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.

Call Center 59

Call Center Contact Center Abandon rate Average Handle Time 59

SharpenCX

JUNE 24, 2020

You crack down on metrics to drive up agent performance, but KPIs don’t budge. You monitor interactions to see where agents need help, but your performance plans don’t get them back on track. I keep tabs on a few forums where contact center agents share their frustrations (and successes) at work. What gives?

Management 128

Management Customer Service Agent Empowerment Contact Center 128

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 42

Contact Center Customer centricity Journey mapping Benchmark 42

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 Customer Experience Metrics 59

NICE inContact

DECEMBER 21, 2015

With the increase of remote employees and QM often being outsourced in the contact center, traditional calibration may not be ideal, so develop an approach that is best for your organization. Include your agents. Agent empowerment is the new norm within many contact centers.

Calibration 48

Calibration Agent Empowerment Quality management Contact Center 48

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 Customer Experience Metrics 52

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. Earlier this year , we surveyed a large group of agents to learn about the true agent experience. Challenge them.

Customer Service 59

Customer Service Contact Center Chatbots Surveys 59

Balto

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Reaffirms commitment to agent empowerment for retention and growth in the contact center. Because if your agents are satisfied, so are your customers.”. Agent empowerment goes beyond agent assistance. When the agent experience is improved, the customer experience inevitably follows.

Agent Empowerment 52

Agent Empowerment Contact Center Gamification contact center workforce 52

3CLogic

JANUARY 5, 2022

Contact centers have come a long way over the last couple of decades, nearly unrecognizable to an agent from the 1990s. As technology continues to rapidly develop, contact centers will need to revisit the tools they use in order to keep up. Consider how the contact center landscape changed during 2021 alone.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Technology Agent Empowerment 52

Contact Center Pipeline

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

I work with many companies looking to decrease attrition, and the same set of three problems shows up again and again in the initial employee engagement surveys. Lack of empowerment Lack of information Lack of the basic knowledge needed […]. Have you ever heard the saying, “There’s a reason we have two ears and one mouth”?

Management 100

Management Employee engagement Surveys Agent Empowerment 100

Playvox

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Let’s face it, the call center of yesteryear is not wholly relevant when looking at customer service operations today. Even the terms “call center” and “contact center” are called into question, given the images they evoke of rows of agents in cubicles lined up to fill a room. What Is A Digital Contact Center?

Contact Center 72

Contact Center Average Handle Time Agent Empowerment Service level 72

SharpenCX

MAY 6, 2021

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. He sees the contact center moving from a transactional department to one that’s solutions-oriented and insight-driven.

Metrics 84

Metrics Agent Empowerment Contact Center Customer effort 84

Tethr

APRIL 30, 2020

As asynchronous channels give space to the conversation, customer experiences are often enhanced by real-time knowledge aids that lead to a better experience for customers and agents alike. The ways teams are organized might also have to evolve in order to balance interaction complexity with agent tenure and ability.

Agent Empowerment 68

Agent Empowerment Self service Feedback Surveys 68

SharpenCX

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Your KPIs have become the pernicious beast of your contact center. Here’s a common scenario: A company selects “delighting the customer” as a strategic objective and decides to track progress on it using customer survey scores. Today, we’re looking at KPIs through the lens of agent experience. Or vice versa.

Metrics 64

Metrics Call Center Customer Service Coaching 64