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Effective Time Management Techniques for Contact Center Agents

Playvox

Excellent time management is crucial in a contact center. Being able to strategically plan and prioritize tasks not only ensures your customers get the service and support they need in a timely manner, but it also increases agent productivity, decreases overall stress, and improves job satisfaction.

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Building Your Best Culture in 2019

CX Accelerator

At a leader level, do they feel like there are unclear/changing priorities? one day, you need to talk to someone about schedule adherence b/c service levels are rough but the next day they are being told to take it easy…) For some leaders, finding an appropriate balance is really hard.

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Adapting to a Global Workforce: Managing Remote Teams Effectively

Playvox

That’s where a Workforce Management solution moves from a “nice to have” to a “must have.” You could also consider access to wellness programs, counseling services, or even time management training.

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Workforce Optimization: What It is and Why You Need It

Playvox

Schedule adherence – When agents don’t adhere to schedules, they aren’t available to service customers as planned. This results in long wait times and abandoned conversations. Automation solutions go hand in hand with workforce optimization, and are in fact, sometimes synonymous with WFO.

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The Intraday Story – Four Reasons to Think Again about Real-Time

CSM Magazine

On the other hand if shortfalls and service level targets are at risk agents scheduled for lower priority activities can be called upon to cover any gaps in staffing, shifts can be extended or home-working agents requested to log-on via the system.

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Small Business Call Center Software Solutions

Noble Systems

A blended system will let the same agents work on both inbound and outbound calls at the same time, managing the workflow to let incoming calls be answered and making outgoing calls to keep agents busy while they are waiting. They need a 360-view of what’s going on at any time. Armed with this powerful information.

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Top Call Center Efficiency Metrics And How To Improve Them

Playvox

Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) Perhaps the most common of CX metrics, CSAT is often in the form of a customer survey on a four- or five-point scale that indicates how satisfied a customer or group of customers is with a specific product, transaction, or interaction with a company and its service level.