SharpenCX

AUGUST 31, 2021

They have increased employee engagement, a stronger company culture, and foster a comfort that empowers employees to communicate freely. A lot of data is coming in and out of your contact center platform throughout the busy day. This is where a call center dashboard comes in. How engaged are our employees?

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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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Call Center Weekly

JULY 24, 2017

As agents get developed, whether it be through coaching, training, or one-on-one conversations, leadership is offered the opportunity to strengthen the bonds of trust between them. When the front line has confidence in the leadership team, they will be more open to coaching, modifying their behaviors, and they’ll adapt to change easier.

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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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Monet Software

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Can SMB call center quality management be about more than quality? Yep, it’s the linchpin of employee engagement, too! Monitoring and scoring calls—these quality assurance (QA) tasks are constant at nearly every contact center. Call review and coaching sessions contribute to team building.

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Fonolo

APRIL 27, 2020

Now, more than ever, your call center agents need your support. It’s never been more important for call center managers to support their agents. Here are our top tips for engaging remote employees and keeping agent morale high, so that you and your team can go (virtually) unimpeded for as long as you need to.

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CX Global Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

For many, managing morale and employee engagement in a contact center is a complete mystery. Regardless of how lost you feel now, join Joachim “Joe” Rogers, Senior Director of Customer Care Center for Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Attend and learn how to get and keep employees engaged and wanting to work for you.

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Call Center Weekly

JULY 18, 2017

Managing Out of Fear If you have a good employee who is performing well, and meeting their requirements, you are doing well. Constantly checking up, interrogating, or otherwise showing you do not trust them to do their job will decrease their productivity, morale, and performance. This should be avoided unless warranted.

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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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CX Global Media

JUNE 5, 2017

In an article written by long-time contact center industry analyst Brendan Read and author of Designing the Best Call Center for Your Business he interviewed Dr. John Triano, director of the Texas Back Institute’s (Plano, TX) chiropractic division, and resident ergonomics expert. Improving Employee Morale.

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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

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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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Operating a successful contact center is rarely a simple undertaking. As any customer support manager knows, there are a number of crucial factors that come into play when looking to succeed in the call center world. We often hear from call center managers who are trying to improve their call metrics with our solutions.

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CSR Inc.

JULY 17, 2016

Earlier this month, I discussed the growing trend towards home-based call center agents. But the role of tech in the call center industry stretches well beyond enabling virtual agents. Gamification I had written about call center ‘employee incentive’ or ‘rewards-driven’ programs (gamification) last year.

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Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

To keep turnover under control, you have to make sure your managers are trained to keep engagement up and morale high. Related Article: 7 Smart Ways to Reduce Call Center Turnover Forever The Role Of A Manager In Agent Well-Being Few things have a bigger impact on your agents’ emotional well-being than how they’re managed.

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CX Global Media

JULY 12, 2019

About Michael Replogle : International Executive Vice President who has successfully driven call center performance and productivity for more than 32 years in such companies as JP Morgan Chase, USAA, Regus, Direct Energy, and 1800Flowers.com. EXPERT SESSION – How Coca-Cola® Adds Life to Contact Center Employee Engagement.

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Fonolo

JUNE 9, 2020

If you want to improve call center performance, getting to know your Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is a great starting point so you can begin making data-driven decisions. The following KPIs are essential for measuring the activities and effectiveness of your contact center agents. First Call Resolution (FCR).

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Playvox WFM solution has made a significant impact on our ability to scale our customer operations team and gives our agents a morale boost as they now know their schedules will be accurate. By applying scores and prizes to your employees’ everyday tasks, you can make work feel more enjoyable and increase employee engagement.

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Playvox

MARCH 21, 2024

Most interactions that contact center agents have daily are to solve a problem or issue, adjust a payment, or ask a clarifying question. When customer interactions are the heartbeat of business operations, one crucial factor often takes center stage – agent morale. All of this leads to better agent morale.

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SharpenCX

MAY 5, 2020

What drives your employees to start weighing the pros and cons? Download Now: Get real about coaching your agents to engagement with these 7 methods. Gallup found that engaged employees are 59% less likely to seek out a new job or career in the next 12 months. Fighting Negative Stereotypes in your Call Center.

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Taylor Reach Group

DECEMBER 11, 2019

In other sections, we have discussed the importance of performance improvement and coaching. It is necessary to emphasize that those steps are not just to improve the performance of the center, but also to create a sense of achievement and self-mastery for the agents. ” Elements of Effective Incentive Programs.

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SharpenCX

JULY 9, 2020

When 45% of your agents take a spin through the revolving door to leave your company each year, it isn’t good for morale. Recruiting and training new hires cuts into the valuable time available for coaching and developing your team. Ask yourself: Do my call center employees seem happy? Here’s how.

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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. No longer is the company limited to the talent pool surrounding the contact center.

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Playvox

MARCH 12, 2023

Get in the habit of using quality management software with coaching to provide meaningful feedback and guidance to your agents. Showing that you care goes a long way in helping boost team morale and, as a result, performance. Related Article: 7 Simple Tips To Give Quality Feedback In Your Call Center 5.

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Call Experts

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Compensation is not the only way to keep employees happy with their job. . Secure more return for your brand by improving employee engagement, and use the culture of your organization to drive customer satisfaction. Be strategic about how to make your employees feel a sense of purpose. One call can change your business!

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Taylor Reach Group

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The resulting low morale and poor performance on these supervisors’ teams should come as no surprise. I’ve seen supervisors earn major points from their team members by taking customer service phone calls for as little as 15 minutes at a time. The true measure of Leadership is Influence – Nothing More, Nothing Less.”. – John C.

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Noble Systems

APRIL 14, 2021

What is a virtual call center? Imagine a call center – a hub of inbound and outbound calls, staffed by a team of agents and managers – but the agents and managers are located off-site, whether in small groups in other offices or individually at their own homes. This is the concept of the virtual call center.

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Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

According to research by Contact Babel, medium sized contact centers have an average turnover rate of 37%. When you factor in that call centers typically spend $8800 on hiring and training new agent, attrition can cost a 100-agent contact center about $325,600 per year. Lack of recognition and reward.

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SharpenCX

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Stress is a reality in the workplace, especially in call centers. Call centers are the front lines. As a call center manager, not only do you deal with high-stress customer situations, but you’re also responsible for team strategy, performance goals, management of budgets, employee satisfaction and coaching.

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SharpenCX

JULY 14, 2020

When I was in college, I worked in a call center. And one call is engrained in my mind as a permanent reminder of how not to interact. The customer who called in was just so insulting and so…mean. We were closing in 15 minutes and there was only one person left on my list to call. This wears on agents.

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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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SharpenCX

APRIL 14, 2020

Measuring Quality in your Call Center. Boosting FCR: Improve FCR with agent training, coaching, and empowerment. When you provide your employees with the best tools and train them well, they can answer questions without additional assistance. Higher employee satisfaction. Well, it impacts everything.

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Playvox

MARCH 27, 2023

This approach can make training more engaging and enjoyable, which can lead to better retention and application of the learned skills. Additionally, agents can benefit from coaching and mentoring programs that provide ongoing feedback and guidance to help them improve their performance.

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SharpenCX

JUNE 23, 2021

Call Quality. Call center KPIs give insight into your agents’ interactions with customers. Did you and your WFM managers staff your call center appropriately? Service level helps you dissect the details of your call center. How did they end the phone call? Team and Agent Performance.

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Netomi

JANUARY 5, 2022

Arie is also an effective leader of call center performance improvement projects, and is particularly adept at balancing the company, customer, and frontline perspectives. A 5-time Chief Customer Officer and coach to over 20,000 leaders, her practices are field-tested and proven. Kate Nasser.

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Fenero

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Cramped in a cubicle for 9-10 hours a day, leashed to a desktop, answering calls of angry and frustrated customers, and getting paid $10/hour is not exactly a lucrative profile. While not every call center fits the description above, many do. that are customer-centric and employee focused. But not everybody is cynical.

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Fenero

JANUARY 20, 2019

Cramped in a cubicle for 9-10 hours a day, leashed to a desktop, answering calls of angry and frustrated customers, and getting paid $10/hour is not exactly a lucrative profile. While not every call center fits the description above, many do. that are customer-centric and employee focused. But not everybody is cynical.

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