Beyond Philosophy

MAY 17, 2024

Observations and conversations with call center agents reveal operational inefficiencies and training gaps that impact the overall customer experience. Scott highlights key issues with traditional quality assurance practices and offers insights into leveraging AI for enhanced customer service.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 3, 2023

As businesses strive to provide exceptional customer experiences, call centers have become an increasingly important part of the customer service strategy. Contact centers are responsible for handling customer inquiries and complaints while providing solutions. Why is Call Center Quality Management Important?

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AWS Machine Learning

APRIL 30, 2024

In the fast-paced world of customer service, efficiency and accuracy are paramount. After each call, contact center agents often spend up to a third of the total call time summarizing the customer conversation. This can make it challenging to scale quality management within the contact center.

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SharpenCX

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

We’ve compiled four employee training templates to give you practical strategies to increase learning and training in your contact center. And, 68% of employees say training and development is a company’s most important investment. Employee Training Templates for Quarterly Skills-Based Learning. Where do you start?

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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. The post What is Quality Management Analytics?

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Call Design

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Since the customer is king, contact centres need to double their efforts to resolve customer service calls more efficiently and quickly. Whether you are implementing new training, new technology or more communication channels, it’s essential to be prepared to solve a customer problem quickly.

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Monet Software

JANUARY 15, 2019

We all know the importance of quality management (QM). But we also know there are only so many hours in the day, and that a quality management program can sometimes take a lot of them. Still, this is not an optional pursuit for a contact center to maintain optimal customer service.

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Customer Centric Support

JULY 18, 2017

Tips for creating a customer-centric quality management program. When implemented well, a Quality Management program has the potential to revolutionize both the agent and the customer experience. Clearly, not all Quality Management programs are created equal. DiSC Training is likely to help.

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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. Aligning these efforts toward specific performance goals will keep service from sagging. So why not make it a point to score those for quality management?

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8x8

AUGUST 7, 2017

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. Below are some tips to building an effective quality management program: Modernize the evaluation form.

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Customer Service Life

AUGUST 28, 2019

In this article I’ll briefly discuss some of the distinctions between the different support channels when it comes to the skills I listed above, and then I’ll share some tips to keep quality assurance simple for your multi-channel customer service team. Communication Skills.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 23, 2024

This could have been more efficient for both employees and customers, and it is likely that senior management would never have known it was happening. Another essential metric about an organization’s customer-centricity is how much and what type of training it provides its new call center employees.

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Playvox

AUGUST 15, 2022

Today’s top-performing contact center leaders know remote workforce training and agent engagement are the new imperatives for performance optimization. And that begins with remote workforce training. The New Remote Workplace: 3 Proven Remote Workforce Training Techniques. Contact centers succeed or fail on agent performance.

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SharpenCX

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Customer service can be a thankless job. Agents work hard every day to help customers, and while the internet and social media abound with customer service horror stories, very few customers publicize their positive experiences. Seven tips for promoting customer service as a profession 1.

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CCNG

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Jaedeanne Shaver is Customer Service Training and Quality Manager at Alcon in Fort Worth Texas. Alcon Customer Support is using a “top down” approach as the leadership team communicates with virtual teams creating a sense of understanding and acceptance to the “new” work environment.

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CX Accelerator

JANUARY 10, 2018

Sadly, this rite of passage is often overlooked or marginalized within customer service departments. The key for a customer service leader is establishing the big picture first, then creating goals that align. The second is your Customer Service Vision. Ready or not, the new year is here.

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Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

It is through this lens that workforce optimization has evolved to mean the business strategies, processes, and supporting automation technologies that maximize contact center and agent productivity and efficiency to allow organizations to deliver outstanding customer experience (CX).

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Netomi

JANUARY 5, 2022

Customer service leaders come in all shapes and sizes. This is especially true in the customer service industry. Customer Experience (CX) has catapulted into one of the most important aspects of determining business success. Top 51 Customer Service Leaders and CX Influencers (Editor’s Choice): Adam Toporek.

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Playvox

JANUARY 30, 2024

Gamification works because it brings fun and interactivity into the workplace, where tasks, training, and activities are often lacking in keeping employees interested and motivated. Decreases stress – Delivering customer support is stressful, and agents feel pressure to deliver outstanding customer experiences with every interaction.

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SharpenCX

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

If you’re anything like me, you’ve lived through a few (or a dozen) bad customer service experiences. Because of those memories, I try to avoid calling customer service at all costs. And I’ve worked in customer service. News flash: customer service in call centers doesn’t have to be terrible.

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Playvox

MARCH 21, 2024

Definition of Agent Morale Agent morale refers to the overall satisfaction, motivation, and mental well-being of customer service representatives in a contact center. As noted above, a high level of morale among your customer service representatives directly translates to a positive customer experience.

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Verint

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The latest technology to feel the touch of automation is quality management—the most widely deployed and utilized solution in the U.S. The results of Saddletree Research’s 2017 survey of end users, completed during the third quarter of 2017, reveals the relatively high level of market penetration of quality management in the U.S.

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Aspect

AUGUST 14, 2017

When it comes to investing in your contact center, you cannot afford to forget about agent training. To learn more about how you can build a winning team around contact center agent training software, click here. The post Put Me in Coach: Why Agent Training is Crucial in Your Contact Center appeared first on Aspect Blogs.

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Playvox

MARCH 12, 2024

This, in turn, leads to higher customer retention and increased profitability for the business. In contrast, low agent motivation is linked to high attrition rates in contact centers, resulting in increased recruitment and training costs, along with a negative impact on overall team morale.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

By optimizing call center operations, organizations can enhance the overall customer experience, leading to increased satisfaction. Streamlined processes, well-trained agents, and effective tools contribute to smoother operations and faster issue resolution. Elevate Operational Efficiency : Efficiency matters.

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Playvox

MARCH 27, 2023

Operating a successful contact center demands attention to a wide range of factors, from investing in your agents’ well-being and training to implementing the right tools and technology. Revolutionize Your Customer Support Center Productivity: 10 Proven Strategies 1.

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CSM Magazine

APRIL 9, 2024

Call tracking software and workforce optimization platforms are therefore not merely convenient; they are indispensable in ensuring that support agents can provide the same, if not superior, level of service as they did within traditional office environments.

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JustCall

APRIL 13, 2020

Are you finding it difficult to manage remote customer service teams? We interviewed several customers and customer service teams that have shifted to remote working. We found out that with remote customer support teams, conserving team unity and productivity becomes challenging for Managers.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Two of the top wishes that agents identified in Calabrio’s survey are more frequent training and more personalized development. Calabrio Performance Coaching is designed to provide contact centre managers the insight to deliver on both of these to their agents, leveraging information they already have in Calabrio Quality Management. “As

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Playvox

APRIL 21, 2023

Customer service has gone digital — and your contact center needs to evolve with the times. As younger customers make up more and more of the marketplace, they’re shifting service preferences toward digital channels. What Is Omnichannel Customer Experience?

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Whether you’re diving into a new industry or looking to brush up on your skills, training courses can benefit professionals at any stage of their career. Fortunately, e-learning has made call center management courses more accessible than ever. Fortunately, e-learning has made call center management courses more accessible than ever.

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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Here’s the truth: They’re best used to eliminate time-consuming, repetitive tasks that don’t directly affect customer service. By applying them to this type of work, you can give time and energy back to your managers and agents to spend on activities that directly improve customer experience.

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Serenova

OCTOBER 24, 2019

And that makes scary customer service potentially more damaging than ever. According to a recent Vanson Bourne survey of 3,000 US and UK consumers, the vast majority (94%) of respondents say customer experience impacts whether they would make the decision to move from one brand to a competitor. Read the whole story here.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A related term, workforce engagement management (WEM), recently coined by Gartner, has rapidly become the business strategy, processes, and related technologies of choice. If you start with automating repetitive tasks, do you have the processes (and training) in place for agents to focus on more complex, customer-facing activities?

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