Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

It has however morphed from the days of regarding the call center as a cost center to realizing contact centers and the agents who work there are valuable contributors to the customer experience. Schedule adherence – When agents don’t adhere to schedules, they aren’t available to service customers as planned.

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Babelforce

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Call center coaching is a quality management tool that offers agents feedback, examples, and performance assessments in order to improve their performance and wellbeing. When agents understand good practices to follow, they can heighten their skills and deliver top customer service. 1 Keep things private.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JULY 27, 2023

Athletes often describe their best coaches as mentors and supporters that pushed them to be their best. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case with customer service coaching. Many employees face coaching with nervousness and sometimes even dread.

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Playvox

JUNE 10, 2022

Coaching your contact center agents on their performance can either fill everyone with dread or be a productive activity that you and your agents look forward to. Either way, it needs to be done, and arming yourself with a full set of coaching tips for contact center agents will ensure the sessions are productive.

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

You’ve heard of quality management (QM), and your contact center probably has a quality program in place today. But what’s all this hype about using analytics to perform quality activities, and could it help you? This means fewer – but higher quality- evaluations. The post What is Quality Management Analytics?

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Monet Software

JULY 18, 2018

If your contact center is already recording calls and monitoring calls, then you are two-thirds of the way toward an effective quality management program. Aligning these efforts toward specific performance goals will keep service from sagging. So why not make it a point to score those for quality management?

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

With corporate budgets tightening, contact center leaders might be tempted to cut into your quality management funding. But quality management is a vital area of your business — it’s what ensures your customers get top-notch service. of their revenue due to bad experiences.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A related term, workforce engagement management (WEM), recently coined by Gartner, has rapidly become the business strategy, processes, and related technologies of choice. Conversely, if employees don’t feel engaged, appreciated, and respected, your organization – and customers – can be at risk. But it goes beyond enabling automation.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JULY 27, 2023

Athletes often describe their best coaches as mentors and supporters that pushed them to be their best. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case with customer service coaching. Many employees face coaching with nervousness and sometimes even dread.

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Playvox

JANUARY 24, 2022

Delivering exceptional customer experiences is the new competitive advantage. 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.

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Playvox

JANUARY 30, 2024

There’s more to engaging, motivating, and empowering employees than simply giving lip service with buzzwords like “you’ve got this,” “quick win,” and “continuous improvement.” Numerous studies link employee satisfaction, performance, and engagement with management’s ability to provide actionable, positive feedback and coaching.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This means they will never forget a truly wonderful or absolutely horrible service experience. So, in these tough economic times, what are the best customer service strategies to provide elephant-astic experiences? Jim Davies explores 5 brand- and money-saving customer experience (CX) options.

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Myra Golden Media

JULY 16, 2019

After I deliver a customized, engaging customer service workshop, I help my clients reinforce the main ideas. One way I do that is by teaming up with the company’s Quality Assurance team. When working with the quality people to help make sure employees apply the soft skills I teach them, I find six typical mistakes.

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Playvox

JANUARY 12, 2023

While some customer service centers are transitioning back to the office, agents continue to want the option to work remotely. Leading CX centers rely on world-class quality management and workforce management technologies to provide excellent service and support while improving efficiency and reducing costs.

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Playvox

MARCH 12, 2024

When agents are motivated by a sense of purpose, they are more likely to remain committed to their role, resulting in reduced turnover and a more consistent, high-quality customer experience. The importance of agent motivation in a call center cannot be overstated.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In the most engaged teams I’ve seen, there are solid coaching principles at work. But the ultimate leadership secret is to approach training, coaching and performance standards as opportunities to empower your employees to coach themselves.

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Verint

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The groundswell of interest in automating many of the traditionally routine tasks in the contact center is creating a substantial impact on both employee engagement and the customer experience, and we expect this automation groundswell will do nothing but grow in the months and years ahead. contact center industry.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

When companies implement specific tools and best practices, they can significantly improve their customer experience (CX), increase agent performance, and ensure high-quality service. The ultimate objectives are crystal clear: Boost Customer Satisfaction : Happy customers are loyal customers.

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Myra Golden Media

JULY 15, 2019

Need some guidance on how to develop and execute a quality program that is robust, fair, and that your employees buy-in to – and one that doesn’t make your supervisors need to sip wine just to get through a coaching discussion with employees? Here’s the 8 Step Quality Program we use at Myra Golden Seminars.

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8x8

MAY 23, 2018

This blog post is part of a series focusing on improving the customer experiences. . A software application will only get you so far when building an effective customer engagement management strategy. But technology will only get you so far in your quest to provide great customer service.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Customer experience leaders are more challenged than ever. 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.

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teleopti

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Advances in analytics and AI are pushing the barriers for Workforce Management (WFM) and Magnus Geverts at Teleopti, a Calabrio Company says it’s time to act now to take advantage of new initiatives, starting with a data-infused WFM strategy for better human interactions and superior customer experiences.

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Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

Signs And Effects Of Poor Agent Emotional Well-Being In Your Contact Center Working with customers requires a lot of emotional labor from your customer service center agents — even if customers are happy. How a manager gives feedback is one of the most important aspects of their communication.

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Serenova

OCTOBER 24, 2019

We frequently write about customer experience as a key competitive differentiator. In fact, according to industry data—and anecdotal evidence from the contact center leaders we talk to every day—consumer expectations and the service levels they demand are only increasing. Amazon Flushes Customer Service Down the Toilet.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In the most engaged teams I’ve seen, there are solid coaching principles at work. But the ultimate leadership secret is to approach training, coaching and performance standards as opportunities to empower your employees to coach themselves.

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Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

These contact center best practices create the enduring customer experiences necessary for brands to thrive now and long after this crisis ends. Uncompromising Focus on Customer Experience. An uncompromising focus on customer experience is the most critical best practice for any successful contact center.

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Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

These contact center best practices create the enduring customer experiences necessary for brands to thrive now and long after this crisis ends. Uncompromising Focus on Customer Experience. An uncompromising focus on customer experience is the most critical best practice for any successful contact center.

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DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 2, 2022

One area that is attracting a lot of attention and investment is real-time guidance (RTG) because of its ability to help agents and improve productivity while enhancing the customer experience. It uses this information to deliver guidance to agents (and possibly supervisors) to enable them to address customers’ issues properly.

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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. Many elements of the modern, omnichannel customer service center – such as access to new digital channels – are table stakes and required to simply meet customer expectations.

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Playvox

APRIL 5, 2022

Most companies aspire to excellence in customer experience (CX). But without getting contact center performance right, all other CX elements – such as marketing, user experience, etc. After all, the employee experience drives the customer experience. will ultimately fall flat.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Better yet, having a more engaged workforce makes your task of managing remote teams effectively a little easier. The best Quality Management (QM) systems also enable agents to provide commentary on feedback provided and dispute anything that the agent may not agree with the analyst about.

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JustCall

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

But is it only about creating a good customer experience? So, let’s take a consistent approach to the fundamentals of call center quality assurance: 62 % of US customers have stopped doing business with a brand because of poor customer service. 3 Methods Of Contact Center Quality Management.

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SharpenCX

AUGUST 31, 2021

A customized dashboard offers many benefits : Focused insights to improve training and coaching methods Compiled data to improve decision making Transparency to increase agent productivity Clarity around team goals and benchmarks. Your leadership cares about the health of your customer base.

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CSM Magazine

APRIL 18, 2023

The current cost-of-living crisis combined with the usual stresses of managing a hybrid workforce and higher customer expectations put tremendous pressure on customer service organisations today. These widespread challenges are also holding many organisations back from delivering an exceptional customer experience (CX).

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

In 2022, it will be imperative to think strategically about customer and employee engagement strategies to align the customer experience with the employee experience. Organizations must understand and act on this growth in customer data to drive improvements in the customer experience.

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Enghouse Interactive

AUGUST 1, 2018

In a recent Enghouse webinar we were privileged to be joined by Kim Bright from LEGO Education who discussed the relationship between their brand and customer experience and how it is interwoven within everything they do. They have also made it easier to monitor brand consistency and the service customers receive.

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Playvox

MARCH 5, 2024

And behind the scenes, how do you ensure your quality management (QM) processes are keeping up? Let’s examine the role of AI in streamlining quality management processes to help modern contact centers rise to the ever-changing customer experience landscape. Artificial intelligence (AI) can play a part.

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