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. What are Call Centers?

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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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DMG Consulting

JANUARY 10, 2022

Contact Center Workplaces Are in the Midst of a Renaissance. This is the case for many contact centers, where agents have been under-appreciated, under-recognized and under-rewarded for decades. The employee-employer relationship in contact centers is finally being re-evaluated and redefined, and not a moment too soon.

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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? It’s also sometimes referred to as quality assurance.

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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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Expivia

JULY 21, 2021

You’re always surrounded by technology in a call center. From the way you get the call to the aftercall memo you need to send, everything’s connected to technology. Without knowing what the current and upcoming trends in advanced call center technologies are, you may be left behind. Omnichannel Support.

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Dialer 360

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

People who never been in the contact center or has worked, don’t know types of contact center services. Some the people probably also knows about the inbound and outbound centers. But the most significant thing is how you can improve the level of call center service?

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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. The answer is both.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Not only do contact center agents want additional flexibility in their work schedules, but many leaders saw that agents did not need to be in a defined office space to get their jobs done well. However, managing remote teams effectively comes with its own set of challenges.

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Improved agent efficiency and productivity turn call centers from a cost into a profit. The two qualities can also create a competitive advantage, which is key priority for growing organizations. Depending on organizational needs, call centers can implement an array of different technologies, from basic to sophisticated.

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SharpenCX

OCTOBER 22, 2019

More often than not, your agent’s apathy stems from a larger problem brewing in your contact center. Maybe Heather hasn’t been clued into your contact center’s performance and her larger social impact on the customer experience. In a contact center, you’re in the business of serving customers. What gives?

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Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

If you’re a contact center manager, you’ve probably heard a lot about how to manage and engage your workforce with WFM and WFO – especially recently. What is Workforce Management (WFM)? Workforce Optimization is a business strategy that joins business performance and workforce management. Let’s take a look.

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TMP Direct

MARCH 17, 2015

Traits of the best call centers – Part 1. The International Customer Management Institute (ICMI) is one of the call center industry’s most respected organizations. Great call centers know that people are the key to success.”. They have a supporting culture.”.

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Monet Software

JUNE 20, 2019

WFO provides insight into customer interactions and service levels, delivering the data necessary to make important decisions about optimal management of personnel. When everyone at the contact center works together, customer service improves. Unified workforce optimization is even better.

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Monet Software

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The also see when agents are available for calls and when they take their lunches and breaks based on predetermined schedules. Other important qualities in a WFO system include: Integration. WFO should adjust to your call center regardless of how it is organized. Quality Management. Performance Management.

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Enghouse Interactive

JULY 7, 2020

Transform the Contact Center with Microsoft Teams (blog series). In our first blog, we explored how Microsoft Teams, when integrated into a Contact Center, helps provide a better experience for the end-customer. Self-Service Helps Agents Too. Protect Your Experts with Call Recording and Quality Management.

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Monet Software

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

WFO provides insight into customer interactions and service levels, delivering the data necessary to make important decisions about optimal management of personnel. When everyone at the contact center works together, customer service improves. Unified workforce optimization is even better.

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Monet Software

MARCH 5, 2018

With workforce optimization, contact centers can automate such important functions as workforce management, call recording, quality management, screen capture, performance management and tracking key metrics.

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Monet Software

DECEMBER 21, 2018

February also featured the debut of our YouTube video series “Headcetera,” a lighthearted look at how two contact centers ­– one with workforce management software, one without – face the challenges of forecasting and scheduling. We debuted our new, modern and more responsive company website this month.

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Enghouse Interactive

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In addition to supporting your online web-tools and FAQ, there is also the opportunity to look at establishing a centralized repository of more detailed, specific or even highly technical information that is accessible by customers, contact center agents and technical personnel. your FAQ on steroids.

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Today, the biggest challenge facing global service organizations and traditional contact centers is delivering a quality of service experience in line with the expectations of the modern customer – one that keeps the customer satisfied and instills loyalty to their brand.

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Enghouse Interactive

JULY 27, 2020

Transform the Contact Center with Microsoft Teams (blog Series). Register for our webinar with Dane Smith, Enghouse Education and Training Manager, and Jacki Tessmer, VP Product Marketing. UCaaS, such as Microsoft teams will help speed transition into the future – the future of the contact center.

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DMG Consulting

APRIL 5, 2017

Most contact center managers agree that there is ample opportunity to improve their workforce management (WFM) solution, their WFM best practices, and most likely both. Intraday management is an area of weakness in most contact center WFM solutions. This is a game changer for contact centers.

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Playvox

JUNE 22, 2023

Tracking, reporting, and improving upon metrics are essential across all areas of business, including finance, sales, marketing, and contact center management. Understanding the key call center efficiency metrics to track , and more importantly, how to improve them, will set you up for success and help keep your customers happy.

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Zoom International

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Is your goal to hit contact center metrics? In the day to day operations of many contact centers, we focus on traditional operational metrics, such as service level, talk time and adherence. Enable your Contact Center into improve loyalty. Raise the profile of the contact center.

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Playvox

MARCH 21, 2024

Let’s face it — no one contacts your contact center to tell the person who answers the phone, text, or chat to tell your organization that they love your brand, service, or product. When customer interactions are the heartbeat of business operations, one crucial factor often takes center stage – agent morale.

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NICE inContact

JULY 10, 2018

So how can businesses reap the rewards and achieve the most out of an investment in cloud contact center technology? You’ll be looking for a vendor that can provide this as well as who can help you optimize your cloud contact center in these five ways. Deliver omnichannel experiences. Measure performance.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 30, 2019

With an extensive portfolio of technology, products, and solutions, including workforce and quality management, real-time automation, interaction recording, voice of the customer, performance management, and analytics, our customers are uniquely positioned to positively impact performance.

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Enghouse Interactive

JULY 10, 2018

Because of the shifts towards digital service, human interactions have become a last resort. Self-service tools have removed many simple requests from the contact center resulting in agents having to deal with a higher volume of complex requests. In the contact center it all comes down to interactions.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JULY 19, 2017

A popular trend in process improvement is the effort to correlate specific contact center activities to overall customer satisfaction.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JULY 19, 2017

A popular trend in process improvement is the effort to correlate specific contact center activities to overall customer satisfaction. The effort to understand how specific activities and measures influence overall results …

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JULY 19, 2017

A popular trend in process improvement is the effort to correlate specific contact center activities to overall customer satisfaction. The effort to understand how specific activities and measures influence overall results …

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Taylor Reach Group

AUGUST 23, 2017

Metrics, Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s), Reports – we have a lot of names for the information and data we review to help keep our centers on track and performing as we want them to. Contact Centers can generate an immense amount of data and reporting on just about anything that we could conceive. Are returns declining?

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 13, 2019

NICE inContact CXone call center software helps contact center managers deliver great customer experiences, engage contact center agents, and reduce costs. CXone provides unified administration that simplifies contact center management.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Have you ever heard that you have to sacrifice quality to improve customer accessibility to services? That’s one of the most common myths in customer service. Accessibility and quality are closely related and complementary. Or the other way around?

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