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Contact Center Workforce Management Best Practices

Fonolo

Put it another way: if customer interactions are at the heart of a contact center’s success, then effective workforce management is the backbone. It enhances agent productivity, helps you deliver exceptional customer experiences and improves the agent experience , too.

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Service Level – Are You Measuring it the Wrong Way?

COPC

Overview Service level is one of the most important metrics for a contact center to measure and manage and has been in place since contact centers evolved. Organizations are missing opportunities to view this metric differently to manage customer service delivery and its associated costs more effectively.

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What’s Holding Back the Contact Center Industry?

Fonolo

Unfortunately, some contact centers still insist on a no-hangup rule (agents are penalized for ending a call) in order to improve or sustain metrics; and they do not offer moral or psychological support to front-line agents who live through some horrific experiences on the job. Call Center 101: The Golden Rules of SLAs.

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Workforce Optimization: What It is and Why You Need It

Playvox

It has however morphed from the days of regarding the call center as a cost center to realizing contact centers and the agents who work there are valuable contributors to the customer experience. However, the two main components are Quality Management and Workforce Management.

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Real-Time Adaptive Scheduling—WFM’s Next Evolutionary Step

DMG Consulting

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. This is a game changer for contact centers. View this document on the publisher’s website. Final Thoughts.

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7 Things Great Call Center Managers do Every Day

Fonolo

If you want your call center or department to be successful, it’s just not enough to ensure it’s working well or adhereing to some abstract call center management best practices. Handpicked related content for you: Top Customer Service Blogs to Read in 2020. You don’t operate in a vacuum.

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The Importance of Accurate Forecasting for Omnichannel Volume

Playvox

Contact centers have changed drastically in recent years. The once “in-person” centers dealing with inbound calls have been replaced by global, distributed customer experience teams. In addition, new online channels have emerged to help companies serve customers in an increasingly digital landscape.