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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.

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Gamification: 4 Best Practices to Motivate Agents

Contact Center Pipeline

A growing number of companies are using gamification in the contact center to motivate agents to improve their performance and skills. Frontline agents become more accountable and proactive […].

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

CCNG

Maintaining connectedness within a contact center has always presented unique challenges. High attrition rates, inherently diverse workforces, labor shortages and an extraordinarily dynamic technology backdrop thicken the plot for the customer contact narrative. Create an environment of trust, transparency and accountability.

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Remote Agent Training In Contact Centers: 5 Key Strategies

Playvox

How can you spice up remote agent training at your contact center to make it the most engaging and effective it can be? Make A Plan Despite the ongoing debate on the benefits and drawbacks of in-person, hybrid, and remote work, recent data and predictions support remote and hybrid work in a contact center. Engagement.

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8 Tips to Prepare Your Holiday Contact Center Agents

Calltools

The holiday season — less than seven weeks away now — is almost always the busiest time of the year for contact centers. This year will likely be the same, so contact center managers must prepare for the holiday rush. Follow these nine holiday contact center tips! Train Contact Center Agents.

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Humanizing the Digital Customer Experience: With Gamification, Call Centers Win Big

Noble Systems

To this end, the use of call center gamification represents a bona-fide breakthrough. Never has such a revolutionary approach been so badly needed, as the statistics lay out some stark truths: 71 percent of all employees are not engaged while at work and the average call center has a 26 percent attrition rate.

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Advance Collections and Debt Recovery with Gamification

Noble Systems

To make the process less stressful on collectors and ultimately a more pleasant experience for consumers, many institutions are using gamification in their contact centers. How do contact centers ensure that they reward the agent behaviors that will lead to the best results for consumers and the company?