OctopusTech

JULY 27, 2022

Call centers quality monitoring plays the most important role in delivering customer service. Operators working in the call center deal with large call volumes regularly, interact with different users, gather their responses, and deliver them to the top-level departments. What Is Call Quality?

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CX Global Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

WEBINAR: 3 Common Questions Contact Centers Should NEVER ask about Speech Analytics. WEBINAR: How Coca-Cola® Adds Life to Contact Center Employee Engagement. WEBINAR: How Do Your Call Center Supervisors Measure Up?

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Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

It has however morphed from the days of regarding the call center as a cost center to realizing contact centers and the agents who work there are valuable contributors to the customer experience. Prevent and close employee skill gaps with a seamless integration to coaching. What is Workforce Optimization?

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Expivia

DECEMBER 8, 2020

These 7 falsehoods though are topics that organizations that are new to call center outsourcing to think are reasons why they would NEVER outsource. We all know you don’t want to be doing the day-to-day service upkeep, the monitoring, and the organizing of your analytics. This is a false narrative. This is not true at all.

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SharpenCX

MARCH 24, 2021

Does your call center need a software and process makeover? If you want to keep up with the Joneses, you may have heard joining the fleet of cloud call centers is on the radar of most customer service leaders. But finding the best cloud software for your call center’s needs can feel daunting.

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Expivia

DECEMBER 8, 2020

These 7 falsehoods though are topics that organizations that are new to call center outsourcing to think are reasons why they would NEVER outsource. We all know you don’t want to be doing the day-to-day service upkeep, the monitoring, and the organizing of your analytics. This is a false narrative. This is not true at all.

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outsourcing Call Center Analytics Service level 52

Serenova

JULY 7, 2020

Six Call Center Training Tips & Best Practices for Better Customer Experience. Now more than ever, as we increasingly experience life remotely, the most important— sometimes only—interactions we have with brands are through call centers. 6 Steps and Best Practices for Your Best Call Center Staff Training Program.

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SharpenCX

MARCH 30, 2021

If you’re a contact center leader, you probably hear – and use – these buzzwords all the time. But if you’re like most contact center leaders, you know these buzzwords carry a lot of weight. Data and analytics power your contact center. Gather data to identify where gaps live in your call center technology.

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Talkdesk

JULY 16, 2019

Call Center Performance Management is a program, generally led by a contact center operations manager, dedicated to calculating and improving the performance of contact center agents. Performance Management generally requires a number of tools like call recording , quality monitoring , coaching , and gamification.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Are you a call center operations manager striving to enhance your team’s productivity and deliver hyper efficiency in your daily operations? Today, hyper efficiency is no longer a luxury but a necessity for call centers looking to thrive and outperform their competition. What is hyper efficiency in a contact center?

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CSR Inc.

JULY 17, 2016

Earlier this month, I discussed the growing trend towards home-based call center agents. But the role of tech in the call center industry stretches well beyond enabling virtual agents. Gamification I had written about call center ‘employee incentive’ or ‘rewards-driven’ programs (gamification) last year.

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SharpenCX

AUGUST 4, 2021

Project #1: Consistently Coach and Train your Agents. The Future of Jobs Report out of the World Economic Forum predicts that no less than 54% of all employees will need re-skilling or upskilling by the end of 2022. Your contact center agents have to be prepared to tackle new soft and hard skills to keep up with changing norms.

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SharpenCX

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Whether your agents are burnt out or bored, it’s important to optimize workflows to increase employee engagement. Create your workflow to fit your contact center agents and effectively handle customer support with positive results. . First, choose the contact center metrics you want to improve and focus on.

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SharpenCX

JUNE 29, 2021

[Read Next:] Coaching and Training Action Items to Inspire your Customer Service Training Program. As a manager, you know the training game in your call center. Training is vital for productive growth , employee engagement, and a successful customer experience. First, what’s changing in call centers today?

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SharpenCX

APRIL 7, 2021

A good manager is a good coach. Gallup found companies who strategically invest in employee development see 11% greater profitability. . Yet too many customer service leaders are bogged down by other tasks to actually dedicate time to coaching and training their teams. Avanade ) . Why it matters: Let’s set this straight.

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OctopusTech

MARCH 1, 2023

Most companies will set up or adopt a call center to field customer service requests and complaints. These call centers organize phone support queues and equally distribute calls to reps on the service team. What Are Inbound Calls?

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Customer Relationship Metrics

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

That sounds like it is true for us call center veterans too. Justin Robbins Contact Center & Conference interview takes me back to kindergarten – Click to Tweet. Now we are all grown up and while the contact center industry has undergone a massive amount of development and change, our focus is still the same.

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JustCall

MARCH 6, 2023

Improving call center agent performance is the foundation for building a successful call center. Bain & Company claims that “happy employees make for happy customers.” In this article, we will look at 12 strategies and tips on how to improve call center agent performance.

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Calabrio

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Using technology to identify performance coaching opportunities. Contact center leaders need to find ways to strengthen employee engagement and growth for remote and in-office agents. One way is to use Performance Coaching to drive agent engagement while also supporting your company’s bottom line.

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Strategies in Optimizing Call Center Customer Support for Increased Revenue. For companies looking to establish a customer-first mindset at their call center, the essential part is to understand the customers in terms of their interests, behavior and needs. Share responsibility and construct a common goal.

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Fonolo

JUNE 9, 2020

If you want to improve call center performance, getting to know your Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is a great starting point so you can begin making data-driven decisions. The following KPIs are essential for measuring the activities and effectiveness of your contact center agents. First Call Resolution (FCR).

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

After assessing how the pandemic had changed the call center in 2020 , we decided to peek over the parapet at 2021. We asked the contact center industry’s top influencers and business leaders what they thought the most significant contact center trends in 2021 would be. Contact Center Trends 2020.

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DMG Consulting

JANUARY 10, 2022

This is the case for many contact centers, where agents have been under-appreciated, under-recognized and under-rewarded for decades. The employee-employer relationship in contact centers is finally being re-evaluated and redefined, and not a moment too soon. Source: DMG Consulting, December 2021.

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Noble Systems

MARCH 30, 2020

Contact center analytics that monitors 100% of interactions across channels can provide insight into present-day customer concerns. Companies need to gain an understanding of customer issues quickly, to handle a greater influx of calls and find additional ways to serve customers faster. Better train and coach agents.

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Monet Software

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Can SMB call center quality management be about more than quality? Yep, it’s the linchpin of employee engagement, too! Monitoring and scoring calls—these quality assurance (QA) tasks are constant at nearly every contact center. Call review and coaching sessions contribute to team building.

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Monet Software

APRIL 24, 2020

How WFM and QM combine to engage an offsite call center workforce and deliver superior CX. High-speed internet, cloud-based applications and other technologies have opened a new vista for the call center—the remote agents. No longer is the company limited to the talent pool surrounding the contact center.

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NobelBiz

MAY 16, 2023

And the way to tackle this issue was to create a light and scalable contact center infrastructure that can simplify procedures and centralize data. To be exact, 36% of contact centers currently use any form of cloud technology, including software as a service (Saas), hosted, hybrid, and private cloud.

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SharpenCX

JUNE 16, 2020

Last fall, Global Workplace Analytics told us that the number of people who work from home has increased by 140% since 2005. Companies are investing in co-working spaces or smaller offices to accommodate employees who can’t work from home. As a manager of a call center, you may be panicking a little.

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Callminer

JULY 23, 2019

Providing feedback to agents in your call center is entirely needed to maintain and improve a quality facility. The right encouragement, or even criticism, could dramatically alter agent performance, both for on-site employees and at-home agents. Many of the tips are those from experts directly in the call center industry.

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NobelBiz

MAY 2, 2023

Low contact rates In the beginning, we need to understand that the Contact Rate has nothing to do with the skills of your salespersons or agents and everything to do with the call center technology being used. Not even the best salesmen in the universe can make a difference if the calls or contact attempts are not being answered.

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Verint

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

While you may or may not have previously considered gamification a key part of these employee engagement efforts, it can help keep your employees focused on what matters and what helps drive the bottom line. After all, those are the people who serve your customers and help determine if they stay loyal or not.

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NobelBiz

MAY 16, 2023

And the way to tackle this issue was to create a light and scalable contact center infrastructure that can simplify procedures and centralize data. To be exact, 36% of contact centers currently use any form of cloud technology, including software as a service (Saas), hosted, hybrid, and private cloud.

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Callminer

JULY 15, 2019

This virtual conference will cover a ranging of topics, expert speakers, partners and customers about better customer and agent experiences through speech analytics. This is a great opportunity to listen, watch, and learn the latest CX analytics information out there! Employee Engagement Trends of 2019 featuring nGuvu.

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Vcaretec

JUNE 6, 2022

Customer Care & Contact Center Influencers Mike Aoki Bio: Contact center expert and trainer for Agents (customer service, dealing with "irates," sales skills) and Managers (coaching, presentation skills). At Vcare , we help the biggest brands in the world think beyond the normal call center and customer support process.

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Playvox

MARCH 12, 2023

There is a strong drive to incorporate AI in contact centers to improve customer service and increase overall efficiency. From helping predict customer behaviors and needs to sentiment analysis , AI has the potential to revolutionize the way support centers operate.

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BlueOcean

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Additionally, you need managers, supervisors, coaches, and trainers to manage your frontline agents, not to mention the extra HR time and financial investment in supporting them. Employee engagement is critical for retention. The right outsourced partner invests heavily in their retention efforts and employee engagement.

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aircall

JUNE 14, 2021

How well your teams perform reflects the quality of leadership within your call center and the way your leaders measure team performance. Effective call center leaders strive to make every team member a top performer. Call centers are a hive of activity. Average call length. Number of calls answered.

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