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Effective Time Management Techniques for Contact Center Agents

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Excellent time management is crucial in a contact center. Being able to strategically plan and prioritize tasks not only ensures your customers get the service and support they need in a timely manner, but it also increases agent productivity, decreases overall stress, and improves job satisfaction.

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5 Common WFM Forecasting and Scheduling Pitfalls

Noble Systems

WFM is a powerful driver of extraordinary customer experience and service level attainment. But mismanagement can lead to contact center inefficiency, customer and agent dissatisfaction and loss of revenue. Shoot for 80% in planning and 20% in real-time management. Failing to communicate changes.

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Building Your Best Culture in 2019

CX Accelerator

The specific challenge was as follows: How can we as leaders develop a healthy blend of compassion, flexibility, and empathy, while fostering the right amount of individual accountability inside of our teams? What are the goals/KPI’s that everyone is accountable for? What a fantastic question! Old school, cheesy, but totally on-point.

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Using Collections Call Center Technologies to Significantly Impact Operational Performance

Noble Systems

By ‘blending’ collectors, while waiting for an inbound call, they can make outbound calls or handle interactions on other channels to maximize their talk time. ACCOUNT OWNERSHIP & MANAGEMENT Improves Relationship Building. GAMIFICATION & COLLECTOR ENGAGEMENT to Create Happier Employees – and Happier Customers.

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Workforce Optimization: What It is and Why You Need It

Playvox

It is through this lens that workforce optimization has evolved to mean the business strategies, processes, and supporting automation technologies that maximize contact center and agent productivity and efficiency to allow organizations to deliver outstanding customer experience (CX). Contact centers that do so reap the following benefits: 1.

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Adapting to a Global Workforce: Managing Remote Teams Effectively

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Leverage a Workforce Management Solution When you have a globally dispersed team, it becomes even more important to leverage a solution that accounts for differing schedules and skill sets. That’s where a Workforce Management solution moves from a “nice to have” to a “must have.”

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Small Business Call Center Software Solutions

Noble Systems

Every business that takes or makes calls, especially to sell to or service customers, essentially has a call center – whether they have hundreds of agents or a handful of agents (or a team of multi-tasking employees). The costs and office space were often prohibitive for small organizations. Auto-Attendant and IVR. allow the number.