Monet Software

JUNE 29, 2021

The right approach to call center quality management builds agents’ skills and enhances workforce engagement. Quality assurance (QA) sessions are a primary vehicle for skills-building in any contact center. Some agents arrive knowing how to accept and incorporate feedback. Here are a few tips. #1

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Spearline

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Today’s enterprises face a complex network of management requirements, as real-time voice and data, and asynchronous applications compete for valuable network resources. Two elements remain ongoing challenges for contact centers, including the quality of service they offer (QoS) as well as the nature of the experience (QoE) provided.

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Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

Every workplace has its pros and cons, but contact center agents have one of the toughest jobs out there. Just like agents are protecting your company, contact center leaders and managers need to protect them and their mental health. Burnout Burnout is at the heart of poor emotional well-being in a contact center.

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JustCall

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Contact centers are based on catering to customers’ needs and queries. The easiest way to do so is by tracking and analyzing customer behavior through contact center interactions. Keeping track of call center metrics and statistics seems like a daunting task.

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Playvox

MARCH 12, 2023

Running a smooth and efficient contact center can feel like the ultimate struggle, but don’t worry, you’re not alone. Providing noteworthy customer experiences is a top priority for any business, and a well-run help desk, support center, or customer service center is the key to improving contact center performance.

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

You’ve heard of quality management (QM), and your contact center probably has a quality program in place today. But what’s all this hype about using analytics to perform quality activities, and could it help you? This means fewer – but higher quality- evaluations.

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Myra Golden Media

JULY 16, 2019

When working with the quality people to help make sure employees apply the soft skills I teach them, I find six typical mistakes. Here are the Six Common Mistakes Almost Everyone Makes In Quality Monitoring In Contact Centers. In my last contact center job, the Quality Form that was in place when I started made me dizzy.

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DMG Consulting

JULY 16, 2019

The Advantages of Analytics-Enabled Quality Management. For most of the past 40 years, contact centers have performed quality management (QM) the same way. It can provide feedback on a timely basis. QM Challenges. It can surface emerging issues and opportunities not previously known.

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DMG Consulting

MARCH 10, 2023

5 Applications to Boost Contact Center Performance in a Tough Economy View this article on the publisher’s website. As enterprises tighten budgets due to the troubled economy, contact center leaders are under greater pressure to improve productivity while enhancing the customer experience (CX).

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Playvox

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Working with virtual teams of agents in your contact center can sometimes mean you feel disconnected from them — or even worried that you aren’t able to properly manage their performance. Agents who felt their contact centers were handling remote work well told us they appreciated: Clear expectations.

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Playvox

JANUARY 30, 2024

Numerous studies link employee satisfaction, performance, and engagement with management’s ability to provide actionable, positive feedback and coaching. Yet managers continue to fall short. In a contact center setting, this can mean badges, a point system, and moving up to the next level when agents perform well.

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Playvox

AUGUST 30, 2022

Here’s an alarming statistic: More than half (56%) of contact center agents say they’d think about leaving their jobs if they couldn’t work remotely. Related Article: The Great Resignation: How to Retain Your Contact Center Agents. Remote work isn’t without its challenges for you as a contact center leader.

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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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Playvox

JANUARY 24, 2022

While it’s hard to argue against the importance of delivering great CX, it’s also all too easy to assume that the experiences your contact center delivers are up to par simply because you are handling interactions efficiently. Unpacking the types of customer interactions contact centers handle provides key insights.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 17, 2019

If the answer is “no” or “I don’t know,” it might mean you’re among the vast majority not evaluating these channels as part of your quality program. 90% of businesses support phone, and 83% measure phone quality — great! Well, now you don’t need all the time and resources in the world, you just need Quality Management Analytics.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 17, 2019

If the answer is “no” or “I don’t know,” it might mean you’re among the vast majority not evaluating these channels as part of your quality program. 90% of businesses support phone, and 83% measure phone quality — great! Well, now you don’t need all the time and resources in the world, you just need Quality Management Analytics.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The term “buyer’s market” is best known for describing the state of the real estate market, but it’s also applicable to contact centers. A related term, workforce engagement management (WEM), recently coined by Gartner, has rapidly become the business strategy, processes, and related technologies of choice.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This not only helps in ensuring compliance with protocols but also provides opportunities for coaching and feedback based on actual performance. By identifying areas for improvement, call centers can increase the quality of service and customer satisfaction.

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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.

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Monet Software

JULY 18, 2018

If your contact center is already recording calls and monitoring calls, then you are two-thirds of the way toward an effective quality management program. Sounds easy, but some contact centers still struggle with their quality management strategies. Step One: Ditch the ‘Random’ Approach.

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Playvox

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

True quality management involves company leaders and employees identifying improvement opportunities and working together to resolve them. It should be a channel for helpful feedback to work toward building a collaborative culture as objectives are achieved. Transparency. 10 Benefits of Creating a Collaborative Culture.

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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.

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Serenova

MAY 13, 2020

For contact centers, that means customer patience may be waning at the same time agents are increasingly stretched and taxed under the weight of high (and higher) call volume. This is when quality management becomes essential. Also, encourage their feedback in the process. Yes, we’re all in this together.

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8x8

AUGUST 7, 2017

One area where business can often be improved through increased communication and transparency is the contact center. This post is the first of a three-part series that will help your company improve quality management in the contact center, leading to improved customer experience and satisfaction.

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Monet Software

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Your quality management (QM) program runs on data. If the feedback and numbers you collect are accurate and up to date, you’ll have a much better chance of making the kinds of changes that will improve customer service. Before quality management can work, you need to be very clear on what you hope to accomplish.

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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. The Cloud.

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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. However, managing remote teams effectively comes with its own set of challenges.

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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.

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Monet Software

AUGUST 29, 2018

Do you have a quality management program? You’d be surprised how many contact centers implement such a program and then check the “mission accomplished” box before moving on to something else. If you’re not sure where you stand on quality management, here are five signs that a fresh start might be recommended.

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Monet Software

JULY 4, 2018

Quality,” that elusive attribute for which a contact center strives, is always a challenge to achieve consistently. But maintaining quality is critical in every aspect of a company’s operation, and especially in the contact center where thousands of people have their first experience with how that company treats its customers.

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Aspect

JULY 15, 2020

Contact centers, like most business, have had to find solutions to provide their essential service from somewhere other than densely populated offices where COVID – 19 might spread. For a period, it was mandatory that contact centers get agents out of the building.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Contact center managers know that quality monitoring and management is necessary to maintain or improve Customer Satisfaction (CSAT). Improving contact center quality is one of those activities that deliver perpetual benefits. The Role of Quality Management.

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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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