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Top Contact Center Trends for 2023

Balto

2022 was another year packed with shifting trends for the contact center, and 2023 shows no signs of changing course. 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.

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Do you believe in frontline empowerment? Or do you just say that you do?

Tethr

The first and most powerful marker of a listening enterprise is how a company treats its frontline employees—and namely, the level of empowerment they give to the frontline. Of course, like “ customer-centricity ,” the idea of “frontline empowerment” has become an over-used and fairly meaningless concept in the CX and customer service world.

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Three Ways to Effortlessly Cut Average Handle Time 

Toister Performance Solutions

So your IVR is adding talk time, but your agents aren’t empowered to skip the script and give some of that time back. What is agent empowerment? An empowered agent is given more than just authority. It requires the agent to balance making the customer feel good with getting the job done quickly.

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25 Call Center Leaders Share the Most Effective Ways to Boost Contact Center Efficiency

Callminer

Agent Desktops : Having a user-friendly desktop for agents so that they can efficiently have everything they need in one area is a great way to have a healthy AHT, and most importantly they can assist the customers efficiently and effectively. In return, the customer experience will improve and the agent frustration will be reduced.

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

SharpenCX

With an internal knowledge base, your agents can look for answers themselves, empowering them to problem solve when you’re unavailable and helping them become more independent in their work. We have 6 scripts to stock in your knowledge base. Train agents as a team. Project 3: Support Your Agents Professionally and Personally.

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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

It lives in how you use your insights to fuel positive changes that improve your customer and agent experience. Your data is a powerhouse of information that lets you spot operational inefficiencies, agent empowerment issues, or inaccuracies that make your customer interactions difficult. It’s time to use it. We’re here to help.

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7 Key Challenges That Hinder Agent Performance

Talkdesk

Agent empowerment is the key to performance. Great training is the key to agent empowerment. Unfortunately, some organizations struggle to deliver the training agents require. They expect agents to deliver support that is dynamic and personalized. The challenge of training goes beyond course material.