Fonolo

AUGUST 17, 2021

Luckily, a successful call center is within reach. With some careful thought and these helpful tips, you can optimize your call center’s performance: 1. With the latest call center technologies, identifying and measuring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is a breeze. Use metrics and act on them.

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SoliCall

AUGUST 2, 2023

Increasing the performance of agents in call centers is crucial for delivering exceptional customer service and achieving business goals. Here are seven ways to enhance agent performance in call centers: 1 – Comprehensive Training. 2 – Performance Feedback and Coaching.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

As a call center leader, you rely on your call center managers to ensure everything runs smoothly. All companies have different methods for measuring call center performance, including productivity and efficacy of operations. But, who evaluates the call center manager? DID YOU KNOW?

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TechSee

JUNE 4, 2019

Nowhere is that truer than in call center training – bringing new agents up to speed on products, processes and the productivity expected of them. Traditionally, contact centers have trained new agents using one-on-one coaching or classroom-style role-playing, where the focus is on imparting knowledge and customer service etiquette.

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TechSee

APRIL 16, 2019

But thanks to a new wave of fresh approaches, that reality could be ripe for change as enterprises set about building a call center culture of excellence. What Matters Most to Contact Center Managers. Contact center managers need clear strategies to create efficient, productive and effective teams.

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Fonolo

APRIL 15, 2020

It takes constant support and coaching to make sure that your customer service reps are staying on top of their duties while providing the best possible experience for the customers. If you’re just starting out or are building a new team, here are a few things to keep in mind when you’re training, supporting and coaching agents.

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Balto

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Working to manage a call center has many moving parts and can often create a feeling of drinking from a firehose for those who are newer to a managerial role. Perhaps you’re already in call center management or an agent aspiring to work your way up and are seeking to learn more about what all is involved.

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COPC

JANUARY 15, 2024

We will focus on the importance of the first 90 days, reasons new hires leave during this period, and tips to increase the likelihood of a new hire becoming a long-time employee. Call centers typically see ~70% or more of their first-year attrition within the first 90 days. 

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OctopusTech

JULY 27, 2022

Call centers quality monitoring plays the most important role in delivering customer service. Operators working in the call center deal with large call volumes regularly, interact with different users, gather their responses, and deliver them to the top-level departments. What Is Call Quality?

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SharpenCX

JANUARY 23, 2020

Only one in four employees think that their managers deliver meaningful feedback, or that the feedback they get helps them work better. What’s worse, a slim 21% of employees think their performance is managed in a way that motivates them to do outstanding work. Ask what barriers you can knock down for your team.

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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The system tracks your movements and provides feedback and points based on how well you’re keeping up. You can apply this simple but powerful concept in a contact center to encourage agents to improve their quality, productivity, and effectiveness. Related: Three Highly Effective Strategies to Retain Call Center Employees.

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Quality Contact Solutions

JUNE 24, 2021

How many people do you know that look forward to calling into a call center services provider for a question or issue they may have? So it is time for call centers to flip the script and change that perception. Given this, call centers are also in a desirable position to help impact their customers’ experience.

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Serenova

JULY 7, 2020

Six Call Center Training Tips & Best Practices for Better Customer Experience. Now more than ever, as we increasingly experience life remotely, the most important— sometimes only—interactions we have with brands are through call centers. 6 Steps and Best Practices for Your Best Call Center Staff Training Program.

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Playvox

MARCH 12, 2024

When you’re working in a contact center, this is your reality — taking contact after contact, call after call, from people who either need support or are angry about their experience with your company’s product or solution. The importance of agent motivation in a call center cannot be overstated.

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SharpenCX

JUNE 22, 2021

Designing an effective training program in a call center is no easy task. But as those new hires become seasoned employees, their initial training fades, and you need to supplement it with new knowledge. Well-trained call center agents are essential to your customer loyalty. They also encourage self-coaching.

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Noble Systems

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

But in order to ensure that this is so, every employee must also have an equally wonderful experience at work every day. So, in order to be truly customer-centric, you must first become employee-centric. Getting and keeping contact center employees engaged is foundational to accomplishing this objective.

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Noble Systems

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

But in order to ensure that this is so, every employee must also have an equally wonderful experience at work every day. So, in order to be truly customer-centric, you must first become employee-centric. Getting and keeping contact center employees engaged is foundational to accomplishing this objective.

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SharpenCX

MARCH 24, 2021

Does your call center need a software and process makeover? If you want to keep up with the Joneses, you may have heard joining the fleet of cloud call centers is on the radar of most customer service leaders. But finding the best cloud software for your call center’s needs can feel daunting.

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Playvox

JULY 14, 2023

To ensure your contact center agents spend a vast majority of their time with customers resolving issues and as little time as possible on administrative tasks and after-call work, agents need the right kind of tools, processes, coaching, motivation, and goals in place. How are managers delivering coaching?

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Playvox

MARCH 19, 2024

AI enables customer service organizations to: Perform routine, simple tasks that are usually done by a human, improving productivity Automate basic requests that improve customer experiences Enable the workforce to efficiently handle more complex requests Contact center leaders tend to leverage AI for task automation as the low-hanging fruit.

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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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SharpenCX

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

As a manager, your executive team is consistently pushing you to keep employees engaged, reduce turnover, increase profitability and efficiency. We’ve compiled four employee training templates to give you practical strategies to increase learning and training in your contact center. I understand. Where do you start?

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COPC

MAY 23, 2023

This article uses insights from the following research to reveal the quantifiable impact of contact center team leaders on employee satisfaction, retention and performance. US Employee Engagement Research Report COPC Inc. Enabling Team Leader Success COPC Inc.’s In fact, according to COPC Inc.

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SharpenCX

MARCH 30, 2021

Data and analytics power your contact center. Yet still, some leaders are stuck scratching their heads, trying to figure out how to harness all the power of the data sitting in their call center technology. And to get there, you need to unify your call center technology so your data can work for you.

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Dialer 360

JANUARY 8, 2019

Call center team engagement isn’t a science. These are engaging an organization’s talent. At the essential part of rep’s engagement is similar to any industry. The fantastic ideas about employee engagement are here. Why Is Employee Engagement Important Topic Today?

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Playvox

MARCH 21, 2024

Let’s take a deeper look at the factors that influence employee engagement and morale. Definition of Agent Morale Agent morale refers to the overall satisfaction, motivation, and mental well-being of customer service representatives in a contact center. All of this leads to better agent morale.

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CX Global Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Here is an edited transcript of my interview with Al Cook: Jim Rembach: Hey, this is Jim from the Fast Leader Show and Call Center Coach and I’m here with Al Cook of Twilio. How do we surface what they need to be focusing on to help coach their team, to help quality manage their team? Al Cook: Well, thanks Jim.

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JustCall

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Remote call center employees feel they can be more flexible, productive, and satisfied while working from home. Work from home call centers must deal very cautiously with employees who prefer to work from home. Work from home call centers must deal very cautiously with employees who prefer to work from home.

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Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

It has however morphed from the days of regarding the call center as a cost center to realizing contact centers and the agents who work there are valuable contributors to the customer experience. Prevent and close employee skill gaps with a seamless integration to coaching. What is Workforce Optimization?

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Serenova

JULY 7, 2020

Six Call Center Training Tips & Best Practices for Better Customer Experience. Now more than ever, as we increasingly experience life remotely, the most important— sometimes only—interactions we have with brands are through call centers. 6 Steps and Best Practices for Your Best Call Center Staff Training Program.

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Contact Center Pipeline

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Despite the critical role that they play in employee satisfaction and retention, frontline supervisors often are not provided with the training on how to drive engagement through coaching.

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SharpenCX

MAY 12, 2020

Back in college, I took a customer service job one summer working in a call center for a nationwide moving service. Day one you’re handed large amounts of information to learn, systems to get acclimated with, and told to listen to phone calls taken by your peers. The onboarding process in any call center can feel daunting.

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SharpenCX

MAY 26, 2020

It’s common for some business leaders to view their contact center teams as an afterthought. This isn’t helped by contact centers’ notoriously high turnover rates. Call center jobs are, too often, chalked up as entry-level roles. With effective and frequent customer service training and coaching.

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Talkdesk

JULY 16, 2019

Call Center Performance Management is a program, generally led by a contact center operations manager, dedicated to calculating and improving the performance of contact center agents. Performance Management generally requires a number of tools like call recording , quality monitoring , coaching , and gamification.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Are you a call center operations manager striving to enhance your team’s productivity and deliver hyper efficiency in your daily operations? Today, hyper efficiency is no longer a luxury but a necessity for call centers looking to thrive and outperform their competition. What is hyper efficiency in a contact center?

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Playvox

MARCH 5, 2024

In response to these trends and preferences, contact center leaders are retooling and streamlining quality management processes, leveraging AI along the way. In addition, AI-powered workforce management software elevates employee engagement and empowers agents by supporting shift swaps within the team as well as time off requests.

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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.

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