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Boosting Employee Engagement: 6 Tips for Keeping Contact Center Agents Motivated

Playvox

When employees feel connected to their jobs and have meaningful goals, agent performance increases. A 2021 Gartner study found that disengaged customer service reps create a high-effort customer service experience three times as often as engaged employees do.

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Six Ways To Stimulate Workforce Connectedness And Electrify Employee And Customer Experience

CCNG

Despite its unique impediments, contact center senior leaders should regularly examine the effectiveness of their employee engagement strategies. Integrate holistic coaching, intelligent workflows, gamification, performance-based compensation and other capabilities to engender teamwork, accountability and collaboration.

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Quiet Quitting Isn’t the Problem. Your Managers Are.

Integrity Solutions

Whether they’re sending the message via quiet quitting or actually giving two weeks’ notice, more and more employees are making it clear that burnout has taken a toll, they want to find more meaning and purpose in their work, and their companies haven’t done enough to address the problems. At least, it shouldn’t be.

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Contact Center Trends 2021: The CX Watershed

Fonolo

After assessing how the pandemic had changed the call center in 2020 , we decided to peek over the parapet at 2021. We asked the contact center industry’s top influencers and business leaders what they thought the most significant contact center trends in 2021 would be. Contact Center Trends 2021. Increasing Empathy.

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Know These 4 Customer Experience Benchmarks to Succeed in 2021

COPC

in conjunction with Executives in the Know, we learned key trends that businesses need to know for 2021, including: Companies were forced to fast-track strategic initiatives. The impact that the pandemic had on staffing can’t be overstated, as it required businesses to switch thousands of employees to WFH in a matter of weeks.

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The Future of Omnichannel Starts Today: 4 Omnichannel Strategies that Will Help You Stay Ahead of the Curve in 2021

SharpenCX

Coach your agents regularly, so they know how to listen to your customers and respond kindly. Read Next] How to Boost Morale and Keep Your Remote Employees Engaged. By the end of 2021, industry leaders expect mobile phones will make almost 73% of eCommerce sales. Consider these tech and contact center trends in 2021.

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Onboarding Best Practices: Reducing Attrition in the First 90 Days?

COPC

Ineffective Training    Training should be impactful and engaging, ensuring no trainees are overlooked. COPC’s Employee Engagement Research Series reveals a declining trend in frontline staff’s perceptions of training effectiveness. Lack of Manager Support   Coaching is an integral part of an effective onboarding process.