Playvox

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A related term, workforce engagement management (WEM), recently coined by Gartner, has rapidly become the business strategy, processes, and related technologies of choice. AI-driven tools and platforms are shaping the way contact centers engage with and manage their workforce. But it goes beyond enabling automation.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

With corporate budgets tightening, contact center leaders might be tempted to cut into your quality management funding. But quality management is a vital area of your business — it’s what ensures your customers get top-notch service. What Is A Quality Management Program?

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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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DMG Consulting

MARCH 10, 2023

Fortunately, many innovations that have been under development during the past few years are ready to be rolled out and are positioned to help contact center managers achieve their departmental and corporate objectives. Analytics-enabled quality management (AQM) (a.k.a. automated quality management).

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Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

The strain of balancing the need to protect employees from the coronavirus while maintaining business continuity continues for contact center leaders. As call volume, customer anxiety and agent stress all still soar, what you once managed can now feel overwhelmingly un-manageable. Smart Quality Management.

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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? In response to these trends and preferences, contact center leaders are retooling and streamlining quality management processes, leveraging AI along the way.

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Playvox

JUNE 28, 2022

We’ll reveal how a modern workforce management (WFM) solution built with the digital customer in mind helps you get there. What Is An Omnichannel Contact Center? These days it’s common to hear the terms Workforce Engagement Management (WEM) and Workforce Management (WFM) used interchangeably.

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Serenova

MAY 1, 2020

Contact centers that don’t regularly recognize agents for good work are likely to experience low morale, burnout and high attrition. A performance management solution like CxEngage Scoreboard can help. Quality management tools can provide much-needed efficiency. Provide Continuous, Individual Feedback.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

To properly manage your teams and fulfill your customers and business objectives, you must monitor many KPIs. However, with the volume of calls and data generated on a daily basis in contact centers, managers and supervisors frequently feel overwhelmed. What are the right call center agent performance metrics to monitor?

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Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

Just like agents are protecting your company, contact center leaders and managers need to protect them and their mental health. To keep turnover under control, you have to make sure your managers are trained to keep engagement up and morale high. Building a supportive work climate is the first step.

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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.

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Serenova

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Today, we announced Serenova’s acquisition of the ProScheduler workforce management (WFM) technology from Loxysoft. This acquisition is an exciting and positive development in Serenova’s 18-year legacy of leading the way in cloud-based contact center innovation. Welcome to the Evolution.

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8x8

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Most companies have implemented some sort of training or coaching program within their corporate structure and contact center. However, simply training your contact center personnel is not enough. To analyze the benefits of the training or coaching, a systematic evaluation process needs to be put in place.

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8x8

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Most companies have implemented some sort of training or coaching program within their corporate structure and contact center. However, simply training your contact center personnel is not enough. To analyze the benefits of the training or coaching, a systematic evaluation process needs to be put in place.

Contact Center 48

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8x8

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Most companies have implemented some sort of training or coaching program within their corporate structure and contact center. However, simply training your contact center personnel is not enough. To analyze the benefits of the training or coaching, a systematic evaluation process needs to be put in place.

Contact Center 48

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Serenova

APRIL 19, 2020

As you contemplate a cloud contact center solution to optimize your WFH transition, remember to focus on these four features: Workforce Optimization. Supervisors can identify exactly where each agent is delivering great service while uncovering opportunities for additional training and coaching. Customer-first Support.

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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. Depending on the report, data surfaced can be used to understand agent performance, improve coaching, refine products and services, and so much more.

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Playvox

MARCH 12, 2023

While key performance indicators (KPIs) are a great way to understand how efficient and effective a support center is, it never hurts to incorporate other means that can help contact center managers define success and efficiency for their contact centers. What Is Contact Center Efficiency?

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Enghouse Interactive

JULY 7, 2021

Contact Center call volumes are increasing exponentially, resulting in supervisors dealing with agent assessments on more of an exception basis than as a normal course of business. While expectations are that all agents will adhere to call scripts, manage conflicts, and comply with regulations while treating customers with empathy.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

While managers can proactively look for the warning signs – such as irritability and impatience – without preventative measures, it’s difficult to reverse burnout once it begins. When you hire and onboard agents and managers with intention and care, you increase your chances of creating a positive and empowering culture.

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NobelBiz

AUGUST 3, 2021

What are the flaws in your contact center? In order to find the accurate answer to these questions, business owners and managers must go beyond guesses and instinct and rely on scientific, clear, and quantitative facts. Team Management: how dedicated are your agents?

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 21, 2020

With so many areas where Augmented Conversations (enabled by AI) can help, Steve stated that he’s often asked by Contact Center managers what to do and how best to do it. Then as deemed necessary, investigate automated live “in-call” coaching to spot check support levels in real-time.

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Serenova

JUNE 6, 2019

This is especially important for seasonal businesses like retailers or any contact center with unpredictable or fluctuating volume. The experts emphasized that even with the ultimate benefits, change management is essential to successful cloud migration. Ensuring Post-Migration Success.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 23, 2022

In this article, we’ll show you how to calculate the ROI of your contact center system and analyze your investment, costs, as well as how to choose a technology provider. How to determine the ROI for a Contact Center Solution? How to determine the ROI for a Contact Center Solution?

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Playvox

MARCH 19, 2024

Infusing artificial intelligence (AI) into processes is top of mind for business leaders and managers in all industries and across all job functions. The Evolution of Contact Center AI Early uses of AI and machine learning (ML) showed up in call centers years ago in intelligent routing solutions and interactive voice response (IVR) systems.

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Enghouse Interactive

JANUARY 13, 2021

Video enablement: either use internally to manage remote agents, or externally for communications with customers. say video is vital for managing remote employees. Unified Communications: 76.3% have integrated or plan to integrate. 43% using video for customer interactions, and 67.2%

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Playvox

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Most people, including customer service agents, are ready for a restart, which makes now the perfect time for contact center leaders to revisit their remote work playbooks. Today, Managing Well Means Means Managing Well Remotely. What are Best Practices for Managing Remote Contact Center Agents?

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Playvox

AUGUST 25, 2021

One Solution for Workforce Engagement Management and Quality Assurance. Recent surveys confirm that almost 40% of companies prefer to buy integrated workforce solutions from their contact center provider, as opposed to buying from independent vendors.

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NICE inContact

JULY 10, 2018

For the best results, look for a cloud contact center solution with in-built workforce optimization. For contact centers, this generally means interaction recording, live monitoring, quality management and coaching, analytics, workforce management, or a combination of these activities.

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Playvox

MAY 2, 2023

The cloud contact center provider handles the servers and software involved in delivering an excellent customer experience. Cloud contact center solutions, like workforce engagement management, take your move to the cloud to the next level.

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Enghouse Interactive

JULY 29, 2021

Call Recorders Can Save You from Disaster. Customer experience (CX) expectations have changed. Today, customers expect helpful, accurate, and insightful responses from empowered agents that can resolve any situation, on the first call. All this while new regulations and obligations rapidly accelerate business process change.

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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

By applying them to this type of work, you can give time and energy back to your managers and agents to spend on activities that directly improve customer experience. One area where you can ease AI and automation into your contact center is in your quality management (QM) processes. The results?

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Enghouse Interactive

JUNE 24, 2021

Video Outperforms All Other Contact Center Communications Channels. With digital transformation accelerating across all industries, companies are now leveraging video-based capabilities to transform their customer experience (CX).

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Playvox

MAY 4, 2023

Unlike my favorite fruit seller, you’ve got hundreds or thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of customer issues that require sophisticated, efficient customer care through the right contact center solutions. What Is A Digital Contact Center? It’s a win-win. We owe that to our customers (and ourselves).

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

What steps should you take to ensure that teleworking does not have a detrimental influence on the efficiency, quality, and performance of your Contact Center? Most Contact Center Management, ticketing, and flow routing systems are now accessible in the cloud, and some are only available there.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

What steps should you take to ensure that teleworking does not have a detrimental influence on the efficiency, quality, and performance of your Contact Center? Most Contact Center Management, ticketing, and flow routing systems are now accessible in the cloud, and some are only available there.

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Playvox

DECEMBER 13, 2022

During my career in workforce management, call avoidance was always an issue — regardless of the location of the business, the nature of the business, or the location of the agent. Related Article: What is Workforce Engagement Management? Why an Agent Might Be Avoiding Interactions. And Why it Matters).

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