ShepHyken

JANUARY 22, 2021

Sh e shares best practices supervisors can use for monitoring call center agents in a work-from-home scenario. COVID-19 has led us to believe that we need to rethink, amend, and strengthen our contact centers with robust technology to stay ahead of the pandemic. Comprehensive Call Center Metrics Report.

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Fonolo

JUNE 22, 2021

Despite advancements in customer service technology and automation, one thing hasn’t changed: people remain fundamental to the success of a contact center. With this in mind, it’s important that your best agents are happy and engaged enough with their work to stay put and make your contact center successful.

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Monet Software

MARCH 19, 2020

It’s also great advice for call center leaders seeking to enhance employee engagement. But as contact centers grow, it can be difficult to bring new people into the fold and, over time, a once cohesive, highly engaged group can fall prey to the “blahs.”. Not bad advice for the contact center.

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Expivia

JANUARY 26, 2022

Contact center success doesn’t just happen. But most importantly, it takes a strategic approach to contact center management. With the right tips and advice, you can transform customer engagement in your call center. . Why You Need to Rethink Contact Center Management.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 31, 2023

Call center training has always been one of the key pillars of running a successful call center. A strong call center training program should not just be part of your onboarding process. Still have questions about call center training? What is Call Center Training?

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CX Global Media

JANUARY 8, 2019

Supervisor training with Call Center Coach’s virtual boot camps can take on a variety of developmental areas. A primary mission in modern learning is to disrupt the the old-school ways of training and provide ways for modern learners to be more engaged and to “do” new things, instead of just learning about it.

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Fonolo

JUNE 17, 2021

Keeping your staff motivated and satisfied in their work is vital to contact center performance. Studies show that agent engagement is linked to increased profitability, better employee performance, employee retention, and employee empowerment. How to Foster Agent Engagement in a Hybrid Contact Center.

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CCNG

JANUARY 17, 2024

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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Fonolo

OCTOBER 26, 2022

When you think of improving your call center motivation, do you dream of near-perfect customer satisfaction scores ? Call center managers and leaders have some of the hardest jobs when it comes to agent engagement. Call center managers and leaders have some of the hardest jobs when it comes to agent engagement.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

When it comes to delivering great customer service, call center agents need some essential soft skills that may not have been listed on their resumés. Unlike the hard skills or technical skills required to operate call center technology, soft skills relate more to an agent’s demeanor during a customer interaction.

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Callminer

JUNE 18, 2020

Employee departures can be tough to handle in the fast-paced environment of a call center. Exit interviews allow lost talent to tell you what went wrong and what aspects of your call center’s operations could stand to be updated. Why are you leaving? What frustrated you?

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COPC

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Early attrition is a common and expensive problem for contact centers. However, it is possible to cut call center attrition rates and the associated costs. COPC has partnered with Centrical to bring you the Improving Contact Center Retention Series, where we will explore how organizations can reduce early attrition.

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CX Global Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

And leading contact centers are modernizing their learning to keep pace. Get ready, because the modern call center school for supervisor skill development is much different than the old-school ways. 70% of employees are defaulting to accessing answers to on-the-job questions through search engines.

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Contact Center Pipeline

AUGUST 3, 2017

You would expect to see a feature article about trends at the beginning of the year. We did that. But things shift quickly in this digital economy—and when it comes to customer expectations, the pace of change continues to accelerate and affect how businesses adapt and respond. In this series, we decided to take a […].

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Fonolo

AUGUST 12, 2021

High call center agent productivity is every call center manager’s dream. Not only does it lead to higher profits and lowered costs, it also results in better employee engagement and improved customer experiences. How to Foster Agent Engagement in a Hybrid Contact Center.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 5, 2021

The proof is in the statistics — a proper training strategy leads to more engaged employees. How to Foster Agent Engagement in a Hybrid Contact Center. When employees are far apart, proper training tools can drive employee engagement and help ensure everyone is on the same page.

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COPC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

a global customer experience (CX) consulting firm, announces the launch of its 14-part Employee Engagement Research Series. The first report provides a global view of employee engagement data and is now available at no cost. There is no cost to download Employee Engagement Research Series reports.

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SharpenCX

JULY 26, 2023

Every call your contact center receives brings heaps of data with it: customer information, customer preferences, product insights, customer satisfaction scores, and much more. But perhaps you’re sitting on all of your call center data. It’s time to stop viewing call center metrics as an end result.

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Contact Center Pipeline

AUGUST 29, 2017

In our mid-year series discussing hot topics impacting contact centers, we have presented insights from industry experts on employee engagement, IoT-enabled service strategies, artificial intelligence and millennials.

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

After assessing how the pandemic had changed the call center in 2020 , we decided to peek over the parapet at 2021. We asked the contact center industry’s top influencers and business leaders what they thought the most significant contact center trends in 2021 would be. Contact Center Trends 2021.

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Monet Software

MARCH 12, 2020

5 Basics Every Call Center Must Get Right. Employee engagement is a powerful force. An engaged workforce is associated with better customer retention, lower turnover, greater productivity and among publicly traded companies, even higher stock price. So what are the prerequisites for robust workforce engagement?

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Injixo

APRIL 24, 2024

Call centers traditionally suffer from high staff turnover. Multiple surveys confirm this: 76% of employees already experience symptoms of burnout some of the time. 59% of all call center employees are at risk of burnout. One of the reasons for this is excessive workload, which leads to stress and burnout.

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SharpenCX

JUNE 28, 2023

Improving your customer service metrics requires a deeper look at which KPIs make sense for your contact center and the strategies you use to achieve them. What Call Center Metrics Should You Measure? Cost per call — the average cost you incur for every call handled. Take a look around your contact center.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 17, 2021

Customers want a pleasant phone experience, but not as much as they want a quick and easy call resolution. The Contact Center Guide to Managing Spikes in Call Volume. Luckily, a successful call center is within reach. The Executive Guide to Improving 6 Call Center Metrics. Lead by example.

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CX Global Media

AUGUST 1, 2019

I’ve been amazed at some of the new ways to drive agent performance in contact centers. Common KPIs like First Contact Resolution (FCR) and Average Handle Time (AHT) might be common KPIs but they ways they are being improved upon are very dynamic. How Coca-Cola® Adds Life to Contact Center Employee Engagement.

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve decided up your contact center game. Picking an effective contact center strategy is a process that requires thought, evaluation, and preparation. We’ve got eight essential tips so you can start improving your contact center today.

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CX Global Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

I met up with Justin Robbins at the opening Demo Hall Bash at the CCDemo in Las Vegas to find out about the top trends in contact centers today. What are the top 3 trends in contact center today?” The top three were Artificial Intelligence and bots, data security, and employee engagement. Click to Tweet.

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CX Global Media

MARCH 26, 2019

For many contact centers taking the leap to implement virtual agents to handle the simple and repetitive tasks is somewhat an easy decision to make. But for one contact center that implemented virtual agents, their call handle times quadrupled! This new problem to contact centers requires new thinking.

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Babelforce

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Contact center managers can spot an engaged agent from a mile off. While this may not be a realistic aim – there will always be people who struggle to engage fully – there are strategies you can implement to improve employee engagement. 9 call center employee engagement ideas. #1

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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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Call Center Weekly

JULY 24, 2017

By Celia Thomas To aid and ensure contact center agents are successful, leadership must support and values them. The sense of comradery between the team and the leader is built on trust, which drives success in the center. Celia Thomas has 22 years of experience in the contact center, including 9 years in call center management.

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CX Global Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Change is hard, especially in the contact center industry. The humor of this eye-opener is that those of us in the contact center profession are supposed to be in the business of helping meet the needs of our ever-changing customer expectations. few rated as exceptional contact center leaders are embracing the change.

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Contact Center Pipeline

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Millennials and Gen Z employees are growing in influence of work organizations and cultures, especially call centers and customer service. According to a 2016 Bureau of Labor Statistics report, the median age of an American employee is 42.2 years, while the median age of a customer service representative is 36.5

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Fonolo

AUGUST 24, 2021

Employees, especially call center agents, spend a significant portion of their lives at work. Your call center or contact center environment plays a big role in how engaged your agents are in their day-to-day work. How to Foster Agent Engagement in a Hybrid Contact Center.

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Fonolo

JUNE 29, 2021

With the right mechanisms at their disposal, agents are better equipped to drive sales, solve customer disputes, and otherwise contribute to your bottom line and call center metric health. But technology has remained a barrier for modern contact centers. How to Foster Agent Engagement in a Hybrid Contact Center.

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Blueship Call Center

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A professional call center outsourcing vendor primarily responsible for helping businesses achieve increased productivity, cost savings, and operational simplification. So where do you begin your search for a call center outsourcing vendor? What are your order processing call center goals and performance expectations?

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COPC

MAY 23, 2023

Most contact centers recognize the importance of team leaders. 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.

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