Playvox

JUNE 10, 2022

Coaching your contact center agents on their performance can either fill everyone with dread or be a productive activity that you and your agents look forward to. Either way, it needs to be done, and arming yourself with a full set of coaching tips for contact center agents will ensure the sessions are productive.

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Playvox

JANUARY 13, 2022

Let’s take a look at what our clients around the world, in industries ranging from financial services to online food service delivery, say are the cloud contact center best practices they’ll carry into 2022. Quality Management (QM) Solution. Customer Chit-Chat. There were around 6.4 are long gone. Messaging Apps.

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Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

Operational costs – Agents who aren’t invested or lack training, feedback, or coaching tend to be inefficient, ultimately costing your business financially. However, the two main components are Quality Management and Workforce Management. Prevent and close employee skill gaps with a seamless integration to coaching.

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COPC

MARCH 11, 2024

If we are not, what strategies and timelines are we considering for implementing this best practice? Do new hires feel confident in managing their workload and responsibilities? What does the coaching process look like? Are we successfully engaging new hires and keeping them excited about joining our team?

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A related term, workforce engagement management (WEM), recently coined by Gartner, has rapidly become the business strategy, processes, and related technologies of choice. AI-driven tools and platforms are shaping the way contact centers engage with and manage their workforce. But it goes beyond enabling automation.

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DMG Consulting

JULY 26, 2018

Call Center Quality Assurance Best Practices for Empowering Agents. Contact center quality assurance (QA) remains a high-value application, particularly when it’s done right. Here are some best practices to help your company succeed with a QA initiative: Involve agents in the development of the QA program.

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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. So how can you effectively “treat” your contact center with invaluable coaching medicine? This is where an effective coach comes in.

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Enghouse Interactive

APRIL 17, 2019

Today, we’d like to give you some insight into the best practices for using omnichannel recording along with quality management in the contact center. Call recording has become a common contact center practice, with compound annual growth across the industry of 22%* into 2022.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 17, 2019

In a 2017 study titled Modern Standards for Managing Contact Center Quality, ICMI found a huge gap between the percentage of organizations that are using digital channels to communicate with customers and those that are using Quality Management (QM) to evaluate these channels.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 17, 2019

In a 2017 study titled Modern Standards for Managing Contact Center Quality, ICMI found a huge gap between the percentage of organizations that are using digital channels to communicate with customers and those that are using Quality Management (QM) to evaluate these channels.

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Playvox

JANUARY 12, 2023

Leading CX centers rely on world-class quality management and workforce management technologies to provide excellent service and support while improving efficiency and reducing costs. The Playvox study found 68% of agents working remotely 31-40 hours per week and most managers (64%) working remotely five or more days per week.

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Serenova

MAY 13, 2020

This is when quality management becomes essential. Quality management is a key contributor to boosting the customer experience because it pinpoints where your team is doing well, as well as areas for improvement. Before recording and analyzing any calls, clearly document the goals of your quality management program.

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Verint

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The latest technology to feel the touch of automation is quality management—the most widely deployed and utilized solution in the U.S. The results of Saddletree Research’s 2017 survey of end users, completed during the third quarter of 2017, reveals the relatively high level of market penetration of quality management in the U.S.

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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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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

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

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Understand that the problem is not empathy in itself but how it is coached. A better approach is to encourage closer collaboration between contact centre and quality teams, utilising automated Quality Management (QM) tools to highlight AHT anomalies and uncover trends that often skew the metric.

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DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

From presenting the best recommendations for handling objections to close a sale to supplying procedures to resolve customer inquiries or identifying approaches to increase collections, RTG solutions have countless possibilities.

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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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DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 2, 2022

These AI-based assistants function as virtual coaches, providing agents with context-based guidance obtained from knowledge bases, FAQs, intranets, and other sources as needed to improve agent efficiency, accuracy, and quality.

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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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Uniphore

JULY 1, 2021

Online communities that enable call center workers to commiserate on their struggles and share best practices have grown by 77% in membership, and by 75% in terms of daily conversations since January 2020. Increasingly, companies listen to their customers on social media, but what about their employees?”

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Serenova

MAY 1, 2020

Remote work environments can make performance monitoring, coaching and feedback challenging because the natural, ongoing interactions between supervisors and agents are missing. Quality management tools can provide much-needed efficiency. Provide Continuous, Individual Feedback. Keep It Real.

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JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

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. What is Contact Center Management? Contact center management is how managers run their contact center’s daily operations.

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CSM Magazine

APRIL 25, 2023

Embrace Brand Guardianship Competition is now fiercer than ever so encourage agents to become true brand guardians, taking the lead in influencing brand perception and sharing CX best-practice across the whole organisation.

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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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8x8

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Most companies have implemented some sort of training or coaching program within their corporate structure and contact center. To analyze the benefits of the training or coaching, a systematic evaluation process needs to be put in place. On this level, coaches should identify things that may facilitate or hinder knowledge transfer.

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8x8

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Most companies have implemented some sort of training or coaching program within their corporate structure and contact center. To analyze the benefits of the training or coaching, a systematic evaluation process needs to be put in place. On this level, coaches should identify things that may facilitate or hinder knowledge transfer.

Contact Center 48

Contact Center Coaching Quality management contact center solutions 48

8x8

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Most companies have implemented some sort of training or coaching program within their corporate structure and contact center. To analyze the benefits of the training or coaching, a systematic evaluation process needs to be put in place. On this level, coaches should identify things that may facilitate or hinder knowledge transfer.

Contact Center 48

Contact Center Coaching Quality management contact center solutions 48

Monet Software

MAY 29, 2018

Not just the script, but also a list of best practices and frequently asked questions. Peer-to-Peer Training Some contact centers have found that agents respond faster to training when it comes from another agent, rather than a manager or call center executive. Was there a selling opportunity missed?

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Playvox

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Because many customer service centers’ remote work policies require agents to maintain specific performance standards , managers cite solutions such as workforce management (29%) and quality management (26%) as other contact center software they turned to.

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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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Aspect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Here are some best practices to consider as you define or enhance your work from home program, specifically for your customer engagement center. If the agent is never required to come onsite, or cannot due to being too far away from the contact center location, infrastructure and quality management must be adequately addressed.

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Playvox

MARCH 12, 2023

Get in the habit of using quality management software with coaching to provide meaningful feedback and guidance to your agents. Use your leadership foundation to engage with agents about their metrics, where they’re excelling, and how they can improve.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 20, 2019

Traditionally quality management in the contact center has been focused on evaluating agent-assisted interactions — mainly phone. Incorporating evaluations on online assistants/chatbots and IVR into your quality management program could be the best and easiest place to start bridging this gap.

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NICE inContact

JULY 25, 2019

5) Provide Coaching. Offering a mentor or coach is crucial to keeping your agents around. It doesn’t have to be a time-consuming task either, you can unify coaching capabilities via powerful performance management. and quality management products. and quality management products.

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