NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Are you a call center operations manager striving to enhance your team’s productivity and deliver hyper efficiency in your daily operations? Hyper efficiency is a term used to describe the streamlining of processes to increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve customer service. Look no further!

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Callminer

AUGUST 1, 2017

Coping with unanticipated upticks in demand, staff turnover, and other common call center challenges only further complicate matters for managers working to create an efficient, productive, and effective team. Additionally, call centers can simply increase productivity with small investments in recognition & reward items.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Work Environment Don’t underestimate the power that the physical work environment can have on measurable outcomes like engagement, retention, productivity, and even quality. Today, 80% of industry leaders agree on the importance of AI, bots, and automation – even for agent-assisted tasks.

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Callminer

APRIL 21, 2020

Call center managers may be involved with hiring and training call center agents , monitoring call center metrics tied to agent performance , using speech analytics tools for ongoing quality monitoring , providing ongoing feedback and coaching, and more. Productivity and creativity come from the outside…”. Build a diverse team.

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Balto

AUGUST 3, 2022

We surveyed 361 executives across the United States for the purpose of this survey. Figure 1: Geographic Distribution of Survey Participants. Figure 2: Gender Distribution of Survey Participants. Figure 3: Age Distribution of Survey Participants. Figure 4: Title Breakdown of Survey Respondents. Demographics.

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Lynn Hunsaker, CEO and Head Customer Experience Consultant at ClearAction @ clearaction | blog “Customers’ discernment of providers’ motives will continue to sharpen in the future. Peter Lavers, Customer Experience and CRM Expert @ PeterLavers | blog "Customer Experience is here to stay! Read the full answers here below. And why not?

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TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) – the science that deals with the creation of human-like learning and reasoning capabilities – has been catapulted into the spotlight in recent years. It seems like every company in every industry wants to harness the power of AI to enhance operations and positively impact the lives of their customers.

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Global Response

AUGUST 7, 2023

Before you set them free to make decisions and take ownership of their work, make sure that you support them with the necessary training, coaching and mentoring to feel confident in their abilities to do so. When you support your employees outside of the office, you create a more supportive—and productive—environment inside the office.

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ProProfs Blog

MAY 6, 2020

The above screenshot comes from the Deloitte Millennial Survey of 2017 that shows the percentage of millennials reporting that their employers have adopted flexible arrangements. Source: Deloitte Millennial Survey. Adding more to this surprise is the fact that 91% of employees feel more productive while working from their homes.

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Calabrio

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This guest post is authored by Steven Kaish , SVP, Product Marketing & Technical Partners at Glia. “I Patterns and trends from ACD reports, quality surveys and staffing systems, for example, can guide better decisions for routing rules, staff schedules and agent coaching programs.

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JustCall

MARCH 9, 2023

In this blog, we will understand the benefits of using sales gamification the right way, the top-3 sales gamification software to consider, as well as some interesting sales gamification examples. You can also use these gamification tools to boost the productivity of your trainees during or after their agent onboarding process.

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Calabrio

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This guest post is authored by Steven Kaish , SVP, Product Marketing & Technical Partners at Glia. “I Patterns and trends from ACD reports, quality surveys and staffing systems, for example, can guide better decisions for routing rules, staff schedules and agent coaching programs.

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Uniphore

JUNE 15, 2021

Innovators Rethink processes and seek new ways to improve productivity. Through automation and AI, you can harmonize your existing platforms and processes to operate more efficiently and improve satisfaction scores. Source: forester † Enghouse Interactive Agent Wellbeing Survey. How Customers Think About the Agents They Talk To.

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Lumoa

OCTOBER 31, 2018

It’s predicted, that by 2020 customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator when making consumer choices. Some hints: big data, omnichannel, personalisation, AI and organizational culture. Much of the improvement has been driven by advancements in product innovation and digital technology.

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Call Experts

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Turnover causes a considerable loss of productivity and recruitment related investments. Continued education training, mentoring and coaching programs also help your team feel more respected and supported. Boost employee engagement while making your team more involved, productive and motivated. More Blogs Menu.

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Noble Systems

JANUARY 30, 2019

After researching several articles, white papers and ebooks on the topic, this blog’s intention is to bring clarity to what the experts are saying. In Part 1 of this blog we will discuss the “Human” category trends. Effective agent training and coaching have been a top priority for contact centers for a long time.

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Integrity Solutions

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Digital transformation is introducing a vast array of sales technology systems and tools into the sales process, from the CRM to quoting software to AI applications that provide cues during calls and everything in between. The Value of a Great Coach. There’s also the question of what that onboarding and training time is being used for.

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Integrity Solutions

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A recent study showed more than half of those surveyed (58%) said their customer service expectations are higher today than they were before the pandemic. In an age of AI and technological innovation, great service still boils down to the human factor. Managers have to coach and set expectations around a customer-focused approach.

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Customer Service Life

MAY 21, 2018

This article was originally published on the ICMI Blog on March 29, 2018. I think we can agree that CSAT (or NPS or Customer Effort) are clearly customer experience metrics because customers are responding to those surveys based on their experience. Use AI to augment agent performance as it makes sense.

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Noble Systems

JANUARY 30, 2019

After researching several articles, white papers and ebooks on the topic, this blog’s intention is to bring clarity to what the experts are saying. In Part 1 of this blog we will discuss the “Human” category trends. Effective agent training and coaching have been a top priority for contact centers for a long time.

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Vistio

JULY 11, 2022

So products currently using conversational AI chat bots, virtual assistance, are based on, I like this term, “weak AI” In other words, a small range of tasks that are performed for customers on demand. Well, AI is still evolving as we just said. And I think it’ll take some time.

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Help Scout

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Before recruiting anyone, think about the makeup of your teams, and run a demographic and inclusion survey so you have real data to work with. I also recommend getting familiar with targeted job sites and communities to attract wider candidate pools, such as Power to Fly , Tech Ladies , Women in Product , and POCintech. Cheers, Leah.

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3CLogic

JANUARY 24, 2024

As organizations are ramping up their digital transformation strategies to meet the immediate and personalized experiences required by today’s customers, it’ s no surprise Conversational AI is emerging as the fastest-growing segment within the contact center space. Why should you consider using AI in your contact center?

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

According to the Customers 2020 Report, by 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator. These businesses strive to identify what their customers want, and do their utmost to fulfill their needs, wants and requirements with the products and services that they offer.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has permeated many aspects of our work and personal lives. From driving assistance to data analysis to chatbots, generative AI (GenAI) is finding its usefulness in a host of ways across all industries. One of the most impactful uses is how AI is transforming customer experience (CX).

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3CLogic

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Research has shown that 80% of customers value the experience an organization provides just as much as its products or services and that 71% of customers base their purchase decision on how good the customer service experience is. Nevertheless, it’s crucial to remember that any AI technology is only as effective as the data it has access to.

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Netomi

JANUARY 5, 2022

So much so, we built the best chatbot and AI tool to help automate the low touch, mundane tasks support teams are inundated with. He’s the author of Be Your Customer’s Hero, the founder of the popular Customers That Stick® blog, and the co-host of the Crack the Customer Code podcast.

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aircall

APRIL 16, 2021

Sometimes, it makes perfect sense to buy a product. Other times, it makes sense to pay for a product only for the amount of time you need it, like by the month or the year. Improve productivity. Spend more time on identifying the right tech stack to improve productivity and efficiency. You’re not stuck with it.

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AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Rapid innovation and improvement in generative AI has captured our mind and attention and as per McKinsey & Company’s estimate , applying generative AI to customer care functions could increase productivity at a value ranging from 30–45% of current function costs.

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Playvox

MARCH 21, 2024

Let’s face it — no one contacts your contact center to tell the person who answers the phone, text, or chat to tell your organization that they love your brand, service, or product. Along with training, it is important to provide timely coaching to your agents. Research supports this statement.

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Hodusoft

JUNE 7, 2024

In this blog, we have highlighted how call center management can be made seamless using call center software or contact center software while tracking essential metrics and executing standard call center management practices. The way a call center is managed goes a long way in determining its success or failure.

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JustCall

APRIL 12, 2023

If you’ve been using Gong and are looking for a Gong alternative, this blog is for you. JustCall integrates all the important functionality needed within a contact center software – calls, messaging, calendar, automation, AI, and others – in a single, easy-to-use platform.

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Etech

DECEMBER 26, 2019

You read that right: while artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics continue to grow and become increasingly important for sustained success, so will human intelligence (HI). Read on for five predictions on what’s ahead and how AI and HI will need to work hand in hand to reach their maximum potential.

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Etech

DECEMBER 26, 2019

You read that right: while artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics continue to grow and become increasingly important for sustained success, so will human intelligence (HI). Read on for five predictions on what’s ahead and how AI and HI will need to work hand in hand to reach their maximum potential.

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Customer Service Life

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

This article originally appeared on the CustomerThink blog as part of my monthly column on June 12, 2018. Not long ago I saw a demo of a cool product for gathering customer feedback called Stella Connect. This is something a quality team would catch that a survey wouldn’t. In most cases nowadays, these surveys are automated.

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JustCall

APRIL 5, 2023

They provide voice and video capabilities across borders to improve collaboration, communication, and productivity. Smarter Collaborative Working JustCall is developed for companies that wish to harness collaborative functioning to unify teams and embrace heightened productivity, efficiency, and skill optimization.

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Hodusoft

JUNE 27, 2024

In this blog, you will get to explore the importance of omnichannel strategies in enhancing CX and how contact center software can support omnichannel strategies in the BFSI sector. Companies that provide a variety of financial products and services fall under the umbrella term BFSI. Let’s get started!

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