Tethr

JULY 22, 2020

Exceptional call center leaders use a coaching philosophy to manage their teams. This is especially critical when it comes to leading a team of reps who are based out of their homes. Just because at-home agents lack opportunities for in-person feedback doesn’t mean they aren’t entitled to efficient and effective coaching.

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Coaching Call Center At home agents Best practices 81

CCNG

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

We've set up rotating “supervisor office hours” so that a group of supervisors would be available to help agents. Of course, that takes away from their coaching and mentoring time, which impacts CSAT and NPS. We've set up buddy systems within agent teams.

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Contact Center At home agents Coaching Management 195

Skybridge

APRIL 13, 2020

In today’s post, I’d like to highlight how your coaching process will need to change. They need to be secure enough to ask for feedback from their teams and make adjustments as needed in order to nurture strong virtual relationships with their at-home agents. It will take practice. They have to be planned.

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Coaching Customer Care At home agents Call Center 52

24-7 InTouch

APRIL 3, 2020

Technology: Tech teams must be able to provide support in a virtual environment instead of face-to-face, including the use of screen sharing to show agents how to fix issues as they arise. To secure VPNs for at-home agents, we leverage a two-factor authentication on the VPN via an RSA key. Want to get “intouch”?

At home agents 52

At home agents Contact Center Coaching Morale 52

Tethr

MARCH 3, 2020

Tethr’s technology works to combine what’s going on in real time with historical data for context to lead your agent to the best practices. Surface impactful coaching opportunities to help your reps reach their goals regardless of where they are working. Nail down at-home agent policies and guidelines.

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Call Center At home agents Management contact center workforce 83

Aspect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Here are some best practices to consider as you define or enhance your work from home program, specifically for your customer engagement center. Define the Agent Profile. Not everyone makes the perfect work at home agent. Define the Home Office. Define video specifications, and setup as needed.

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At home agents Coaching Gamification Metrics 78

24-7 InTouch

JULY 8, 2020

Work From Anywhere, or similarly a ‘Hub and Spoke’ or hybrid model, allows a phased-approach to transitioning at-home agents back to campus. Some ways in which this approach works is by having coaching, Academy Bay, and up-training of agents conducted on campus.

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Contact Center At home agents Coaching Education 52