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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Customer Service Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I’ve come to the realization recently after seeing several demos of various CCaaS (Contact Center as a Service) platforms that there’s a flaw in the whole selling process. It’s at this point in the meeting that they reveal the millions of metrics available to any contact center leader who adopts the platform.

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Contact Center Metrics Schedule adherence Average Handle Time 83

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. First, let’s define remote work.

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Management Gamification Calibration Quality management 88

Playvox

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

When contact center managers look to decrease overhead, they think first to eliminate manual processes through automation. Meanwhile, CX leaders never take their eyes off customer KPIs, such as first contact resolution (FCR), retention, and satisfaction.

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Playvox

JULY 31, 2023

When thinking about workforce management (WFM), often people think of forecasting and scheduling. Ensuring that employees can be a part of managing their schedule has big benefits. Workforce management processes focus on optimizing how, where, and when work gets done, and who is best suited to do the job.

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Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

Does your contact center “talk the customer talk” but sometimes gets stuck when it comes to matching up customer expectations with service and support delivery by your agents? Are you taking the right steps to evolve toward workforce engagement management? If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”

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Hodusoft

JUNE 7, 2024

Call Center Management: Challenges, Strategies, Tips, and Best Practices In today’s time, setting up a call or contact center is extremely easy. He famously said “Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.” Why do businesses need call center management?

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Best practices Call Center Omni-channel support Management 52

3CLogic

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Agent retention has long been a challenge for contact centers. In fact, a recent ICMI survey shows the average contact center’s agent turnover rate was 58% year over year. So why is high employee turnover so common among contact centers? 7 Employee Retention Strategies For Contact Center Managers.

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Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Schedule adherence Average Handle Time 93

CX Accelerator

DECEMBER 31, 2018

When we are honest with ourselves, we all know culture is the linchpin for everything we do in the Contact Center. From Jeremy Hyde: How do your leaders calibrate on what they “coach” on and how/when they approach it? If people do abuse it and it’s failing out of balance, they need to be coached up or coached out.

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Calibration Schedule adherence Coaching Employee engagement 244

Serenova

AUGUST 25, 2020

There are two constants in the contact center. Customer expectations are evolving, and contact center leaders are working to elevate the customer experience. For this reason, workforce management has become a core focus of discussion amongst leaders looking to take their contact centers to the next level.

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Contact Center Schedule adherence Management Coaching 40

Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Ready to level up your contact center team? Improving call center agent performance can seem overwhelming, and you might wonder where to start. TIP: Common KPIs for contact center agents can include average handle time (AHT), first call resolution (FCR), and customer satisfaction score (CSat).

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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. What is Workforce Management (WFM)? At the core, it is comprised of forecasting accuracy, effective scheduling, and efficient rostering. Let’s take a look.

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Management Gamification Quality management Schedule adherence 86

Noble Systems

JUNE 27, 2019

Ultimately, your unique business needs will determine what is included in your cloud contact center system. However, there are some technologies and capabilities that are must-haves for all cloud contact center deployments – here are the ten most essential. Speech analytics is another essential for cloud contact centers.

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Babelforce

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In this post: · Why do Contact Centers Measure Utilization? · Managing Utilization Rates. Utilization measures how much of an agent’s paid time is spent on the contact center floor, handling contacts and waiting for them to arrive. These include paid breaks, restroom visits, and coaching sessions.

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Schedule adherence Agent burnout Contact Center Metrics 52

Babelforce

MARCH 2, 2022

Conformance measures how much time an agent works with respect to the time the contact center pays them to do so. It also involves taking part in coaching sessions, meetings, and huddles. It helps contact centers to decipher whether they are getting enough “bang for their buck”. Conformance represents a cost.

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Schedule adherence Contact Center Finance Metrics 52

Callminer

APRIL 24, 2020

Following the agent interview and selection process, managers should be keyed into how best to facilitate ongoing agent support, growth, and training. Quality monitoring software , such as speech analytics , automatically monitor and score 100% of calls, helping managers deliver objective feedback and improve agent performance.

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Best practices Call Center Coaching Schedule adherence 182

Taylor Reach Group

AUGUST 23, 2017

Metrics, Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s), Reports – we have a lot of names for the information and data we review to help keep our centers on track and performing as we want them to. Contact Centers can generate an immense amount of data and reporting on just about anything that we could conceive. Are returns declining?

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Metrics Contact Center Schedule adherence Coaching 66

Noble Systems

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Improving contact center agent productivity can have a major impact on bottom-line results. There are many lists of “Top” Contact Center KPIs that you can access with a simple Internet search. There are many lists of “Top” Contact Center KPIs that you can access with a simple Internet search. Service Level.

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Gamification Contact Center Schedule adherence Average Handle Time 60

Noble Systems

APRIL 14, 2021

What is a virtual call center? 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.

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Contact Center Geek

MARCH 22, 2019

A new team member joins your contact center. She is lauded for having the lowest Average Handle Time, highest Call Quality scores, and highest Schedule Adherence. This is a common practice in many contact centers. And then contact centers make it worse by not giving any training.

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Management Coaching Contact Center Schedule adherence 48

Talkdesk

JULY 16, 2019

What is Performance Management? 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. The answer is both.

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Call Center Management Average Handle Time Schedule adherence 43

Monet Software

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Contact center employees face a number of challenges during their workday. As a manager, you are in the perfect position to implement modern solutions to improve morale in your call center. Either way, make sure that you are accommodating celebrating schedule adherence in an effort to promote the behavior you are seeking.

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Call Center Schedule adherence Management call center workforce 54

Call Design

JULY 6, 2021

Understanding how to make a profit on the double bottom line (DBL) involves employing a broad range of KPIs and key metrics to ensure a contact centre meets every need that a business may have in supporting their customers. According to a Contact Center Helper report, 95.7% Customer Satisfaction.

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Metrics Average Handle Time Schedule adherence Calibration 148

Noble Systems

APRIL 21, 2020

On the contrary, call center services are in high demand, and business continuity for call centers is becoming more important for economic and societal health. Contact center agents, considered essential critical infrastructure workers during COVID-19 by CISA , have always had a stressful job. We are all in this together.

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Call Center Schedule adherence Contact Center Gamification 68

Serenova

MAY 21, 2020

At the start of the COVID-19 lockdown, transitioning agents to work from home (WFH) while maintaining merely acceptable customer experiences was the most contact centers could manage. These new changes—in our work environments and our attitudes—are not making things any easier for contact center leaders.

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Schedule adherence Contact Center Morale Coaching 98

Dialer 360

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The contact center industry has many KPIs that are necessary to monitor to boost productivity. Similarly, contact center shrinkage is the metric that refers to the time of agents that agents spend time of answer calls and serving customers versus the actual time they spend doing so. What is contact center shrinkage?

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Contact Center Schedule adherence Coaching Metrics 26

Dialer 360

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The contact center industry has many KPIs that are necessary to monitor to boost productivity. Similarly, contact center shrinkage is the metric that refers to the time of agents that agents spend time of answer calls and serving customers versus the actual time they spend doing so. What is contact center shrinkage?

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Contact Center Schedule adherence Coaching Metrics 26

Fonolo

AUGUST 15, 2023

cctr #occupancy #cctrmanagement Click To Tweet Keeping a close eye on the occupancy rate allows contact center managers to prevent agent burnout. Many contact center systems will report available time for an agent, which counts the time an agent was logged-in but not on a call (sometimes called idle time).

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Call Center Schedule adherence Contact Center Agent burnout 67

Serenova

JUNE 5, 2020

To maintain business continuity, organizations must find ways to help employees manage stress. That’s all bad news for call center agent productivity and customer experience. It’s not just your contact center agents who are working from home. Workforce management (WFM) tools can help. Offer Flexibility.

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Call Center Schedule adherence Contact Center Gamification 75

Serenova

APRIL 19, 2020

While most of us have been in lockdown mode, healthcare, financial services and other “essential” industries have had to continue to operate and serve customers through their contact centers. These contact centers are rising to the challenge of this global crisis. Choosing the Right Partner.

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Monet Software

JULY 30, 2019

This specifically applies to contact centers which are in the frontline of customer service and are gathering heaps of information, insights and data every minute, every hour, every day. As a call center manager, these waves of data that come from different channels and platforms can be overwhelming.

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Call Center Metrics Abandon rate Schedule adherence 54

Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

JULY 9, 2018

How does a contact center know it’s consistently delivering high quality service? Here’s a list of the most crucial metrics that inbound call center must measure. First Contact Resolution. First Contact Resolution (FCR) is an essential part of managing your company’s relationship with your customers.

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Metrics Call Center Schedule adherence Abandon Call 78

Noble Systems

MARCH 19, 2021

This is especially true for managing customer contacts, which, while vital to growing a business, can have negative impacts if not done well. Call Center Software for SMB. In the past, the technology required to power small business call center software and hardware was usually expensive and bulky.

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COPC

APRIL 19, 2023

Previously, we discussed the importance of a well-designed scorecard in our blog, Benefits of a Balanced Scorecard for Performance Management. Striking the perfect balance in a scorecard is essential for maximizing its effectiveness as a robust performance management tool. Even utilization may be out of an agent’s hands.

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Metrics Schedule adherence Benchmark Average Handle Time 71

Toister Performance Solutions

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Contact center leaders are constantly trying to improve agent performance. I reached out to 11 contact center leaders and asked them to share a favorite technique they've used to improve agent performance in some way. Social Media and Customer Experience Manager, NumberBarn. Some solutions are costly. Todd Hixson.

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Schedule adherence Chief Customer Officer Coaching Contact Center 56

Dialer 360

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

People who never been in the contact center or has worked, don’t know types of contact center services. Some the people probably also knows about the inbound and outbound centers. But the most significant thing is how you can improve the level of call center service? Improve Forecast Accuracy.

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Pointillist

JANUARY 25, 2019

Customer service leaders need to tune in to one set of KPIs, but front-line managers need a different view. Both are used in contact centers, so you must choose the right approach that works for your team and make sure everyone understands your FCR parameters. Managers rely on them to keep tabs on day-to-day operations.

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Call Center Metrics Abandon rate Average Handle Time 75