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Boost Agent Morale with These 6 Strategies

Playvox

When customer interactions are the heartbeat of business operations, one crucial factor often takes center stage – agent morale. All of this leads to better agent morale. Let’s take a deeper look at the factors that influence employee engagement and morale.

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How to Measure Contact Center Agent Productivity and Five Ways to Boost It

Playvox

To ensure your contact center agents spend a vast majority of their time with customers resolving issues and as little time as possible on administrative tasks and after-call work, agents need the right kind of tools, processes, coaching, motivation, and goals in place. How are managers delivering coaching?

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Are Remote Agents the Future of Contact Centers?

Monet Software

Numerous contact centers report increased productivity and morale after sending agents home, which helps reduce churn and the associated recruitment, training and service level costs. After all, who can argue with comfortable shoes (or slippers)? Cost-savings. Workforce, management and customer experience challenges remain.

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Meet Customer Needs Without Overwhelming Your Agents: 6 Workforce Management Strategies to Engage your Team and Still Surpass High Customer Expectations

SharpenCX

Once you have these predictions on deck, you can use WFM tools (like Sharpen + Community WFM ) and additional service-level metrics to figure out how many agents you need to take care of incoming customer needs. Build in time for agent coaching. Often, WFM will cancel scheduled agent coaching sessions when volume spikes.

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The Four Call Center Dashboard Metrics Your Executive Team Needs to See

SharpenCX

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. When your customers are satisfied with your service, they’ll come back.

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Adapting to a Global Workforce: Managing Remote Teams Effectively

Playvox

The Playvox WFM solution has made a significant impact on our ability to scale our customer operations team and gives our agents a morale boost as they now know their schedules will be accurate. Items such as gift cards, paid time off, dinner vouchers, and gadgets all do wonders to improve morale and help job satisfaction.

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How To Preserve Your Contact Center QM Budget

Playvox

Beyond evaluation scores, it also focuses on coaching and includes processes to maintain the integrity of the feedback, like calibration. With sky-high customer expectations and the increasing use of digital channels, keeping service quality high is no easy task.