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Building a Resilient Contact Center
Contact Center Pipeline
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
In the era of “five nines” of reliability, contact center leaders didn’t worry too much about the resiliency of their technology: It was always up.
Contact Center Related Topics 
Revisiting Contact Center Schedule Adherence
Contact Center Pipeline
JULY 16, 2019
When you find someone in a contact center who is passionate about schedule adherence, it’s a good bet he/she is (or once was) a member of a workforce management team (WMT).
Trending Sources
Continuum Global Services: Launching A New Contact Center Industry Brand
Contact Center Pipeline
JULY 30, 2019
As customer interactions continue to become more complex, the contact center industry is increasingly turning to mergers & acquisitions as an effective solution to expand scale, improve access to new technologies and enhance geographic coverage.
Contact Center Executive Outlook on 2020 and Beyond
Contact Center Pipeline
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
That certainly seems true enough in the contact center world where the pace of change has been accelerating exponentially—often with dizzying effects for the three key elements of the contact center operations framework: […].
The Number One Factor in Your Contact Center’s Success
Speaker: Jim Rembach, President of Call Center Coach
The Future of the Contact Center
Contact Center Pipeline
AUGUST 22, 2019
We embarked on a fun little survey this spring to gather input on the future of the contact center. Technology AI analytics artificial intelligence automation bots call center contact center industry research mobile apps robotic process automation RPA WFM workforce management
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Creating a collaborative contact center culture
TechSee
OCTOBER 10, 2019
The traditional contact center – with agents in cubicles following scripts and rushing to meet individual KPIs – will soon be a thing of the past. Agent collaboration also enables a higher First Contact Resolution (FCR) rate by eliminating time-consuming escalations.
Making AI Work in the Contact Center
Contact Center Pipeline
JULY 17, 2019
Technology agent performance AI call center chatbots contact center customer experience digital transformation predictive behavioral routing self-service
NEW Ways to Supercharge Contact Center FCR and AHT Performance
Call Center Coach
AUGUST 1, 2019
I’ve been amazed at some of the new ways to drive agent performance in contact centers. Common KPIs like First Contact Resolution (FCR) and Average Handle Time (AHT) might be common KPIs but they ways they are being improved upon are very dynamic.
Contact Center Supervisor Training – Contact Center Fitness Boot Camp
Call Center Coach
JANUARY 8, 2019
Supervisor training with Call Center Coach’s virtual boot camps can take on a variety of developmental areas. Virtual boot camps provide a hands-on and action-based way for contact supervisor training to deliver greater value. Our newest boot camp is on contact center fitness.
The Future of Contact Centers: What Technology Is Right for Your Customers?
Speaker: Laura Sikorski, Contact Center Consultant
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Declaring Victory in the War on Contact Center Agent Performance
Call Center Coach
JANUARY 15, 2019
Whether you’re fighting the battle to stop eating that dessert you love that’s bad for you, or you continuously battle a war with contact center agent performance, it’s time for you to enjoy the sweet taste of victory. And in contact centers they all need to be managed for success.
Tear Apart and Put Together Your New Contact Center
Call Center Coach
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Flexibility is often an innocently misunderstood element in the contact center technology evaluation criteria. Afterall, unless you’re evaluating and implementing a wide-array of contact center technology as part of your everyday job, it’s just impossible to keep up with.
Contact Centers Stream Past Virtual Agents to Virtual Presence
Call Center Coach
MARCH 26, 2019
For many contact centers taking the leap to implement virtual agents to handle the simple and repetitive tasks is somewhat an easy decision to make. But for one contact center that implemented virtual agents, their call handle times quadrupled!
Managing Different Personalities in the Contact Center: The Platinum Rule
Contact Center Pipeline
JUNE 26, 2019
Communication call center coaching communication contact center employee incentives hiring performance management personality assessments personality testingEarly in my management career, I followed the Golden Rule: Treat others as I would want to be treated.
Contact Center Cost Models Help Quantify ROI
Contact Center Pipeline
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
Centers all bear the same types of costs to conduct their operations, whether they’re attributed to the contact center budget or to that of IT or other parts of the organization.
Why You Shouldn’t Hire Siri and Alexa in Your Contact Center
Call Center Coach
AUGUST 8, 2019
But in more ways then one, Siri and Alexa do not have the skills to be contact center agents. Thanks to Anthony Scodary of Gridspace for sharing his insight at Customer Contact Week. They need to be able to define declaratively what they want to search for in the call center.
Contact Center Nation
Contact Center Pipeline
JANUARY 16, 2018
Contact Center Nation is where passionate fans of the customer experience come to learn, share, connect and collaborate. We bring dynamic groups of Contact Center, Customer Service and Customer Experience Professionals together in person and virtually.
Differentiator Series, Part 5: Selling and Promoting the Contact Center
Contact Center Pipeline
AUGUST 23, 2017
Our topic is selling and promoting the contact center. This activity starts at the highest levels, and the objective is to help all key decision-makers understand how valuable a contact center is to a successful enterprise.
Contact Center Customer Experience Best Practices
Callminer
APRIL 20, 2018
Change isn’t necessarily bad, but it certainly is confusing when you have to cut through the noise and determine which best practices and trends will launch your contact center ahead of the competition. What customer experience best practices to you leverage in your contact center?
Now What? The Impact of Chaos on Contact Center Operations
Contact Center Pipeline
FEBRUARY 7, 2018
In these days, the question is asked frequently and not always as it relates to the contact center. Strategic planning call center change management contact center leadership process improvement scalability workforce management
This Is What Destroys Contact Center Morale
Call Center Coach
AUGUST 16, 2018
And this is what destroys contact center morale? Just like your customers hate to have an expectation not met, so do your contact center agents. Let’s get real, how many of your contact center agents actually interact with c-level executives?
Voice in the Contact Center: The Heart of the Matter
Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 17, 2019
Technology AI analytics call center contact center customer experience intelligent call routing predictive behavioral routingOn his third solo album, The End of the Innocence, former Eagles drummer and singer Don Henley recorded a song called “The Heart of the Matter.”
Unleashing Agent Retention in Contact Centers: Top Experts Reveal Secrets
Call Center Coach
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. Contact Center Industry Facts.
Leadership that Engages in Contact Centers: Top Experts Reveal Secrets
Call Center Coach
JULY 11, 2019
The fourth step ( Step 1 , Step 2 , Step 3 ) in the contact center agent journey is about leadership that engages agents. Employee engagement has always been a problem in contact centers. Dee Kohler Director of Contact Center Service Excellence At Prime Therapeutics.
Moral Leadership in the Contact Center
Contact Center Pipeline
AUGUST 8, 2019
Leadership call center contact center culture leadership role modeling values workplace ethics
Eight Days a Week: The Always-On Contact Center
Contact Center Pipeline
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Technology 24/7 operation call center contact center employee burnout employee engagement hybrid workforce workload balance workplace stressIn February 1965, The Beatles released a song called “Eight Days a Week” as a single to the U.S.
Successful On-boarding in Contact Centers: Top Experts Reveal Secrets
Call Center Coach
JULY 9, 2019
The second step ( the first step ) in the contact center agent journey comes with the on-boarding process. In my experience seeing many contact center operations, I see this area of the agent journey being full of improvement opportunities. Contact Center Industry Facts.
Contact Center Pipeline Magazine: Inside Our August 2019 Issue
Contact Center Pipeline
AUGUST 2, 2019
I sure hope Contact Center Pipeline is on it!! Inside The Issue call center contact centerIt’s summertime here in Annapolis, Maryland. The pool water is warm and the sun is hot. That means it’s a great time to address your Summer Reading List.
7 Tips for Creating A Contact Center that Fuels Transformation
Call Center Coach
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
7 Tips for Creating A Contact Center that Fuels Transformation. Being a contact center leader has become more important in business transformation than being a CEO. In a contact center the most important leaders in the transformation are on the frontline.
Four Key Contact Center Technologies for 2019
Contact Center Pipeline
JANUARY 23, 2019
As we end 2018 and reflect on what’s ahead in 2019, it seems like a good time to think about what’s new and what’s next in contact center technology. My team of consultants identified the top things we see dominating contact center technology discussions.
How to Make the Transition to Customer Service Outsourcing
Speaker: Randy Clapp, Chief Revenue Officer, Advantage Communications Inc.
Are contact centers making the right chatbot decisions?
Call Center Coach
SEPTEMBER 11, 2017
When you’re thinking about making the decision to implement chatbots in your contact center, how should you start? Are contact centers making the right chatbot decisions? at Call Center Week in Las Vegas. AI chatbots can support your contact center agents too.
Two Factors Make It Easy for Contact Center Chat
Call Center Coach
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
The contact center industry can seem very fragmented at times. One thing that we must remember is there are new contact centers being opened all of the time, and in a wide range of industries. These Two Factors Make It Easy for Contact Center Chat – Click to Tweet.
Hot Trends Impacting Contact Centers: A Sole Source of Data
Contact Center Pipeline
AUGUST 29, 2017
In our mid-year series discussing hot topics impacting contact centers, we have presented insights from industry experts on employee engagement, IoT-enabled service strategies, artificial intelligence and millennials. Technology call center contact center data management data sources
Contact Center Technology Finally Enables You to Be Customer Centric
Call Center Coach
JANUARY 2, 2019
The irony of many legacy contact center communication platforms that are being used to serve customers often prevent you from doing it effectively. Also, what you wanted to create is as self-manage contact center with a very strong artificial intelligence component into it.
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