Balto

JUNE 12, 2023

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on Email In today’s economy, contact center leaders are tasked with doing as much as possible with as few resources as possible. We talked to 400+ contact center leaders about exactly this phenomenon in order to understand how they are doing more with less.

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Playvox

APRIL 25, 2023

How can you spice up remote agent training at your contact center to make it the most engaging and effective it can be? Make A Plan Despite the ongoing debate on the benefits and drawbacks of in-person, hybrid, and remote work, recent data and predictions support remote and hybrid work in a contact center. Engagement.

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COPC

MARCH 11, 2024

Early attrition poses a significant and costly challenge for contact centers. and Centrical have teamed up to present the Improving Contact Center Retention Series, offering strategies to increase call center retention and lower attrition-related expenses. What does the coaching process look like?

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Noble Systems

JANUARY 21, 2019

Sales SPIFFs and contests have been used to incentivize contact center agents to sell more for decades. In addition, there are two segments that span the entire hierarchy – manage, forecast and analyze; and develop, coach, onboard and motivate. Gamification uses game mechanics to encourage desired behaviors.

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Balto

MAY 13, 2022

So much of the emphasis in contact centers is on providing the support and service that produce high customer satisfaction. However, we also need to focus on making sure our contact center agents are satisfied. However, we also need to focus on making sure our contact center agents are satisfied.

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Playvox

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Working with virtual teams of agents in your contact center can sometimes mean you feel disconnected from them — or even worried that you aren’t able to properly manage their performance. Agents who felt their contact centers were handling remote work well told us they appreciated: Clear expectations. Communication.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 31, 2023

Still have questions about call center training? What is Call Center Training? Simply put, call center training is any course, seminar, video, coaching session, or other activity that teaches the skills and behavior required for success in a call center. Include workshops and group activities as much as possible!

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Noble Systems

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

One solution that has gained popularity in recent years for its ability to provide continuous feedback to employees, particularly those in contact centers, is gamification. Factor in skill competency when determining frequency of feedback through gamification. This is the case with gamification.

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Noble Systems

JANUARY 21, 2019

Sales SPIFFs and contests have been used to incentivize contact center agents to sell more for decades. In addition, there are two segments that span the entire hierarchy – manage, forecast and analyze; and develop, coach, onboard and motivate. Gamification uses game mechanics to encourage desired behaviors.

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Noble Systems

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

One solution that has gained popularity in recent years for its ability to provide continuous feedback to employees, particularly those in contact centers, is gamification. Factor in skill competency when determining frequency of feedback through gamification. This is the case with gamification.

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Noble Systems

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Getting and keeping contact center employees engaged is foundational to accomplishing this objective. Gamification is an enabling technology that can help. Start Building the Core of Your Employee Engagement Plan with Gamification. Many companies turn to gamification to address the top drivers of employee engagement.

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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Contact centers are always looking for ways to reduce costs. This is particularly true during periods of uncertainty and economic downturn, when call center cost savings contribute to business continuity. The Best Call Center Cost Reduction Strategies. ” Techniques to optimize time. Improve AHT with knowledge bases.

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Noble Systems

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Getting and keeping contact center employees engaged is foundational to accomplishing this objective. Gamification is an enabling technology that can help. Start Building the Core of Your Employee Engagement Plan with Gamification. Many companies turn to gamification to address the top drivers of employee engagement.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This not only helps in ensuring compliance with protocols but also provides opportunities for coaching and feedback based on actual performance. By identifying areas for improvement, call centers can increase the quality of service and customer satisfaction. RELATED ARTICLE What is IVR?

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Noble Systems

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Many customers are even happy to provide information about what the competition is doing via phone calls into the contact center, emails, chats, surveys and social media. According to the Aberdeen Group, those companies that are best-in-class at capturing and acting on VoC insights realize a 10X greater increase in annual revenue.

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Eckoh

JANUARY 31, 2020

The Contact Center of the Future will be a finely-tuned machine – using real-time data to optimize experiences. But none of that is possible unless organizations are adept at managing the Contact Center of the Future. To meet the needs of the customers and agents of the future, contact centers will need to be ultra agile.

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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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Noble Systems

JUNE 7, 2019

Our annual SNUG (Select Noble Users Group) conference brings together top voices in customer experience with contact center managers, platform administrators, and others looking to learn what’s new in CX technology and share ideas.

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Callminer

APRIL 24, 2020

Call Centre Helper recommends instituting a “competency-based approach” to interviewing, which involves running an assessment center for new recruits. Call scoring evaluation forms can also be helpful for enhancing quality assurance within the call center. Leverage Call Monitoring & Scoring. Effectively Communicate with Agents.

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Noble Systems

JANUARY 30, 2019

Many of the 2019 trends indicate a “back to basics” approach with an emphasis on the ultimate goal for contact centers — to foster meaningful connections with consumers. To this end, we have grouped the top contact center trends for 2019 into these three categories: human, effortless and transformative.

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Noble Systems

JANUARY 30, 2019

Many of the 2019 trends indicate a “back to basics” approach with an emphasis on the ultimate goal for contact centers — to foster meaningful connections with consumers. To this end, we have grouped the top contact center trends for 2019 into these three categories: human, effortless and transformative.

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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. How does WFO work in the Call Center? Workforce Optimization provides contact center management with total visibility into quality and performance. Let’s take a look.

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Noble Systems

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Many customers are even happy to provide information about what the competition is doing via phone calls into the contact center, emails, chats, surveys, and social media. According to the Aberdeen Group, those companies that are best-in-class at capturing and acting on VoC insights realize a 10X greater increase in annual revenue.

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Callminer

APRIL 21, 2020

Call center managers may be involved with hiring and training call center agents , monitoring call center metrics tied to agent performance , using speech analytics tools for ongoing quality monitoring , providing ongoing feedback and coaching, and more. Ben Winter’s first job out of college was in a call center.

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Noble Systems

APRIL 14, 2021

Imagine a call center – a hub of inbound and outbound calls, staffed by a team of agents and managers – but the agents and managers are located off-site, whether in small groups in other offices or individually at their own homes. This is the concept of the virtual call center. Reduce upfront and operational costs.

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DMG Consulting

MAY 8, 2023

The cloud is a game changer for both companies and vendors due to its proven benefits for both groups. While some of the contact center-as-a-service (CCaaS) vendors sell their own WFO/ WEM solutions and capabilities, most sell these applications through partnerships.

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Call Center Weekly

MARCH 9, 2018

By Elaine Carr, CPLP Several years ago while interviewing for my job at ICMI, an employee asked me, “What’s the biggest training obstacle for contact centers?” It should be part of a greater corporate strategy, or at least the contact center strategy. I thought for sure this must be a trick question. It creates focus.

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Noble Systems

JUNE 18, 2019

And by the end of 2019, Gen Zers are expected to comprise 32 percent of the world’s population, surpassing millennials as the largest age group. Gamification , the use of game mechanics to improve employee productivity, efficiency and engagement, provides an excellent platform for addressing all of these traits.

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Serenova

JUNE 6, 2019

Yesterday, at the Austin Contact Center Alliance ’s Emerging Technologies for CX event, Serenova and more than 30 contact center executives and technology thought leaders discussed customer experience (CX) challenges and how emerging technology can help. For most contact centers, the cloud means increased security.

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DMG Consulting

APRIL 16, 2019

Workforce Optimization Ushers in the Real-Time Contact Center. It’s hard to overstate how much the contact center technology sector has progressed in the past 15 years. Thirteen years ago, DMG Consulting published the book The Real-Time Contact Center. By Donna Fluss. who interact with them.

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Serenova

DECEMBER 4, 2019

They also may couple this with contact-center agent performance, independently gathered sentiment analysis of customer interactions, and competitive analysis. Increasingly, supervisors are using this information to coach agents, serve as fodder for gamification and deliver rewards.

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Balto

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Simply put, call center management is how a team of leaders helps run the call center. Management activities include training, coaching, onboarding, scheduling, forecasting, and more. The ultimate goal of managers is to ensure an efficient and successful contact center that meets or exceeds key KPIs and drives business goals.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Gamification is one of the best ways to help your agents internalize these important skills and use them effectively in their roles. There are many types of skills that will come in handy in the call center, so we’ve compiled our top picks for improving contact center performance: Communication and tone. Active listening.

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Blueship Call Center

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Empathy will assist you in concentrating on improving customer happiness, which will have an impact on your bottom line, as part of your performance coaching objectives. Create personal and group objectives When you have a structure in place, you can decide what your team and each member of it must do. It makes everything clear.

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Noble Systems

MARCH 19, 2021

While many large enterprises still use these on-premise systems, SMB call centers can now take advantage of today’s cloud call center software for small businesses. Cloud Contact Center for SMBs. In the coaching mode, managers can assist the agent during a call, but the customer can’t hear the manager.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2022

As it overlooks three critical components: the customer experience, the rise of new communication and the new contact center technologies. Modern customers want immediate and dependable solutions, which means your call center’s efficiency must be at its peak at all times. What is call center efficiency?

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Fonolo

APRIL 27, 2020

Handpicked related content: 5 Creative Ways to Manage Agent Shortages in Your Contact Center. When managing a team of remote call center agents, this is even more imperative. Many teams thrive off healthy competition, there are plenty of ways to bring some gamification back into the virtual workplace.

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