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Effective Time Management Techniques for Contact Center Agents

Playvox

Excellent time management is crucial in a contact center. Being able to strategically plan and prioritize tasks not only ensures your customers get the service and support they need in a timely manner, but it also increases agent productivity, decreases overall stress, and improves job satisfaction.

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Building Your Best Culture in 2019

CX Accelerator

Yes, it is an extremely difficult thing to achieve…but putting the effort to develop this type of culture is the greatest thing we can do to enhance both the Employee Experience and the Customer Experience. Mary generally has good schedule adherence, time management, and can be trusted to stay on task and get stuff done.

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How to Take Your WFM to the Next Level

Call Design

If you’ve been in the contact centre space for more than a few hours, you’ve likely heard some version of the unofficial motto “Connecting the right interaction, to the right agent, at the right time.” Or we could focus on “right time”, concentrating on our forecast accuracy and schedule adherence.

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Workforce Optimization: What It is and Why You Need It

Playvox

It has however morphed from the days of regarding the call center as a cost center to realizing contact centers and the agents who work there are valuable contributors to the customer experience. Schedule adherence – When agents don’t adhere to schedules, they aren’t available to service customers as planned.

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Adapting to a Global Workforce: Managing Remote Teams Effectively

Playvox

That’s where a Workforce Management solution moves from a “nice to have” to a “must have.” One of Playvox’s customers, MongoDB , had many of the typical challenges seen with dispersed global teams.

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Workforce Management Guide for Contact Center Leaders (& Why it’s Important)

Serenova

Customer expectations are evolving, and contact center leaders are working to elevate the customer experience. And in today’s current health crisis, which performance management strategies can adapt to a work from home model now that supervisors and agents are geographically dispersed? What is Workforce Management?

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Call center optimization: 5 methods to improve call center performance

Dialer 360

For call center optimization you need to think about improving your customer experience. While providing outstanding customer service should always be the aim of a call center, it shouldn’t be your primary objective. It’s wonderful if your agents treat customers with respect. Schedule Adherence.