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The Future of Contact Centers is Enriching Human Interactions. Are You Prepared?

Beyond Philosophy

The contact center at many organizations doesn’t get the strategic consideration it deserves. My former contact center team at British Telecom seemed to be viewed primarily as a cost center, a necessary expense. However, the contact center should have been valued.

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THE KNOWLEDGE (R)EVOLUTION: IS YOUR CONTACT CENTER BURNING LABOR DOLLARS?

CCNG

In response, contact centers have been forced to evolve operationally. The question is, have our contact centers kept up with this knowledge evolution? As leaders in the contact center industry, we tend to “throw bodies” (a.k.a. As leaders in the contact center industry, we tend to “throw bodies” (a.k.a.

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Coaching and Training: Two Keys to Delivering Excellent Contact Center Service

The Northridge Group

Developing service excellence at the contact center management level is a critical enabler for a company’s long-term success. Providing exemplary customer service is essential for all businesses that strive for differentiation and growth. What outcomes will a strong coaching and training program deliver?

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Best Practices of Great Coaches

The Northridge Group

Customer loyalty is earned by being great and consistent at the basics and finding ways to delight your customers in unexpected ways. Frontline excellence training instructs managers in the following best practices of great coaches : Providing dedicated coaching with role modeling for the supervisors.

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How to Inspire and Empower Contact Center Agents Through Collaborative Coaching

Speaker: Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™

Contact center agents are people and people can grow on their own BUT great collaborative coaching truly guides agents to connect authentically to customers better and better each time. Great collaborative coaching awakens and guides an agent’s ability and choices with customers in a wide range of situations.

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Proper Contact Center Training Benefits Employee Experience

The Northridge Group

In the post-pandemic world, contact center leaders are prioritizing three interconnected objectives: employee productivity, retention, and satisfaction. By cultivating a positive working environment, leaders can optimize the employee experience to mitigate absenteeism and attrition while simultaneously enhancing productivity.

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Five Coaching Tips For Contact Center Agents that Work

Playvox

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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Top Techniques for Coaching Your Contact Center Agents

Speaker: Francoise Tourniaire - Founder of FT Works, Omid Razavi - Chief Advocacy Officer at SupportLogic, and Gregory Walker - Senior Product Manager at SupportLogic

The 'great resignation' and the 'great talent reshuffle' have impacted contact center and customer support staff as much, if not more than, any other part of the workforce. Attendees will walk away with insight on the following: Critical components for coaching programs. How proper coaching can reduce agent burnout.

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The Rise of the AI Coaching System: Powering the Empathic Enterprise

Contact center leaders understand that frontline agents need in-call guidance to manage complex calls and drive higher levels of employee and customer experience. Real-time agent assist technology is enabling leading contact centers to accomplish these goals.

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How to Leverage Quality Management to Transform the Customer Experience

When was the last time you took a step back and really examined the quality management (QM) in your contact center? Determining behaviors that are critical to successful customer experiences, and then coaching agents to exceed that standard on every customer interaction, is the key to running a great contact center.

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What Do Your Employees Need to Provide Outstanding Customer Experiences?

Speaker: Laura Sikorski, Contact Center Consultant

Your Contact Center today is truly an Interactive Engagement Center and the most customer-focused area in your organization. Your company is judged on how your staff relates to your customers on all channels. The role of your employees is paramount.

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Executive Report: The Customer Data Too Often Overlooked by the C-Suite

A recent Calabrio research study of more than 1,000 C-Suite executives has revealed leaders are missing a key data stream – voice of the customer data. Download the report to learn how executives can find and use VoC data to make more informed business decisions.