COPC

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

BACKGROUND The COPC Standards Committee is a group of industry leaders composed of the largest buyers and providers of customer experience (CX) operational services, including contact center support. Its role is to maintain the best practices and requirements in the COPC CX Standard.

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Talkdesk

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

During last year’s open enrollment period, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reported more than 5.78 million calls related to healthcare coverage to its contact center. In addition, a number of Talkdesk’s healthcare customers typically double their contact center workforce to meet the surge in calls.

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Abandon rate Customer Experience Healthcare contact center workforce 67

NICE inContact

APRIL 7, 2021

If you’re unsure of where to start, the six pillars of a hybrid contact center workforce engagement strategy listed above would be a great place to start. But like anything, it comes with its own unique challenges as you try to keep employees engaged in their positions.

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Contact Center contact center workforce Employee engagement Best practices 65

Etech GS

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Whether the employees are human or robotic, workforce optimization helps teams to work smarter instead of harder. As the name suggests, contact center workforce optimization involves using managerial practices to ensure maximum productivity meets maximum efficiency. How To Implement Workforce Optimization.

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

By drawing on the aggregated knowledge and experience of the contact center workforce, effectively crowdsourcing their expertise, technology providers are creating the next generation of self service platforms. Information from each customer contact is collected, labeled by the agent, and stored for future use.

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Self service Contact Center contact center workforce Banking 111

Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

This guide will explore the whats, hows, and whys of workforce optimization. What is Workforce Optimization? The concept of workforce optimization (WFO) is not new. Putting in place KPIs is a good starting point to achieve operational excellence.

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Coaching Contact Center Quality management Schedule adherence 77

Noble Systems

APRIL 14, 2021

What is a virtual call center? Imagine a call center – a hub of inbound and outbound calls, staffed by a team of agents and managers – but the agents and managers are located off-site, whether in small groups in other offices or individually at their own homes. This is the concept of the virtual call center.

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Unfortunately, some contact centers still insist on a no-hang-up rule (agents are penalized for ending a call) in order to improve or sustain metrics, and do not offer morale or psychological support to front-line agents who live through some horrific experiences on the job.

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Contact Center Gamification contact center workforce Education 73

NICE inContact

JULY 17, 2019

Stream our recent webinar , in which Jill reveals the game-changers that make Frontline Group’s remote workforce a success. Relying on mobile call center agents presents unique obstacles and call for unique solutions. Interested in similar results?

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Contact center software Contact Center outsourcing Best practices 54

Monet Software

DECEMBER 17, 2020

How COVID-19 changes the SMB contact center hiring process—and how it doesn’t. Call center recruiting has changed in recent years. Maximizing hiring impact was already challenging for many SMB contact centers, even before COVID-19. COVID-19 impacts on hiring call center agents.

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Call Center contact center workforce Contact Center Employee engagement 118

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 25, 2019

You can stay in compliance AND take advantage of more modern workforce optimization functionality in the cloud. For some, it makes sense to start with moving the ACD to the cloud, but for many contact centers workforce optimization is the best steppingstone. No two cloud transformations are identical.

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Contact Center contact center workforce Cloud contact Quality management 48

Verint

DECEMBER 5, 2017

As Ken Landoline, principal analyst at OVUM, stated in his blog, Back-Office Integration Coming to the Forefront in Customer Engagement , a number of trends are making it easier to link these two functions, including: In-sourcing previously outsourced contact center functions. The increase in channel digitization.

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Contact Center Best practices Enterprise outsourcing 28

Calabrio

OCTOBER 6, 2016

These leaders: Can communicate the business value and far-reaching, positive business impact of their contact center. Are genuinely interested in the contact center workforce and how to optimize its operations. Contain the contact center environment while allowing agents to be themselves.

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Contact Center contact center workforce Customer centricity Self service 40

Playvox

MAY 24, 2023

Choosing the right call center workforce management metrics to monitor and manage in your customer support center is essential for the success and longevity of the customer experience. Workforce management metrics provide crucial insight into how well you are planning your workforce. Invaluable.

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call center workforce Metrics Schedule adherence Call Center 52

Verint

JANUARY 31, 2018

Gaining management insight into whether or not associates were following standards and best practices and adhering to compliance requirements. They did it by: Creating automated processes and workflows that reduced associate idle time (time where no work is performed) by 50%. The overall result?

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Enterprise Healthcare Banking Contact Center 39

Verint

AUGUST 23, 2017

You can extend these best practices by using your scorecards to capture and communicate KPIs and goals from multiple systems, including but not limited to workforce optimization (WFO). Are you properly motivating today’s employees—or are you depending on yesterday’s methods?

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Gamification Employee engagement Best practices Contact Center 42

DMG Consulting

APRIL 5, 2017

Most contact center managers agree that there is ample opportunity to improve their workforce management (WFM) solution, their WFM best practices, and most likely both. View this document on the publisher’s website.

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Verint

DECEMBER 15, 2017

contact center industry. Current quality management best practices dictate the review for scoring of a small percentage of random calls for each agent, typically less than ten percent. The complete overview of the current status of quality management among those in the industry is provided in Figure 1 below.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Paul Jarman , NICE inContact Chief Executive Officer, discusses the key paradigm shifts that will lead to massive change in the contact center and customer experience market as part of our Transforming Customer Experiences series.

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Marketing Customer Experience Self service Contact Center 55

Playvox

MAY 25, 2023

According to 2022 research by ICMI , almost half of contact centers (47%) are still manually creating forecasting models. An AI-driven workforce management solution does the heavy lifting to automate forecasting and many of the other repetitive and time-consuming manual tasks in contact center workforce management.

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Contact Center Workload forecasts Agent burnout Customer retention 55

airespring

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

How effective is your contact center? Below are a range of statistics from a benchmark report by Dimension Data, showcasing the numbers that defined the contact center industry in 2015. With 2016 already under way, use these numbers to measure where you sit on the contact center curve.

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Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

WFO is often used by call centers to improve workforce management and agent performance – and in turn, the customer experience. How does WFO work in the Call Center? Workforce Optimization provides contact center management with total visibility into quality and performance. Want to learn more?

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Management Gamification Quality management Schedule adherence 86

Verint

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Top 5 Best Practices for Extending WFO Beyond the Contact Center. Verint’s Craig Seebach, vice president, workforce optimization strategy, will present this content at 11 a.m. The contact center is often just the start of the customer’s journey. November 9; Online Webinar.

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Contact Center Self service Best practices Coaching 6

Verint

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

It’s a great opportunity to extend your skills, learn from industry visionaries and product experts, share best practices, and swap tips and techniques … all in a fun, immersive environment right in the heart of Texas!

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Entertainment Best practices Journey mapping Management 36