Playvox

JANUARY 24, 2022

Delivering exceptional customer experiences is the new competitive advantage. While it’s hard to argue against the importance of delivering great CX, it’s also all too easy to assume that the experiences your contact center delivers are up to par simply because you are handling interactions efficiently.

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Contact Center Customer Experience Brand ambassadors Average Handle Time 88

Connect

APRIL 18, 2024

In contact centres, the technology holds the potential to turn clunky chatbots into super-agents that deliver exceptional customer experiences 24×7, boost agent productivity, and drive business success by managing frontline engagement, offloading basic tasks from agents to boost contact centre capacity and first contact resolution (FCR) rates.

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Virtual Agent Chatbots Average Handle Time Engineering 86

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

To properly manage your teams and fulfill your customers and business objectives, you must monitor many KPIs. However, with the volume of calls and data generated on a daily basis in contact centers, managers and supervisors frequently feel overwhelmed. Measurable: We must guarantee that the goal can be quantified.

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Metrics Management Average Handle Time Contact Center 52

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

When companies implement specific tools and best practices, they can significantly improve their customer experience (CX), increase agent performance, and ensure high-quality service. The ultimate objectives are crystal clear: Boost Customer Satisfaction : Happy customers are loyal customers.

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Best practices Call Center Interactive Voice Response First call resolution 104

teleopti

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Advances in analytics and AI are pushing the barriers for Workforce Management (WFM) and Magnus Geverts at Teleopti, a Calabrio Company says it’s time to act now to take advantage of new initiatives, starting with a data-infused WFM strategy for better human interactions and superior customer experiences.

Customer Experience 66

Customer Experience Average Handle Time Analytics Contact Center 66

Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

As contact volume, customer anxiety and agent stress all still soar, what you once managed can now feel overwhelmingly un-manageable. Throughout the crisis, we have worked with contact center leaders to help them meet the challenges of these unprecedented times. Uncompromising Focus on Customer Experience.

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Best practices Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Average Handle Time 84

Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

As call volume, customer anxiety and agent stress all still soar, what you once managed can now feel overwhelmingly un-manageable. Throughout the crisis, we have worked with contact center leaders to help them meet the challenges of these unprecedented times. Uncompromising Focus on Customer Experience.

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Best practices Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Average Handle Time 83

DMG Consulting

MARCH 10, 2023

As enterprises tighten budgets due to the troubled economy, contact center leaders are under greater pressure to improve productivity while enhancing the customer experience (CX). Analytics-enabled quality management (AQM) (a.k.a. automated quality management).

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Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Gamification Quality management 48

Talkdesk

JULY 16, 2019

What is Performance Management? Call Center Performance Management is a program, generally led by a contact center operations manager, dedicated to calculating and improving the performance of contact center agents. That’s where leveraging contact center performance management software can help. The answer is both.

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Call Center Management Average Handle Time Schedule adherence 43

Fonolo

APRIL 7, 2022

Call quality monitoring is an essential piece of the puzzle when it comes to increasing and maintaining high customer satisfaction (CSat) scores. Quality management is also a great way to find holes in a call center agent’s skill set and address them head on with specific training. What is Call Center Quality Monitoring?

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Call Center Contact Center Average Handle Time First call resolution 87

Monet Software

APRIL 24, 2020

Unfortunately, working from home can also have a negative impact on morale and providing an exceptional customer experience. Management and motivational techniques are also required to overcome these new challenges. Manage to the Metrics. So let’s get started! The Rules Still Apply.

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Contact Center Management call center workforce Average Handle Time 62

Global Response

MARCH 1, 2022

After all, when you’re managing a call center, whether it’s in-house or outsourced, there’s a long list of KPIs (key performance indicators) that you could be measuring. Handle time, CSAT, FCR, abandonment rate—the list is nearly endless. Then you may want to look at average handle time and first contact resolution.

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Call Center Metrics Average Handle Time Abandon rate 62

DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Productivity increases when agents have on-the-fly access to the right information to handle customer interactions, reducing holds, transfers and average handle time. It explores product pricing and offers implementation best practices to help users realize a rapid and strong return on their investment.

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Consulting Consulting Marketing Average Handle Time 48

Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

They’re protecting and building your company’s brand — no matter what they have to deal with from customers. Just like agents are protecting your company, contact center leaders and managers need to protect them and their mental health. According to Gallup , 70% of the variance in team engagement is determined by the team’s manager.

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Contact Center Agent burnout Morale Coaching 78

NICE inContact

JUNE 5, 2019

However, every day in the contact center, supervisors and managers send incomplete messages to their agents, failing to prescribe what “medicine” is needed to correct their performance problems. In the contact center, we might tell an agent “your average handle time is too high.” Select the Right QM Platform.

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Coaching Contact Center Average Handle Time Quality management 54

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Contact center managers know that quality monitoring and management is necessary to maintain or improve Customer Satisfaction (CSAT). It can be difficult, however, to tie contact center contributions to CSAT and then to resulting dollars, making it even more difficult to justify needed quality management investments.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Quality management First call resolution 61

Fonolo

APRIL 7, 2022

Call quality monitoring is an essential piece of the puzzle when it comes to increasing and maintaining high customer satisfaction (CSat) scores. Quality management is also a great way to find holes in a call center agent’s skill set and address them head on with specific training. What is Call Center Quality Monitoring?

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Call Center Contact Center Average Handle Time First call resolution 67

JustCall

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

.” Feedback like this for your call center agents is a step closer to achieving quality assurance call center goals in your call center management strategy. But is it only about creating a good customer experience? What is the Relevance Of Contact Center Quality Management i n a Call Center?

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Call Center First call resolution Quality management Contact Center 52

Playvox

APRIL 5, 2022

Most companies aspire to excellence in customer experience (CX). But without getting contact center performance right, all other CX elements – such as marketing, user experience, etc. After all, the employee experience drives the customer experience. What is Workforce Engagement Management (WEM)?

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Contact Center Coaching Metrics Average Handle Time 77

CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Advances in analytics and AI are pushing the barriers for Workforce Management (WFM) and Magnus Geverts at Teleopti, a Calabrio company, says it’s time to act now to take advantage of new initiatives, starting with a data-infused WFM strategy for better human interactions and superior customer experiences.

Customer Experience 40

Customer Experience Average Handle Time Analytics Contact Center 40

DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Because GPT-4 and similar generative AI technologies can produce realistic humanlike text, they have a wide range of uses in contact centers as well as other customer experience-oriented functions. Analytics-enabled quality management. Like what you’re reading? Signup for DMG’s free monthly newsletter.

Average Handle Time 48

Average Handle Time Contact Center Analytics Coaching 48

DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 2, 2022

One area that is attracting a lot of attention and investment is real-time guidance (RTG) because of its ability to help agents and improve productivity while enhancing the customer experience. These solutions improve the customer experience by increasing first-contact resolution.

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Coaching Average Handle Time Contact Center Analytics 48

Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Quality monitoring should also involve every part of your party that leads to customer engagement; think online chat messages (live or automated), social media interactions, and emails. Keeping tabs on customer interaction quality can help you determine where your business stands.

Call Center 87

Call Center Contact Center Average Handle Time First call resolution 87

Fonolo

MAY 7, 2015

Not for the weak at heart, only some call center managers have the grace, tenacity, and skills to handle the extreme pressures of the contact center manager’s job. Those with this special ability often create an experience that pleases customers and agents, without exceeding their budgets; a truly remarkable feat.

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Call Center Management Contact Center Coaching 126

Monet Software

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Frequently when the outward signs of burnout finally appear, call center managers have only a short window of opportunity to prevent the worst outcomes. Burnout is a common job issue, and it’s associated with stress that hasn’t been sufficiently managed or mitigated. Unusually negative reactions to managers and coworkers.

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Morale Agent burnout Contact Center Coaching 100

Verint

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Enhancing what you have to deliver better experiences. A question being asked within many organizations is—how can we deliver better customer experiences? What solutions should we invest in to help achieve customer experience goals and meet customer expectations?

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Average Handle Time First call resolution Employee engagement Quality management 26

NobelBiz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Measuring Talk Time is like clocking the duration of a 100m dash – it seems straightforward, but there’s more to it than meets the eye. For reference, according to callcenterhelper.com , the industry standard for Average Handling Time (AHT) is 6 minutes and 10 seconds.

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Metrics Call Center Outbound sales Contact Center 52

Enghouse Interactive

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In our last blog , we explored how successful companies outperform customer expectations by leveraging video – a communications channel that customers have come to prefer. Blog #3 of 4: Customer-facing agents. This reduces unsuccessful transfers, time in queue and average handle times (AHT).

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Self service Contact Center Chatbots Average Handle Time 66

Callminer

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Janeen Ansell is the Operations Manager at TeleDirect , a leader in business process outsourcing (BPO) with a multi-tier menu of solutions for a variety of commerce requirements. She leads a team of highly engaged Team Leaders, Trainers, and Supervisors who share her commitment to exceptional customer service. Janeen Ansell.

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call center software Call Center Contact Center Analytics 210

Playvox

JUNE 10, 2022

Agent coaching has long been a method for improving contact center performance and the customer experience. In fact, McKinsey estimates that “the average 500-agent call center in North America allocates around $2 million of staff time to coaching activities every year.”. Good coaching can also improve agent retention.

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Coaching Contact Center Average Handle Time Best practices 69

Verint

JUNE 6, 2017

Attendees hosted sessions and exchanged best practices on topics including voice of the customer, desktop and process analytics, automation/robotics, employee engagement, quality management, back-office and branch operations, compliance recording and workforce management.

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Employee engagement Quality management Analytics Best practices 34

Playvox

MARCH 19, 2024

Infusing artificial intelligence (AI) into processes is top of mind for business leaders and managers in all industries and across all job functions. Generative AI technologies truly have the power to change how we work and our ability to deliver a stellar customer experience (CX). But it goes beyond enabling automation.

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Contact Center Quality management Interactive Voice Response Coaching 74

Talkdesk

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

This is a guest blog from Pratik Salia, product manager at Knowmax , a Talkdesk® AppConnect ™ partner. A well-organized knowledge base with easy findability and searchability helps agents access the right information at the right time for accurate and timely resolutions. This will help align the team towards common goals.

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Management Average Handle Time First call resolution Self service 116

SharpenCX

MARCH 4, 2020

To build call center improvement strategies for a better CX, put coaching and quality management into your daily routine. So, start giving your agents meaningful feedback at the moment they need it to improve your customer’s experience. Lead with what’s most important to your customer experience.

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Call Center Feedback Coaching Average Handle Time 84

Playvox

MARCH 27, 2023

Invest In Your Agents’ Well-Being, Training, And Development Effective training programs provide agents with the necessary skills and knowledge to handle customer queries, resolve issues, and maintain a positive customer experience. This approach saves time for the agent and enhances the customer experience.

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Contact Center Gamification Coaching Quality management 84

Playvox

JUNE 22, 2023

Tracking, reporting, and improving upon metrics are essential across all areas of business, including finance, sales, marketing, and contact center management. In uncertain economic times, they become even more critical to help navigate business health and growth. Are your customers happy? Why do metrics matter?

Call Center 52

Call Center Metrics Schedule adherence Average Handle Time 52