Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

Operational costs – Agents who aren’t invested or lack training, feedback, or coaching tend to be inefficient, ultimately costing your business financially. However, the two main components are Quality Management and Workforce Management.

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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. AI-driven tools and platforms are shaping the way contact centers engage with and manage their workforce. But it goes beyond enabling automation.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Calabrio, the customer experience intelligence company, today announced its new coaching solution for agent performance management, Calabrio Performance Coaching. Identifying individual or team skill gaps allows leaders to better offer coaching and support to agents that need it.

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SharpenCX

MARCH 4, 2020

This fleeting access to memory is why in-the-moment coaching is so impactful. Download Now: Get real about coaching and training your agents with these 7 techniques. A typical call center coaches and trains agents in a few different ways. And, they cram months (and months) of feedback into a single coaching session.

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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. Read Next] 6 call center reporting metrics that’ll level-up your customer service.

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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Quality scorecard monitoring ensures customer service standards are met and exceeded using an adapted set of metrics to measure agents’ performance. Start by exploring these strategies to turn your QA metrics into QA gold. Give Factual Feedback. Deliver Scoreboard Metrics to the Agent in Real-Time.

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COPC

MARCH 11, 2024

This is a recruitment quality metric.) Are we providing insights into attrition rates and qualitative and quantitative feedback on recruitment quality and class pass rates? Are we getting feedback in this area to inform recruiting and training? What does the coaching process look like?

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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. This not only helps in ensuring compliance with protocols but also provides opportunities for coaching and feedback based on actual performance.

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Playvox

JANUARY 12, 2023

By tracking the right metrics and using smart technology, you can keep a close eye on your agents’ success and productivity — without becoming Big Brother in the process. Related Article: 5 Ways Contact Center Managers are Adapting to Remote Work. Related Article: 5 Ways Contact Center Managers are Adapting to Remote Work.

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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. What Is A Quality Management Program?

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Monet Software

AUGUST 29, 2018

Do you have a quality management program? If you’re not sure where you stand on quality management, here are five signs that a fresh start might be recommended. If you’re not sure where you stand on quality management, here are five signs that a fresh start might be recommended. Normal.dotm.

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Playvox

MARCH 27, 2023

Additionally, agents can benefit from coaching and mentoring programs that provide ongoing feedback and guidance to help them improve their performance. Real-time feedback and coaching can separate successful brands from mediocre ones by helping agents identify and correct issues as they arise.

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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. The metrics that are appropriate for your organization will serve as your compass.

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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. Quality Management for cost savings – how? The result to the bottom line? Lost productivity due to unengaged agents doubles these loss estimates.

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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. Quality Management for cost savings – how? Enghouse Interactive Educates – #2 in a series.

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CX Global Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Here is an edited transcript of my interview with Al Cook: Jim Rembach: Hey, this is Jim from the Fast Leader Show and Call Center Coach and I’m here with Al Cook of Twilio. How do we surface what they need to be focusing on to help coach their team, to help quality manage their team? Al Cook: Well, thanks Jim.

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SharpenCX

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Direct the focus of your coaching, your 1:1 time, and your available resources to support agents where they struggle. It’s a great environment for teaching theories, explaining your call center metrics, and reviewing technology tasks where everyone can follow along and ask questions as needed. How do you run a virtual training class?

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Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

Ticket volumes and customer feedback are way up in the last few years. How Managers Communicate With Agents Your managers’ communication style and abilities can help your customer service agents’ sense of well-being and engagement — or damage them. Only 26% feel the feedback they do get helps them do better work.

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SharpenCX

OCTOBER 22, 2019

You’re sitting in your 1:1 with Heather reviewing the same missed metrics you talked about last week. Or, maybe, Heather knows the metrics she needs to meet, but she has no way of seeing how she’s progressing towards those goals daily. Include a quick view of other metrics that greatly impact customer satisfaction. What gives?

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Playvox

MARCH 29, 2022

According to Gartner the workforce engagement management landscape is defined by functionality that includes support for: Recruitment and onboarding Evaluation and improvement Time management Assistance and task management Metrics and recognition Voice of the employee (VOE). ENJOYING THIS ARTICLE? The Digital Era of WEM.

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Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In the contact center, WFM provides the necessary metrics to gain insights into the number of agents and supervisors with the right skill sets that are required to complete the work at any given time of day, week or month. Workforce Management. Quality Management. What is Workforce Optimization (WFO)? WFO TERMS TO KNOW.

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Serenova

MAY 1, 2020

Provide Continuous, Individual Feedback. Remote work environments can make performance monitoring, coaching and feedback challenging because the natural, ongoing interactions between supervisors and agents are missing. Quality management tools can provide much-needed efficiency. Keep It Real.

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Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

Monitor agent calls for coaching opportunities. Monitor interactions to identify exactly where agents are delivering great service while uncovering opportunities for training and coaching. You’ll improve customer experience metrics like average handle time and first call resolution. Smart Quality Management.

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Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

Monitor agent calls for coaching opportunities. Monitor interactions to identify exactly where agents are delivering great service while uncovering opportunities for training and coaching. You’ll improve customer experience metrics like average handle time and first call resolution. Smart Quality Management.

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Playvox

JANUARY 24, 2022

What’s worse, without customer experience metrics in place, is that you won’t know until it’s too late. If you take the journey from providing good enough customer service to delivering great experiences, and measure your progress with actionable customer experience metrics, you’ll be able to stay ahead of the competition.

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Playvox

DECEMBER 21, 2022

While these are great virtual meeting tools for communicating in and engaging as a group, you might need other technology in place for one-on-one coaching for individual agents. Performance And Quality Management. Almost half the contact center managers in our study said they would be bringing agents back to an office in 2022.

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Playvox

MARCH 12, 2023

Research from Playvox shows us that having well-defined metrics is essential, but sometimes that’s all that is used to measure whether or not a customer service center is being run efficiently. Use your leadership foundation to engage with agents about their metrics, where they’re excelling, and how they can improve.

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JustCall

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

” 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. What is the Relevance Of Contact Center Quality Management i n a Call Center?

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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. QA delivers clear, quantitative feedback agents can build on. Call review and coaching sessions contribute to team building.

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SharpenCX

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Step #1: Look at past metrics to create a framework for future goals. Most agents and managers are busy trying to hit their goals and cover each day’s workload. Also, take time to review past metrics to know how your agents are doing. Then, put the performance data to work in your coaching and training plans.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The Crucial Role Of Customer Sentiment In Data-Driven Decisions The most valuable customer insights for improving CX come from the emotions behind positive feedback, negative feedback, and every other customer communication—across all interactions and on all channels. Elicit direct customer feedback. Apply the insights.

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Playvox

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In turn, you’ll likely see undesirable feedback increasing when you analyze customer sentiment. If an agent is taking unscheduled breaks to avoid interactions, it should show in adherence metrics , depending on how your activities are mapped in your contact center solution. Related Article: What is Workforce Engagement Management?

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Playvox

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Because many customer service centers’ remote work policies require agents to maintain specific performance standards , managers cite solutions such as workforce management (29%) and quality management (26%) as other contact center software they turned to.

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Playvox

MAY 24, 2022

Critical compliance indicators are a key metric for each team. SoFi’s QA team captures feedback from multiple support channels and communicates constructive coaching directly to agents, team leads, and managers. Key metrics are transformed into relevant dashboards and individualized reports by each line of business.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 21, 2019

The bad news: The Check Into Cash retail collections team — 50 agents who collect past-due payments — were still using a legacy Genesys PBX dialer that had serious shortcomings, including no visibility into performance metrics and limited customization. New opportunities for coaching emerged, and call quality and conversion rates rose.

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 24, 2019

Agent productivity, engagement and performance quality have all improved significantly, thanks in no small part to CXone Quality Management Pro and inView Performance Management for CXone. Agents now get timely, meaningful quality scoring and feedback.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It also becomes harder to meet service levels and customer experience goals measured by metrics such as first contact resolution, customer satisfaction, and customer effort score. But to seal the deal you need to implement the right processes enabled by technologies, such as quality monitoring, training, and gamification.

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