Playvox

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This is more important now with the rise of contact center agents working remotely. But in a professional environment, a performance calibration meeting among leaders: Ensures accuracy and consistency of performance ratings: These sessions should clearly define each performance rating, so they’re awarded accurately and consistently.

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CCNG

JANUARY 17, 2024

and Canada are not actively engaged or are actively disengaged at work, despite these best efforts by contact center leaders. and Canada are not actively engaged or are actively disengaged at work, despite these best efforts by contact center leaders.

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Monet Software

AUGUST 11, 2020

There comes a point in the SMB call center and help desk evolution when, to put it bluntly, spreadsheets aren’t getting it done, and live call monitoring isn’t enough to meet heightened QM objectives. Suddenly, contact center leaders start asking themselves—is it time to establish a QM team ( gasp! )

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

With corporate budgets tightening, contact center leaders might be tempted to cut into your quality management funding. That in itself makes a strong case for keeping your contact center quality management budget intact, but the effects of a strong program go far beyond revenue. of their revenue due to bad experiences.

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Callminer

AUGUST 1, 2017

To gain some insights into the strategies and tactics call centers can use to boost efficiency and arm you with effective strategies you can put to use, we reached out to a panel of call center experts , managers and leaders and asked them to answer this question: “What is the most effective way for a contact center to increase efficiency?”.

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Contact Center Call Center Average Handle Time Real estate 334

Expivia

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This is when contact center outsourcing comes into play. Contact center outsourcing can take the weight of customer management off your shoulders. But, we’re getting ahead of ourselves… If you decide to outsource your contact center needs, you need to do it right. What Is Contact Center Outsourcing?

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Voxjar

JUNE 5, 2021

But, while some things are easy to rate, what do you do about more subjective things like customer […] The post Call Center Call Calibration - The Complete Guide appeared first on Voxjar: AI for Call Center Quality Assurance. QA is a very important component of customer satisfaction across industries.

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NICE inContact

DECEMBER 21, 2015

In order to have a successful and credible Quality Management program, calibrations should be included as a key driver. Calibrations ensure fairness for your internal staff, from a strategy perspective, and help deliver a consistent customer experience. Choose your calibration type. Be consistent with your calibration frequency.

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The Northridge Group

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In the contact center, one thing is certain: positive human connections between agents and customers are critical to building brand loyalty. In an industry that places an emphasis on human contact, what role does AI play in the contact center and how can data gathered from it be used to improve the customer experience?

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Contact Center Calibration Analytics Chatbots 124

Myra Golden Media

JULY 12, 2019

In this webinar I discuss exactly how to hold focused, fast and effective calibration meetings , I share my famous template “9 Steps for Coaching Customer Service Employees,” I provide sample monitoring forms I have designed for my own clients, and we explore scoring, and the best monitoring methods. Continue the Conversation with Me?

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Contact Center Calibration Coaching Feedback 136

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. Calibrate the Process Regularly. Data-driven feedback is most useful for helping agents improve, and this kind of calibration ensures consistency.

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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. By: Colin Taylor. A better approach is to look at the quality process as two sides of the coin.

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outsourcing Contact Center Calibration Abandon rate 98

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? A well-calibrated IVR system is the cornerstone for intelligent contact center automation.

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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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Contact Center Engineering Calibration Coaching 92

HGS

MARCH 18, 2015

Escape the Contact Center Paradox: Narrow your Focus. BPO contact centers that are most effective at reducing the noise of distracting facts and figures, to ensure emphasis on the BPO mission and relevant priorities, tend to be the most successful. Effective contact centers are very clear on what is most important.

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Contact Center Government Calibration Business Process Outsourcing 100

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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Best practices Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Average Handle Time 84

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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pindrop

AUGUST 16, 2021

Each KBA required to complete authentication increases the average handle time required to authenticate a caller and increases the average cost per call for the contact center. A more efficient authentication process is one that is capable of calibrating the authentication requirements based on the desired action of the caller.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Calibration Airlines 62

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? Naturally, an exceptional culture is the hardest thing to build, and equally as difficult to maintain.

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Myra Golden Media

JULY 15, 2019

Develop Calibration Strategy. Calibration (step six) is a necessary step to help you review objectives fairly. Develop Calibration Strategy. Calibration keeps everyone who monitors and coaches consistent and fair. Make sure you know how to calibrate, and that you schedule regular calibration meetings.

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Calibration Coaching Morale Feedback 153

Taylor Reach Group

JANUARY 11, 2018

The Contact Center outsourcing industry is a significant piece of the customer service and support landscape. Over the past decade, there has been a significant increase in client organizations focusing on the quality of the interaction and the satisfaction of the customer or prospect with their interactions via the Contact Center.

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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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BlueOcean

JANUARY 27, 2020

You can ask all the right questions in the contact center RFP and still struggle to understand how their culture might or might not align with your own. That’s why, if time and budget allow, we always recommend a site visit before you go to RFP ( read our Guide to On-Site Contact Center Visits here ). Got 15 minutes?

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Global Response

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Outsourcing a call center often raises many questions businesses must answer, including: Who is the best outsourcing contact center to partner with? Where will the outsourced call center team be located? How will an outsourced contact center partner protect my data? This is not the case.

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COPC

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

BACKGROUND The COPC Standards Committee is a group of industry leaders composed of the largest buyers and providers of customer experience (CX) operational services, including contact center support.  This powerful technology is becoming integral to customer service frameworks, especially in contact center operations.

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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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Coaching Contact Center Quality management Schedule adherence 77

Brad Cleveland Blog

JANUARY 27, 2017

Calibration is the process in which variations in the way performance criteria are interpreted from person to person are minimized. A high level of … Continue reading → The post Calibration Is Key to Improving Quality appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

MARCH 13, 2018

Calibration is an important tool for ensuring consistency in interpreting performance. It allows the coaching process to … Continue reading → The post Bring Quality Standards to Life with Calibration and Coaching appeared first on Brad Cleveland. It also makes coaching far easier.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 26, 2024

Interactive Voice Response (IVR) At the core of intelligent contact center automation lies a well-calibrated IVR system. This powerful tool serves as the cornerstone, revolutionizing the way your contact center operates. These components work together to create a cohesive, automated customer service ecosystem.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Call4You Marketing implemented NobelBiz Omni+, an advanced, full-featured cloud contact center solution equipped with an impressive stack of options and features that can be easily integrated, customized, and optimized to any contact center use case. RELATED ARTICLE What is IVR?

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Customer Service Life

JUNE 10, 2019

I have two scenarios for you regarding contact center quality assurance. There’s been a bit of a debate among my peers in the contact center industry in recent years over the relevance of quality scores and there are a couple hotly contested issues. Image by Amanda Powers from Pixabay. Click here to read the original.

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Call Center Weekly

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

I am constantly reminding everyone how important the QA team is to the contact center's success. Therefore, it is necessary that contact center leaders align quality and satisfaction. One way to do this is through QA calibrations. I have led or consulted contact centers of various sizes across numerous industries.

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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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Morale Gamification Contact Center Quality management 78

Brad Cleveland Blog

JANUARY 27, 2017

Calibration is the process in which variations in the way performance criteria are interpreted from person to person are minimized. A high level of calibration provides consistency, reduces the likelihood of agents questioning fairness, and is a means for continuously developing and assessing monitoring …

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Playvox

APRIL 21, 2023

Customer service has gone digital — and your contact center needs to evolve with the times. Make sure your contact center is set up for digital success behind the scenes so that you can provide the experiences your customers demand.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JANUARY 27, 2017

Calibration is the process in which variations in the way performance criteria are interpreted from person to person are minimized. A high level of calibration provides consistency, reduces the likelihood of agents questioning fairness, and is a means for continuously developing and assessing monitoring …

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Playvox

JANUARY 10, 2019

Quality assurance has the power to help any contact center or support department improve its customer experience.

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