NICE inContact

DECEMBER 12, 2016

When I think about “great” service, I envision a customer interaction that required little customer effort, that was resolved on the first contact, by the first agent, and in which the agent served as a positive ambassador for the brand. But, does hiring great contact center agents equate to great service?

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Talkdesk

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

This post is part of Talkdesk’s live-blogging series for Dreamforce 2017. Support agents represent the name and face of your business. Empowering your agents to provide top-notch service requires a balance of enforcing high standards and giving agents the freedom to act independently. What stood out to you?

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Talkdesk

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

This post is part of Talkdesk’s live-blogging series for Dreamforce 2017. Support agents represent the name and face of your business. Empowering your agents to provide top-notch service requires a balance of enforcing high standards and giving agents the freedom to act independently. What stood out to you?

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WiserOwl Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

One of the major initiatives abuzz in the Contact Center industry is agent empowerment and how it will improve performance and CX. Agents who feel empowered are comfortable making decisions on their own, which gives them a keen sense of ownership with every customer interaction. The concept is simple.

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Talkdesk

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

This post is part of Talkdesk’s live-blogging series for Dreamforce 2017. Support agents represent the name and face of your business. Empowering your agents to provide top-notch service requires a balance of enforcing high standards and giving agents the freedom to act independently. What stood out to you?

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Agent Empowerment Contact Center Metrics Best practices 40

NICE inContact

APRIL 9, 2019

While it’s easy to disregard, it reveals a common business practice: Call Quality Monitoring – a practice contact centers use to review and evaluate the quality of their agents’ interactions with customers. For this reason, most contact centers record their agents’ calls. Agent coaching and development.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 5, 2024

As a call center stakeholder—be it an owner, manager, or supervisor—the task of harnessing call center reporting to pinpoint areas for improvement, optimize agent performance, and ultimately enhance customer satisfaction can seem daunting. This includes calls, emails, live chat, and social media.

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teleopti

JUNE 5, 2019

This blog is a little different than our usual WFM posts but we have some exciting news! This has consequently elevated the role of the contact center and its crucial position in creating customer-brand connections. For more info, read the press release!

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 25, 2016

The traditional contact center organization has the greatest opportunity to transform its silos into the enterprise epicenter for customer interaction. Capabilities such as automation, analytics, workflow and verification have the ability to transform agent, customer and enterprise operations.

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Contact Center Pipeline

MAY 29, 2015

Our top blog post in May focused on an age-old challenge for many contact centers—schedule adherence—and offered tips for creating a culture that promotes good attendance.

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Schedule adherence Contact Center Agent Empowerment Call Center 100

bold360 Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

CSS tools, unlike human agents, are available 24/7 across multiple channels. Customers increasingly prefer using self-service tools: CEB (now Gartner) reports that 81% of consumers try to self-serve before calling a contact center. CSS Tools Go Beyond the Chatbot.

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Comm100

DECEMBER 1, 2017

For many organizations, a huge part of this new year task is setting contact center priorities — priorities that can have a colossal impact on the customer experience. But deciding on annual goals and specific yearly focuses for a call center isn’t always easy. Tip: Begin to examine your existing contact center processes.

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NICE inContact

DECEMBER 21, 2015

This process validates the effectiveness of individuals evaluating agent performance and improving customer service. This blog offers tips on adding or revising calibrations as part of your Quality Management program. Include your agents. Agent empowerment is the new norm within many contact centers.

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Calibration Agent Empowerment Quality management Contact Center 48

teleopti

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Here, he explores how self-scheduling technology is raising the bar for employee autonomy, ushering in a new era of contact center freedom. As CX takes center stage, everyone has an important part to play and therefore the emphasis should be on giving CSRs permission to delight customers in their own way. Learn more.

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teleopti

JULY 15, 2019

With each new customer service representative hire estimated to cost the contact center $10,000 to $20,000 in training, direct recruiting costs and lost productivity during ramp up, it pays to nurture your talent and keep them on side. The post 7 Steps to CSR happiness appeared first on Teleopti Blog. Read the guide.

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Aspect

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The holiday season is all about giving and on this Thanksgiving Eve there’s no better time to show your customer service and contact center agents how grateful you are for them. Agents want to feel as if they have the autonomy and responsibility to not only handle complex questions but also make decisions.

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Contact Center Pipeline

MARCH 18, 2015

In a previous blog post, I provided tips to help managers and team leaders prepare their frontline agents to handle irate callers. It’s also important to provide support for your agents after an irate call: An upset agent can actually cause their next caller to become irate. Have you ever seen this?

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teleopti

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The first is to recognize the strategic link between employee engagement and productivity, the second is to turn the customer service department or contact center from a reactive cost-cutting organization to a proactive profit-making powerhouse and finally harness the power of data. WFM: turn challenges into opportunities.

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teleopti

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The post The insider’s guide to WFM appeared first on Teleopti Blog. For more hints and tips, download the brand new “ Teleopti WFM Guru Guide with Fexco: Tips for Smoother Planning & Engagement ”. Download Guru Guide.

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