Eptica

JANUARY 31, 2022

Date: Monday, January 31, 2022 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager The three areas to focus on to empower your agents. You might also be interested in these posts: 5 factors that are driving the need for better digital customer experience. Four key considerations for customer self-service success.

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Global Response

AUGUST 7, 2023

What does empowerment look like when it comes to their role? Agent empowerment is key for increasing retention and job satisfaction, but it also plays a large role in effective customer service and customer satisfaction. In addition, you may also want to measure CSAT as a measure of employee empowerment.

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Uniphore

JANUARY 14, 2022

Strategic roadmap to deliver new-age customer experiences. Customers are vouching for brands that empower their agents and treat employees better. How are firms and client partners delivering against the omnichannel experience? How are firms and client partners delivering against the omnichannel experience?

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Tethr

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Whether that looks like call center agents working from home, a company-wide struggle to migrate quickly to digital tools, or even canceled or reduced services as customers tighten their belts, your operation probably encountered struggles this year that seemed unimaginable in the January of 2020. Growth of Agent Empowerment .

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Vistio

APRIL 22, 2024

This allows you to iron out any issues and build confidence in AI’s capabilities before going live with customer interactions. Agent Empowerment: AI can be a valuable ally for your customer service agents. This not only boosts agent productivity but also enhances the overall customer experience.

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JustCall

APRIL 9, 2024

Unexpected surges and drops are challenging and require proper management tools. Brand reputation: During unexpected peaks, call centers may not have enough agents to attend to the incoming call volume. The extended wait times result in poor customer experiences, and negative feedback can harm a company’s reputation.

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DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Workforce Management for the 21st Century: Helping Deliver a Great CX View this article on the publisher’s website. Workforce management (WFM) solutions are essential in good times and even more indispensable when the economy is challenged and budgets are tight.

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Taylor Reach Group

APRIL 27, 2020

The agents on the frontline want to help customers. They want to resolve issues, and to deliver the desired customer experience and the brand promise. Doing these things results in happier customers and happier agents (as they were dealing with happy customers). By Colin Taylor.

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Balto

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Agent Empowerment. Agent empowerment is one of the top trends in the contact center space for 2023. Empowering your agents means equipping your teams with the tools, trust, information, and freedom they need to make decisions when customers need it the most. One cheat code towards empowered agents?

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pindrop

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The 5-Point Customer Experience Health Check for Contact Centers. Often when thinking about customer experience most of the thought is dedicated to the online experience, but what about the contact center? CRM tools are the crown jewel of customer interaction. Check for Agent Empowerment .

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Balto

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Reaffirms commitment to agent empowerment for retention and growth in the contact center. These incremental capabilities will help contact centers achieve high levels of customer growth, improve customer satisfaction, and reduce average handle times, while retaining agents who will be more satisfied with their jobs.

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CSM Magazine

JULY 14, 2022

Smart resellers are already adding significant value and stickiness to their contact centre deals with innovative workforce engagement management (WEM) solutions and it’s time to join them says Pippa Rhys at Calabrio. Customer loyalty is changing – there is no doubt that customer attitudes have altered.

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Talkdesk

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Talkdesk brought together a panel of customer leaders at Dreamforce 2017 to learn how they built outstanding cultures of empowerment. How do you find quality agents in the recruiting process? Gerald: At Evernote, we identified nine categories that we’re looking for in an agent.

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Talkdesk

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Talkdesk brought together a panel of customer leaders at Dreamforce 2017 to learn how they built outstanding cultures of empowerment. How do you find quality agents in the recruiting process? Gerald: At Evernote, we identified nine categories that we’re looking for in an agent.

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SharpenCX

JUNE 24, 2020

As a manager, you own 70% of your employees’ engagement at work. . Your agents show up each day, plop down in their seats in the office or at home, and immediately start helping customers. And it’s up to you, manager, to keep them engaged in their role. And, to motivate them to keep doing better for your customers.

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SharpenCX

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

So, when questions surfaced about how to protect agents, and how to address all the stresses of the (sometimes-maddening) call center experience, I put my optimistic hat on and thought, “let’s talk about it!”. You know that providing relevant feedback often will improve your agents’ well-being and your customer satisfaction.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 22, 2023

The CCW Excellence Awards recognize the most innovative companies and top-performing executives for their extraordinary contributions to the customer contact profession. Calabrio is honoured to be recognised for empowering frontline staff, unravelling complexity, and driving impact through customer experience.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Contact Centers had to adopt the right tools and even shift their models completely in order to achieve business continuity and customer demands. Going into 2021, we can foresee a few things that will remain in plain focus: a seamless customer journey, personalized customer experiences, relationship and agent empowerment.

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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). But you shouldn’t have to sacrifice customer happiness to run a lean contact center. It means there aren’t enough agents to help customers.

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DMG Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

Workforce management (WFM) solutions remain essential contact center productivity tools, but today they are as important for improving the customer experience (CX), and the newest generation of applications also help to boost employee engagement.

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Talkdesk

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Talkdesk brought together a panel of customer leaders at Dreamforce 2017 to learn how they built outstanding cultures of empowerment. How do you find quality agents in the recruiting process? Gerald: At Evernote, we identified nine categories that we’re looking for in an agent.

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Global Response

MARCH 26, 2024

Advanced call routing technology manages incoming calls and directs them to the most appropriate agent. This allows customers to solve simple issues themselves. Save money and increase sales with a brand-obsessed, people-first team that delivers a high-touch, superior customer experience, every time.

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TechSee

APRIL 16, 2019

What Matters Most to Contact Center Managers. Contact center managers need clear strategies to create efficient, productive and effective teams. Measuring performance-based KPIs, such as first contact resolution (FCR), Net Promoter Score (NPS) and truck rolls are imperative to ensuring a smooth and customer-centric operation.

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VocalCom

MARCH 12, 2018

To keep agents organized and focused, managers may present them with a rigid protocol. However, good management is only part of ensuring agent success. Agent empowerment is equally essential, and that means giving agents a voice when establishing contact center practices. Listen to their experiences.

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NICE inContact

DECEMBER 12, 2016

I would argue that the outcome of the customer interaction – specifically the level of effort and the resolution – has very little to do with the agent, and everything to do with the processes and empowerment culture of the contact center. Agents Want to Solve Customer Issues – But Can They?

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Playvox

DECEMBER 15, 2022

More and more, businesses are leveling up their customer experience and employee experience game. They’re offering digital contact options to customers, supporting fully remote workforces , and engaging staff in new and different ways to ensure team members are supported and happy.

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Tethr

APRIL 30, 2020

We have some predictions on how the pandemic economy will leave its mark on service and customer experience for years to come. Due to recent events, teams have been forced to quickly shift most or all of support to asynchronous channels, managed by actual agents. Frontline empowerment goes mainstream.

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SharpenCX

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Given that a whopping 96% of customers are disloyal after a high-effort experience, we know that low-effort customer experiences are happier ones. Develop better manager-agent relationships. What does my relationship with my direct reports have to do with my customers’ happiness?

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Real-Time Agent Assist uses AI and Machine Learning to analyze customer needs and emotions, then deliver real-time coaching so contact center agents can take the best next step for customers. Qualtrics Real-Time Agent Assist and Automated Call Summaries are available in private beta today. About Qualtrics.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Most concerning, once burnout sets in with agents, it’s difficult to reverse. While managers can proactively look for the warning signs – such as irritability and impatience – without preventative measures, it’s difficult to reverse burnout once it begins. The Consequences of Agent Burnout. Preventing Agent Burnout.

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teleopti

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Nick Smith at Teleopti shows how to gain control by applying workforce management (WFM) principles to influence company culture and protect corporate reputation. How do they inspire their teams to find new ways to win new business and delight existing customers? Download White Paper.

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Kayako

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Why Is It Important to Provide Conversational Customer Support? Conversational customer support is important to customer relationship management because the quality of the conversation defines a customer’s experience, which influences customer retention and loyalty. The Bottom Line.

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NICE inContact

APRIL 9, 2019

Quality Monitoring has the potential to make significant contributions to the success of a contact center by creating an effective balance between operational requirements and agent empowerment. For example, data from evaluated calls can be used within a performance improvement process to improve agent development and engagement.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 5, 2024

Are you grappling with the complexities of call center metrics, seeking to elevate customer experience, and driving operational excellence through insightful data analysis? What are the Benefits of Call Center Reporting?

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Tethr

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Most companies I talk to illustrate their commitment to frontline empowerment by pointing out how they allow their reps latitude in offering refunds and making policy exceptions or by regularly soliciting feedback from reps about things that could improve the customer experience.

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TechSee

JANUARY 8, 2019

Promotions management: When customers want promotional coupons applied to their account, agents must first ascertain that the coupon is valid and that it applies to the order in question. Proofs required: When a new subscription begins or a contract is renewed, agents require proof of identity to complete the transaction.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

This places immense pressure on managers by adding an extra layer of complexity to the already complicated business of running a contact centre. Why is simplicity so important, and what are the benefits of simplification for agents, operations managers and customers? For more ideas and inspiration, visit www.calabrio.com.

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