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DMG Consulting Releases 2024 Workforce Management for the Enterprise in the Digital Era Report

DMG Consulting

Agent empowerment is a growing area of focus for contact center leaders, and WFM vendors are helping to address these needs by delivering expanded self-service capabilities via enhanced mobile apps. WFM vendors are also looking for creative ways to motivate agents via gamification to self-schedule hard-to-fill shifts and hours.

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AI-Enabled WFM Promotes Efficiency and Flexibility

DMG Consulting

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

Playvox

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. Prevention is key.

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7 Steps to CSR happiness

teleopti

Tommy Palomäki at Teleopti explains why it pays to focus on CSR’s (Customer Service Representatives) well-being using automated Workforce Management to inspire and motivate staff. Think about infusing AI into the employee experience – use chatbots that learn from existing data to help people manage their work-life balance.

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Balto Elevates the Agent Experience in the Contact Center with New Suite of Features

Balto

Reaffirms commitment to agent empowerment for retention and growth in the contact center. Selected agents can add their voice to the playbook, test new checklist items, and snooze or minimize prompts. Gamification. Gamification drives agents to want to achieve through the spirit of competition.

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A lifetime of lessons learned, with Steve Bederman | First Contact: Stories of the Call Center

NobelBiz

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. AI gamification From a business perspective, the idea of gamification can be a crucial part in the light of recent AI challenges.

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

TechSee

Deploying the most effective and sustainable VEA would require the integration of multiple technologies, such as interaction guidance, decision support, robotic process automation, workflow optimization and agent career path development. Current approaches to agent empowerment. Episode management. Gamification.