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25 Call Center Leaders Share the Most Effective Ways to Boost Contact Center Efficiency

Callminer

Make onboarding & ongoing coaching as stellar as possible. Metrics, Measure, and Monitor – Make sure your metrics and associated goals are clear and concise while aligning with efficiency and effectiveness. Make each metric public and ensure everyone knows why that metric is measured. James Pollard.

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BI with an IQ - Revisited

Xaqt

Back in the winter of 2005, Jason Kolb (my cofounder and CTO of Latigent) and I penned an article for Business Management magazine titled BI with an IQ. Rewind it Back Let's take a look back to 2005 when "Web 2.0" In it, we paint the picture of a utopian contact center in which systems are fully integrated and intelligently automated.

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Building Blocks of a Customer Experience Transformation Strategy

CX Journey

You might know it as Bain's Delivery Gap, which states findings from their 2005 research: 80% of executives believe they deliver a superior experience, while only 8% of customers agree. Acquisition often includes discounts, while metrics include free candy bars and oil changes in exchange for a 5-out-of-5 rating. What gives?

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Tips on How You Can Bridge the Gap Between Remote and In-Office Contact Center Agents Faster With the Right Workforce Management Strategy

SharpenCX

Last fall, Global Workplace Analytics told us that the number of people who work from home has increased by 140% since 2005. The more accurate your forecasting, the more you can find windows of down time to connect with, and coach, remote and in-office employees. And as we live and work through a pandemic, that number has only grown.

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How To Be An Effective Manager

Contact Center Geek

Mark Horstman and Mike Auzenne created the Manager Tools podcast in 2005. Every manager knows they need to coach their employees, but few will agree on the best way to do it, or even, what “coaching” means. Manager Tools teaches a simple model for effective coaching that will help develop skills in your direct reports.