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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

SharpenCX

I was the only agent left in the call center and I was completely unprepared to take on the nastiness of the customer. Don’t get me wrong, I know working as a call center agent isn’t necessarily a glamorous job. Download Now: Your agents’ experience matters. This wears on agents.

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Top Contact Center Trends for 2023

Balto

With renewed focus on agent experience, ever-advancing AI capabilities, and the embrace of omnichannel solutions, contact center leaders face an exciting opportunity to best serve their customers in 2023. Agent Empowerment. One cheat code towards empowered agents?

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Boost Agent Satisfaction in Your Contact Center with These 9 Inclusive Practices

Fonolo

If you haven’t been paying attention, agent attrition has continued to rise, according to our State of the Contact Center 2020 report. And high turnover rates won’t just hit you in the wallet — it also impacts morale, which will affect any new hires. Hire agents who demonstrate empathy.

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

SharpenCX

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. Download Now] The 9 business impacts of a better agent experience.

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

SharpenCX

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. You likely want to see your agents succeed in their work. Train agents as a team.

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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

SharpenCX

You balance the needs of your customers with the workload of your agents (and their development). And, you shouldn’t have to worry that running a lean contact center puts agents at risk for burnout and disengagement. Empathy doesn’t scale when your agents are overworked and overwhelmed.

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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

SharpenCX

At this point in your contact center’s history, some 51% of contact centers have even realized data needs to be actionable for the specific agents and leaders who need it. Your work isn’t over after you carefully harvest info from your customer and agent interactions. It lives in how you use your insights to fuel positive changes that improve your customer and agent experience. Be introspective about your agents’ environment. Which agents do they interact with?

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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

SharpenCX

At this point in your contact center’s history, some 51% of contact centers have even realized data needs to be actionable for the specific agents and leaders who need it. Your work isn’t over after you carefully harvest info from your customer and agent interactions. It lives in how you use your insights to fuel positive changes that improve your customer and agent experience. Be introspective about your agents’ environment. Which agents do they interact with?