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Contact Center Workforce Management Best Practices

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Managers know that call center workforce management matters. Put it another way: if customer interactions are at the heart of a contact center’s success, then effective workforce management is the backbone. It enhances agent productivity, helps you deliver exceptional customer experiences and improves the agent experience , too.

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Training Your Call Center Agents to Sound the Alarm on Harassment in Abusive Customer Interactions Instantly Can Fuel Your Agents’ Empowerment

SharpenCX

How frustrating to pour time and energy into your agents and be unable to retain them because of the toll of stress. As a manager, you can provide training to support and coach agents through those abusive online experiences. Let’s dig into some practical ways you can support your agents and combat abuse in your contact center.

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Call Recording: An Agent Empowerment Tool

OrecX

Call recording software most certainly provides value to call center managers, supervisors and even business users in the form of customer intelligence, agent performance, sales and marketing data, etc. The same holds true for agents themselves. He/she can access the call to prove what really happened and avoid accountability.

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Workforce Management for the 21st Century: Helping Deliver a Great CX

DMG Consulting

Workforce Management for the 21st Century: Helping Deliver a Great CX View this article on the publisher’s website. Workforce management (WFM) solutions are essential in good times and even more indispensable when the economy is challenged and budgets are tight.

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3 Management Techniques to Use (And 2 to Ditch) to Erase the Bad Call Center Agent Experience in 2021

SharpenCX

So, when questions surfaced about how to protect agents, and how to address all the stresses of the (sometimes-maddening) call center experience, I put my optimistic hat on and thought, “let’s talk about it!”. You know that providing relevant feedback often will improve your agents’ well-being and your customer satisfaction.

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A lifetime of lessons learned, with Steve Bederman | First Contact: Stories of the Call Center

NobelBiz

Going into 2021, we can foresee a few things that will remain in plain focus: a seamless customer journey, personalized customer experiences, relationship and agent empowerment. Contact Centers had to adopt the right tools and even shift their models completely in order to achieve business continuity and customer demands.

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5 Ways to Manage the Performance of Apathetic Agents (and Why They Don’t Care if They’re a Good Customer Service Rep or Not)

SharpenCX

As a manager, you own 70% of your employees’ engagement at work. . Your agents show up each day, plop down in their seats in the office or at home, and immediately start helping customers. And it’s up to you, manager, to keep them engaged in their role. But too often, managers drown in a sea of apathetic agents.