Agent burnout Best practices Coaching Management 
Playvox
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Agent burnout directly harms the quality of customer service your business provides and significantly hurts your company’s bottom line. It’s hard to ignore the fact that contact centers are plagued with high agent burnout and turnover rates. It starts with a foundation made up of the right technologies and best practices.
Playvox
JULY 31, 2023
When thinking about workforce management (WFM), often people think of forecasting and scheduling. Much of a team leader’s time is taken away from their key role of providing coaching and development to their people when they have to get involved in manual, immediate, repetitive, and cumbersome tasks like leave approval and shift swaps.
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Toister Performance Solutions
MARCH 2, 2023
Burnout is defined by the American Psychological Association as "physical, emotional, or mental exhaustion accompanied by decreased motivation, lowered performance, and negative attitudes towards oneself and others." That study found 74 percent of contact center agents were at risk of burnout. Wait, accountability?!
Playvox
APRIL 4, 2023
Just like agents are protecting your company, contact center leaders and managers need to protect them and their mental health. Signs And Effects Of Poor Agent Emotional Well-Being In Your Contact Center Working with customers requires a lot of emotional labor from your customer service center agents — even if customers are happy.
Playvox
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
While the issue is not unusual, it’s easier to manage if you have a solid call avoidance policy in place. When you create the right policy, you’ll get call avoidance rates down — to the benefit of both your customer satisfaction metrics and your agents’ experiences. Reduce Call Avoidance With Coaching And Training.
CSM Magazine
OCTOBER 10, 2023
While leaders often ask agents to ‘walk in the customer’s shoes’, such advice usually exacerbates these negative consequences. Understand that the problem is not empathy in itself but how it is coached. Automated Workforce Management (WFM) solutions help to balance efficiency with effectiveness by optimising multi-skill scheduling.
Fonolo
AUGUST 3, 2021
A high first contact resolution (also known as first call resolution ) means your agents are knowledgeable and highly effective in their work. On the other side of the spectrum, a low percentage means that there is room for coaching and training to improve your agents’ product and service knowledge. Customer feedback.
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