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Onboard, Train and Engage Remote Agents with Gamification

Noble Systems

Perhaps the biggest being — how to motivate, drive optimal performance and engage a remote workforce? Sustainable engagement is what is required to ensure agents remain happy, want to stay with the company, and are motivated to do more and do better. Gamification can help right from the start.

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Facing the Future of Contact Center Employee Engagement

Verint

The question was, “What’s keeping you up at night when you think about your contact center in 2017 and beyond.”. The responses were remarkably similar—18 of the 20 customer service professionals I interviewed voiced their concern over what can be broadly categorized as employee engagement.

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4 Ways to Improve Agent Engagement

USAN

Following are some helpful workforce optimization strategies for improving agent engagement and the agent experience overall: 1. One emerging trend in contact center workforce management is shift bidding. Gamification. As it turns out, gamification has proven to be a powerful way to bolster agent engagement.

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Employee Engagement and Better Customer Engagement in 2016

Verint

While you may or may not have previously considered gamification a key part of these employee engagement efforts, it can help keep your employees focused on what matters and what helps drive the bottom line. After all, those are the people who serve your customers and help determine if they stay loyal or not.

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Don’t Motivate Today’s Employees with Yesterday’s Strategies

Verint

You can also try using gamification techniques to support ongoing knowledge and proficiency gains. Are your employees expressing the desire to be more mobile? You can offer options for working remotely with tools that provide anywhere, anytime access to mobile apps, employee portals for human resources information and other sources.

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Top 5 Best Practices for Successfully Transitioning from Onsite to an At-Home Contact Center Workforce

Noble Systems

Many companies are turning to gamification to effectively build knowledge, develop new skills, and motivate employees to align with changing customer needs. Your employees are used to in-person contact with managers and other team members. We are all learning as we go.

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An Introduction to the Virtual Call Center

Noble Systems

An effective workforce management and scheduling tool helps manage flexible shifts and reduces administration time. Gamification tools help agents easily see their goals and their progress towards achieving them, while transforming daily routines into rewarding competitions that get your employees engaged and motivated.