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Contact Center Workforce Management Best Practices

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Executive Guide to 6 Call Center Metrics What is Workforce Management in a Call Center? Real-time monitoring lets supervisors follow agent activity, track schedule adherence and make adjustments on the spot if needed. Employees who use it report having a better work-life balance and improved morale.

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

SharpenCX

And, as you map out each goal, assign relevant metrics to help agents understand progress toward those goals. Without metrics in place to measure progress, your team won’t get a clear picture of how their hard work translates to better results and outcomes. Read Next] How agent empowerment impacts customer service.

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Meet Customer Needs Without Overwhelming Your Agents: 6 Workforce Management Strategies to Engage your Team and Still Surpass High Customer Expectations

SharpenCX

And, look to your year-over-year metrics for added guidance, too. Apply the increase to your peak season in 2020, and you can forecast at least 2500 interactions per day (without accounting for any other business changes). Look to your historical data and reports to find metrics to input into the calculator fields.

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Buddying Up – Putting Virtual Employee Assistants at the Heart of Agent Development

TechSee

The contact center industry continues to face extremely high agent turnover, with some outbound and telemarketing centers experiencing attrition rates as high as 27% annually. Virtual Employee Assistants (VEA) – or digital buddies – have been tapped as an effective solution to help contact centers both support and motivate their agents.