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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Contact Center Gamification Metrics Quality management 52

Playvox

OCTOBER 18, 2022

There’s a storm brewing in customer service centers, and the aftermath could create some big challenges for contact center management. In our 2022 study of customer support agents and managers, 68% of agent respondents said they didn’t want to return to an office. The State of Remote Work in Contact Centers.

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Contact Center Management Coaching contact center workforce 69

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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Best practices Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Average Handle Time 84

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.

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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. Consider this.

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Agent burnout Contact Center Gamification Agent Empowerment 68

CSM Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

David Singer, Vice President of Product Strategy for Verint , explains why contact centers will need to stay agile to support the evolving needs of customers and employees. New technologies will help contact centers be more agile in the new year. Supporting Customer Engagement as Channel Preferences Evolve.

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Contact Center Coaching Quality management Employee engagement 52

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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Contact Center Self service Gamification Enterprise 77

Playvox

JANUARY 12, 2023

No matter where your contact center team is physically located, bringing out their best performance can be a big challenge. Remote and hybrid work are no longer hard-to-find benefits in customer support centers. Remote and hybrid work are no longer hard-to-find benefits in customer support centers. But does it have to?

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Quality management Coaching Contact Center Metrics 69

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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Management Gamification Calibration Quality management 88

Enghouse Interactive

APRIL 28, 2019

Today, we’d like to give you some insight into the ways omni-channel recording and quality management in the contact center can save your organization money. Process Flow: One of the most important operating principles in contact centers is the adherence to communication scripting and workflow.

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Enghouse Interactive

MAY 21, 2019

Today, we’d like to give you some insight into the ways omni-channel recording and quality management in the contact center can save your organization money. Process Flow: One of the most important operating principles in contact centers is the adherence to communication scripting and workflow.

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Verint

DECEMBER 15, 2017

In 2018, the contact center industry will be all about automation. The latest technology to feel the touch of automation is quality management—the most widely deployed and utilized solution in the U.S. contact center industry, and likely the global contact center industry.

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Monet Software

APRIL 24, 2020

High-speed internet, cloud-based applications and other technologies have opened a new vista for the call center—the remote agents. Most contact centers have had to quickly transition to working from home as a direct effect of COVID-19. No longer is the company limited to the talent pool surrounding the contact center.

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SharpenCX

AUGUST 31, 2021

When organizations practice transparency with their employees, they see greater success in several areas. They have increased employee engagement, a stronger company culture, and foster a comfort that empowers employees to communicate freely. Then, it makes your job as the manager tricky.

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Call Center Metrics Benchmark Contact Center 128

DMG Consulting

MARCH 12, 2018

Question: Our contact center only has 25 agents, what workforce optimization applications should we use? WFO suites are highly beneficial for contact centers in small to mid-size businesses (SMBs) because they provide a fully integrated and unified set of applications for managing and optimizing the operating environment.

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Contact Center Gamification Coaching Analytics 48

Playvox

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

You can apply this simple but powerful concept in a contact center to encourage agents to improve their quality, productivity, and effectiveness. Why You Should Bring Gamification into Your Contact Center. Here are 12 reasons why you should bring gamification into your contact center. Recruiting.

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Gamification Call Center Contact Center Coaching 52

Monet Software

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

How to treat employee burnout and reinvigorate call center engagement for the long haul. Do you feel it spreading through your contact center workforce? If you’re seeing symptoms of burnout in your SMB contact center, or in online interactions with certain remote agents, it’s time to do something about it.

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Morale Agent burnout Contact Center Coaching 100

Monet Software

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Can SMB call center quality management be about more than quality? Yep, it’s the linchpin of employee engagement, too! Monitoring and scoring calls—these quality assurance (QA) tasks are constant at nearly every contact center. It’s much the same with contact center roles.

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Morale Quality management contact center workforce Employee engagement 48

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. This kind of integration is necessary. And it’s what’s next.

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Cloud contact Quality management Contact Center contact center solutions 69

Playvox

MARCH 5, 2024

This definitely applies to customer needs and preferences, and contact centers are constantly striving to stay one step ahead of evolving customer requirements. A desire for instant-access self-service options is shifting how customers want to engage. How do contact centers not only survive but thrive in this new era?

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Quality management Management Contact Center Coaching 78

NICE inContact

JUNE 10, 2019

His service delivery is great because the restaurant has a very strong quality management and training team. I’m talking about your contact center. So often I hear contact centers say: “We are looking for quality management and performance management, but we don’t really need workforce management.”

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Contact Center Quality management Coaching Employee engagement 54

teleopti

OCTOBER 18, 2019

CX has also totally revolutionized the way front-line operations such as contact centers measure their success, switching from the number of calls answered and how quickly to how well do we understand customers? Then, use quality evaluations and analytics to detect coaching needs and automatically schedule training at quieter times.

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Customer Experience Average Handle Time Analytics Contact Center 66

Verint

APRIL 14, 2016

Thinking back on my time in Operations, like so many other people I spent a significant amount of time trying to understand the root cause of the quality management (QM) opportunities in my organization. What could it be?

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Quality management Management Coaching Employee engagement 21

Talkdesk

JULY 16, 2019

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. That’s where leveraging contact center performance management software can help.

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Call Center Management Average Handle Time Schedule adherence 43

Playvox

MARCH 27, 2023

Operating a successful contact center demands attention to a wide range of factors, from investing in your agents’ well-being and training to implementing the right tools and technology. Training programs should be designed to meet the specific needs of the contact center and its agents.

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Contact Center Gamification Coaching Quality management 84

Playvox

MARCH 19, 2024

Some of the most common uses of AI have been game changers: Virtual assistants like Siri guiding us on our way and finding information in an instant Fraud detection from our financial institutions Medical diagnoses and healthcare Contact centers are no exception and stand to gain significant business and operational benefits from AI.

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Contact Center Quality management Interactive Voice Response Coaching 74

Verint

JANUARY 16, 2018

Ovum believes the major benefit of Automated Quality Management is the freeing up of valuable supervisory time from scoring to be used for coaching and other agent support efforts. Modern technology allows for an Automated Quality Management (AQM) process that provides more fairness for agents and is more useful to supervisors.

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Coaching Quality management Employee engagement Feedback 34

Verint

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Maybe you haven’t thought about this yet, but are you aware that contact centers are now using automation to modernize quality management? Automated Quality Management automates scoring of up to 100 percent of agent calls, ensuring modern, employee-empowering and cost-effective quality management.

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Quality management Coaching Contact Center Management 25

SharpenCX

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

As a manager, your executive team is consistently pushing you to keep employees engaged, reduce turnover, increase profitability and efficiency. We’ve compiled four employee training templates to give you practical strategies to increase learning and training in your contact center. I understand.

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Contact Center Coaching Employee engagement Call Center 137

Verint

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Contact center teams have been evaluating call recordings for quality for years now. What is different today is that organizations that embrace automation can potentially leapfrog their competitors and dramatically improve how work is done in their contact centers.

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Quality management Coaching Contact Center Technology 30

Verint

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Autoscoring your quality management forms and evaluating your calls using automated quality solutions can help your organization quickly, easily and objectively evaluate every recorded call for script adherence and other customer service requirements. Increase Employee Engagement by Providing Transparency.

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Average Handle Time First call resolution Employee engagement Quality management 26

CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

CX has also totally revolutionized the way front-line operations such as contact centers measure their success, switching from the number of calls answered and how quickly to how well do we understand customers? Then, use quality evaluations and analytics to detect coaching needs and automatically schedule training at quieter times.

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Customer Experience Average Handle Time Analytics Contact Center 40

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. Most interactions that contact center agents have daily are to solve a problem or issue, adjust a payment, or ask a clarifying question.

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Morale Contact Center Quality management Coaching 90

Verint

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

These capabilities can actually empower employees and make their lives—and those of your customers—even better. Using technology to automate your quality program—from scoring through coaching—can produce real-life benefits for your quality team, as well as your frontline employees, your customers and your company.

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Employee engagement Quality management Coaching Technology 26

CX Global Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Flexibility is often an innocently misunderstood element in the contact center technology evaluation criteria. Afterall, unless you’re evaluating and implementing a wide-array of contact center technology as part of your everyday job, it’s just impossible to keep up with. Al, how do you help folks get over the hump?

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2023

Playvox, one of the leading providers of workforce engagement solutions for digital-first and CRM-centric contact centers, today announced the launch of a global collaboration with Salesforce (NYSE: CRM). Playvox solutions deliver a powerfully simple way to achieve efficiency and effectiveness in the contact center.

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Contact Center Schedule adherence Gamification CRM 59

DMG Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2020

Interaction analytics (IA) is a highly valuable application for contact centers, with even higher potential for making major contributions to other enterprise departments. The pandemic has changed contact centers in what is hopefully a lasting way. The uses of IA have been expanding inside and outside of contact centers.

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Enterprise Contact Center At home agents Analytics 78