SharpenCX

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Work with your team to set quarterly contact center goals. And, as you map out each goal, assign relevant metrics to help agents understand progress toward those goals. Your agents feel secure in their roles when they trust your leadership and have the knowledge they need to do their jobs well. Excessive micromanaging.

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Call Center Agent Empowerment Management Coaching 67

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.

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Coaching Management Contact Center Morale 76

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.

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Customer Service Coaching Contact Center Agent Empowerment 67

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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Self service Chatbots Agent Empowerment Morale 52

SharpenCX

OCTOBER 8, 2019

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. It lives in how you use your insights to fuel positive changes that improve your customer and agent experience. It’s time to use it.

Coaching 59

Coaching Average Handle Time Metrics Customer Experience 59

SharpenCX

OCTOBER 8, 2019

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. It lives in how you use your insights to fuel positive changes that improve your customer and agent experience. It’s time to use it.

Coaching 52

Coaching Average Handle Time Metrics Customer Experience 52

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? One of your […].

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Agent Empowerment Management Morale Contact Center 113

TechSee

MARCH 7, 2019

The contact center industry continues to face extremely high agent turnover, with some outbound and telemarketing centers experiencing attrition rates as high as 27% annually. Contact centers are ready for change. Current approaches to agent empowerment. Building a better VEA.

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Gamification Contact Center Agent Empowerment Self service 104