Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

Every workplace has its pros and cons, but contact center agents have one of the toughest jobs out there. Just like agents are protecting your company, contact center leaders and managers need to protect them and their mental health. Burnout Burnout is at the heart of poor emotional well-being in a contact center.

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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.

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Playvox

APRIL 5, 2022

But without getting contact center performance right, all other CX elements – such as marketing, user experience, etc. How do you build a high performance contact center? These enable you to make progress on your most pressing challenges and transform into a high performance contact center.

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JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

And the only way to succeed is through an effective contact center management system. This blog will look at the tips and best practices for contact center management. Follow them to optimize your contact center operation and ensure smooth customer service. What is Contact Center Management?

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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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Playvox

JANUARY 30, 2024

Numerous studies link employee satisfaction, performance, and engagement with management’s ability to provide actionable, positive feedback and coaching. Yet managers continue to fall short. In a contact center setting, this can mean badges, a point system, and moving up to the next level when agents perform well.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The term “buyer’s market” is best known for describing the state of the real estate market, but it’s also applicable to contact centers. A related term, workforce engagement management (WEM), recently coined by Gartner, has rapidly become the business strategy, processes, and related technologies of choice.

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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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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. The Cloud.

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Monet Software

AUGUST 11, 2020

Why, When and How SMB Call Centers Can Integrate Quality Management (QM) Teams. These are interesting times for SMB call centers and help desks. Small-scale, in-house and boutique customer contact facilities enjoy unique opportunities in today’s CX-focused market. or a full quality assurance (QA) department ?

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Playvox

JANUARY 24, 2022

While it’s hard to argue against the importance of delivering great CX, it’s also all too easy to assume that the experiences your contact center delivers are up to par simply because you are handling interactions efficiently. What’s worse, without customer experience metrics in place, is that you won’t know until it’s too late.

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Contact Center Customer Experience Brand ambassadors Average Handle Time 88

SharpenCX

MARCH 25, 2021

But how can you effectively coach and improve the performance of a dispersed workforce? Ramping up quality management in your call center is crucial to keeping performance high and teams operating in sync, no matter where they’re working. What can speech analytics do for my call center?

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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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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Performance Metrics and KPIs: Monitoring call center performance is essential. Metrics include First Call Resolution , Customer Satisfaction Score , and Call Handling Time 1. Agent Screen Capture: Monitoring and improving agent performance is a continuous challenge in call center optimization.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

To properly manage your teams and fulfill your customers and business objectives, you must monitor many KPIs. However, with the volume of calls and data generated on a daily basis in contact centers, managers and supervisors frequently feel overwhelmed. What are the right call center agent performance metrics to monitor?

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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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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. This is a recruitment quality metric.)

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Tethr

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Contact center reporting and analytics are essential for customer service and customer experience (CX) leaders to understand contact center performance accurately. Depending on the report, data surfaced can be used to understand agent performance, improve coaching, refine products and services, and so much more.

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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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Monet Software

AUGUST 29, 2018

Do you have a quality management program? You’d be surprised how many contact centers implement such a program and then check the “mission accomplished” box before moving on to something else. If you’re not sure where you stand on quality management, here are five signs that a fresh start might be recommended.

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Expivia

APRIL 1, 2021

There is a minor debate in the call center and quality management circles on whether it is best to use live calls or recorded calls when evaluating call center associates in a center. Live monitoring from your supervisors and/or your QA areas is like in-game coaching. Live Calls help you Win the Game Today.

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Monet Software

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The college and pro football regular seasons are wrapping up, and every year that means one thing – some coaches will be out of a job. Coaching is important, whether you run a football team or a contact center. And if you’re not getting the most out of your coaching efforts, it will impact customer service.

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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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8x8

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Most companies have implemented some sort of training or coaching program within their corporate structure and contact center. However, simply training your contact center personnel is not enough. To analyze the benefits of the training or coaching, a systematic evaluation process needs to be put in place.

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Contact Center Coaching Quality management contact center solutions 48

8x8

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Most companies have implemented some sort of training or coaching program within their corporate structure and contact center. However, simply training your contact center personnel is not enough. To analyze the benefits of the training or coaching, a systematic evaluation process needs to be put in place.

Contact Center 48

Contact Center Coaching Quality management contact center solutions 48

8x8

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Most companies have implemented some sort of training or coaching program within their corporate structure and contact center. However, simply training your contact center personnel is not enough. To analyze the benefits of the training or coaching, a systematic evaluation process needs to be put in place.

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Contact Center Coaching Quality management contact center solutions 48

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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NobelBiz

AUGUST 3, 2021

What are the flaws in your contact center? In order to find the accurate answer to these questions, business owners and managers must go beyond guesses and instinct and rely on scientific, clear, and quantitative facts. Team Management: how dedicated are your agents? Is your client satisfaction decreasing?

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Playvox

MARCH 29, 2022

As one of the newest terms to enter the contact center space, workforce engagement management (WEM) is much more than a simple change in the words we use. All you have to do is place yourself in the contact center agent’s shoes. So what is workforce engagement management? Do you want to be optimized?

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JustCall

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

I wish all contact center employees were like them.” ” Feedback like this for your call center agents is a step closer to achieving quality assurance call center goals in your call center management strategy. This is the essence of a call center quality assurance.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Average handle time is an important contact centre metric but it can be a double-edged sword that creates customer dissatisfaction. So, is Average Handle Time (AHT) still a relevant metric and what does it mean for contact centres today? Understand that the problem is not empathy in itself but how it is coached.

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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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Serenova

MAY 1, 2020

The recognition deficit and its negative impact are especially acute right now when stress is elevated for contact center agents and the customers they’re trying to help. Contact centers that don’t regularly recognize agents for good work are likely to experience low morale, burnout and high attrition.

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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? Monitoring and scoring calls—these quality assurance (QA) tasks are constant at nearly every contact center. Group QA metrics into tiers, representing milestones toward interaction mastery. But QA can be so much more!

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