CX Global Media

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. A several Expert Sessions are dedicated to the topic of on-boarding contact center agents.

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SharpenCX

JUNE 23, 2021

But, your contact center KPIs are an important piece of creating a happy team and happy customers. Plus, you need a high-performing, empowered contact center. But, don’t feel burdened to track the dozens of KPIs in your contact center. Service level. Service level is a fundamental metric.

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SharpenCX

JUNE 2, 2020

And, your contact center has the right number of agents working each shift to keep service levels in the green. If you’re in the midst of the call center craziness and your hair is graying as a result, this picturesque level of workforce management likely feels like a dream. Engaging Agent Skills.

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Playvox

JULY 14, 2023

Providing an ever-improving customer experience while boosting contact center agent productivity is paramount for your business. Here’s the blueprint for achieving greater agent productivity in your call center. The quality of customer service and support can also have an impact on the productivity of a contact center.

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SharpenCX

MAY 16, 2022

Outbound contact centers are often considered synonymous with spammers, but when run ethically and with the right purpose, they can play a critical role in deepening your relationships with your existing customers and connecting with new ones. Inbound Vs. Outbound Contact Centers. Best Outbound Contact Center Solutions.

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JustCall

MARCH 9, 2023

This is how important customer experience is, especially in the context of contact centers. While your call agents strive for favorable first-call resolution metrics, your business should focus on providing them with the right customer contact center software that lets them do their job well.

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DMG Consulting

JANUARY 10, 2022

Contact Center Workplaces Are in the Midst of a Renaissance. This is the case for many contact centers, where agents have been under-appreciated, under-recognized and under-rewarded for decades. The employee-employer relationship in contact centers is finally being re-evaluated and redefined, and not a moment too soon.

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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.

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Fonolo

DECEMBER 15, 2022

That all depends on the goals your contact center sets. It’s up to you to set those standards and provide the right support and motivation for your call center team to achieve them. And that can be an undertaking, considering all the areas of the contact center that can affect performance.

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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.

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Transparent BPO

AUGUST 13, 2019

Customer satisfaction with contact centers is down, according to the Contact Center Satisfaction Index 2019 from CFI Group, a market research firm. How can contact centers turn that around so that customers are left feeling positive about the interaction?

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SharpenCX

MAY 26, 2020

It’s common for some business leaders to view their contact center teams as an afterthought. This isn’t helped by contact centers’ notoriously high turnover rates. Call center jobs are, too often, chalked up as entry-level roles. Starting with the Source of Quality CX — Your Contact Center Agents.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 22, 2019

In Part One of this two-part series, we sought to demystify the forecasting and scheduling components of contact center workforce management. In Part Two, we will seek to address intraday management and employee engagement as components of a WFM program. Employee engagement. Intraday management.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 22, 2019

In Part One of this two-part series, we sought to demystify the forecasting and scheduling components of contact center workforce management. In Part Two, we will seek to address intraday management and employee engagement as components of a WFM program. Employee engagement. Intraday management.

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Calltools

DECEMBER 22, 2021

It pays to have happy customers and long contact center wait times are one great way to ensure the company doesn’t get paid. Is that a customer you’ll have to fight to keep or one that proclaim the service of your company? For the contact center, scalability is key, especially in regards to managing an influx of call volumes.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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COPC

JANUARY 13, 2023

Training and development functions exist in most contact center operations. Select contact centers add structured performance reviews and development programs to ensure their employees’ professional growth and to increase the likelihood of staff staying with their organization. . New Hire Training.

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Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

Does your contact center “talk the customer talk” but sometimes gets stuck when it comes to matching up customer expectations with service and support delivery by your agents? Are you taking the right steps to evolve toward workforce engagement management? If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”

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SharpenCX

JANUARY 21, 2020

A couple of years ago, Tommy Reese, Deloitte’s Contact Center Strategy Manager said , “If you treat the client like gold, then they’ll continue to buy from you and other sales will follow.”. How can you identify the successes of your contact center? Service Level. And what about your agents?

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Playvox

MARCH 21, 2024

Let’s face it — no one contacts your contact center to tell the person who answers the phone, text, or chat to tell your organization that they love your brand, service, or product. When customer interactions are the heartbeat of business operations, one crucial factor often takes center stage – agent morale.

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Call Center Weekly

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Service level measures the % of calls answered in a # of seconds. Most callers will not be bothered by waits of less than a minute – provided the quality of service is good. Forecast to allow for vacation time off approvals – it will reduce unplanned absenteeism, calm stress, and improve employee engagement.

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SharpenCX

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

It’s time to turn to the brain of the operation: your customer service data. Download Now] Use the data that lives in your contact center to improve your customer experience. The only way to sustain service levels is to learn what’s really happening in your contact center. Qualitative feedback.

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Taylor Reach Group

MARCH 8, 2019

What is a high performance contact center? So a High performance contact center is one that meets or exceeds the performance parameters or metrics expected of it. In contact center these parameters will include quantitative: grade of services, AHT, ATT, ASA etc., By Colin Taylor. measures.

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Robert Davis

APRIL 7, 2020

Now that your people are working from home because of COVID-19, how do you keep them engaged? How do you help them balance all of those KPIs when service levels are still suffering? Your supervisors need these people skills that build employee engagement. How do you keep them focused on their KPIs? Coordinate.

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Noble Systems

AUGUST 1, 2019

By ignoring the signs of agent overload and just considering high attrition as a fact of life in your contact center, you are risking your reputation, and the negative impact to customer satisfaction, customer retention and bottom-line results. Top 10 Signs of Contact Center Agent Overload. Loss of concentration.

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DMG Consulting

JULY 11, 2017

Real-Time Adaptive Scheduling Improves Contact Center Dynamics (whitepaper). This white paper presents the concept and benefits of real-time adaptive scheduling, which will enhance customer satisfaction and improve employee engagement while enabling managers to meet their service-level objectives and reduce operating expenses.

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DMG Consulting

JULY 11, 2017

Real-Time Adaptive Scheduling Improves Contact Center Dynamics (whitepaper). This white paper presents the concept and benefits of real-time adaptive scheduling, which will enhance customer satisfaction and improve employee engagement while enabling managers to meet their service-level objectives and reduce operating expenses.

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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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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. By applying scores and prizes to your employees’ everyday tasks, you can make work feel more enjoyable and increase employee engagement.

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Taylor Reach Group

JANUARY 6, 2023

As I look at the new and shiny year ahead, I wonder what delights and innovations and opportunities may lie ahead for Contact Center operations. . We have seen Contact Centers struggle to find and retain workers. We have seen more than 20 months of long wait times due to “higher than normal contact volumes”. .

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Robert C. Davis and Associates

APRIL 7, 2020

Now that your people are working from home because of COVID-19, how do you keep them engaged? How do you help them balance all of those KPIs when service levels are still suffering? Your supervisors need these people skills that build employee engagement. How do you keep them focused on their KPIs? Coordinate.

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Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

In Part 1 of this two-part series on contact center burnout we covered some of the warning signs of agent overload. According to research by Contact Babel, medium sized contact centers have an average turnover rate of 37%. Why is this so important? Agents are human. Humans have limits. All new agents need training.

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CX Accelerator

DECEMBER 31, 2018

When we are honest with ourselves, we all know culture is the linchpin for everything we do in the Contact Center. At a leader level, do they feel like there are unclear/changing priorities? Nate recently turned me onto OfficeVibe which can help you measure employee engagement. They have a free or paid version.

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Callminer

OCTOBER 11, 2018

From essentials like average handle time to broader metrics such as call center service levels , there are dozens of metrics that call center leaders and QA teams must stay on top of, and they all provide visibility into some aspect of performance. First contact resolution (FCR) measures might be…”.

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