer expectations with service and support delivery by your agents? Are you taking the right steps to evolve toward workforce engagement management? If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”

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Coaching Contact Center Quality management Schedule adherence 77

ShepHyken

APRIL 14, 2017

Plagued by rising costs, employee churn, absenteeism and declining standards, contact centers across the world are facing a combination of challenges unprecedented in the 50-year history of the industry. We have already witnessed the rise of technology with performance metrics and targets in the name of Workforce Optimization.

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Contact Center Employee engagement Technology Metrics 206

Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

Call center workforce management is the art and science of having the right number of agents available at the right times to answer an accurately forecasted volume of incoming customer contacts at the service level standard set by a contact center while minimizing cost. WFM to the rescue.

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Call Center Schedule adherence call center workforce Management 52

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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USAN

MAY 10, 2022

Most contact centers have been optimizing the customer experience for years. They’ve started offering a more robust omnichannel experience, allowing customers to engage with them in myriad ways and enabling agents to provide proactive service efficiently and effectively. Why Boosting Agent Engagement Matters.

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Gamification Contact Center contact center workforce Employee engagement 52

Noble Systems

APRIL 14, 2021

The virtual call center has become a hot topic, as the coronavirus pandemic has moved call center teams from centralized offices to individual homes. A virtual contact center is designed to support distributed workforces. Advantages of using a virtual contact center solution versus a traditional call center.

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virtual call center Call Center call center solutions call center software 98

Serenova

APRIL 16, 2020

When employees feel supported, they perform better, making it easier to maintain business continuity in the short-term. Employee care programs also have a long-term impact on employee engagement , productivity, loyalty and retention. A Cloud-based Support Center for a Global Workforce.

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Interactive Voice Response contact center workforce Contact Center Finance 96

Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

If you’re a contact center manager, you’ve probably heard a lot about how to manage and engage your workforce with WFM and WFO – especially recently. What is Workforce Management (WFM)? WFM is a set of processes that helps optimize employee productivity. What is Workforce Optimization (WFO)?

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Management Gamification Quality management Schedule adherence 86

Noble Systems

AUGUST 8, 2019

Contact centers have been hiring increasing numbers of work-at-home agents in recent years and it looks like this trend is expected to grow. According to the National Association of Call Centers, over 50% of contact centers in the United States tout that some percentage of their agents are now working from home.

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Gamification At home agents Contact Center contact center workforce 65

Verint

DECEMBER 15, 2017

In 2018, the contact center industry will be all about automation. The latest technology to feel the touch of automation is quality management—the most widely deployed and utilized solution in the U.S. contact center industry, and likely the global contact center industry. contact center industry.

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Quality management Call Logging Management Employee engagement 29

Verint

AUGUST 23, 2017

Today’s workforce looks very different than the one from just five years ago. Rapidly changing technology, shifting work-life priorities, and a surprisingly high “disengagement rate” have all collaborated to drive the need for changes—big ones—in the contact center. of employees are disengaged.

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Gamification Employee engagement Best practices Contact Center 42

Hodusoft

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Top 10 Contact Center Software for 2022-2023. Before the advent of contact center software, customer service representatives would handle all customer requests and complaints through telephone calls. That transformed call centers into contact centers. HoduCC – Contact Center Software.

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Contact center software Contact Center Interactive Voice Response contact center solutions 40

Verint

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Maybe you haven’t thought about this yet, but are you aware that contact centers are now using automation to modernize quality management? Automated Quality Management automates scoring of up to 100 percent of agent calls, ensuring modern, employee-empowering and cost-effective quality management. What’s not to like?

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Quality management Coaching Contact Center Management 25

NobelBiz

MAY 22, 2022

The 2020 pandemic started a cascade of unforeseen changes and transformations that radically changed the contact center world. As a response to the pandemic lockdowns, call center businesses rushed to move their operations to the cloud and implement work-from-home systems ASAP. Let’s meet the experts!

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call center workforce Call Center Management Gamification 52

Verint

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Top 5 Best Practices for Extending WFO Beyond the Contact Center. Verint’s Craig Seebach, vice president, workforce optimization strategy, will present this content at 11 a.m. The contact center is often just the start of the customer’s journey. Empower Your Employees with More Data, More Automation.

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Contact Center Self service Best practices Coaching 6

Verint

JUNE 29, 2017

The latest enhancements to the Verint Employee Engagement and Engagement Channels suites are based on feedback from our customers and the changing needs of the marketplace. Now, all of its employees have fast and consistent access to information—and the single central repository is still maintained.

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