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Beleaguered agents cause your team’s efficiency, morale, and customer satisfaction to plummet. Contact center stress is the bane of B2C companies across the globe. Left unmanaged, turnover skyrockets. A study from Gallup shows an average of 68 percent of U.S. workers are not engaged, or worse yet, are actively disengaged in their jobs. The more [.]. Read More. The post 4 Causes of Contact Center Stress Managers can Absolutely Fix appeared first on Sharpen Contact Center Software. MORE
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Building trust with your agents will make a world of difference in morale, team performance and attendance. Most always, agents will say leadership is lacking in three key areas: Support Transparency Honesty Not paying attention to the cares of the team, deflates morale and kills productivity. MORE
For decades contact centers have explored ways to turn the tide of low employee engagement and low morale. We all know that employee burnout and low morale negatively impact agent productivity and costs. Gamification in customer experience has been used for several years. MORE
It’s also a great opportunity for companies to loosen up the day-to-day business atmosphere, encourage employees to have fun, and boost morale Halloween is a great time to decorate, wear a costume, and let your personality (or alter ego) out into the light for a day. MORE
When good communication is lacking, the symptoms are predictable: conflicting objectives, unclear values, misunderstandings, lack of coordination, confusion, low morale and people doing the bare minimum required. Communication creates meaning and direction for people. MORE
Better employee morale. Office morale will increase as skills progress and call handlers start performing better, ultimately helping the business perform better, too. Sure, call coaches help you improve phone skills – but the lingering effects can also make it well worth your time, too. MORE
I work in a fairly large call center that has poor morale and very abysmal culture. I’m not just saying that to be dramatic – we actually received a letter from the president when we started that their job is not to build morale but to provide service for our customers. MORE
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In the work environment, gamification may be employed as a training tool or employee morale initiative and in turn, improve customer service experiences. The idea behind gamification is quite simple: by applying game mechanics to tasks or functions that typically have no entertainment value, you provide people with motivation to partake in these tasks. If […]. Customer Experience Technology MORE
culture employee experience leadership morale Image courtesy of Will S. Have you ever felt like the picture to the left describes your workplace? Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. MORE
This instills an attitude of “my job sucks” that saps employee morale and motivation. As a result, proponents of change grow frustrated, nothing changes, and morale declines. When we’re in the UK, I complain about the chilly, dreary weather. And when we’re at our home in Florida, my wife Lorraine complains about the dreadful heat. Our complaining is all in good fun – we actually enjoy both locales. MORE
Dodkins is the author of 136 Ideas for Rockstar Employee Engagement, and he knows a thing or two (or 136) about how employee morale and fulfillment impact the customer experience. App Employee Engagement Internal Customers employee engagement employee morale rock star culture MORE
It’s a complex issue that directly influences the business—positively or negatively—through staff retention, productivity, schedule adherence, workplace culture and morale, service delivery and customer experience. Employee engagement continues to top the lists of management challenges—and with good reason. MORE
The results will be manifested in your team’s morale, your customer experience, and in you! I spent this afternoon in my Strategic Block. My Strategic Block, the best idea I took from the book, 12 Week Year by Brian P. MORE
A revolving-door of agents (on average, 45 percent) isn’t good for morale, or for your customers. Are your agents happy, or happy enough? Recruiting and training new hires cuts into valuable time that could be spent on coaching and development opportunities, refining the skills of committed, engaged agents. We have to talk about agent experience [.]. Read More. The post Don’t Settle for Satisfied Agents appeared first on Sharpen Contact Center Software. Customer Experience MORE
Improving Employee Morale. The biggest thing we see is employee morale goes way up. Contact center agents praise the company and morale goes way up. You know those times when something is right in front of you, yet you fail to realize it? MORE
Contact Centers Should Give Agents Freedom Within Scripts to Boost Morale. Strict adherence to scripting and brand voice can have negative results, specifically when it comes to agent morale. This freedom certainly benefits customers due to a more conversational (and potentially helpful) interaction, but it also provides a benefit for employee morale. The post Contact Centers Should Give Agents Freedom Within Scripts to Boost Morale appeared first on MORE
This provides an opportunity for higher sales, a boost in employee morale, and brand loyalty. Amazing Business Radio Show Customer Experience brand loyalty employee experience employee moraleJohn DiJulius on Secret Service & The Customer Service Revolution. MORE
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The moral of this story is that if you take the time to do the research, you bloody well better do something once you have it! Have you been to the Congo? If not, can you describe the weather? How about the vegetation? Now tell me why you thought that? MORE
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Managers try their best to improve productivity and morale, but most of the time the incentives and programs:· Involve more work· Only benefit a small group· Distract from their jobsIn the end, agents are left with incentive programs that either [.]. Being a contact center agent is a tough job; it’s stressful, tiring, and often thankless. MORE
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Losing agents costs your company thousands of dollars, slows productivity, and brings down agent morale. It’s not top-secret news that agent retention is a problem in contact centers. We know that attrition is taxing on contact centers, but why is. Read More. MORE
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Either the employees immediately recognize the “goal” as a meaningless mission statement that they feel no particular desire to follow through on, or they try to “wow” everyone and fail, leading to poor morale and a perception that they’ve failed. MORE
The post 6 Contact Center Tips to Boost Agent Morale appeared first on Sharpen Contact Center Software. MORE
And this is what destroys contact center morale? The Truth on Morale. When agents are hired, their morale is high and they are engaged. They are the ones that can turn the expectations that build and sustain high morale into reality. MORE
Contact Center Events Contact Center Performance agent to supervisor development Avaya Jens Eckels morale supervisor success path turnover“Just hold it together for one more year!” MORE
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And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must Read More. Happy MLK Day! Every year on this day I like to celebrate lessons that we can learn from Martin Luther King, Jr. This year, I’ll focus on this quote: “We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools“ This line is from King’s commencement address at Oberlin College in 1965 titled, Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution. MORE
When good communication is lacking, the symptoms are predictable: conflicting objectives, unclear values, misunderstandings, lack of coordination, confusion, low morale and people doing the bare minimum required. Communication creates meaning and direction for people. MORE
When training can’t be accessed when needed or isn’t exactly what they need – it results in lower long-term productivity and morale because learning cannot be applied right away. MORE
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And this is what destroys contact center morale? The Truth on Morale. When agents are hired, their morale is high and they are engaged. They are the ones that can turn the expectations that build and sustain high morale into reality.
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Being on the phone all day and constantly dealing with customers can get tiring after a while and certainly wears on the average person which is why it is more important than ever to invest in improving contact center morale.
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In the contact center, recognition for a job well done does wonders for boosting morale and motivation.
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A valuable outcome of the Systematic Leadership process inherent in the Beyond Morale program is the ability to better understand what your needs are and the needs of others. What happens when your needs aren’t met? Can you recognize this in yourself? What about in others?
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It’s a complex issue that directly influences the business—positively or negatively—through staff retention, productivity, schedule adherence, workplace culture and morale, service delivery and customer experience. Employee engagement continues to top the lists of management challenges—and with good reason.
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Losing agents costs your company thousands of dollars, slows productivity, and brings down agent morale. It’s not top-secret news that agent retention is a problem in contact centers. We know that attrition is taxing on contact centers, but why is. Read More.
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When good communication is lacking, the symptoms are predictable: conflicting objectives, unclear values, misunderstandings, lack of coordination, confusion, low morale and people doing the bare minimum required. Communication creates meaning and direction for people.
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A revolving-door of agents (on average, 45 percent) isn’t good for morale, or for your customers. Are your agents happy, or happy enough? Recruiting and training new hires cuts into valuable time that could be spent on coaching and development opportunities, refining the skills of committed, engaged agents. We have to talk about agent experience [.]. Read More. The post Don’t Settle for Satisfied Agents appeared first on Sharpen Contact Center Software. Customer Experience
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Either the employees immediately recognize the “goal” as a meaningless mission statement that they feel no particular desire to follow through on, or they try to “wow” everyone and fail, leading to poor morale and a perception that they’ve failed.
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It’s also a great opportunity for companies to loosen up the day-to-day business atmosphere, encourage employees to have fun, and boost morale Halloween is a great time to decorate, wear a costume, and let your personality (or alter ego) out into the light for a day.
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And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must Read More. Happy MLK Day! Every year on this day I like to celebrate lessons that we can learn from Martin Luther King, Jr. This year, I’ll focus on this quote: “We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools“ This line is from King’s commencement address at Oberlin College in 1965 titled, Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution.
Beyond Philosophy
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This instills an attitude of “my job sucks” that saps employee morale and motivation. As a result, proponents of change grow frustrated, nothing changes, and morale declines. When we’re in the UK, I complain about the chilly, dreary weather. And when we’re at our home in Florida, my wife Lorraine complains about the dreadful heat. Our complaining is all in good fun – we actually enjoy both locales.
SharpenCX
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Beleaguered agents cause your team’s efficiency, morale, and customer satisfaction to plummet. Contact center stress is the bane of B2C companies across the globe. Left unmanaged, turnover skyrockets. A study from Gallup shows an average of 68 percent of U.S. workers are not engaged, or worse yet, are actively disengaged in their jobs. The more [.]. Read More. The post 4 Causes of Contact Center Stress Managers can Absolutely Fix appeared first on Sharpen Contact Center Software.
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For decades contact centers have explored ways to turn the tide of low employee engagement and low morale. We all know that employee burnout and low morale negatively impact agent productivity and costs. Gamification in customer experience has been used for several years.
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Managers try their best to improve productivity and morale, but most of the time the incentives and programs:· Involve more work· Only benefit a small group· Distract from their jobsIn the end, agents are left with incentive programs that either [.]. Being a contact center agent is a tough job; it’s stressful, tiring, and often thankless.
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