Fonolo

APRIL 7, 2022

“This call may be monitored for call center quality assurance.”. Anyone who’s ever called a contact center would recognize this familiar line —and for good reason. Quality management is also a great way to find holes in a call center agent’s skill set and address them head on with specific training.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

No great call center achieves success without implementing dozens of processes—especially when it comes to call center quality monitoring. The main goal is to ensure your customers are receiving consistent, top-notch service and customer satisfaction (CSat) scores are high. Why does it matter?

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Fonolo

APRIL 7, 2022

“This call may be monitored for call center quality assurance.”. Anyone who’s ever called a contact center would recognize this familiar line —and for good reason. Quality management is also a great way to find holes in a call center agent’s skill set and address them head on with specific training.

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SharpenCX

AUGUST 31, 2021

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. A call center dashboard provides simple graphics, custom views, and real-time insights into your team’s performance. How do our customers feel?

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JustCall

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

“The customer care representative I just spoke to was extremely helpful, patient, courteous, and knowledgeable. I wish all contact center employees were like them.” But is it only about creating a good customer experience? This is the essence of a call center quality assurance.

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JustCall

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Contact centers are based on catering to customers’ needs and queries. After all, your business can only succeed if your customers are happy with your products and service. According to Salesforce’s 2022 report , 73% of customers expect companies to understand their unique needs and expectations.

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Global Response

MARCH 18, 2022

How to improve the customer experience in your call center. When it comes to customer service, quality is the name of the game. Did you know that 70% of customers will spend more money with a company if they have a good customer experience?

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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. Only 67% of people around the world believe that customer service is getting better.

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JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

And the only way to succeed is through an effective contact center management system. This blog will look at the tips and best practices for contact center management. Follow them to optimize your contact center operation and ensure smooth customer service.

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JustCall

MARCH 9, 2023

This is how important customer experience is, especially in the context of contact centers. While your call agents strive for favorable first-call resolution metrics, your business should focus on providing them with the right customer contact center software that lets them do their job well.

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Tethr

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Contact center reporting and analytics are essential for customer service and customer experience (CX) leaders to understand contact center performance accurately. That said, finding a good contact center reporting and analytics tool can be hard.

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Playvox

MARCH 12, 2023

Running a smooth and efficient contact center can feel like the ultimate struggle, but don’t worry, you’re not alone. Providing noteworthy customer experiences is a top priority for any business, and a well-run help desk, support center, or customer service center is the key to improving contact center performance.

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Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

Every workplace has its pros and cons, but contact center agents have one of the toughest jobs out there. They’re protecting and building your company’s brand — no matter what they have to deal with from customers. Burnout Burnout is at the heart of poor emotional well-being in a contact center.

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Serenova

AUGUST 11, 2020

To adequately address these questions, businesses need to employ teams of customer service employees that can answer the call and deliver the optimal experience every time, no matter the nature of the request. How important are call center agents on brand perception, you ask? What is a Call Center Agent?

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NobelBiz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

For call centers, metrics provide insights that shape strategies and determine operational efficiency. It delves into agent-customer interactions, revealing both the quantity and quality of these engagements. A lower ATT typically indicates quicker issue resolution and streamlined customer service.

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Playvox

MARCH 12, 2024

Think about the last time you reached out to a contact center for one of the services or products that you purchased. You could have contacted the company in a multitude of ways — chat, text, social media, or even an “old-fashioned” telephone call.

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Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

The strain to balance taking care of employees to protect them from the coronavirus while maintaining business continuity continues for contact center leaders. As contact volume, customer anxiety and agent stress all still soar, what you once managed can now feel overwhelmingly un-manageable. Every time.

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Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

For most contact centers, surviving the first months of COVID-19 required swift operational reboots that began with major work-from-home (WFH) transitions. The strain of balancing the need to protect employees from the coronavirus while maintaining business continuity continues for contact center leaders. The Cloud.

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Babelforce

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Call center coaching is a quality management tool that offers agents feedback, examples, and performance assessments in order to improve their performance and wellbeing. When agents understand good practices to follow, they can heighten their skills and deliver top customer service. 1 Keep things private.

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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.

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SharpenCX

MARCH 25, 2021

As customer service leaders continue to embrace the life where agents can work from where they’re most comfortable, new challenges catapult to the top of priority lists. Gartner research shows in two years, nearly nine in 10 leaders think 20-80% of the customer service workforce will still work from home.

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Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

Does your contact center “talk the customer talk” but sometimes gets stuck when it comes to matching up customer expectations with service and support delivery by your agents? Are you taking the right steps to evolve toward workforce engagement management?

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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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Global Response

MARCH 1, 2022

KPIs for call centers: 8 critical metrics to track. When it comes to KPIs for your call center, one thing is for sure: less is more. After all, when you’re managing a call center, whether it’s in-house or outsourced, there’s a long list of KPIs (key performance indicators) that you could be measuring.

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8x8

AUGUST 7, 2017

One area where business can often be improved through increased communication and transparency is the contact center. This post is the first of a three-part series that will help your company improve quality management in the contact center, leading to improved customer experience and satisfaction.

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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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Monet Software

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

How to infuse contact center operations with empathy to improve interactions, customer satisfaction and CX. Empathy is critical in customer service, especially amidst COVID-19. Many customers are feeling frustrated, distracted and otherwise in need of some extra support. This approach is essential right now.

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Serenova

AUGUST 11, 2020

To adequately address these questions, businesses need to employ teams of customer service employees that can answer the call and deliver the optimal experience every time, no matter the nature of the request. How important are call center agents on brand perception, you ask? What is a Call Center Agent?

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 28, 2019

I’ve ditched a company due to bad customer service before… have you? If so, you and I reflect the 8 in 10 consumers that are willing to switch companies due to poor customer service. We, like most consumers, have come to expect high quality interactions at each company touchpoint. Make it fair.

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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. Those with this special ability often create an experience that pleases customers and agents, without exceeding their budgets; a truly remarkable feat.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Agent burnout directly harms the quality of customer service your business provides and significantly hurts your company’s bottom line. It’s hard to ignore the fact that contact centers are plagued with high agent burnout and turnover rates. Some contact centers experience almost no turnover at all.

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Playvox

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

For businesses of all sizes, technology has also changed contact centers from an internal and customer-facing perspective. Your organization has likely been forced to embrace new technology to remain relevant and deliver exceptional customer service. The answer is different for every business.

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NobelBiz

JUNE 4, 2024

Customer service is the backbone of any successful call center. It’s the first point of contact between a business and its customers, making it a critical component in shaping the customer experience. What is a Customer Service Call Center?

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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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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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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. The answer is both.

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