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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. Personalize their training.

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Effectively managing home-based call center agents is possible. Here’s how.

Tethr

Your remote agents need to be provided with the best tools and trained on how to use them. Using listening enterprise software like Tethr , you can offer each rep a personalized training program based on actionable insight from their calls. Create a training protocol with information that addresses things all at-home agents need.

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The State of B2C Complex Customer Care

BlueOcean

If you’re expecting agents to take on more complex B2C customer care, you may need to re-evaluate your agent profiles when recruiting new hires. What skillsets, personality traits, and experiences will set these agents up for success? Modified Recruitment Strategy. It’s a tight, competitive labor market out there.

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An Undeniable Choice for Current Times: Move your Contact Center Virtual for the Future to Solve Old Problems, Boost Agent Satisfaction and Drive Productivity

SharpenCX

Agent job satisfaction is central to your other primary metrics in your call center. AX is positively correlated with customer satisfaction and negatively associated with absenteeism and turnover, meaning that absenteeism and turnover go down as agent job satisfaction goes up. It has potential to drive everything else.

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The 3 “I”s to Empower Your Call Center Supervisors in 2021

Outsource Consultants

Simply put, at-home or hybrid models require different training methodologies than before — and even if your call center model hasn’t changed, your business surely has. Areas of innovation your BPO should already offer supervisors: LMS solutions to replace or supplement in-person training. Lowest AHT. Highest FCR.

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Contact Center Leaders and Technology Experts Talk Challenges and Solutions for Better CX

Serenova

It’s easy to alienate customers by forcing them to self-serve when they want to talk to a person. When customers are dealing with problems they can’t easily solve on their own, contact centers need to make the transition to an agent quickly and seamlessly. Support and Collaboration of Remote Agents.

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

Serenova

While it can be frustrating to lose direct visibility into how call center agents are spending their time in a work from home setting, it’s ultimately topline CX metrics like C-Sat and NPS — not any given agent’s keystroke count or time spent browsing Reddit — that speak to your performance.