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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Outsource Consultants

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

It’s because the ongoing labor shortage, paired with increased Q4 purchasing, is leaving many businesses that rely on contact center support exposed to looming CX disasters. Try These 3 Contact Center Strategies for Q4 Success. But why would anyone worry about potentially high sales volume? Tip the Scales with Technology.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Optimizing team productivity is the key to achieving this goal, and this comprehensive guide will walk you through the steps necessary to unlock your call center’s full potential. What is hyper efficiency in a contact center? A well-calibrated IVR system is the cornerstone for intelligent contact center automation.

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DMG Consulting

JANUARY 8, 2018

Question: How can we improve our contact center coaching? Answer: In recent years, coaching has evolved from a monthly one-on-one session between a supervisor and an agent/representative into an ongoing dialog and two-way exchange of data. periods of low volume) to minimize customer and contact center impacts.

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CCNG

APRIL 20, 2022

Honesty forms the bedrock from which all legitimate success derives, and customer contact organizations challenged with attracting and retaining personnel should obsessively seek and share truth to create a culture of trust that can elevate employee and customer experience along with business performance.?

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Playvox

APRIL 27, 2023

Contact center trends can directly impact success. For the greatest impact and a clear competitive edge, contact center leaders must choose wisely when making business decisions about the trends to prioritize and implement in their organizations — because all change, even positive change, costs time and resources.

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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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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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Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

How well are your customers being served by your customer support contact center? There are a number of things contact center management can do to improve AHT. Hone agent training and coaching. Implement gamification. Your CSAT survey answers can help you understand the areas that you need to improve.

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Noble Systems

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Conventional motivational tactics are no longer effective, whether you manage an enterprise or contact center sales organization. That’s why many companies are turning to gamification to drive behaviors that improve sales effectiveness and achieve world-class status. All of them can be enhanced with gamification.

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Playvox

OCTOBER 12, 2022

For many remote contact centers, it’s time to shift into a busier season, when the stakes are especially high for customer experience. 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.

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Playvox

JANUARY 13, 2022

While many in the contact center industry are slow to transition away from on-premise software, cloud adoption shows no signs of slowing. In the last year, contact center teams that have embraced cloud-based solutions have learned some important lessons. Gamification. billion in 2020. Customer Chit-Chat.

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TechSee

JUNE 4, 2019

Nowhere is that truer than in call center training – bringing new agents up to speed on products, processes and the productivity expected of them. Traditionally, contact centers have trained new agents using one-on-one coaching or classroom-style role-playing, where the focus is on imparting knowledge and customer service etiquette.

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Tethr

JUNE 5, 2020

Does your contact center need a morale boost? Improve employee morale and reduce call center stress using these strategies. Call center managers earn the respect of their employees by showing them that they are not above any task. Gamification works. Be a team player. Ask your agents what they need.

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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. 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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3CLogic

JANUARY 5, 2022

Contact centers have come a long way over the last couple of decades, nearly unrecognizable to an agent from the 1990s. As technology continues to rapidly develop, contact centers will need to revisit the tools they use in order to keep up. Consider how the contact center landscape changed during 2021 alone.

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Playvox

MARCH 12, 2024

Think about the last time you reached out to a contact center for one of the services or products that you purchased. You could have contacted the company in a multitude of ways — chat, text, social media, or even an “old-fashioned” telephone call.

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Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

In Part 1 of this two-part series on contact center burnout we covered some of the warning signs of agent overload. According to research by Contact Babel, medium sized contact centers have an average turnover rate of 37%. Why is this so important? Agents are human. Humans have limits.

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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. Reduce second-time calls with better FCR.

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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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Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

There are a number of things contact center management can do to improve AHT. Hone agent training and coaching. Implement gamification. When this happens, a customer is more likely to abandon the call before they speak with a contact center agent. Enter gamification. Optimize call routing.

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COPC

JANUARY 15, 2024

has partnered with Centrical to bring you the Improving Contact Center Retention Series, where we explore how organizations can reduce early attrition. According to the 2023 survey, only 71% of respondents felt their training adequately prepared them for success, down three percentage points over two years.

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DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2020

DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. 2020 – 2021 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Market Report.

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Balto

JUNE 3, 2022

Every contact center encounters its fair share of hurdles on the path to success. Fix-It Friday targets contact center leaders’ biggest frustrations with solution-focused content. How Common Are Remote Contact Center Agents? The contact center landscape has shifted dramatically in the last few years.

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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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Vistio

JANUARY 5, 2022

Quality Assurance (QA) and Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) scores are almost always at the top of a contact center’s “most important” measurements list for CX success. Some contact centers have turned to Natural Language Processing (NLP) to solve the issue of sample size. Gamification…. Empathy coaching….

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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. In addition to a VoC platform, other enabling customer feedback technologies are speech analytics and gamification.

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Serenova

APRIL 13, 2020

Now that your contact center agents are safely working from home, it’s time to focus on the business of managing and coaching to ensure productivity. Celebrating wins in an on-site contact center environment was easier. Here are six tips to help. Embrace the Positive. Help Employees Connect.

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Balto

MARCH 13, 2023

Improving the agent experience hasn’t always been the first priority to improve contact center performance and revenue. While guidance software (or call coaching software) does have great benefits for onboarding new agents, this isn’t the complete picture. Improving agents’ day-to-day shouldn’t be a compromise. What is Balto?

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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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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

But how do AI and automation technologies actually help make your contact center more efficient? One area where you can ease AI and automation into your contact center is in your quality management (QM) processes. Quality Assurance, or QA, started in the contact center as a very compliance-driven process.

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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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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.

Contact Center 48

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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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Contact Center Gamification Analytics Average Handle Time 48

Callminer

APRIL 24, 2020

Call scoring evaluation forms can also be helpful for enhancing quality assurance within the call center. In addition to call monitoring and scoring, managers and supervisors should also make it a point to schedule in time for targeted coaching sessions with agents. Effectively Communicate with Agents.

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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. In addition to a VoC platform, other enabling customer feedback technologies are speech analytics and gamification.

Feedback 52

Feedback Gamification Analytics Customer centricity 52