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Adapting to a Global Workforce: Managing Remote Teams Effectively

Playvox

” Before bringing in an automated solution for scheduling, many call and support centers may have had entire teams dedicated to managing schedules, adherence, time off, and other complexities that come with managing a remote workforce and global teams.

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WFM ROI: Why You Need Workforce Management Software Now

Playvox

For contact center managers, this phrase rings in their heads each time they create a forecast, build a schedule, or track schedule adherence. . You might find even yourself re-creating a report a second, third, or fourth time to meet individual users’ needs. Making things fun with gamification.

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12 Call Center Best Practices You Need to Be Doing Right Now

Callminer

The metrics you should prioritize are those which measure service level, call resolution, average handle time, agent schedule adherence, call abandonment, average hold time, and call abandonment. Collaborative workspaces are useful for team meetings and can help to create a bond among your agents. Avoid Negative Language.

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A Beginner’s Guide On An Effective Inbound Call Strategy

OctopusTech

We’ve seen businesses improve agent engagement by making individual performance stats available on agent dashboards and by the gamification of specific agent behaviors. Some companies even use call center gamification as an incentive system for performance. This may help them with benchmarking and goal setting.

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Contact Center Agent Burnout – Part 1, Warning Signs

Noble Systems

They might become less active in meetings, no longer interested in offering input, content just to sit back and listen. When agents are overloaded, they are often tardy to work, call in sick more frequently, take longer lunches and breaks, don’t show up to meetings and leave work early. Apathy and isolation. Increased absenteeism.

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What is Call Center Performance Management?

Talkdesk

Performance Management generally requires a number of tools like call recording , quality monitoring , coaching , and gamification. Call Center Performance Management is a program, generally led by a contact center operations manager, dedicated to calculating and improving the performance of contact center agents.

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Small Business Call Center Software Solutions

Noble Systems

With WFM, companies can forecast for future activities and make sure they have the right staff in place to meet service levels, without overstaffing to avoid inflated overhead. Gamification is the latest player on the WEM field, and it’s quickly becoming an MVP in the employee engagement arena.