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Training Your Call Center Agents to Sound the Alarm on Harassment in Abusive Customer Interactions Instantly Can Fuel Your Agents’ Empowerment

SharpenCX

I was the only agent left in the call center and I was completely unprepared to take on the nastiness of the customer. Don’t get me wrong, I know working as a call center agent isn’t necessarily a glamorous job. Download Now: Your agents’ experience matters. This wears on agents.

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

TechSee

The contact center industry continues to face extremely high agent turnover, with some outbound and telemarketing centers experiencing attrition rates as high as 27% annually. With this high turnover presenting a significant challenge to contact centers in terms of cost, productivity and morale, it is not surprising that there’s an ongoing global trend towards fostering agent development and enhancing their day-to-day activities. Today’s limited Virtual Employee Assistants.

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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. Your work isn’t over after you carefully harvest info from your customer and agent interactions. It lives in how you use your insights to fuel positive changes that improve your customer and agent experience. Employee Engagement. Be introspective about your agents’ environment.

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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. Your work isn’t over after you carefully harvest info from your customer and agent interactions. It lives in how you use your insights to fuel positive changes that improve your customer and agent experience. Employee Engagement. Be introspective about your agents’ environment.