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Meet Customer Needs Without Overwhelming Your Agents: 6 Workforce Management Strategies to Engage your Team and Still Surpass High Customer Expectations

SharpenCX

Instead of locking agents down and not letting them attend, managers worked with agents to create a plan for who would attend which all-company events. We’d always have a handful of agents and supervisors present who could go back and report important messages to the team. Plan for downtime, ahead of time.

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What Is Call Center Reporting & How Does It Work?

NobelBiz

By leveraging Nobelbiz’s innovative reporting solutions, companies can not only track key performance indicators (KPIs) such as call resolution times, customer satisfaction scores, and agent productivity levels but also identify trends, forecast demands, and pinpoint areas for improvement.

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3 Projects to Help You Deliver Good Customer Service Daily (+ Resources)

SharpenCX

Project 3: Support Your Agents Professionally and Personally. Consider your third major project a catch-all project to boost agent empowerment and engagement in your contact center. Want some inspiration to improve your contact center motivation and morale? Be present and be involved in the daily lives of your employees.

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Improving First Call Resolution Rates

Global Response

It even improves agent morale by enabling them to solve problems more effectively. Complex customer issues Complex customer issues present significant challenges to achieving high FCR rates. Complex issues require specialized knowledge or skills that not all agents possess. Leverage customer feedback and data analytics.

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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. Current approaches to agent empowerment. These tools all currently exist but cannot be found as a single off-the-shelf product. Team-based models.

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3 Management Techniques to Use (And 2 to Ditch) to Erase the Bad Call Center Agent Experience in 2021

SharpenCX

Your agents feel secure in their roles when they trust your leadership and have the knowledge they need to do their jobs well. Read Next] How agent empowerment impacts customer service. In a fast-paced environment that’s always changing, you have to go the extra mile to build trust and empowerment with your team.