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Speech Analytics 101: Understanding The Basics

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Customer calls provide invaluable insights into customer experience, call center processes, service quality, and emerging trends within the industry. However, due to the high call volume, manual analysis of these calls becomes impractical, which prevents revealing such insights. What is Speech Analytics?

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Planning for the call center hybrid workforce

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In a recent CCNG event, I spoke about the trends that I’m seeing globally in call centres. Richard Kenny is an 18 year veteran of the contact center industry, working as the Senior Product Marketing Manager, Contact Centre & Unified Communications for Poly (formerly Plantronics).

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The Best CX is Created by the Best EX

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I felt bad, as I had convinced him to try a career in Call Centers since he didn’t have a college degree and had asked me for career advice. I had started on the phones myself and knew that Call Centers are still one of the few places you can earn your way up the ladder without having a degree.

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Who Is Today's Call Center Agent?

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Our industry does a nice job of illustrating the functions agents perform inside a call center or from work-at-home. How can we effectively recruit, train, develop, and retain talent if we don't know who we are hiring or why they're applying for a call center job in the first place? Let's jump right in. ?

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The Contact Center is the Core of any Truly Connected Enterprise

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Once the rest of the organization realizes the gold mine of data that the contact center can provide, it can only get better from there. Now you can start to include the next-level tech that is revolutionizing how our industry (the call center) is perceived. uttered by other departments. Let's make that a distant memory.

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Call Center Metrics and KPIs to Measure Performance and Productivity

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There is a great deal of debate about what metrics call centers should measure now, especially with COVID-19 and the accompanying shift to work-at-home agents, staffing shortages, and persistent supply chain issues straining customers’ patience. Times have changed, and where necessary, call center and BPO metrics must change with them.

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THE ADDED VALUE OF TEAM EQUITY IN CONTACT CENTERS

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This approach will allow supervisors to effectively and efficiently manage their teams. The team will have confidence their supervisor is managing with integrity and fairness. Also, contact centers should ensure each supervisor/team manager has the skills, attitudes, zeal, and basic desire to manage people.