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Are Your Contact Center Agents Empowered to Provide Great Customer Service?

NICE inContact

We all want our agents to provide “great” service. When I think about “great” service, I envision a customer interaction that required little customer effort, that was resolved on the first contact, by the first agent, and in which the agent served as a positive ambassador for the brand.

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How to Create a Successful Customer Experience Strategy: A Complete Guide

CSM Magazine

Some benefits of AI-powered self-service portals and chatbots include the following: Auto responses to frequently asked questions by customers. Allow agents to focus on more complex tasks by reducing the need to attend to every customer. AI chatbots assist in personalized, quick responses.

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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

SharpenCX

You form new strategies or tailor your old ones to the new expectations of customers. But through it all, one question remains the same: Do you know how to keep customers happy? Turns out, much of that happiness comes from the service you deliver. And, another 76% think customers are smarter and more informed, too.

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2021 CX Trends: The Tethr Customer Experience Forecast

Tethr

Today, we’ll discuss some of the 2021 CX trends we believe will come to shape the landscape of customer service interactions in the coming year. #1. Self-Service Digital Channels. Growth of Agent Empowerment .

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How Contact Center Agent Burnout Decreases Productivity (And What You Can Do About It)

Playvox

Agent burnout directly harms the quality of customer service your business provides and significantly hurts your company’s bottom line. It’s hard to ignore the fact that contact centers are plagued with high agent burnout and turnover rates. Preventing Agent Burnout.

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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. There’s a missing piece in the years of buildup and constant chatter about the importance of data and metrics down to every last customer service KPI, though.

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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. There’s a missing piece in the years of buildup and constant chatter about the importance of data and metrics down to every last customer service KPI, though.