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Training Your Call Center Agents to Sound the Alarm on Harassment in Abusive Customer Interactions Instantly Can Fuel Your Agents’ Empowerment

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And the average call center agent lifespan is just three years. . Turnover is expensive and takes a toll on morale. How frustrating to pour time and energy into your agents and be unable to retain them because of the toll of stress. It’s not impossible to combat stress and abusive language from angry customers.

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Top Contact Center Trends for 2023

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Agent Empowerment. Agent empowerment is one of the top trends in the contact center space for 2023. Empowering your agents means equipping your teams with the tools, trust, information, and freedom they need to make decisions when customers need it the most. One cheat code towards empowered agents?

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3 Management Techniques to Use (And 2 to Ditch) to Erase the Bad Call Center Agent Experience in 2021

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You’re actively involved with your agents rather than operating hands-off. The Experience Coach. The experience coach focuses on individualism. You know that providing relevant feedback often will improve your agents’ well-being and your customer satisfaction. The Democratic Leader. Adapt as you go.

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Meet Customer Needs Without Overwhelming Your Agents: 6 Workforce Management Strategies to Engage your Team and Still Surpass High Customer Expectations

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Download Now: How to put your contact center data to work for a better customer experience. Good leaders know that simply having agents in their seats doesn’t make for standout customer experiences. To meet the sky-high expectations of today’s customers, agents need to be engaged at work.

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3 Projects to Help You Deliver Good Customer Service Daily (+ Resources)

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Let’s consider some of the stats around how your agents impact good customer service: 71% of consumers believe a quick response from a service team can drastically improve their customer experience. It only takes one bad experience for 80% of consumers to say they’d rather do business with a competitor.

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How to Keep Your Customers Happy in a World with the Highest Expectations: 6 Data-Backed Methods to Put People First and Build Positive Experiences

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Given that a whopping 96% of customers are disloyal after a high-effort experience, we know that low-effort customer experiences are happier ones. Develop better manager-agent relationships. What does my relationship with my direct reports have to do with my customers’ happiness? I know what you’re thinking.

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Customer Experience Isn’t a Guessing Game: Get 5 Actionable Methods and the Customer Service KPI Categories You Need to Put Your Data to Work for an Off-The-Chart CX

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Your data is a powerhouse of information that lets you spot operational inefficiencies, agent empowerment issues, or inaccuracies that make your customer interactions difficult. What to do with the information you find: Use the survey data and measurements we talked on above to see where agents struggle.