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Call Center Workforce Management

NobelBiz

Based on a NobelBiz Webinar (Call Center Talent Acquisition & Hiring for Success) , this article aims to understand what the call center workforce market looks like in the present day and provide practical solutions for achieving proficient hiring, training, and workforce management processes.

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What Is Workforce Management in a Call Center?

Global Response

As you consider shifts and agent hours, you’ll also want to ensure you factor in “non-call” work such as after-call processing, training and coaching, breaks, time off and other responsibilities that add to agents’ weekly or daily time. Are your forecasting models accurate?

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How Workforce Optimization Can Help You Reach Greater Heights

Etech GS

As the name suggests, contact center workforce optimization involves using managerial practices to ensure maximum productivity meets maximum efficiency. Naturally, this is just a general idea of how call center workforce optimization works. How To Implement Workforce Optimization. Training and Coaching.

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Remote Control: Managing Work at Home Contact Center Agents

Monet Software

How WFM and QM combine to engage an offsite call center workforce and deliver superior CX. High-speed internet, cloud-based applications and other technologies have opened a new vista for the call center—the remote agents. Feedback mechanisms to ensure communication is a two-way street.

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Improving Collaboration Between Workforce Management Departments and Operations Departments

Insite Managed Solutions

Supplemental topics should include milestones, team members, definitions, and some type of data collection checklist to include Service Levels by Interval, Adherence by shift, Absenteeism, and weekly % of agents who received coaching. Other topics should include ideas for improvement and goals should be adjusted if needed based on feedback.

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Essential Technologies in Call Center Workforce Management

Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

Humana deployed artificial intelligence software trained to detect conversational cues, to coach call-center agents and supervisors, in real-time, when calls with customers were going awry. BI frees managers to do the job they were hired to do: manage call center agents. Other Tools.

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Whisper Coaching to Train Remote Employees

Calltools

Having the right tools and techniques at your disposal can help you develop a team of call center agents that are effective. What is whisper coaching? In short, whisper coaching or call whispering as it is sometimes referred to is when a sales manager “whispers” in the ears of a call center agent during a call.