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Value Your Employees and Pay Them Well to Improve Your Call Center Experience

SharpenCX

Low pay ruins the call center experience (and business results) with: Poor performance Low morale Absenteeism Higher attrition (and the costs that go with it). And, when we feel underpaid as an employee, it’s bound to affect our morale and loyalty to our workplace. The list goes on. Undervalued? Disrespected?

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Why Every Contact Center Manager Should Consider Voice-Driven AI

SmartAction

Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides an unprecedented opportunity to revolutionize the call center experience for the 59% of your customers who prefer telephone communication. We’re not talking about the time-consuming interactive voice response (IVR) of the past that provided a less-than-optimal customer experience.

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3 Ways to Use Slack to Improve Your Phone Support Efforts

Talkdesk

Talkdesk Product Manager Alex Willen and Slack Account Manager Jesse Elliott discussed Slack’s new functionalities as relates to phone support teams in our webinar “Using Slack to Reinvent the Call Center Experience.” Slack improves team morale and company culture.

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Essential Technologies in Call Center Workforce Management

Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

While agents hold the keys to your company’s success, they are also the most expensive resource you have – accounting for 60% to 70% of expenses in a contact center. Depending on organizational needs, call centers can implement an array of different technologies, from basic to sophisticated.

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

SharpenCX

The call center experience of today’s world can be hostile at best and abusive at its worst. 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!”.