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Maintaining morale in your contact center

Tethr

Does your contact center need a morale boost? Improve employee morale and reduce call center stress using these strategies. A leadership team that thinks they’re above everyone else is a morale murderer. Get rid of scripts. As long as your reps have an updated knowledge base, scripts are not necessary.

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The Case For the Anti-Script: A Multifactor Analysis of Script Adherence

Balto

“The anti-script doesn’t mean that you should wing it on every call… what anti-script means is, think about a physical paper script and an agent who is reading it off word for word… you’re taking the most powerful part of the human out of the human.” Share on Twitter. Share on Facebook.

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Why the Biggest Contact Centers Have the Least Effective Call Scripts

Balto

Call scripts are used in contact centers of all shapes and sizes — across the industry, they are considered an easy way to help ensure all of a contact center’s agents are driving calls to the same goals. But if you manage a center with hundreds or thousands of agents, then trying to keep everyone on the same script is challenging at best.

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Call Scripts in 2022: What In-Person, Virtual, and Hybrid Agents Really Think

Balto

As contact centers incorporate new technology and practices to keep up with shifting industry trends and competitors, call scripts remain one of the most widely used tools in the industry. So how useful is the classic script for agents alongside a shift to a remote or hybrid work environment? Figure 1: Script Usage By Work Environment.

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10 Ways to Go Above and Beyond for Your Employees: Boosting Call Center Motivation and Morale

SharpenCX

And, to give your agents actionable feedback backed by context. When you use in-line training and timely feedback, your agents learn as they go. Plus, they get feedback fast, so they can improve on the very next interaction. Get creative with your policies and ditch the archaic scripts and expectations of a call center.

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The Power of Purging Perfunctory Performance

Horizon CX

Impact on Employee Morale: Perfunctory service doesn’t just affect customers—it also takes a toll on employee morale. Overall, the implications of perfunctory service are far-reaching and can have detrimental effects on customer satisfaction, loyalty, brand reputation, employee morale, and business growth.

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21 Call Center Managers Share Their Favorite Call Center Leadership Activities

Callminer

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. Good scripting can lessen the amount of decision making, but another way to counteract.