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Guest Blog: “Zhuzhing Up” Humans in the Contact Center

ShepHyken

In the contact center industry, for example, there are fewer phone conversations going into customer support centers than in the past. The calls that do go through to the contact center agent are for more critical interactions — involving complexities, emotions or higher values.

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On Being an Accountable Customer Service Leader

Customer Service Life

Properly authenticating the account. Leaving complete account notes for the next person who interacts with the customer. This exercise reminded me of the time when we started this blog back in 2012. Starting a blog about customer service became instant accountability for me. Quality as accountability.

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Guest Blog: Contact Center Talent in These Changing Times, Part 1 – Setting the Stage

Calabrio

These changes in consumer behavior and expectations, combined with new technologies, are starting to completely transform the contact center. We’ve entered an era where simply keeping abreast with the latest contact center tech advances is not enough. Technology Fuels Contact Center Transformation.

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The Best Contact Center Blogs of 2021

Call Experts

At Call Experts, we are dedicated to providing supportive content every week through our contact center blogs. Because contact center blogs can be an essential tool for understanding services from a company and what it might be like as their customer. . What is a call-out line?

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Contact Center Workforce Management Best Practices

Fonolo

That’s why contact centers are investing in it in droves. In fact, Gartner reports that by 2025, 60% of contact centers will have implemented AI-driven workforce management tools to help optimize scheduling and resource allocation. How Can WFM Help my Contact Center? higher adherence rate than those without.

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Guest Blog: Are You Setting the Right Customer Experience Goals?

ShepHyken

This rings especially true in the contact center, where many of the simpler, repetitive tasks are still performed by humans. These agents will be more skilled and will function more as account managers than reps. The post Guest Blog: Are You Setting the Right Customer Experience Goals? Technology is on your side.

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How to help contact center agents avoid burnout

Toister Performance Solutions

This blog is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Is burnout gripping your contact center? That spells trouble for contact centers. Wait, accountability?!