Playvox

JUNE 22, 2023

Tracking, reporting, and improving upon metrics are essential across all areas of business, including finance, sales, marketing, and contact center management. Understanding the key call center efficiency metrics to track , and more importantly, how to improve them, will set you up for success and help keep your customers happy.

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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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NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Optimizing team productivity is the key to achieving this goal, and this comprehensive guide will walk you through the steps necessary to unlock your call center’s full potential. What is hyper efficiency in a contact center?

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CCNG

APRIL 20, 2022

Honesty forms the bedrock from which all legitimate success derives, and customer contact organizations challenged with attracting and retaining personnel should obsessively seek and share truth to create a culture of trust that can elevate employee and customer experience along with business performance.?

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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

While agents have been explicit in their desire to continue remote working, nearly half of the contact center managers in our survey are planning to bring agents back to an office in 2022. Our survey uncovered five ways contact center managers are adapting to remote work. That’s a dangerous disconnect.

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Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

How well are your customers being served by your customer support contact center? But how can you be sure that you are tracking the right metrics? AHT is a metric for the average length of a transaction – from the time the call was initiated to the time it is resolved including hold time, talk time and after work time.

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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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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. Communication.

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Balto

APRIL 20, 2023

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on Email Contact centers find themselves at a critical juncture. Contact center leaders are tasked with creating as much value as possible with as few resources as possible, without sacrificing the customer or agent experience. How are they doing this?

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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.

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Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

But how can you be sure that you are tracking the right metrics? AHT is a metric for the average length of a transaction – from the time the call was initiated to the time it is resolved including hold time, talk time and after work time. It is an important metric for deciding staffing levels. Implement gamification.

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Serenova

JULY 23, 2019

Most contact center agents are initially motivated by the need to pay their bills and put food on the table, but that need can usually be met elsewhere if they don’t discover more purpose. Here’s how to keep your contact center agents motivated every day: 1. Create Variety throughout the Day.

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Serenova

APRIL 13, 2020

Now that your contact center agents are safely working from home, it’s time to focus on the business of managing and coaching to ensure productivity. Celebrating wins in an on-site contact center environment was easier. Here are six tips to help. Embrace the Positive. Help Employees Connect.

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3CLogic

JANUARY 5, 2022

Contact centers have come a long way over the last couple of decades, nearly unrecognizable to an agent from the 1990s. As technology continues to rapidly develop, contact centers will need to revisit the tools they use in order to keep up. Consider how the contact center landscape changed during 2021 alone.

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

JULY 9, 2018

How does a contact center know it’s consistently delivering high quality service? It begins with setting metrics. The right metrics or key performance indicators (KPIs) should effectively measure a business’s specific capacities. Here’s a list of the most crucial metrics that inbound call center must measure.

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ConvergeOne

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Drive Agent Performance Improvements with Gamification. At its core, gamification is about translating training material and new performance expectation into a game format closely integrated to real-world performance measures – providing a fresh and interesting feedback mechanism within the context of a fun and competitive game.

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Noble Systems

JANUARY 30, 2019

Many of the 2019 trends indicate a “back to basics” approach with an emphasis on the ultimate goal for contact centers — to foster meaningful connections with consumers. To this end, we have grouped the top contact center trends for 2019 into these three categories: human, effortless and transformative.

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Noble Systems

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Agent attrition is an epidemic that contact center leaders have unsuccessfully tried to remedy for years. To solve outbreaks caused by contaminated food, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) uses three types of information: epidemiologic; traceback; food and environmental testing. left within 3-6 months.

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Fonolo

JUNE 22, 2021

Despite advancements in customer service technology and automation, one thing hasn’t changed: people remain fundamental to the success of a contact center. With this in mind, it’s important that your best agents are happy and engaged enough with their work to stay put and make your contact center successful. Call-backs.

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Noble Systems

JANUARY 30, 2019

Many of the 2019 trends indicate a “back to basics” approach with an emphasis on the ultimate goal for contact centers — to foster meaningful connections with consumers. To this end, we have grouped the top contact center trends for 2019 into these three categories: human, effortless and transformative.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 29, 2018

Disconnected platforms and systems, an inability to get the metrics it needed and few customer insights were all obstacles to the excellent experiences the company wanted—and needed—to provide its customers. The post Young Energy Improves Average Handle Time (AHT) and Motivates Contact Center Agents appeared first on NICE inContact Blog.

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USAN

MAY 19, 2022

Contact center agents have been under a lot of pressure since the pandemic began. By investing in helpful contact center tools and technologies. Technology has the power to help contact centers more effectively measure, monitor, and improve agent performance. That’s the issue with quantitative monitoring.

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Callminer

APRIL 24, 2020

The key takeaway is to use customer feedback (surveys, social media, etc.) Focus on the Metrics that Matter Most. Keeping track of call metrics and agent KPIs is a good way of maintaining a high level of performance in the call center. You have many metrics at your disposal; be sure you only focus on what matters.

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COPC

JANUARY 15, 2024

has partnered with Centrical to bring you the Improving Contact Center Retention Series, where we explore how organizations can reduce early attrition. According to the 2023 survey, only 71% of respondents felt their training adequately prepared them for success, down three percentage points over two years.

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Serenova

JUNE 6, 2019

Yesterday, at the Austin Contact Center Alliance ’s Emerging Technologies for CX event, Serenova and more than 30 contact center executives and technology thought leaders discussed customer experience (CX) challenges and how emerging technology can help. For most contact centers, the cloud means increased security.

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Enghouse Interactive

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Contact centers, using AI and UCaaS, drive better customer service perceptions, agent performance and improve overall outcomes . Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Unified Communications (UC or UCaaS) are becoming integral to every contact center, with different benefits from each. Blog #3 of 4: Customer-facing agents.

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Balto

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Fact: 61% of tenured agents use call coaching software and those who do have higher job satisfaction and other success metrics across the board. To get agents on the phones as soon as possible, contact centers can use coaching software to support this ramp period. How Does Call Coaching Software Help New Agents?

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UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

No matter how diverse your clientele is or how many channels your contact center utilizes, intelligent routing sends your customers to the right agent or resource quickly and efficiently. And this is good for two reasons: Gamification keeps your agents more engaged in the training program. Agent Assist Minimizes AHT.

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Fonolo

JUNE 10, 2021

While there are plenty of ways to engage call center agents, there is one low-cost, fun way to boost motivation and general satisfaction with your employees – games! How to Foster Agent Engagement in a Hybrid Contact Center. Why do games help call center agent engagement? They assist with training and performance.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

No matter how diverse your clientele is or how many channels your contact center utilizes, intelligent routing sends your customers to the right agent or resource quickly and efficiently. And this is good for two reasons: Gamification keeps your agents more engaged in the training program. Agent Assist Minimizes AHT.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2022

As it overlooks three critical components: the customer experience, the rise of new communication and the new contact center technologies. Modern customers want immediate and dependable solutions, which means your call center’s efficiency must be at its peak at all times. What is call center efficiency?

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Balto

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Quality assurance (QA) is critical to any thriving call center. A proper contact center QA program helps your organization retain happy customers, improve brand and voice consistency, and keep agents in check. Six Ways to Improve Call Center Quality Assurance. 6) Use Gamification. QA Everyone.

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Call Center Weekly

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The researcher will use participant observation, interviews and surveys to understand what the customer is trying to accomplish and how the current environment contributes to a good or bad customer experience. Because of its richer output, an ethnographic study will tend to take longer to generate and analyze its data than a standard survey.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 29, 2019

44% of people surveyed in the U.S. The global cloud-based contact center market is expected to grow from (what was) USD 6.80 The global cloud-based contact center market is expected to grow from (what was) USD 6.80 Gamification is the future of employee engagement and attrition for the call center.

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Callminer

APRIL 21, 2020

The role of a call center manager is complex and challenging. Call center managers may be involved with hiring and training call center agents , monitoring call center metrics tied to agent performance , using speech analytics tools for ongoing quality monitoring , providing ongoing feedback and coaching, and more.

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Customer Service Life

OCTOBER 20, 2017

As a contact center leader, I’ve tried it all when it comes to motivating agents. Incentives can be a valuable tool in the contact center manager’s toolbox for motivating agents, but must be done carefully and intentionally. Photo Credit: Nevit Dilmen via CC License. Click here to read the original.

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Expivia

JULY 21, 2021

Get familiar with the latest contact center technologies, and become a world-class contact center when you implement them by reading this post. . 10 Advanced Call Center Technologies World-Class Centers Use. The following call center technologies may seem very advanced for legacy contact centers.

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