article thumbnail

Keep Your Call Center At-Home Agents Engaged

Callminer

Since contact center agents interact with customers daily, it is essential that you create a plan and strategy for keeping at home agents engaged from afar. Tips to Keep At-Home Agents Engaged. Here are eight tips to keep your at-home agents engaged and productive. Communication is key.

article thumbnail

10 effective tips for training WFH contact center agents

Talkdesk

Customer expectations for service are rapidly evolving, so training a team of at-home agents to align with these expectations can bring tangible benefits to any company. Say “Hi” to the team Kick off training with a video introduction from the call center managing director, department heads and agent supervisors.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

8 Tips to Prepare Your Holiday Contact Center Agents

Calltools

This year will likely be the same, so contact center managers must prepare for the holiday rush. Follow these nine holiday contact center tips! Train Contact Center Agents. Agents who joined your call center after the last holiday season might not know what to expect in the next couple of months.

article thumbnail

At-Home Call Recording & Management

OrecX

With so many employees and call center agents working from home these days, it is important to ensure at-home staff’s work interactions are being recorded, monitored and managed. There are several questions you can ask yourself to assess your need to record your at-home agents: 1.

article thumbnail

Call Center Agent Feedback: Tips & Best Practices for Providing Effective Agent Feedback

Callminer

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. Letting agents self-evaluate.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Predictable Outcomes Amidst Unpredictable Times: How Cisco IT kept Contact Center services running from our homes

Cisco - Contact Center

Within 3 days, we modified our VPN solution to meet the new requirement that at-home agents connect through VPN using static IP addresses. Our fix was to withdraw one of our VPN headends out of the pool and create a unique “tunnel group” (or URL) for each call center employee on the headend.