SharpenCX

JUNE 30, 2021

As a contact center manager, much of what you do daily shapes the quality of your service. You likely want to see your agents succeed in their work. Project 1: Invest in the Right Tools for Your Contact Center. Investing in quality tools and technology in your contact center can go a long way.

Customer Service 67

Customer Service Coaching Contact Center Agent Empowerment 67

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. While call monitoring may be performed live at times, it isn’t feasible when there are large volumes of calls.

Agent Empowerment 55

Agent Empowerment Coaching Contact Center Quality management 55

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.

Coaching 76

Coaching Management Contact Center Morale 76

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.

Contact Center 41

Contact Center Customer centricity Journey mapping Benchmark 41

Talkdesk

MARCH 2, 2018

Agent performance is, itself, a major challenge for contact centers. Even if all the strategic and systemic stars align, there is no guarantee the agents will actually be able to achieve optimal results. Internal systems/tools can have both positive and negative impacts on agent performance,” said Gadi Shamia.

Agent Empowerment 40

Agent Empowerment Contact Center Customer centricity Self service 40

SharpenCX

JULY 14, 2020

When I was in college, I worked in a call center. And one call is engrained in my mind as a permanent reminder of how not to interact. The customer who called in was just so insulting and so…mean. We were closing in 15 minutes and there was only one person left on my list to call. This wears on agents.

Agent Empowerment 128

Agent Empowerment Call Center Contact Center Morale 128

DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Wells Fargo is no longer making daily news headlines, but the impact of their overly aggressive cross-selling culture will be felt by contact centers throughout the United States for a long time. Setting the Record Straight: It’s highly unlikely Wells Fargo’s management was unaware of what was happening in their contact centers.

Sales 48

Sales Customer Service Contact Center CRM 48

SharpenCX

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Are you putting too much pressure on your agents to move a host of KPIs? Or do you go easy when it comes to call center reporting metrics? Leaders, like you, are in a battle to figure out what to measure and how to keep agents accountable to those metrics. Your KPIs have become the pernicious beast of your contact center.

Metrics 64

Metrics Call Center Customer Service Coaching 64

SharpenCX

MAY 6, 2021

Prioritizing customer satisfaction starts with your call center and ends with higher revenue for your entire organization. After all, most agents don’t have a cute puppy to soften the blow of a customer problem. Turns out, what you measure in your contact center has the power to change your customer outcomes.

Metrics 84

Metrics Agent Empowerment Contact Center Customer effort 84

SharpenCX

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The call center experience of today’s world can be hostile at best and abusive at its worst. Record number of leaders, like you, are frantically searching Google to find a way to protect the mental health and well-being of their agents. Yet, your agents are still sitting there, taking it all in. The Experience Coach.

Call Center 67

Call Center Agent Empowerment Management Coaching 67