Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

Replacing agents lost to attrition is costly — averaging more than $14,000 per agent. To keep turnover under control, you have to make sure your managers are trained to keep engagement up and morale high. In service centers, the source of managers’ lack of connection with agents often stems from a lack of training.

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Contact Center Agent burnout Morale Coaching 78

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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Average Handle Time Agent burnout Coaching Finance 59

CCNG

MAY 11, 2022

How can we effectively recruit, train, develop, and retain talent if we don't know who we are hiring or why they're applying for a call center job in the first place? call center agent or should it be expected? We tend to look at call center agents as a herd of dispensable, likely short-term workers who will come and go.

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Call Center outsourcing Agent burnout Business Process Outsourcing 195

Playvox

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

While to the agent, it’s just handling another customer interaction, they are the “face” of the company and take the brunt of the rage from the customer. When customers are in a rage, it can be incredibly difficult to defuse the situation, creating stress and burnout for your agents. Examples Of Interaction Avoidance.

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Contact Center Agent burnout Coaching Best practices 77

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. Quality score.

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Call Center Abandon rate Contact Center Metrics 142

Fonolo

MARCH 25, 2021

The connection between agent attrition and agent satisfaction is obvious — the happier your agents are in their work, the less likely they are to leave your team. Replacing and training your employees is costly, so their satisfaction ties directly to your bottom line. What would make your daily work experience better?

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Call Center Surveys Agent burnout Contact Center 147

Fonolo

MAY 31, 2022

Utilization Rate will help you determine the total time your agents are logged in, assisting customers, and available to assist customers but doing other things. Some tasks to keep in mind are: Training sessions. Coaching one-on-ones. Total Shift Time —The full amount of time an agent was scheduled to work. Team meetings.

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Agent burnout Contact Center Average Handle Time Call Center 81

Fonolo

MAY 31, 2022

Utilization Rate will help you determine the total time your agents are logged in, assisting customers, and available to assist customers but doing other things. Some tasks to keep in mind are: Training sessions. Coaching one-on-ones. Total Shift Time —The full amount of time an agent was scheduled to work. Team meetings.

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Agent burnout Contact Center Average Handle Time Call Center 67

CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Training, coaching, legacy technology, and lack of career opportunities top the list of issues for agents along with handling irate customers. Training/Coaching. A recurrent response by agents is that they want to be empowered to help customers. 36% of agent respondents have been threatened with violence.

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SharpenCX

MAY 6, 2020

Coaching your agents improves the quality of service they provide. When you manage your team by coaching them, you’re showing agents that you’ll listen to them. And when an agent is listened to, they feel valued and empowered. Coaching your agents lowers the risk for burnout.

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Contact Center Call Center Coaching Agent burnout 76

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. These include breaks and other activities, such as team meetings and training.

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SharpenCX

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

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. Use the DISC Assessment or the StrengthsFinder Test to identify how your agents thrive and collaborate. Tip #3: Coaching for a Better Team.

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Call Center Coaching Contact Center Agent burnout 67

NobelBiz

MARCH 6, 2023

5 -Train Your Agents: Training agents is a critical step in setting up a predictive dialer campaign. Provide product or service training : Ensure that agents have a thorough understanding of the products/services offered and can effectively communicate its features and benefits to customers.

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Abandon Call Contact Center Agent burnout Abandon rate 52

SharpenCX

APRIL 29, 2020

Build in time for agent coaching. To keep your team engaged and performing at their best, your agents need to be coached daily. Because productivity without engagement is another key contributor to agent burnout – the Rube Goldberg Machine of bad outcomes. Coaching builds confidence in your agents.

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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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Call Center Schedule adherence Contact Center Agent burnout 67

Balto

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Figure 2: Respondent Reasons For Thinking The Contact Center is Not a Strong Career Before managers start quizzing their job applicants about their social propensities, consider how the contact center can also be an effective training ground for those who want to work on their social skills. 5 job satisfaction rating on average).

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Contact Center Coaching Surveys Scripts 52

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. Performance Management generally requires a number of tools like call recording , quality monitoring , coaching , and gamification.

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Call Center Management Average Handle Time Schedule adherence 43

SharpenCX

APRIL 1, 2020

You can create specific goals and benchmarks to help your agents reduce customer churn, like improving CSAT and positive customer outcomes. On the flipside, a corporate goal like improving workplace culture and manager training isn’t actionable to your customer service team. And, do they understand each goal and why it matters?

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Contact Center Customer Service Agent burnout Benchmark 67

JustCall

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As the management, you must ensure that the agent’s work aligns with their team’s goals and your home-based call centers’ purpose. Help your employees invest more; give them an overview of the corporate culture and find ways to train them to connect with the bigger picture. Offer leadership training.

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Call Center Management Agent burnout Scripts 52

Anexa BPO

AUGUST 11, 2022

Today’s customer-facing workers are describing unprecedented levels of burnout, with many claiming that their employers prioritize the customer experience over employee wellbeing. These same workers are feeling left behind when it comes to the specialized coaching and training opportunities needed to deliver optimum performance.

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Robert Davis

APRIL 5, 2018

Telesales agents trained in conversational sales techniques provide a meaningful emotional connection that not only increases conversion rates and customer satisfaction, but customer loyalty as well. Let’s face it; the outbound agent will encounter many more “no’s” than “yes’s.” Outbound telemarketing is not for everyone.

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Telemarketing Outbound sales outsourcing Quality calibration 48

Robert C. Davis and Associates

APRIL 5, 2018

Telesales agents trained in conversational sales techniques provide a meaningful emotional connection that not only increases conversion rates and customer satisfaction, but customer loyalty as well. Let’s face it; the outbound agent will encounter many more “no’s” than “yes’s.” Outbound telemarketing is not for everyone.

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Telemarketing Outbound sales outsourcing Quality calibration 40

Balto

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Technology plays a key role here – by integrating different solutions, contact centers can seamlessly handle multichannel interactions, as well as collect and analyze data efficiently, all while ensuring that their agents’ efforts are directed efficiently while technology automates redundant tasks for them.

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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.

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Balto

MARCH 29, 2023

Some common use cases for AI in the contact center industry include routine task automation, real-time language translation, customer interaction analysis, real-time quality assurance, and agent assistance and coaching. This can be achieved by training your agents, but it won’t give you the results you seek no matter how hard you try.

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Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Coaching Virtual Agent 52

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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Employee engagement Agent burnout Gamification Analytics 52

Playvox

APRIL 27, 2023

Ensure every customer service representative is well-trained on new engagement tools. Address all challenges that come up — for customers and agents. Agents won’t burn out trying to channel jump to satisfy needs. To elevate performance and agent engagement, regularly coach your CX team members on where they excel.

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Contact Center Gamification Agent burnout Employee engagement 52

Playvox

DECEMBER 13, 2022

When some agents avoid working with customers, that puts pressure on other team members to pick up the slack. This can lead to burnout, creating additional increases in agent stress that lead to high call-outs or high attrition rates. What To Do if Contact Center Agents Are Participating in Interaction Avoidance.

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Contact Center Agent burnout Quality management contact center solutions 84

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This can help reduce the administrative burden on agents and allow them to focus on handling customer requests. This can help reduce agent burnout and improve overall productivity. Continuous improvement: Offer ongoing training and coaching to ensure that representatives are up-to-date on best practices and new procedures.

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Hodusoft

AUGUST 9, 2023

This ensures adherence to quality standards and provides opportunities for targeted coaching and training to improve performance. Avoid agent burnout Agent burnout is a serious issue in the contact center industry.

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Contact center software Contact Center Customer Service Agent burnout 52

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. Thus, saving time for agents so they can handle more complex issues.

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Call Center Technology Self service Coaching 67

aircall

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Your provider’s team will be the ones to be involved in your customer service, so training won’t be your concern. This is a recipe for agent burnout , and for an unsuccessful and unsustainable strategy. Train your team and your customers. Train your support staff as a whole, without barriers between channels and teams.

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outsourcing Multichannel Agent burnout Self service 48

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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