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Boost Productivity with the “Right” Contact Center KPIs and Gamification

Noble Systems

Adherence to Schedule. Essentially, adherence to schedule measures whether or not your agents are doing what they are supposed to be doing at the right time. Are agents making calls during times the schedule says they are available? Do they start their shift on time or take breaks when scheduled? Measurement of schedule adherence is important, and ongoing feedback to agents is essential to improving productivity. Why gamification works.

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How To Use Gamification To Improve CX In Your Contact Centre

Call Design

Gamification changes the game in the agent training space. While gamification is designed primarily to improve the engagement of agents, its effects upon customer service quality have already been illustrated. Schedule adherence.

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Defining WFO. (Hint – It’s Not Just About Workforce Management)

Noble Systems

At the core, it is comprised of forecasting accuracy, effective scheduling, and efficient rostering. Gamification. Performance Management & Coaching – Use tools like Gamification to create a more engaged workforce and help move your bottom lines and improve key metrics.

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Contact Center Agent Burnout – Part 1, Warning Signs

Noble Systems

Agents are expected to deal with demanding customers, be knowledgeable about many products and services, adhere to changing compliance regulations, all while being continuously monitored and timed. If you notice that an agent’s schedule adherence has taken a dive, it is time to have a talk to determine if they are experiencing burnout. Gamification can motivate agents and keep them engaged, productive and happy. Call centers are high-pressure, stressful environments.

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Playvox Launches New Workforce Engagement Solutions for Salesforce Contact Center

CSM Magazine

The collaboration enables Salesforce Service Cloud customers to more efficiently manage forecasting, scheduling, adherence, capacity planning and long-term scheduling within Salesforce Contact Center along with the ability to easily make changes in real-time, based on Playvox’s AI insights.

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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. . Integration through a WFM solution ensures data is correct, helping you feel confident in your schedules and forecasts.

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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.

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6 Healthcare Call Center Solutions for Better Patient Care and Agent Retention

Noble Systems

Whether fielding inquiries, resolving issues, scheduling appointments, or administering triage, it is the agent’s responsibility to ensure that the patient interaction is positive. Workforce Management Ensures Proper Staffing and Flexible Scheduling.

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

Callminer

In addition to call monitoring and scoring, managers and supervisors should also make it a point to schedule in time for targeted coaching sessions with agents. As recent research shows, the U.S. call center industry is alive and well.

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An Introduction to the Virtual Call Center

Noble Systems

And the ability to just log in and start working without a long commute helps eliminate lateness and can increase schedule adherence. An effective workforce management and scheduling tool helps manage flexible shifts and reduces administration time. What is a virtual call center?

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Cooling Call Center Agent Stress Through a COVID-19 Summer

Serenova

With childcare centers and schools closed, navigating the challenges of trying to work productively in shared spaces can mean managing relationships, (often increasing) responsibilities, schedules and personal wellbeing. Scheduling. Optimization engine produces schedules within minutes.

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Top Metrics that Measure Inbound Call Center Performance

Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

In addition, the use of gamification also fosters friendly competition as it inspires agents to work harder in delivering quality customer service during the first contact. Agent Schedule Adherence & Agent Attrition Rate. Agent Schedule Adherence is used to find out whether agents are working efficiently within their set schedule. To calculate, take the total time of when the agent is available and divide it by the time the agent is scheduled to work.

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Remote Workforce Management – From Survive to Thrive in 3 Easy Steps

CSM Magazine

In the awful event of a key planning individual becoming ill and that person being the only one who understands how the master forecasting and scheduling spreadsheet works, the entire contact centre is at risk. Are they scheduled against a constantly-changing forecast?

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How to Ensure Business Continuity for Call Centers During COVID-19

Noble Systems

VoIP via home broadband along with a VPN connection to the corporate network will provide secure access to enterprise applications such as CRM, workforce engagement, analytics, and gamification systems. Accurate scheduling is key.

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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. Determining whether or not you are meeting your business goals is simple enough, and modern contact center technology is well equipped to give you all the data you need about conversions, average handle time, customer wait time, schedule adherence and more. What is Performance Management?

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Small Business Call Center Software Solutions

Noble Systems

It also improves efficiencies by automating the process of building work schedules, as well as making it easier to manage time-off requests, shift swaps and bids, and helps improve schedule adherence. Gamification takes otherwise routine tasks and makes them fun.