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25 Tips & Best Practices for Identifying the Best Call Center Services

Callminer

For some companies, outsourcing call center services makes sense, while others are better served by keeping call center functions in-house. When it comes to choosing a call center service, that choice becomes even more difficult. In this case, routing calls to the right agents will be an important component.

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5 Coaching Must-Have’s for At-Home Customer Care Agents

Skybridge

In my earlier posts, I’ve put a great deal of focus on how to transition your call center agents from on-site to at-home. But of course, there are longer-term factors to consider – and conquer – in order to lead high performing customer care teams capable of delivering superior customer and patient experience.

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5 Ways To Help Your Customer Care Agents Improve CX Performance

Skybridge

It has softened customer expectations of some providers, while intensifying their frustrations with others. Yet, at the center of all of these shifting priorities, one thing has remained remarkably consistent: the power of a talented, engaged customer care agent to strengthen the bond between brand and customer.

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The Rising Risk of Call Center Agent Burnout in the Age of COVID-19

Skybridge

For so many organizations, survival has depended on whether their employees could even do the job remotely and how quickly they could be back up and working from home. For brands that have always used onsite call centers to care for their customers – and for the agents who worked onsite – this has been a particularly challenging time.

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7 Strategies for Embracing the Work From Home (WFH) Call Center

Serenova

Coronavirus has officially kicked the work from home (WFH) trend into a permanent reality — and the call center is no exception. At the outset of the pandemic, as families rushed to stock up on toilet-paper and canned goods, contact center leaders were scrambling to transition customer service agents to remote status.

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Did you hear that? Listening to the voice at the center of your CX strategy

Skybridge

Get the breakdown from North America’s leader in customer care. For North American brands and the customer care teams who support them, 2020 launched a period of upheaval, unforeseen challenges, and wildly fluctuating consumer needs. But the truth is, a handful of customer care leaders were ready for 2020.

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Stop Believing These 5 Common Myths About Working From Home

Skybridge

Somehow, this erroneous assumption, (that, if left to their own devices at home, your customer care agents will be start slacking off) has been accepted as fact. It demands a continuous, long-term investment in monitoring best practices, technology upgrades, and ongoing agent and management training.