NICE inContact

AUGUST 12, 2019

For seasoned workforce managers, predicting contact volumes and creating perfect schedules are second nature – even although, to those of us on the outside, they seem to speak a whole different contact center language! Scheduling is a critical contact center function, but like forecasting, can be tricky.

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Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

Call center workforce management is the art and science of having the right number of agents available at the right times to answer an accurately forecasted volume of incoming customer contacts at the service level standard set by a contact center while minimizing cost. WFM to the rescue.

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Verint

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In my previous blog post , I discussed the rise to prominence of employee engagement in today’s contact center industry. As a reminder, 82 percent of participants in Saddletree Research’s recent survey of end-users ranked employee engagement as a highly important component of their contact center operational strategy.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 14, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Jaime Scott, writes about how engagement is crucial to delivering an excellent customer service experience. Engagement isn’t just about keeping people focused on their day-to-day workload. Without it, you might as well employ a bunch of robots.

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Serenova

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

If you’re a contact center leader, there’s a lot about Millennials and Generation Z worth understanding. In fact, these younger generations just may be your contact center’s BFFs. Tapping into these generational shifts is one of five trends highlighted in our e-book, Contact Center Trends You Need to Know 2019.

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Monet Software

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Can SMB call center quality management be about more than quality? Yep, it’s the linchpin of employee engagement, too! Monitoring and scoring calls—these quality assurance (QA) tasks are constant at nearly every contact center. Specialties like customer service can feel nebulous. Here’s how. #1

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Verint

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

After all, those are the people who serve your customers and help determine if they stay loyal or not. 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.

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Fonolo

MARCH 8, 2022

Behind hold times and high call volumes, management must ensure every agent is trained, every shift is covered, and every customer is satisfied. Call centers that provide exceptional customer service usually have many people working behind the scenes to ensure operational efficiency. The benefits?

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Verint

AUGUST 18, 2017

It was also interested in surfacing trends and hidden insights, as well as creating more transparency about employee performance.

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Verint

DECEMBER 15, 2017

In 2018, the contact center industry will be all about automation. contact center industry, and likely the global contact center industry. contact center industry. For these individuals, automated scoring can be introduced to the contact center at their own pace.

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Verint

AUGUST 23, 2017

Rapidly changing technology, shifting work-life priorities, and a surprisingly high “disengagement rate” have all collaborated to drive the need for changes—big ones—in the contact center. of employees are disengaged. We all know today’s workforce is changing quickly and dramatically. Think about that for a minute.

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Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

COVID-19 has forced many contact centers to quickly transition from onsite to, in some cases, fully remote operations. This blog compiles the top five best practices to help those who are transitioning to, or looking to maintain, an at-home workforce to achieve the best outcomes. We are all learning as we go.

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Hodusoft

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Top 10 Contact Center Software for 2022-2023. Before the advent of contact center software, customer service representatives would handle all customer requests and complaints through telephone calls. That transformed call centers into contact centers. RingCentral.

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Verint

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

This week as we celebrate Valentine’s Day, it’s a good time to remember the role that emotion plays in customer service. If you haven’t, consider how your positive feelings about a brand partly arise from the good feelings you had about a customer service experience—or several of them. Have you thought about that before?

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Verint

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Autoscoring your quality management forms and evaluating your calls using automated quality solutions can help your organization quickly, easily and objectively evaluate every recorded call for script adherence and other customer service requirements. Increase Employee Engagement by Providing Transparency.

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Verint

JUNE 6, 2017

As discussed in a recent blog post by Laurie Wickham, the 2017 Verint Engage Global Customer Conference took place recently in Orlando, Florida with attendees from 17 countries and a variety of industries.

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Noble Systems

APRIL 14, 2021

The virtual call center has become a hot topic, as the coronavirus pandemic has moved call center teams from centralized offices to individual homes. A virtual contact center is designed to support distributed workforces. Advantages of using a virtual contact center solution versus a traditional call center.

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Verint

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Maybe you haven’t thought about this yet, but are you aware that contact centers are now using automation to modernize quality management? Automated Quality Management automates scoring of up to 100 percent of agent calls, ensuring modern, employee-empowering and cost-effective quality management.

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Verint

MAY 29, 2015

Can you remember the last time you experienced a customer service call that actually left you satisfied? When a service interaction is seamless, that moment lives on in a customer’s mind—and it sets the expectation for how all future experiences should go.

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Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

If you’re a contact center manager, you’ve probably heard a lot about how to manage and engage your workforce with WFM and WFO – especially recently. What is Workforce Management (WFM)? WFM is a set of processes that helps optimize employee productivity. What is Workforce Optimization (WFO)?

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Management Gamification Quality management Schedule adherence 86

Verint

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Top 5 Best Practices for Extending WFO Beyond the Contact Center. Verint’s Craig Seebach, vice president, workforce optimization strategy, will present this content at 11 a.m. The contact center is often just the start of the customer’s journey. Empower Your Employees with More Data, More Automation.

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Verint

MARCH 29, 2018

and author of Before Happiness and The Happiness Advantage, will be a keynote speaker at the Verint Engage global customer conference at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel May 14 – 17. Shawn Achor, founder, GoodThink, Inc.

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Verint

JUNE 29, 2017

The latest enhancements to the Verint Employee Engagement and Engagement Channels suites are based on feedback from our customers and the changing needs of the marketplace. Following are three customer examples of where these advancements are well underway. Global Warranty Company.

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Verint

JUNE 2, 2015

Verint’s Donna Denehy, enterprise workforce optimization, will present “Have You Listened to Your Customer Today?” She will explore how recording, analytics and customer feedback are all involved in the ongoing transformation of quality. CRMXchange Virtual Conference: Quality Assurance and Analytics. June 1-4; Online Webinar.

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Verint

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

It’s the Verint Engage global customer conference, and registration is underway for this year’s event at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel May 14 – 17. Inspiration. Professional growth. Networking. There’s a single event that can help you with all of these—and help you better leverage your Verint solutions, to boot.

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