Playvox

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Let’s talk about solutions and best practices you can leverage to set your remote teams up for success. Leverage a Workforce Management Solution When you have a globally dispersed team, it becomes even more important to leverage a solution that accounts for differing schedules and skill sets.

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Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

But the gap between how managers view feedback and how employees see it simply isn’t good for agent morale and mindset. To keep engagement up, feedback should be focused on coaching rather than micromanaging. A coaching solution that automatically delivers feedback on how to improve can be very effective.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Understand that the problem is not empathy in itself but how it is coached. Develop an AHT-Focused Quality Initiative Rushed for time, many contact centres meet their quality monitoring quotas by reviewing contacts with low handling times.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 1, 2017

Do they look for any excuse to reschedule your 1:1s or coaching sessions? If you seem confused by this behavior, it may be time to look at your coaching and engagement style to help enhance your contact center performance. Thus, it’s not surprising to see this behavior in coaching and management as well.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Advances in technology allow contact centers to use data in much more manageable ways, redefine how to engage with customers, gain efficiencies, and leverage actionable insights to improve quality management (QM) and the customer journey.

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CSM Magazine

APRIL 25, 2023

Attempting to meet customer expectations while dealing with new digital technologies and hybrid working arrangements, agents can quickly feel overwhelmed. Let agents know it’s okay to ask “stupid questions” during team meetings, group training sessions and even 1-2-1s.

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JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

But meeting the increasing expectations of your customers is a challenge. And the only way to succeed is through an effective contact center management system. This blog will look at the tips and best practices for contact center management. Remember, your agents are your strongest pillars.

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Playvox

MARCH 5, 2024

And behind the scenes, how do you ensure your quality management (QM) processes are keeping up? Let’s examine the role of AI in streamlining quality management processes to help modern contact centers rise to the ever-changing customer experience landscape. Artificial intelligence (AI) can play a part.

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DMG Consulting

JANUARY 10, 2019

Question: We’re implementing analytics-enabled quality management to perform automated evaluation of customer interactions. In addition to AQM evaluations, it is a best practice for supervisors to conduct some live monitoring of interactions to facilitate in-the-moment agent coaching and/or recognition.

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Playvox

OCTOBER 18, 2022

a customer service center manager at a fitness company, shared, “We pay well, and we schedule two stand-up meetings daily to maintain face-to-face contact. We also manage the team with the utmost respect.”. We schedule virtual happy hours and one-on-one meetings with supervisors.”. Leanne Y., Philip A.,

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Best-in-class contact centers are able to engage employees and create a supportive, motivating culture. It starts with a foundation made up of the right technologies and best practices. You do this by implementing a full quality management program that ties together QA, coaching, and motivation.

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DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It looks to the future and provides best practices for post-pandemic disaster recovery/business continuity (DR/BC) planning, as well as for the management of work-at-home agents. Voice and screen recording capabilities allow managers to track their remote employees’ performance throughout the day.

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Playvox

MARCH 12, 2023

Regularly reviewing and refining response times can help ensure that your team is meeting customer expectations. If a new way to perform heart surgery was developed that ensured a 99.99% success rate, it would make sense for all practicing surgeons to study, learn, and implement this new operation.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 10, 2019

His service delivery is great because the restaurant has a very strong quality management and training team. So often I hear contact centers say: “We are looking for quality management and performance management, but we don’t really need workforce management.” Now, Pierre is an incredible server.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

You must assist the call center in ensuring the accuracy of its quality measurement procedures. This article decodes the function and best practices for call calibration. What needs to happen before you can meet your standards? What changes could be made to improve customer service delivery before meeting your standards?

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Talkdesk

JULY 16, 2019

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. Performance Management generally requires a number of tools like call recording , quality monitoring , coaching , and gamification.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

There are many variables to consider, and careful evaluation is necessary to find the right software to meet your call center’s unique needs. Meet Our Panel of Call Center Experts: Nenad Cuk. Others may baulk at the inordinate amount of time or effort to manage the process as well. Janeen Ansell. Rob Boirun. Peter Abah.

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Fonolo

MAY 7, 2015

As the supervisor of a contact center, your job is to make sure that your team of agents provides the best experience possible to your customers. This means being present for your teams to provide support and advice, for coaching and development, and to essentially guide them to success. Coach and Teach, Don’t Preach.

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Playvox

OCTOBER 12, 2022

What are Best Practices for Managing Remote Contact Center Agents? and Canadian contact center employees, these six management best practices will boost remote agent engagement and up your team’s customer experience game, both of which are critical to long-term success.

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Customer Centric Support

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

As Petra Coaching says, “A players will not play with C players for long.” This is nearly impossible if they look around and see agents that are not meeting expectations and nothing is done about it. This is nearly impossible if they look around and see agents that are not meeting expectations and nothing is done about it.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 21, 2016

A monitoring form should always reflect your goals, and should be thought of as a “work in progress” always being adapted to meet the current needs. Having the best quality monitoring technology can certainly help improve quality in your contact center. attitude that impedes getting buy-in during coaching sessions.

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Playvox

MARCH 27, 2023

Training programs should be designed to meet the specific needs of the contact center and its agents. It is important to regularly assess the effectiveness of training programs and make necessary adjustments to ensure that they are meeting the needs of both the agents and the customers.

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Playvox

MAY 4, 2023

When you’re integrating several digital channels, you need a good workforce management solution to lower handle times and provide more accurate forecasting data and capabilities across all channels. Taking it a step further, you also need a solution that takes a digital-first approach to quality management.

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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

One area where you can ease AI and automation into your contact center is in your quality management (QM) processes. Automated quality management helps quality analysts be more efficient in their work. What is Automated Quality Management? Let’s start by defining what is considered quality management.

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NICE inContact

JULY 10, 2018

As the digital landscape continues to evolve, businesses in all sectors face the challenge of adapting their strategy to stay competitive, and adjusting their infrastructures to meet customer expectations, to stay agile and flexible and to become more cost efficient. Focus on quality management. Measure performance.

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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. Workforce Management. Quality Management. What are the Benefits of using a WFO Solution? A true WFO suite includes a number of technologies. WFO TERMS TO KNOW. Process Automation. Call Recording.

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Netomi

JANUARY 5, 2022

As part of Qualtrics’ XM Institute, she focuses her efforts on helping organizations optimize their experience management (XM) programs. She leads the XM Institute’s research into CX and EX best practices and the broader organizational capabilities required for building loyalty by improving customer and employee experiences.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 6, 2019

We ended by detailing 7 best practices that we’ll detail here. 1) Centrally managing next generation digital interactions in the contact center. Companies that deliver this seamless movement will meet the expectations for their customers. 6) Ensuring holistic omnichannel management across all contact center operations.

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Taylor Reach Group

AUGUST 23, 2017

Management and their immediate Team Leaders define what those performance standards are. Best practice is for management to be transparent regarding what the performance standards are and why they are important. Status states (lunch, break, coaching, training, etc.). Quality Manager. Login time.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 6, 2019

We ended by detailing 7 best practices that we’ll detail here. 1) Centrally managing next generation digital interactions in the contact center. Companies that deliver this seamless movement will meet the expectations for their customers. 6) Ensuring holistic omnichannel management across all contact center operations.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

For many contact center recording is not a matter of choice due to industry regulations, while others record for quality, analytics, and coaching purposes. Quality Management & Agent Training. For most contact centers, without call recording, there is no quality management.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 13, 2019

It offers integrated tools to drive and empower agents, elevating performance and enabling contact center managers to quickly respond to meet or exceed their service level agreements (SLA). Managers can leverage their personal dashboards to monitor KPI performance and adapt on the fly.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 13, 2019

It offers integrated tools to drive and empower agents, elevating performance and enabling contact center managers to quickly respond to meet or exceed their service level agreements (SLA). Managers can leverage their personal dashboards to monitor KPI performance and adapt on the fly.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Job one: Delight customers with immediate resolution because you can meet them in their channels of choice with faster service that’s always personalized with the CRM customer information right at hand. user rating on App Exchange. Building customer loyalty and advocacy are a must have in today’s competitive customer experience economy.

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Callminer

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Meet Our Panel of Contact Center Experts & Business Leaders: Matthew Dailly. Best practice examples include: Hire, train, motivate, and retain top talent. Launch technology to automate, monitor, manage, and support all aspects of the customer experience. Peter Mann. Sturgeon Christie. Brett Prentiss. Grant Aldrich.

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Balto

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Call center quality management can present numerous challenges for your business. More often than not, you’ll find yourself dealing with one of the following two issues: a lack of data for accurate quality management, or an abundance of data with limited ability to transform it into useful insights.

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