SharpenCX

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Contact center leaders turned to customer and agent analytics to catapult performance to new heights. They keep employees engaged and productive . They couldn’t walk the contact center floor and listen to snippets of calls. It’s like profit-sharing for the contact center. Let’s Talk About Data.

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Global Response

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Setting up your call center may seem as easy as hiring a few knowledgeable agents and providing them with a phone line—but nothing could be further from the truth. Even basic call centers have a variety of software requirements, from essential call center operating software to software for security and recruitment.

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Expivia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Call center reporting is the only way to know how your contact center is performing. From daily performance reports to identifying seasonal trends, reporting is an art form in the call center that defines the past, present, and future of your organization. What Is Call Center Reporting?

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JustCall

JANUARY 19, 2023

Call centers are established to meet the demands of customers. A good call center optimization can match the customer’s expectations with the best level of customer service. Customers have higher expectations than ever before, and call centers are finding it more and more difficult to live up to those expectations.

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Expivia

AUGUST 25, 2020

I had the great pleasure of being asked to give a talk to the University of Wisconsin E-Business Consortium on “Making Call Center Culture Tangible, Using Culture as a Weapon, and Engagement Practices for Call Center Reps” This is the full talk that I gave. Call Center Culture.

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ShepHyken

MAY 27, 2022

Here are some of the key ways you can take good care of your employees and motivate them to perform better at their jobs. . According to a Cornell University study, over 85% of call center employees report high-stress levels in their workplace. Back-to-back customer calls can exhaust support reps.

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Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

Managing forecasting, scheduling, and agent productivity in a call center is a lot like searching for the fountain of youth. While we don’t have a roadmap to the proverbial fountain, we can help steer you in the right direction for better call center workforce management (WFM). But getting to this nirvana is no picnic.

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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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Noble Systems

MARCH 19, 2021

Call Center Software for SMB. Every business that takes or makes calls, especially to sell to or service customers, essentially has a call center – whether they have hundreds of agents or a handful of agents (or a team of multi-tasking employees). Cloud Contact Center for SMBs. Auto-Attendant and IVR.

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SharpenCX

JUNE 22, 2021

Designing an effective training program in a call center is no easy task. But as those new hires become seasoned employees, their initial training fades, and you need to supplement it with new knowledge. Well-trained call center agents are essential to your customer loyalty. Every time. Seems positive, right?

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Fonolo

JANUARY 29, 2019

We have 17 gifts for you today, or rather, 17 intriguing facts about call centers! You may know a few of these already, but trust us: It never hurts to revisit some of the pivotal advancements, trends, stats, and interesting facts that have made waves in the call center industry (both past and present). Call backs anyone?

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CCNG

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Three – Early Adoption of Data-Driven Decision-Making: Long before the term “data-driven” became popular, WFM teams have relied on data and analytics to optimize call center operations. And that’s a strategic advantage!

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Noble Systems

APRIL 21, 2020

A call center is a centralized site that is equipped to manage a large volume of customer contacts – both incoming and outgoing – for an organization. The heart of the call center is its people, often called representatives, or agents, who are on the front-line of these communications. What Is Call Center Software?

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Expivia

MARCH 25, 2021

Knowing how to engage employees well. This is the trick to create a positive and productive work environment in a call center. To improve the performance and success of your call center, follow this simple guide on how to engage employees. What Is Employee Engagement?

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Expivia

APRIL 1, 2021

Knowing how to engage employees well. This is the trick to create a positive and productive work environment in a call center. To improve the performance and success of your call center, follow this simple guide on how to engage employees. What Is Employee Engagement?

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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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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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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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Contact Center Pipeline

MARCH 30, 2021

I wasn’t planning on ever sharing this information with anyone, but we’re all friends here. According to my parents, when I was a little boy, I would start to cry anytime I heard the song, “The Ballad of Davy Crockett.” It didn’t have to be on TV or on the radio to have this […].

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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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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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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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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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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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Call Center Weekly

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

If the communication link between them and the Workforce team is not in place – the efforts will result in burying the call center in call traffic with no one to answer the phone. There are certain skills in most job descriptions for Workforce jobs – a conglomeration of technical and analytical requirements.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 19, 2015

Predictive analytics. Predictive analytics describes how a company looks at data sets to identify patterns of behavior in Customer groups. Target used predictive analytics to determine the Customer’s behavior when she learns she is pregnant. 3: The Best Companies Link Employee Engagement and CX.

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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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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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Callminer

MAY 27, 2020

No one wants to tolerate a stressful work environment indefinitely, and there are many ways to boost employee engagement and improve the employee experience to better complement your company’s core values. Ensure that performance review is a two-way process, where employees are encouraged to provide their feedback, too.”

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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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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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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. WEM adds the element of employee engagement as the linchpin to delivering outstanding CX.

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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. Omnichannel, Cloud-Based Contact Centers.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 18, 2022

Our review of the past year showed increased customer expectations, innovation in contact center technology, development of safe work environments, and employee engagements – all good indicators that contact centers are more resilient than before. Industry Report: State of the Contact Center 2022.

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JustCall

MARCH 9, 2023

While your call agents strive for favorable first-call resolution metrics, your business should focus on providing them with the right customer contact center software that lets them do their job well. Let’s take a look at the top 10 inbound call center software that can help your business get all its metrics in the right place.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

On top of that, to safeguard sensitive information, maintain operational integrity, and enhance customer trust, most businesses utilize a call center security checklist. Here are some of call center security’s best practices that you can use: Invest in systems and tools to monitor and analyze customer interactions in real-time.

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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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