Playvox

AUGUST 15, 2022

Contact centers succeed or fail on agent performance. Today’s top-performing contact center leaders know remote workforce training and agent engagement are the new imperatives for performance optimization. Recent research by Playvox sheds new light on the state of contact center remote work.

Contact Center 77

Contact Center Gamification Surveys Management 77

Playvox

MARCH 31, 2022

Every interaction our workforce engagement management (WEM) software enables helps agents love their job and encourages customers to love their favorite brands. From workforce management to quality management , we strive to deliver the full suite of solutions contact centers need to bring WEM into the digital era.

Contact Center 63

Contact Center industry standards Employee engagement Quality management 63

Playvox

OCTOBER 18, 2022

There’s a storm brewing in customer service centers, and the aftermath could create some big challenges for contact center management. In our 2022 study of customer support agents and managers, 68% of agent respondents said they didn’t want to return to an office. The State of Remote Work in Contact Centers.

Contact Center 69

Contact Center Management Coaching contact center workforce 69

Playvox

JANUARY 30, 2024

According to a recent Gallup survey , only 23% of employees worldwide and 32% in the U.S. fall in the “engaged” category. In order to be successful, managers need to be better equipped to provide ongoing feedback and employ effective strategies to boost employee engagement.

Gamification 79

Gamification Contact Center Coaching Quality management 79

Playvox

MARCH 12, 2024

Think about the last time you reached out to a contact center for one of the services or products that you purchased. You could have contacted the company in a multitude of ways — chat, text, social media, or even an “old-fashioned” telephone call.

Morale 78

Morale Gamification Contact Center Quality management 78

CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Customer loyalty is more important than ever, and prioritizing customer service — with an excellent, dynamic, and engaged contact center — can help your company stand out. If you can enable, empower, and engage your agents, you provide better interactions, which leads to higher customer retention. for school pick-up.).

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Customer emotions Quality management Morale 52

Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

The strain to balance taking care of employees to protect them from the coronavirus while maintaining business continuity continues for contact center leaders. As contact volume, customer anxiety and agent stress all still soar, what you once managed can now feel overwhelmingly un-manageable. Every time.

Best practices 84

Best practices Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Average Handle Time 84

Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

For most contact centers, surviving the first months of COVID-19 required swift operational reboots that began with major work-from-home (WFH) transitions. The strain of balancing the need to protect employees from the coronavirus while maintaining business continuity continues for contact center leaders.

Best practices 83

Best practices Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Average Handle Time 83

Playvox

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Agent burnout directly harms the quality of customer service your business provides and significantly hurts your company’s bottom line. It’s hard to ignore the fact that contact centers are plagued with high agent burnout and turnover rates. Some contact centers experience almost no turnover at all. Consider this.

Agent burnout 68

Agent burnout Contact Center Gamification Agent Empowerment 68

CSM Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

David Singer, Vice President of Product Strategy for Verint , explains why contact centers will need to stay agile to support the evolving needs of customers and employees. New technologies will help contact centers be more agile in the new year. Supporting Customer Engagement as Channel Preferences Evolve.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Coaching Quality management Employee engagement 52

Playvox

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Not only do contact center agents want additional flexibility in their work schedules, but many leaders saw that agents did not need to be in a defined office space to get their jobs done well. However, managing remote teams effectively comes with its own set of challenges.

Management 88

Management Gamification Calibration Quality management 88

COPC

MARCH 11, 2024

Early attrition poses a significant and costly challenge for contact centers. and Centrical have teamed up to present the Improving Contact Center Retention Series, offering strategies to increase call center retention and lower attrition-related expenses. To address this issue, COPC Inc.

Call Center 97

Call Center Gamification Coaching Employee engagement 97

Verint

DECEMBER 15, 2017

In 2018, the contact center industry will be all about automation. The latest technology to feel the touch of automation is quality management—the most widely deployed and utilized solution in the U.S. contact center industry, and likely the global contact center industry.

Quality management 29

Quality management Call Logging Management Employee engagement 29

Playvox

DECEMBER 14, 2021

At Playvox, customers are at the center of all we do. We know how important it is that our customers delight their customers with every interaction in contact centers around the world. That’s why we work to build the best workforce engagement management (WEM) software on the market.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Enterprise Employee engagement Quality management 52

Playvox

JANUARY 12, 2023

No matter where your contact center team is physically located, bringing out their best performance can be a big challenge. Remote and hybrid work are no longer hard-to-find benefits in customer support centers. Remote and hybrid work are no longer hard-to-find benefits in customer support centers. But does it have to?

Quality management 69

Quality management Coaching Contact Center Metrics 69

Monet Software

APRIL 24, 2020

High-speed internet, cloud-based applications and other technologies have opened a new vista for the call center—the remote agents. Most contact centers have had to quickly transition to working from home as a direct effect of COVID-19. No longer is the company limited to the talent pool surrounding the contact center.

Contact Center 62

Contact Center Management call center workforce Average Handle Time 62

Aspect

AUGUST 14, 2017

But what does this mean for leaders from the contact center space? When it comes to investing in your contact center, you cannot afford to forget about agent training. Rather, you’ve got to select the right solutions that will keep employees engaged and driven to succeed.

Coaching 110

Coaching Contact Center Employee engagement Customer Service 110

Playvox

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

At Playvox, we prioritize what matters most to our customers — just like you do in your contact center! From quality management to workforce management , we strive to put not only the best, but also the most efficient and effective product on the market. you need a tool designed to deliver. Easiest Setup.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Morale Quality management Employee engagement 52

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. Process Flow: One of the most important operating principles in contact centers is the adherence to communication scripting and workflow.

Quality management 40

Quality management Management Scripts Call flow 40

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. Process Flow: One of the most important operating principles in contact centers is the adherence to communication scripting and workflow.

Quality management 40

Quality management Management Scripts Call flow 40

Contact Center Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Our September issue focuses on many agent issues; performance metrics, attendance, agent desktops, employee engagement, customer experience…and more. We’re planning our agent celebrations for Customer Service Week next month. It is a busy time of year. Our agents have tremendous impact on our customer satisfaction.

Contact Center 100

Contact Center Employee engagement Metrics Customer Experience 100

Fonolo

APRIL 7, 2022

“This call may be monitored for call center quality assurance.”. Anyone who’s ever called a contact center would recognize this familiar line —and for good reason. Call quality monitoring is an essential piece of the puzzle when it comes to increasing and maintaining high customer satisfaction (CSat) scores.

Call Center 87

Call Center Contact Center Average Handle Time First call resolution 87

DMG Consulting

APRIL 14, 2023

Feature-rich IA solutions deliver significant benefits to contact centers. However, for IA to deliver strategic benefits, its use must be expanded beyond contact centers and applied more broadly throughout the enterprise.

Analytics 48

Analytics Quality management Enterprise Contact Center 48

Monet Software

MARCH 4, 2021

After a tumultuous 10 months for contact centers and agents, new possibilities open. This may seem an awfully philosophical topic to raise in reference to contact centers. This may seem an awfully philosophical topic to raise in reference to contact centers. 1 Efforts to garner employee input increased.

call center workforce 71

call center workforce Employee engagement Contact Center Call Center 71

DMG Consulting

MARCH 12, 2018

Question: Our contact center only has 25 agents, what workforce optimization applications should we use? WFO suites are highly beneficial for contact centers in small to mid-size businesses (SMBs) because they provide a fully integrated and unified set of applications for managing and optimizing the operating environment.

Contact Center 48

Contact Center Gamification Coaching Analytics 48

DMG Consulting

MARCH 11, 2022

On an annual basis, in the November/December time frame, DMG Consulting (DMG) conducts a worldwide survey of contact center and enterprise executives and managers to identify their top operational and technology investment priorities for the coming year. 2022 Top Contact Center Priorities/Goals.

Customer Experience 71

Customer Experience Interactive Voice Response Contact Center Self service 71

Fonolo

APRIL 7, 2022

“This call may be monitored for call center quality assurance.”. Anyone who’s ever called a contact center would recognize this familiar line —and for good reason. Call quality monitoring is an essential piece of the puzzle when it comes to increasing and maintaining high customer satisfaction (CSat) scores.

Call Center 67

Call Center Contact Center Average Handle Time First call resolution 67

SharpenCX

AUGUST 31, 2021

When organizations practice transparency with their employees, they see greater success in several areas. They have increased employee engagement, a stronger company culture, and foster a comfort that empowers employees to communicate freely. Then, it makes your job as the manager tricky. Customer Churn Metrics.

Call Center 128

Call Center Metrics Benchmark Contact Center 128

Playvox

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

You can apply this simple but powerful concept in a contact center to encourage agents to improve their quality, productivity, and effectiveness. Why You Should Bring Gamification into Your Contact Center. Here are 12 reasons why you should bring gamification into your contact center. Recruiting.

Gamification 52

Gamification Call Center Contact Center Coaching 52

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. It’s much the same with contact center roles.

Morale 48

Morale Quality management contact center workforce Employee engagement 48

Monet Software

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

How to treat employee burnout and reinvigorate call center engagement for the long haul. Do you feel it spreading through your contact center workforce? If you’re seeing symptoms of burnout in your SMB contact center, or in online interactions with certain remote agents, it’s time to do something about it.

Morale 100

Morale Agent burnout Contact Center Coaching 100

Playvox

MARCH 5, 2024

This definitely applies to customer needs and preferences, and contact centers are constantly striving to stay one step ahead of evolving customer requirements. A desire for instant-access self-service options is shifting how customers want to engage. How do contact centers not only survive but thrive in this new era?

Quality management 78

Quality management Management Contact Center Coaching 78

Serenova

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Today, we announced Serenova’s acquisition of the ProScheduler workforce management (WFM) technology from Loxysoft. This acquisition is an exciting and positive development in Serenova’s 18-year legacy of leading the way in cloud-based contact center innovation. This kind of integration is necessary. And it’s what’s next.

Cloud contact 69

Cloud contact Quality management Contact Center contact center solutions 69

NICE inContact

JUNE 10, 2019

His service delivery is great because the restaurant has a very strong quality management and training team. I’m talking about your contact center. So often I hear contact centers say: “We are looking for quality management and performance management, but we don’t really need workforce management.”

Contact Center 54

Contact Center Quality management Coaching Employee engagement 54

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The contact center lacked modern features and functionality and didn’t have skills-based routing or dashboards. Empire launched a search for a contact center provider that could deliver flexibility, scalability, functionality, robust analytics, reporting, visibility and quality management.

Abandon rate 54

Abandon rate Contact Center Wait times Interactive Voice Response 54

JustCall

JANUARY 19, 2023

Large companies usually have call centers to: Provide help to customers Answer their questions Carry out marketing through the phone Perform market research But each of these jobs has changed a lot in the past few years, making the contact center possible. How does Call Center Optimization help the Customer Experience?

Best practices 52

Best practices Call Center call center workforce Abandon rate 52

Verint

APRIL 14, 2016

Thinking back on my time in Operations, like so many other people I spent a significant amount of time trying to understand the root cause of the quality management (QM) opportunities in my organization. What could it be?

Quality management 21

Quality management Management Coaching Employee engagement 21