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

NICE inContact

Even worse, it meant that our customers suffered through hundreds of interactions in which agents provided some variation of “I need to escalate this to my manager for approval” before resolving their issue. You can imagine the negative impact this had on First Contact Resolution and overall Customer Experience.

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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. To stop focusing agents on efficiency, even if that is counterintuitive.

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Buddying Up – Putting Virtual Employee Assistants at the Heart of Agent Development

TechSee

By buddying up with a human agent to make his job easier and more satisfying, the VEA will drive agent loyalty, streamline onboarding, improve daily productivity and help the agent provide better overall customer experience. Current approaches to agent empowerment. Team-based models.

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Celebrating the Successes and Achievements of Calabrio Customers

Calabrio

We’re all about our customers, and we judge ourselves by our ability to add tangible business value to their contact centers around the world, from easily managing soaring inbound volumes across multiple communication channels to leveraging new levels of customer experience intelligence to drive deeper engagement with customers.