Toister Performance Solutions

MARCH 2, 2023

Is burnout gripping your contact center? A worldwide survey of contact center agents revealed 59 percent are at risk of burnout, including 28 percent who face a severe burnout risk. That study found 74 percent of contact center agents were at risk of burnout. That spells trouble for contact centers.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 10, 2021

Having both short-term and long-term goals can help agents sharpen their customer service skills while tracking your overall progress over time. You might set goals that include: Earning a high average score on a customer satisfaction survey. Monitoring customer interactions to ensure each agent knows the basics.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

According to research from the Harvard Business Review, 71% of managers surveyed said employee engagement is an important factor in the overall success of a company. According to the Harvard #Business Review, 71% of managers surveyed said #employeeengagement is an important factor in the overall success of a company. Click To Tweet.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 3, 2021

Customer feedback. 90% of customers believe that organizations should provide the ability for customers to provide feedback. Knowing how your customers feel about the service they received, and providing an opportunity to submit written feedback on the experience, gives a real human element to include in your reporting.

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Outsource Consultants

JANUARY 3, 2024

Many juggled the challenge of maintaining existing morale while migrating more agents back to the office ; while others simply wanted to ensure their agents stayed engaged. Outcome: Spot On Agent burnout was rampant in call centers throughout 2023 , with 32% of centers not actively monitoring for it.

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Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

While sometimes interaction avoidance truly is an agent trying to get out of work, in many other instances, it’s a way to cope with feeling overwhelmed by customer mistreatment or aggression. It also could be a sign that the agents are overworked. A big contributor to this burnout and the resulting avoidance is customer behavior.

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Nicereply

MAY 28, 2019

All those factors can combine to cause agent burnout. If you’re not familiar with the term, agent burnout refers to when someone starts feeling cynical, disengaged, overwhelmed, and even depressed as a side effect of overworking. Outside of the negative effects on your agents, burnout also impacts your business.

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Hodusoft

AUGUST 9, 2023

As per a study conducted by Clutch, more than one-fourth of small businesses surveyed outsource their customer service to BPOs (business process outsourcing organizations). It can be used to send emergency notifications, conduct customer surveys, take customer feedback, or conduct marketing campaigns.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Word to the wise: don’t wait until you have cases of agent burnout on your hands. By this point, it’ll be much more difficult to keep them engaged, and you may find yourself facing high agent attrition and turnover. Gather feedback from your agents. Lack of tools and technology.

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SharpenCX

JUNE 3, 2020

feedback, access to analytics, and clear expectations) they need to do outstanding work. Nearly 75% of contact center leaders say a key goal of WFO is to improve the customer experience, while 67% said another key goal is to improve the agent experience. A lack of visibility into goals, metrics, and progress fuels agent burnout.

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Playvox

APRIL 27, 2023

Gather strategic insights to determine preferences, including detailed reports on consumer behavior and data from customer surveys on how they use various channels. Agents won’t burn out trying to channel jump to satisfy needs. These are some of the most effective ways to keep your customer service agents engaged: 1.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 6, 2023

Agents spend more time talking to live prospects, which improves the quality of the calls and increases the chances of generating leads. Better lead management : By tracking call outcomes and providing real-time feedback to agents. Am I trying to generate leads, close sales, or conduct surveys? Who is my target audience?

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SharpenCX

APRIL 1, 2020

When agents view your quarterly goals through the lens of their individual role, they can be intimidating. Maybe your all-star agent Jenni feels helpless when she thinks about improving CSAT. She consistently gets positive feedback from customers, but she knows some of her peers struggle to do the same.

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Balto

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

But in reality, we found that while many people leave within their first year, a majority of tenured agents spend longer in the contact center than they originally planned — and they’re happy to have done so. In our survey, 46.7% In our survey, we found that 62.96% of tenured agents had a mentor at work.

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Talkdesk

JULY 16, 2019

Do they want personal, friendly customer interactions, or do they want an effective call center agent who can provide fast resolution of their issue? In a recent customer experience survey by Customer Contact Week, consumers reported the following priorities: Easy handling of their problem Fast issue resolution Friendly, personalized service.

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SharpenCX

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Of course, some idle time is necessary to prevent agent burnout. When we talk about idle time, we’re not talking about bathroom breaks, minutes of rest and mindfulness, or your agent’s lunch hour. All those things are necessary to build a positive environment in your contact center (and help agents maintain sanity).

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Babelforce

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

You measure CSat by sending customers a short survey, often post-interaction, that asks them to measure the experience on a scale. Typical things people dislike about contact centers include excessive hold time, hard-to-navigate IVRs, and agent transfers. (Of Of course, this feedback is only useful if you can do something about it!

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JustCall

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In a survey of job seekers, 62 % of Gen Z respondents and 60% of Millennials said flexible working arrangements were a top priority. Use broadcast messages to communicate support to people or teams and identify how the work from home call center agents are contributing to the company’s larger purpose. Prevent Agent Burnout.

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Balto

DECEMBER 14, 2022

To measure the CSAT, you can add an after-call survey that enables customers to rate their support experience on a scale of 1 to 5 stars. Ideally, you need your occupancy rate to be under 90% to compensate for random demand fluctuations and avoid agent burnout. Motivate Your Agents. Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT).

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aircall

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Stay close to your customers, gather feedback on what they really need in terms of omnichannel support. One way to gain this insight is to simply ask your customers what they need, in the form of surveys. This is a recipe for agent burnout , and for an unsuccessful and unsustainable strategy.

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