Monet Software

JANUARY 31, 2019

What is the difference between Quality Management (QM) and Total Quality Management? The answer is simple – Total Quality Management is an effort that involves everyone at your contact center, as well as everyone at the company at large. Find out more about Monet Quality Management.

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SharpenCX

AUGUST 31, 2021

This is where a call center dashboard comes in. A call center dashboard provides simple graphics, custom views, and real-time insights into your team’s performance. But your executive team is likely looking for a big picture view into your center. Are we retaining call center agents?

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JustCall

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

I wish all contact center employees were like them.” ” Feedback like this for your call center agents is a step closer to achieving quality assurance call center goals in your call center management strategy. This is the essence of a call center quality assurance.

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Uniphore

JULY 1, 2021

It then used the stories it collected, along with key statistics and supporting research, to create an illustrative snapshot of call center life. Jacada reports that contact center employees are increasingly resorting to social networks to both vent out and seek help from peers. Register Now.

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Playvox

JUNE 10, 2022

Coaching your contact center agents on their performance can either fill everyone with dread or be a productive activity that you and your agents look forward to. Either way, it needs to be done, and arming yourself with a full set of coaching tips for contact center agents will ensure the sessions are productive.

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

You’ve heard of quality management (QM), and your contact center probably has a quality program in place today. But what’s all this hype about using analytics to perform quality activities, and could it help you? This means fewer – but higher quality- evaluations. appeared first on NICE inContact Blog.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JULY 27, 2023

Athletes often describe their best coaches as mentors and supporters that pushed them to be their best. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case with customer service coaching. Many employees face coaching with nervousness and sometimes even dread.

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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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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

You must assist the call center in ensuring the accuracy of its quality measurement procedures. Calibration sessions serve this purpose for call centers. This article decodes the function and best practices for call calibration. A calibration session brings together all call center supervisors and managers.

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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. Components of Workforce Optimization Workforce optimization for contact centers has many different components.

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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Incorporating gamification into your training and coaching programs is one way to help decrease boredom that sometimes comes with traditional training methods. Related: Three Highly Effective Strategies to Retain Call Center Employees. Related: 12 Easy And Creative Call Center Rewards And Recognition Ideas.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 5, 2019

However, every day in the contact center, supervisors and managers send incomplete messages to their agents, failing to prescribe what “medicine” is needed to correct their performance problems. So how can you effectively “treat” your contact center with invaluable coaching medicine? Select the Right QM Platform.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 17, 2019

In a 2017 study titled Modern Standards for Managing Contact Center Quality, ICMI found a huge gap between the percentage of organizations that are using digital channels to communicate with customers and those that are using Quality Management (QM) to evaluate these channels.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 17, 2019

In a 2017 study titled Modern Standards for Managing Contact Center Quality, ICMI found a huge gap between the percentage of organizations that are using digital channels to communicate with customers and those that are using Quality Management (QM) to evaluate these channels.

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NICE inContact

JULY 25, 2019

Retaining call center agents doesn’t occur by chance, it happens by implementing practical, proven retention tactics. Check out these five tactics to retain your top call center agents: 1) Recognize Your Agents. 5) Provide Coaching. Offering a mentor or coach is crucial to keeping your agents around.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JULY 27, 2023

Athletes often describe their best coaches as mentors and supporters that pushed them to be their best. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case with customer service coaching. Many employees face coaching with nervousness and sometimes even dread.

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Fonolo

MAY 7, 2015

UPDATED FEBRUARY 2020: The call center is an extremely stressful work environment. Simply knowing how to run a call center isn’t enough for success. Below we look into some of the things call center managers must do every day to be successful, along with tips on how to execute them.

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Talkdesk

JULY 16, 2019

What is Performance Management? 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. That’s where leveraging contact center performance management software can help.

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DMG Consulting

JULY 26, 2018

Call Center Quality Assurance Best Practices for Empowering Agents. Contact center quality assurance (QA) remains a high-value application, particularly when it’s done right. Coach the coaches so your QA specialists and supervisors are comfortable giving feedback to agents and don’t avoid this task.

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Serenova

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Coronavirus has officially kicked the work from home (WFH) trend into a permanent reality — and the call center is no exception. At the outset of the pandemic, as families rushed to stock up on toilet-paper and canned goods, contact center leaders were scrambling to transition customer service agents to remote status.

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Verint

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The latest technology to feel the touch of automation is quality management—the most widely deployed and utilized solution in the U.S. contact center industry, and likely the global contact center industry. contact center industry. contact center industry.

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Monet Software

AUGUST 11, 2020

Why, When and How SMB Call Centers Can Integrate Quality Management (QM) Teams. These are interesting times for SMB call centers and help desks. But the demands for impeccable compliance and better-every-time contact quality often require new systems and processes. 1 Enhance the Focus on Quality.

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Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

Across every channel—call center phone number, chat, email, SMS, social media messenger—use contact center software to provide agents with a complete history of customer interactions across channels. Monitor agent calls for coaching opportunities. Smart Quality Management.

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Outsource Consultants

MARCH 9, 2018

The biggest challenge when working with a call center outsourcing partner is making sure they’re providing consistent, ongoing performance. This includes ensuring the agents receive the proper training, quality management, and calibrations to drive high-level performance. 2) Inbound Call Center Service Levels.

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Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

Across every channel—call center phone number, chat, email, SMS, social media messenger—use contact center software to provide agents with a complete history of customer interactions across channels. Monitor agent calls for coaching opportunities. Smart Quality Management.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In the most engaged teams I’ve seen, there are solid coaching principles at work. But the ultimate leadership secret is to approach training, coaching and performance standards as opportunities to empower your employees to coach themselves.

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Hodusoft

JUNE 17, 2021

Call recording software captures the audio recordings of telephone conversations over a Voice over IP (VoIP) or public switched telephone network (PTSN). While call recording is used by most call centers, there are several ways to implement it ranging from server-based to cloud-based strategies. billion USD in 2020.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Better yet, having a more engaged workforce makes your task of managing remote teams effectively a little easier. The best Quality Management (QM) systems also enable agents to provide commentary on feedback provided and dispute anything that the agent may not agree with the analyst about.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Advances in technology allow contact centers to use data in much more manageable ways, redefine how to engage with customers, gain efficiencies, and leverage actionable insights to improve quality management (QM) and the customer journey.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In the most engaged teams I’ve seen, there are solid coaching principles at work. But the ultimate leadership secret is to approach training, coaching and performance standards as opportunities to empower your employees to coach themselves.

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Sikorski's Think Abouts

APRIL 5, 2015

What will coaching do? Optimize Contact Center performance. Own the quality of their team. Own the quality of their team. Modify agent behavior through coaching. This week’s question for your employees – Why do you like being coached? Warmest regards, Laura Sikorski – Independent Call Center Consultant.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 1, 2017

Do they look for any excuse to reschedule your 1:1s or coaching sessions? If you seem confused by this behavior, it may be time to look at your coaching and engagement style to help enhance your contact center performance. Thus, it’s not surprising to see this behavior in coaching and management as well.

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Monet Software

MARCH 10, 2021

The lasting impacts of COVID-19 are unknown but the accelerated shift to the remote call center workforce management is likely to endure. Will remote agents continue to represent a significant proportion of the call center workforce? The contact center workforce was already going remote. Here’s why.

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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. It develops silently over time.

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Talkdesk

MAY 11, 2020

How should contact center leaders talk about performance and coach teams? Use data to validate why agents should adopt new behaviors through micro-coaching sessions to improve every customer interaction. It’s no secret that many contact center agents are having more difficult and sensitive calls now.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Investing in the right call center monitoring software is imperative for today’s call centers. Without call center monitoring, quality assurance can suffer, customer satisfaction inevitably wanes, and compliance issues can arise. Meet Our Panel of Call Center Experts: Nenad Cuk.

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Playvox

MARCH 5, 2024

How do contact centers not only survive but thrive in this new era? And behind the scenes, how do you ensure your quality management (QM) processes are keeping up? Let’s examine the role of AI in streamlining quality management processes to help modern contact centers rise to the ever-changing customer experience landscape.

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