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Top Contact Center Trends for 2023

Balto

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. Involve them in the script-writing process.

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Three Ways to Effortlessly Cut Average Handle Time 

Toister Performance Solutions

The issue starts in other channels like self-service, social media, or chat which are frequently not optimized. So your IVR is adding talk time, but your agents aren’t empowered to skip the script and give some of that time back. What is agent empowerment? Then your IVR steps in.

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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. In return, the customer experience will improve and the agent frustration will be reduced.

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7 Key Challenges That Hinder Agent Performance

Talkdesk

Agent performance and CSAT suffer when a customer fails self service, calls the contact center and the agent has no idea who they are or the nature of their problem,” said Gadi. Agent empowerment is the key to performance. Great training is the key to agent empowerment.