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Effective Time Management Techniques for Contact Center Agents

Playvox

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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Service Levels: Why They Suffer, and What You Can Do About It

Monet Software

Service level is just one element that contributes to a customer’s positive call center experience – but it’s an important one. If your business is like most contact centers, you calculate service level by the percentage of calls answered within a pre-determined time period – for example, answering 80% of calls in 20 seconds or less.

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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. Although you cannot avoid real-time management all together, you want to ensure that that the vast majority of your staff is working in planning rather than 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! They have a free or paid version.

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What Is Workforce Management in a Call Center?

Global Response

The short answer is yes, but if you’re currently swimming in a sea of workforce management softwares, or looking for ways to make your call center processes more efficient, it might seem overwhelming. Understanding this in advance gives you time to scale or outsource to meet demand without compromising service levels.

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How to Boost Call Center Forecasting Accuracy

Monet Software

After all, bottom-line success demands that call center managers schedule the correct number of agents for each shift. Plan for too few and service levels degrade as agents become overwhelmed. But real-time management is also about changing the schedule on the fly. These are essential tasks.

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Webinar Q&A: Why High Touch and Tech Touch Should Be Friends, Not Enemies

Education Services Group

Scheduling/automating QBRs and touchpoint tasks can be simple ways to help time manage accounts so the CSM doesn’t have to comb through their full account list each day or week. Take back that time spend copying records over and let the CSMs focus more on that next set of action items.