SharpenCX

MAY 6, 2020

Your contact center is a business powerhouse. Still, contact center leaders struggle to prove the value of their business unit to execs. In fact, leaders like you say the lack of understanding and respect for the contact center is a top challenge this year. Coaching your agents lowers the risk for burnout.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 3, 2021

This is where organizing your contact center metrics into custom reports comes into play. The Executive Guide to Improving 6 Call Center Metrics. What is a call center report? Important call center KPIs. This metric measures whether your agents are managing and adhering to their schedules. Agent occupancy.

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Fonolo

MAY 31, 2022

All folks new to the contact center world have many steep learning curves to overcome—a big one is picking up on industry jargon. From CSat score to Average Handle Time to First Call Resolution Rate , there are plenty of new terminologies that come with working at a contact center. Coaching one-on-ones. Interviews.

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Fonolo

MARCH 25, 2021

But have you considered the impact of your agent satisfaction? Yet less than 30% of contact centers track this metric, despite its direct impact on standard industry KPIs. If you don’t know the state of your agents’ satisfaction levels, it can be difficult to create positive change. CCTR #CSat Click To Tweet.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Back in the contact centre, supervisors might not even care about the overall average handle time focusing instead on how to improve individual team member scores through better training or systems. While leaders often ask agents to ‘walk in the customer’s shoes’, such advice usually exacerbates these negative consequences.

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Fonolo

MAY 31, 2022

All folks new to the contact center world have many steep learning curves to overcome—a big one is picking up on industry jargon. From CSat score to Average Handle Time to First Call Resolution Rate , there are plenty of new terminologies that come with working at a contact center. Coaching one-on-ones. Interviews.

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Agent burnout Contact Center Average Handle Time Call Center 67

CSM Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2023

Magnus Geverts shares his top tips for beating agent burnout—and the competition—in 2023. Great news for businesses that rely on the festive season to tide them over during the leaner months but extremely stressful for agents in contact centres.

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SharpenCX

APRIL 1, 2020

Download Now: Partner with your VP of Ops to address these 7 projects in your contact center (one at a time). Use company goals as a marker for your quarterly contact center goals, so you set targets that contribute to the big picture. Put your quarterly goals on display in the contact center for your team to see.

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Contact Center Customer Service Agent burnout Benchmark 67

Playvox

JULY 31, 2023

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. This timely reaction to metrics is crucial in a fast-paced contact center environment.

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SharpenCX

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Download Now: See what Frost & Sullivan marked as the most important trends impacting contact centers. Where would you be without your agents in the first place? It’s vital that you know where your team’s strengths and weaknesses lie, so you know how to coach to better performance. Are you ready to meet them?

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Fonolo

AUGUST 15, 2023

Agents need time to take a breath and collect their thoughts between calls; If they don't get it, their performance suffers, followed by higher absenteeism and, eventually, agent attrition. Consider an agent who is engaged in call-related work for 45 minutes during a 60 minute period.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 6, 2023

Predictive dialer software is a computer program that contact centers use to automate outbound calls. It automatically dials multiple phone numbers simultaneously and uses algorithms to predict when an agent will be available to handle a call. What is Predictive Dialer Software? Let’s start with the basics.

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Abandon Call Contact Center Agent burnout Abandon rate 52

SharpenCX

APRIL 29, 2020

Workforce management in your contact center is all about finding balance. You balance the needs of your customers with the workload of your agents (and their development). Plus, you toss in overseeing your contact center budget, too. Empathy doesn’t scale when your agents are overworked and overwhelmed.

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Talkdesk

JULY 16, 2019

Call Center Performance Management is a program, generally led by a contact center operations manager, dedicated to calculating and improving the performance of contact center agents. That’s where leveraging contact center performance management software can help. The answer is both.

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Balto

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Modern enterprise contact center solutions utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to identify customer pain points, the causes of low scores, and why your customers aren’t satisfied with their experience with your company. A contact center is considered successful if it’s customer-centric.

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Balto

MARCH 29, 2023

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) in your contact center can help you solve even the most challenging customer experience problems. And with customers having higher service level expectations than ever, deploying AI solutions into your existing contact center systems is vital for business success.

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JustCall

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The need of the hour is for managers of work from home call centers to assist, interact and engage with their home agents using a range of reporting, monitoring and management tools. As the management, you must ensure that the agent’s work aligns with their team’s goals and your home-based call centers’ purpose.

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Call Center Management Agent burnout Scripts 52

Playvox

APRIL 27, 2023

Contact center trends can directly impact success. For the greatest impact and a clear competitive edge, contact center leaders must choose wisely when making business decisions about the trends to prioritize and implement in their organizations — because all change, even positive change, costs time and resources.

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Contact Center Gamification Agent burnout Employee engagement 52

CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Real-Time Agent Assist uses AI and Machine Learning to analyze customer needs and emotions, then deliver real-time coaching so contact center agents can take the best next step for customers. Real-Time Agent Assist. Conventional agent assist solutions rely only on call metadata and keywords or phrases.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This is where the need for better management of callbacks in contact centers emanates. And the best practices and tips for managing callbacks Agents proposing the best product or service is no longer a sure bet for success. One solution to this problem is to increase the capacity of call center agents.

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Hodusoft

AUGUST 9, 2023

Improving Customer Service in BPOs with Multi-Tenant Contact Center Software Noted management guru Peter F. That’s the power of multi-tenant contact center software for BPOs! What is Multi-tenant Contact Center Software? Let’s understand multi-tenant contact center software with an example.

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Playvox

DECEMBER 13, 2022

But now that tickets, emails, and chat have entered the picture, interaction avoidance encompasses any effort contact center agents make to bypass working with customers in any channel. What does that look like day to day in your contact center? Related Article: 3 Tips For Optimizing Your Contact Center Schedule.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2023

Encourage agents to take ownership of their personal development with access to their historical performance reports. Meanwhile, personalised dashboards allow agents to monitor and track their performance in real time so they can sign-up to the right training and take charge of their career choices.

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SharpenCX

AUGUST 4, 2020

On top of that, agents often feel responsible for salvaging struggling customer relationships. Call center agents are trained to remain patient, positive, happy, and helpful. But, it gets tough to maintain these traits when stress and burnout creep in. According to one study, 74% of call center agents are at risk.

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Noble Systems

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Evaluate and improve agent performance – The ACD can let you listen to live agent calls and record them to review later. You can also use coaching and barge modes to listen to conversations and help guide agents, or even to take over a call and speak directly with the customer. Aid agents during their calls.

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