Myra Golden Media

JULY 15, 2019

Need some guidance on how to develop and execute a quality program that is robust, fair, and that your employees buy-in to – and one that doesn’t make your supervisors need to sip wine just to get through a coaching discussion with employees? Design Coaching Strategy. Develop Calibration Strategy. Makes connection.

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CX Accelerator

DECEMBER 31, 2018

When we are honest with ourselves, we all know culture is the linchpin for everything we do in the Contact Center. From Jeremy Hyde: How do your leaders calibrate on what they “coach” on and how/when they approach it? Anything you want more feedback on?What Old school, cheesy, but totally on-point.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Optimizing team productivity is the key to achieving this goal, and this comprehensive guide will walk you through the steps necessary to unlock your call center’s full potential. What is hyper efficiency in a contact center? This technology is a component that takes calls and assigns them to the appropriate agent.

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Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

Does your contact center “talk the customer talk” but sometimes gets stuck when it comes to matching up customer expectations with service and support delivery by your agents? How Workforce Optimization Works in a Contact Center The most valuable asset in a customer service organization or contact center is your workforce.

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Serenova

MAY 13, 2020

For contact centers, that means customer patience may be waning at the same time agents are increasingly stretched and taxed under the weight of high (and higher) call volume. You can determine the coaching and training that will have the greatest impact on customer experience. Also, encourage their feedback in the process.

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Taylor Reach Group

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The old Contact Center Outsourcing (CCO) model is broken. This point and the futility or calibrating a 5 to 6 on a 10-point scale are why most quality programs actually offer no insight into actual quality. The second side of that coin is the direct customer feedback related to the specific interaction in question.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This not only helps in ensuring compliance with protocols but also provides opportunities for coaching and feedback based on actual performance. By identifying areas for improvement, call centers can increase the quality of service and customer satisfaction. RELATED ARTICLE What is IVR?

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Playvox

MARCH 12, 2024

Think about the last time you reached out to a contact center for one of the services or products that you purchased. You could have contacted the company in a multitude of ways — chat, text, social media, or even an “old-fashioned” telephone call.

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Customer Service Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

My first job out of college was as a frontline agent in the contact center for a SaaS startup — and over the next 15 years, I grew into a director role. But things have changed and I now find myself back in a contact center leadership role at a SaaS startup, and I’m now looking to execute on many of the lessons learned and shared.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Not only do contact center agents want additional flexibility in their work schedules, but many leaders saw that agents did not need to be in a defined office space to get their jobs done well. However, managing remote teams effectively comes with its own set of challenges.

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Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

The strain to balance taking care of employees to protect them from the coronavirus while maintaining business continuity continues for contact center leaders. As contact volume, customer anxiety and agent stress all still soar, what you once managed can now feel overwhelmingly un-manageable. Every time.

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Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

For most contact centers, surviving the first months of COVID-19 required swift operational reboots that began with major work-from-home (WFH) transitions. The strain of balancing the need to protect employees from the coronavirus while maintaining business continuity continues for contact center leaders. The Cloud.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 3, 2023

As businesses strive to provide exceptional customer experiences, call centers have become an increasingly important part of the customer service strategy. Contact centers are responsible for handling customer inquiries and complaints while providing solutions. Why is Call Center Quality Management Important?

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Customer Service Life

JANUARY 15, 2019

Over the past year or so I’ve had many conversations about contact center quality assurance — some of which I’ve shared in past articles. One of my favorite conversations is with contact centers leaders who don’t see a point in quality scores at all. Clearly verifying customers should be a priority when coaching Bob.

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Call Design

JULY 6, 2021

Here’s a list of 10 key metrics that can be used by contact centre managers to ensure the delivery of both strong customer experiences and financial performance through workforce efficiency. According to a Contact Center Helper report, 95.7% Calibration is key when measuring quality to ensure any suggestion of bias is removed.

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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. Coach the coaches so your QA specialists and supervisors are comfortable giving feedback to agents and don’t avoid this task.

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Etech GS

APRIL 1, 2019

If you know there is a bad interaction, do not choose to play it in a calibration session that is attended by a large group. Take the agent into an individual coaching session to discuss the interaction whether it be a chat, call, or social media contact. The ideal coaching session takes no more than 15 minutes.

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Taylor Reach Group

DECEMBER 7, 2018

A strong economy doesn’t directly cause contact center attrition, but it does provide employees and agents options that may not exist in a weaker economy. This element of choice, though, will magnify any internal issues and challenges that may exist in your contact center which can contribute to staff attrition.

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24-7 InTouch

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

By focusing on our team members’ experience , we improve results from a retention and employee engagement perspective, while also driving core contact center metrics such as CSAT, AHT, and attendance. Monitor: Evaluate the program goals previously established through regular reporting and calibration sessions.

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Customer Relationship Metrics

JULY 27, 2017

Far too many people that are responsible for Voice of the Customer programs in contact centers are consumed with getting their daily tasks done (and putting out the fires). Is it really helpful feedback if you are unable to know what action to take? How would you take action? Switch gears and think about a very short survey.

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Call Experts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The training continues with 3 weeks of on the job coaching, Quality Assurance monitoring, and regular feedback sessions with their trainers and leadership. Once completed, we provide a monthly continued education curriculum focused on areas like: providing impactful coaching. providing helpful feedback.

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Customer Service Life

MAY 31, 2018

It’s challenging to define a quality customer service interaction but essential if you’re going to deliver any level of consistent service to customers — let alone get agents and supervisors to all understand and agree on the standard ( this is called calibration ). Shift focus to coaching and excellence. Eliminate score haggling.

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Voxjar

JUNE 5, 2021

Two words: call calibration. In this guide, we’re going to cover everything you need to know about call calibration: what it is, why it matters, and how to do it to keep your customers—and call center agents—happy. What Is Call Calibration? What’s So Important About Call Calibration? Provide Feedback.

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SharpenCX

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Regular doses of agent feedback are like taking daily vitamin C. And, with every piece of feedback you give, your agents get stronger. Putting in the time to coach and train your team ensures you stop bad agent habits in their tracks. Agent scorecards are feedback tools to help you put intention behind your coaching moments.

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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

But how do AI and automation technologies actually help make your contact center more efficient? One area where you can ease AI and automation into your contact center is in your quality management (QM) processes. Quality Assurance, or QA, started in the contact center as a very compliance-driven process.

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Customer Service Life

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Not long ago I saw a demo of a cool product for gathering customer feedback called Stella Connect. This then led me to ask: Can and should customer feedback ever replace our own internal quality assurance efforts? Random quality audits aren’t dependent on customer feedback so they can review a more representative sample.

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Expivia

APRIL 1, 2021

It is up to you to coach your middle management to know and use the appropriate tone when working with their staff. Contact centers can be boring, brutal places to spend a day; make yours a fun environment that makes your reps want to come to work. Your team will take on the personality of their coach.

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Callminer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

She has a command to write on call center software and new technologies used in contact centers. But when the whole month has a lot of calls which were of all different types, the quality report – which can identify potential gaps and required agent coaching or training – may be delayed by many days. Gene Caballero.

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Voxjar

AUGUST 15, 2021

Call center scorecards are referred to by many names: quality assurance scorecard, customer service scorecard, quality scorecard, call center quality scorecard, and probably a few others. Plus, you’ll have a central location with all of the information you need to coach your call center reps.

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JustCall

APRIL 5, 2023

User Interface Comparison The user interface of your preferred VoIP or Cloud Contact Center service provider must be a blend of function and aesthetics. If anything, the UI design of JustCall is well-calibrated with strategic focal points, intuitive design elements, and interactive components that make the user experience delightful.

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Customer Relationship Metrics

JANUARY 11, 2017

Post-call IVR surveys allow you to capture the raw emotion of the contact center experience. Let’s explain why with a short example: Contact Center A: The post-call IVR survey was linked to a specific contact center agent. For more specifics, these were two financial services contact centers in this study.

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pindrop

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The contact center of the future is already here. Contact centers have been constantly transforming and reinventing themselves with a focus on improving customer experience. These trends have driven contact centers to invest in capacity increase, workflow automation, and process improvements.

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