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The Manager’s Guide to Call Center Gamification

Fonolo

One strategy employed by many companies is “gamification.” This involves guiding, reinforcing and increasing high-value activity by capturing performance data and using that data to motivate employees. Gamification builds on the desire most people have for feedback, recognition, and achievement in a peer group.

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Employee Engagement and Better Customer Engagement in 2016

Verint

Everyone is looking for a competitive advantage in 2016. While you may or may not have previously considered gamification a key part of these employee engagement efforts, it can help keep your employees focused on what matters and what helps drive the bottom line.

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Facing the Future of Contact Center Employee Engagement

Verint

At the end of 2016, I conducted 20 interviews with customer service professionals who were members of the National Association of Call Centers (NACC). The responses were remarkably similar—18 of the 20 customer service professionals I interviewed voiced their concern over what can be broadly categorized as employee engagement.

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Contact Center Trends 2021: The CX Watershed

Fonolo

Understanding these trends will help strengthen your contact center game and give you “hero status” with customers and employees. Storyline: Gamification. The Temkin Group’s 2017 Customer Experience study showed a severe decline in customer experience ratings from 2015 to 2016. Call Center Trends 2016.

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Still Struggling with Employee Retention? It’s Time to Get in the Game

Noble Systems

Retaining good employees is good business. Although there are many conditions that affect a company’s ability to effectively deal with the challenge of employee retention, it all really boils down to keeping employees engaged and tapping into their emotional intelligence. What is Gamification? How do you do that?

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Technology to Improve Call Center Agent Engagement & Productivity

CSR Inc.

While I agree with the gist of the article about ways in which technology can positively impact the call center workplace (some are common talking points for me as well), I want to focus on two in particular that inevitably come up in discussions with call center managers: gamification and coaching/feedback.

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Innovations in Performance Management: Verint’s Workforce Optimization

Natalie Petouhof

In a recent survey 22 percent of respondents identified performance management as the “most likely” solutions to be replaced in 2016. . Is the performance of employees consistent across time? With this capability, managers can quickly identify the employees and KPIs that need attention based on their scores or recent trends.