SharpenCX

JUNE 23, 2021

Metrics aren’t everything. You need powerful analytics to monitor, measure, and manage your agents and your interaction data during the day. It can be hard to manage. So, start with KPIs to shape your performance management and build a plan to reach your goals. Service level is a fundamental metric. Call Quality.

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Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

Managing forecasting, scheduling, and agent productivity in a call center is a lot like searching for the fountain of youth. While we don’t have a roadmap to the proverbial fountain, we can help steer you in the right direction for better call center workforce management (WFM). What is Workforce Management for Call Centers?

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2019

This post is an excerpt from Humach’s latest eBook, The Guide to CX Success , which can be found here. Given the current state of technology, your strategic goals must now go beyond improving metrics. The proliferation of AI and automation into our work and personal lives means that the nature of work is changing.

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Playvox

APRIL 19, 2023

Excellent time management is crucial in a contact center. What Is Time Management? Time management is the process of planning how to divide your time among activities. In a customer support center, poor time management skills can have several not-so-desirable implications for customer experience.

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ClientSuccess

MARCH 20, 2019

Over the next month, I will be writing about the customer success metrics that top organizations use to measure the performance of their customer success strategies and team execution. The metrics I will cover are applicable to customer success departments and also to your entire company. Financial Metrics. Health Metrics.

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SharpenCX

APRIL 8, 2020

So how can you, manager, use call center management best practices to better configure call queues and improve customer outcomes? Apply call center management best practices to your interaction queues to fix gaps in your customer journey – like queues overflowing with customers o n hold. The answer lies in simplicity.

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TeamSupport

JANUARY 4, 2019

Of everything a business-to-business (B2B) company must be great at in order to grow, delivering personalized customer support at scale needs to be a priority. Making customer support personalized, then continually improving upon the experience is what truly shows your customers that they are a top priority for you. You know this.

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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. Performance Management Activity trackers are popular with consumers of all ages. fall in the “engaged” category.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As a contact center leader, the top agents you hire, train, and manage are the clutch players. Your Leadership Matters Gallup research has found development to be a key driver of employee engagement, starting with the manager or team leader. Job training doesn’t have to come only from managers or human resources trainers.

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Mindtouch

AUGUST 21, 2019

This puts knowledge management square in the spotlight. Because prioritizing customer experience is one thing, but managing to deliver timely content in the various channels that comprise this customer experience is another challenge altogether. What is knowledge management? Knowledge management vs. knowledge base.

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ClientSuccess

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In this post, I’ll address the most frequent question I’m asked by customer success leaders—what is the best compensation plan for Customer Success Managers (CSMs)? Compensation Plans for Customer Success Managers (CSMs). There’s wide debate in the customer success discipline regarding the best structure for a CSM compensation plan.

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Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

Are you taking the right steps to evolve toward workforce engagement management? Workforce optimization tools automate the operational performance management processes, providing added muscle to workforce management (WFM), quality management (QM), agent coaching , analytics, and reporting. What is Workforce Optimization?

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Over the years, customer success manager roles have expanded to include many different responsibilities. Bridging the gap between customers and a product team is critical, from managing customer implementations to ongoing account maintenance. Building a personal investment in your product can excite customers.

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Cisco - Contact Center

AUGUST 18, 2020

Our enhanced Webex Workforce Optimization (WFO) cloud suite includes quality management, workforce management and analytics that empower contact center supervisors to optimize agent performance and gain valuable data insights about their customers. Simplified Deployment and Management with Webex Control Hub. Here’s What’s New.

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Playvox

JANUARY 12, 2023

By tracking the right metrics and using smart technology, you can keep a close eye on your agents’ success and productivity — without becoming Big Brother in the process. Related Article: 5 Ways Contact Center Managers are Adapting to Remote Work. And they can help managers “walk the floor” remotely to stay engaged with their teams.

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Customer success operations roles will often look at how CSMs manage their workloads, how data is being gathered and analyzed, and how customer success is working with other departments – such as product or sales – to ensure a seamless crossover experience for both internal teams and customers. Toolkit: Customer Success Metrics Toolkit.

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Join Dave Blake (CEO of ClientSuccess) and Dan Demas (VP of Customer Success at Pendo) as they share 5 metrics that matter for product and customer success teams. This webinar will help product and customer success teams, understand which metrics are unique and which are shared. Overlapping metrics between customer success and product.

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 2, 2019

We often hear the roles of Customer Success Manager (CSM) and Account Manager (AM) used interchangeably. The ultimate difference between a Customer Services Manager and an Account Manager is both in their area of concentration and how each target their customers. . Let’s talk about Account Managers first.

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SharpenCX

MARCH 10, 2020

And after a year of dedication, you’re promoted to manager of your call center. Download Now: Improve how you coach and train agents with 29 facts and techniques for managers. Maybe this is your story or it matches that of a fellow manager. So, how do you manage a call center team? Time Management and Efficiency.

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 30, 2024

So, as a call center owner, manager or supervisor how do you tackle this difficult challenge and avoid your numbers getting blocked? Leveraging Caller ID Reputation Management Managing the reputation of your caller ID is another key step in preventing call blocks.

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Playvox

APRIL 21, 2023

Contact center software driven by artificial intelligence (AI) can help by putting an end to spreadsheets and manual processes, easing the burden on your workforce management team. With digital workforce management , workforce managers can get out of spreadsheets and into higher-value work.

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ClientSuccess

APRIL 19, 2022

As any customer success professional knows, metrics and data keep customer relationships running smoothly. The Customer Satisfaction Score is a metric that addresses both strategic data uses. . Department leaders and executives can also use this metric to understand how one or multiple customer accounts are doing.

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SharpenCX

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It also involves re-training agents for an era of customer contact in which interactions are increasingly personal—and frequently spread across contact channels.” Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person – not just an employee – are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled.

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Playvox

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

While the issue is not unusual, it’s easier to manage if you have a solid call avoidance policy in place. When you create the right policy, you’ll get call avoidance rates down — to the benefit of both your customer satisfaction metrics and your agents’ experiences. Taking unnecessary, unauthorized, or excessive personal break time.

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SharpenCX

MARCH 24, 2020

But, we can’t know how we compare without some kind of standard — a grade scale, a rubric, a metric. Metrics in the workplace are incredibly helpful. According to Gallup’s Re-Engineering Performance Management research, measurement is a positive pillar for developing employees. Setting a Standard. Customer Satisfaction.

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Hello Customer

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The reason for this is that many companies, whether or not they like to admit it, are still pretty conservative and stick to traditional business-driving metrics and compartmentalized reporting. Download our eBook: "NPS, CSAT or CES? Which customer satisfaction metric is right for you?". fostering cross-level collaboration.

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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The role of a customer success manager (CSM) in the SaaS industry has become increasingly complex. While working with customers takes a certain type of person with a certain temperament, there are also specific skills CSMs must work on and develop in order to be successful. There are always challenges during the customer lifecycle.

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Playvox

MAY 4, 2023

When you’re integrating several digital channels, you need a good workforce management solution to lower handle times and provide more accurate forecasting data and capabilities across all channels. Taking it a step further, you also need a solution that takes a digital-first approach to quality management.

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Call Design

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Ensuring agents are trained to the highest standard and represent the company’s personality, values, and characteristics in all communication remains paramount to a successful customer service model and company success but also by investing in upskilling your staff, they feel motivated and engaged. Metrics include: • First call resolution.

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Playvox

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

A remote work location requires a different mindset from contact center management — and a distinct set of guidelines. Remote work agreements make clear for both agents and managers what the qualifications are for working outside the office and what’s expected of those who do. What Is A Remote Work Policy?

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ClientSuccess

JANUARY 10, 2020

When it comes to dealing with customers, there are some situations that can be a little overwhelming for both a customer success manager and the customer in question. For CSMs and training managers, onboarding can often be chaotic, messy, and even frustrating. Rely on metrics to gauge success. .

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ClientSuccess

JANUARY 10, 2020

When it comes to dealing with customers, there are some situations that can be a little overwhelming for both a customer success manager and the customer in question. For CSMs and training managers, onboarding can often be chaotic, messy, and even frustrating. Rely on metrics to gauge success. .

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Personalize Your SaaS Customer Experience. If you can personalize your interactions with your customers, you’re well on your way to improving the customer experience. There are a couple of tried-and-true ways to go about personalizing the SaaS customer experience. Give Your Customers a Voice.

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Nicereply

AUGUST 3, 2021

When you start working with an outsourcer, you need one key contact person—ideally someone who really gets your company. This person should be experienced, responsive, and an excellent communicator. Ideally, you’ll have an account manager in addition to a team lead. Some outsourcers don’t offer any account management.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 10, 2022

You’ll be able to put together much more efficient internal workflows and define responsibilities and metrics. Your metrics are going to be different from your customers’ key metrics since you both have different goals. Manage Customer Outreach After Onboarding. Put These SaaS Onboarding Best Practices to the Test.

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SharpenCX

AUGUST 4, 2021

As a customer service manager, you know how critical it is to deliver the best customer experience. Customize your cards and use a mix of questions to track your objective metrics and the subjective actions of your agent. Bots can save you time as a manager, too. Add automation to save time coaching and training.

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SharpenCX

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Between meetings with other managers and department heads, you barely have time to answer all the mentions on Slack. But, as a contact center manager, the stakes of your own role are high. Download Now: Grow your management and coaching techniques with 29 key takeaways from your call center manager playbook. A Good Coach.

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