Fonolo

MARCH 29, 2022

What does efficiency mean to call center leaders? Perhaps it’s reducing the volume of customer escalations, or improving certain performance metrics like Average Handle Time or First Call Resolution. There’s a lot that goes into running an efficient call center. Why workforce management?

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JustCall

JANUARY 19, 2023

Call centers are established to meet the demands of customers. A good call center optimization can match the customer’s expectations with the best level of customer service. Customers have higher expectations than ever before, and call centers are finding it more and more difficult to live up to those expectations.

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Expivia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Call center reporting is the only way to know how your contact center is performing. From daily performance reports to identifying seasonal trends, reporting is an art form in the call center that defines the past, present, and future of your organization. What Is Call Center Reporting?

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Global Response

MAY 1, 2023

Is workforce management really necessary for call centers? The short answer is yes, but if you’re currently swimming in a sea of workforce management softwares, or looking for ways to make your call center processes more efficient, it might seem overwhelming.

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Balto

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In this guide, we’ll help you understand what call center workforce management is and why it’s important. We’ll also share some actionable tips that can inspire your workforce management strategy. What Is Call Center Workforce Management? Are your agents doing what they’re supposed to do efficiently?

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JustCall

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Frontline customer care call center executives can often be exhausted. According to a recent report – 13% to 16% of the call center workforce is disengaged, with nearly 70% still not classified as busy at work. How Essential are Call Center Incentive Ideas ?

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Babelforce

MAY 18, 2022

Call center forecasting is a set of practices that aims to determine the contact volume and number of agents needed to handle that contact volume over a set period of time. To increase forecast accuracy, use Excel and Workforce Management software. Call center forecasting fundamentals. Workforce forecasting.

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Insite Managed Solutions

JANUARY 18, 2016

Capacity Planning is the next component in managing your workforce. As you are reviewing the details of the plan, it’s important to ensure you have enough time to recruit and train call center agents before you need them. From there, Scheduling is the 3rd component in the plan.

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Dialer 360

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

For call center optimization you need to think about improving your customer experience. While providing outstanding customer service should always be the aim of a call center, it shouldn’t be your primary objective. Your business needs to focus on raising the standard of the call center for it to stay competitive.

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Win the Customer

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Metrics and statistics can’t measure the personality of employees, their ability to relate with callers, or the value they bring to an interaction. Concrete customer feedback metrics, KPIs and CRM systems can be considered as the ‘science’ behind call centers, but the soft skills of call center agents are considered as the art.

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Fonolo

MAY 30, 2023

Managers know that call center workforce management matters. Put it another way: if customer interactions are at the heart of a contact center’s success, then effective workforce management is the backbone. That’s why contact centers are investing in it in droves. It’s a great idea – and an obvious one.

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NobelBiz

MAY 22, 2022

The 2020 pandemic started a cascade of unforeseen changes and transformations that radically changed the contact center world. As a response to the pandemic lockdowns, call center businesses rushed to move their operations to the cloud and implement work-from-home systems ASAP. She has managed multiple call centers in the US.

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CSR Inc.

JANUARY 8, 2017

First some good news: call centers aren’t going away this year (well, not exactly – but more on that later). And while call centers are expected to see an uptick in staffing in 2017 ( did you know that 4% of working Americans – about 5 million – already work in a call center ?) 2017…yes, we made it!

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Insite Managed Solutions

DECEMBER 23, 2015

3 Ways Call Center Supervisors Can Reduce Costs Here are 3 different ways call center supervisors can positively drive financials in your center. All of these metrics are managed by the supervisor and they make a vast impact in your P&L. Turning a Contact Center into a Profit Center.

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Playvox

MAY 24, 2023

For just about any business or department, metrics are crucial to measuring performance. For the typical contact center, metrics are the key to identifying the reason behind a bad day and being able to create operational efficiency that helps avoid a repeat. Let’s break down these three key metrics.

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Monet Software

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

How to treat employee burnout and reinvigorate call center engagement for the long haul. Do you feel it spreading through your contact center workforce? As we mentioned in our previous post about short-term employee engagement for contact centers , burnout isn’t a sudden-onset problem. Loss of confidence.

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Playvox

JUNE 22, 2023

Tracking, reporting, and improving upon metrics are essential across all areas of business, including finance, sales, marketing, and contact center management. Understanding the key call center efficiency metrics to track , and more importantly, how to improve them, will set you up for success and help keep your customers happy.

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Monet Software

APRIL 24, 2020

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. Switching to an entirely remote workforce can solve many staffing challenges.

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Improved agent efficiency and productivity turn call centers from a cost into a profit. While agents hold the keys to your company’s success, they are also the most expensive resource you have – accounting for 60% to 70% of expenses in a contact center. Leading Technologies for Workforce Management in Call Centers.

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SharpenCX

JUNE 16, 2020

As a manager of a call center, you may be panicking a little. Workforce and engagement management is possible in a hybrid call center. Let’s consider some ways you can apply workforce management and engagement management techniques in your contact center. Don’t freak out – you’ve got this.

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Insite Managed Solutions

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Building Blocks of Workforce Management Know the Metric Deliverables – There are a lot of different factors that go into making workforce management successful. Forecasting & Requirements – Once you have your metrics, you should now understand what drives your business. Turning a Contact Center into a Profit Center.

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Dialer 360

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

It doesn’t matter what category of call center you are planning to set up. This is important to remember setting up call center requires a considerable investment of time and money. Even though, you may able to outsources most of the work and manage the call center set up procedures.

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NobelBiz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Welcome back to our journey through the intricate world of call center management! In our previous installment, we peeled back the layers of the challenges that often remain hidden beneath the surface, impacting call center executives’ day-to-day operations. Read part one here.

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Cisco - Contact Center

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Webex Experience Management (formerly CloudCherry), our new customer experience management solution, is integrated into the Cisco agent desktop providing agents and supervisors with customer sentiment, journey insights, and feedback metrics in real-time. Innovative AI-Powered Self-Service.

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Insite Managed Solutions

MAY 23, 2013

Top 10 Technological Contact Center Trends Cloud: Cloud-based infrastructure is the fastest growing area in the call center industry, which DMG predicts will almost double between 2013 and 2015. Video Support: Video is making its way to the call center; thanks to the amount and detail of information it provides customers.

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Monet Software

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Tips for maintaining contact center engagement, no matter the season. The holiday season is fast approaching and employees are starting to check out mentally, as if they’re suffering from the call center version of high school “senior-itis.”. It’s that time again. comes to a close. 4 Upgrade support. Spend as much time (or more!)

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Monet Software

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

As a manager, you are in the perfect position to implement modern solutions to improve morale in your call center. Workforce engagement management, a relatively new term in the market, combines solutions that help drive employee engagement through listening to the voice of your employee. Contact us today for a demo.

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Calltools

JUNE 10, 2020

Training call center agents in-person can be challenging and mentally draining. Having the right tools and techniques at your disposal can help you develop a team of call center agents that are effective. Call coaching helps provide information to improve an agent’s ability to engage the customer.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

APRIL 29, 2011

If your organization is seeing call center workload patterns that are somewhat different than in similar historical months and years, you’re not alone. Unfortunately, many managers rely on metrics that are summarized over overly-large blocks of time and lose visibility of problem areas. are certainly no mystery.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

APRIL 29, 2011

If your organization is seeing call center workload patterns that are somewhat different than in similar historical months and years, you’re not alone. Unfortunately, many managers rely on metrics that are summarized over overly-large blocks of time and lose visibility of problem areas. are certainly no mystery.

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Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In the contact center, WFM provides the necessary metrics to gain insights into the number of agents and supervisors with the right skill sets that are required to complete the work at any given time of day, week or month. What is Workforce Optimization (WFO)? How does WFO work in the Call Center?

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