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The Supervisor Cadence – Does It Drive the Wrong Behavior?

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Coach the agent for 20 minutes – check off the box and get the green dot. Understanding the mental process for supervisors It’s time for the 15-minute agent coaching time. Because the culture hasn’t been re-engineered for the remote environment, the agent doesn’t feel emotionally engaged and is lonely.

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This Call May Be Recorded: How Conversation Intelligence Is Transforming the Contact Center Industry

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For most of the history of the contact center industry, the standard for QA has been for a team lead, coach, or supervisor to review and score three contacts per agent per week. Coaches would get to know the agents on their teams. One percent of one percent… at best. These efforts weren’t useless – they were, as noted, the standard.

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Don’t jump the Gen AI gun to realise returns on AI investments

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The technology can also boost agent productivity with automation, real-time guidance, and performance coaching and enhance operational efficiency by reducing costs, optimising resources, and enabling data-driven decisions. However, Gen AI is not a plug-and-play solution.

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Call Center Improvement Strategies that Work: 4 Ways to Offer your Agents Instant Feedback and Finally Deliver on Your Customer Experience Promises

SharpenCX

This fleeting access to memory is why in-the-moment coaching is so impactful. Download Now: Get real about coaching and training your agents with these 7 techniques. A typical call center coaches and trains agents in a few different ways. And, they cram months (and months) of feedback into a single coaching session.

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25 Call Center Leaders Share the Most Effective Ways to Boost Contact Center Efficiency

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Reduce Turnover – Keeping a stable team will help you to reduce training costs and time. Make onboarding & ongoing coaching as stellar as possible. Average handling times (AHT) increase. James Pollard is a marketing consultant who works specifically with financial advisors over at The Advisor Coach.

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How to Tailor Your Customer Analytics & Reports to Appeal to 3 Different Internal Stakeholders (Your Agents, Managers, and the C-Suite)

SharpenCX

Use your contact center’s reporting engine to create a variety of reports tailored to the needs of different people at your company. Distill all the data living in your contact center down into a few important charts and graphs in your reports, so you can pull out actionable insights for coaching.

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20 Business Leaders Share How Call Centers Can Address Increased Customer Vulnerability

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As well, a specific focus on compressing Average Handle Times (AHT) allows organizations to maximize their limited capacity. You can use AI to comb through and find the common themes and analyze which trends you need to prepare your reps to handle. Coaching needs to happen in real time from management.