Fonolo

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

After assessing how the pandemic had changed the call center in 2020 , we decided to peek over the parapet at 2021. We asked the contact center industry’s top influencers and business leaders what they thought the most significant contact center trends in 2021 would be. Contact Center Trends 2021.

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CX Global Media

JULY 12, 2019

The fifth step ( Step 1 , Step 2 , Step 3 , Step 4 ) in the contact center agent journey is about agent retention. Retaining contact center agents has always been a significant focus area in contact centers. A several Expert Sessions are dedicated to the topic of on-boarding contact center agents.

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Monet Software

MARCH 10, 2021

Will remote agents continue to represent a significant proportion of the call center workforce? Or will SMB contact centers and clients rush to bring employees back to the traditional production floor? The contact center workforce was already going remote. Here’s why. Flexibility & Scalability. Cost-savings.

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Playvox

JUNE 28, 2022

While presenting a tremendous opportunity for business growth, this trend also creates challenges for contact centers. Customers now expect to do business with an omnichannel contact center that delivers consistent and seamless customer experiences regardless of the channel they use. What Is An Omnichannel Contact Center?

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CX Global Media

JUNE 6, 2017

In our ever-growing global economy, omnichannel language support needs to be included in your contact center strategy. Learn why omnichannel language support is needed in your contact center. And managing language services has not been on the top of a contact center leaders list. Click to Tweet.

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Expivia

JULY 11, 2023

The Future of Contact Centers: The Role of AI and Evolutionary Technologies The advent of AI and associated technologies has opened up a whole new horizon of possibilities for the contact center industry. However, one area that often gets overlooked is the potential for AI in agent coaching.

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Expivia

JULY 19, 2023

Contact centers are the heart of any business. However, shaping an effective contact center culture isn’t just about adhering to KPIs and maintaining quality scores. Two fundamental aspects we identified at our contact center are Attitude and Effort. Quantifying attitude was more challenging.

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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. Simply providing an acceptable level of customer service while containing costs is no longer enough.

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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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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? How Workforce Optimization Works in a Contact Center The most valuable asset in a customer service organization or contact center is your workforce.

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SharpenCX

MAY 26, 2020

It’s common for some business leaders to view their contact center teams as an afterthought. This isn’t helped by contact centers’ notoriously high turnover rates. Call center jobs are, too often, chalked up as entry-level roles. Starting with the Source of Quality CX — Your Contact Center Agents.

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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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Customer Service Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

My first job out of college was as a frontline agent in the contact center for a SaaS startup — and over the next 15 years, I grew into a director role. But things have changed and I now find myself back in a contact center leadership role at a SaaS startup, and I’m now looking to execute on many of the lessons learned and shared.

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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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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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SharpenCX

JANUARY 21, 2020

A couple of years ago, Tommy Reese, Deloitte’s Contact Center Strategy Manager said , “If you treat the client like gold, then they’ll continue to buy from you and other sales will follow.”. Download Now: Get real about coaching with 7 practical tactics to coach and train your agents. Service Level.

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Service Agility

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Originally published in Contact Center Pipeline, May 2015 X% answered in y seconds. That’s the formula we use for service level calculations in contact centers. If you truly value customer satisfaction, you will set an aggressive service level standard and routinely meet it.

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Customer Service Life

MAY 21, 2018

But how many would list quality assurance, a standard contact center metric, as a customer experience metric? What about average handle time, service level, or agent attrition? In the modern contact center, these ARE customer experience metrics. Service Level. Average Handle Time (AHT).

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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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Taylor Reach Group

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The old Contact Center Outsourcing (CCO) model is broken. We know intuitively that better hiring, better, training, and better coaching will produce better performing agents, but most CCO’s don’t want to make that investment or take that risk. By: Colin Taylor. And why would they?

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Taylor Reach Group

MARCH 8, 2018

Let’s say this agent is in coaching for 60 minutes during her shift (Aux for 60 minutes, logged-in for 360 minutes). If you’re looking for extremely high Service Levels and very low Average Speed of Answer, you’ll need to run a lower Occupancy rate, to ensure your agents are ready for the next contact.

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NobelBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Although it is still simply a “beautiful notion” for far too many businesses and contact centers. In this article, we explore the influence of emotional intelligence in companies and how to unlock it for contact centers. Mentoring, coaching, and staff development may all make a difference.

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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? Flexible Diaries.

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Robert Davis

APRIL 7, 2020

How do you help them balance all of those KPIs when service levels are still suffering? Virtual Side-By-Side Coaching – This will vary by phone equipment capabilities. Can you whisper coach? Virtual Team Huddles – This is another coaching tactic that is needed now more then ever. The Three Cs of Virtual Coaching.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 19, 2024

Call center dashboards play a vital role in contact centers. Call center dashboards provide the kinds of insights and metrics that contribute to having improved agent performance and more successful campaigns. Types of Call Center Dashboards So what types of call center dashboards are there?

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Fonolo

AUGUST 3, 2021

This is where organizing your contact center metrics into custom reports comes into play. The Executive Guide to Improving 6 Call Center Metrics. What is a call center report? Call length is an analytic that informs reporting on First Contact Resolution (FCR). Important call center KPIs. Customer feedback.

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24-7 InTouch

JULY 8, 2020

This ability to change and grow was integral for all companies, especially in the contact center industry, when word of COVID-19 started to spread throughout the world. A cautiously optimistic approach is needed as contact centers adapt and respond to the shifting business landscape that has developed around COVID-19.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Contact center managers know that quality monitoring and management is necessary to maintain or improve Customer Satisfaction (CSAT). It can be difficult, however, to tie contact center contributions to CSAT and then to resulting dollars, making it even more difficult to justify needed quality management investments.

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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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Monet Software

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Whether you are the CEO, COO, QA Analyst or Customer Service Agent, the number one goal of your contact center is to deliver a quality experience that lends itself to an increase in customer satisfaction. Contact Quality. Service Level. Customer Satisfaction. Average Handling Time. First-Call Resolution.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

They are under constant pressure to reduce operational overhead costs, lower recruiting, onboarding and training costs – all while exceeding customer demands and delivering exceptional customer service. When contact center managers look to decrease overhead, they think first to eliminate manual processes through automation.

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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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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2019

With this in mind, here are 10 top trends for contact centers and the customer experience in 2019. There are increasing numbers of brands focusing on the CX rather than basic contact center metrics, which is a positive move for the industry as a whole. Bot coaching. Brands will start going back to basics.

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Jive

AUGUST 21, 2019

However, many believe that despite its numerous features, Hosted VoIP isn’t robust enough to handle an industry where calls and communication are the backbone—like contact centers, for example. Contact centers receive a high number of calls every day. On Coaching and Monitoring Features. Not true. .

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BlueOcean

MARCH 31, 2022

Let’s look at what sports can teach us about consistency in achieving contact center service levels—and how to adapt to even the most unexpected outcomes. That’s what we’re talking about here – the role of repetitions and preparing for the possibilities in contact center management. Let’s chat today.

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Robert C. Davis and Associates

APRIL 7, 2020

How do you help them balance all of those KPIs when service levels are still suffering? Virtual Side-By-Side Coaching – This will vary by phone equipment capabilities. Can you whisper coach? Virtual Team Huddles – This is another coaching tactic that is needed now more then ever. The Three Cs of Virtual Coaching.

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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. All new agents need training.

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