Wed.Sep 06, 2023

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The New Generation of Call Center Agents

Outsource Consultants

As more Generation Z employees join the workforce, call centers and their clients are noticing a shift in worker attitudes. This new generation, often referred to as Gen Z, demands a distinctive approach to employee recruitment and retention. The oldest members of this generation are in their early 20s and are entering the workforce, particularly within the BPO industry.

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The Hidden Job Market: Practical Tips to Increase Your Chances of Landing a New Leadership Position

CCNG

You may have heard about a “hidden job market”. What exactly does that mean? From my perspective as an Executive Recruiter, I see it in a couple of common pathways. First, the path most people try in finding a new position is by going reviewing job postings on LinkedIn or various job boards, applying for the position in hopes of landing an interview.

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Build a secure enterprise application with Generative AI and RAG using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

AWS Machine Learning

Generative AI is a type of AI that can create new content and ideas, including conversations, stories, images, videos, and music. It’s powered by large language models (LLMs) that are pre-trained on vast amounts of data and commonly referred to as foundation models (FMs). With the advent of these LLMs or FMs, customers can simply build Generative AI based applications for advertising, knowledge management, and customer support.

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You’re ready for the new SEC cybersecurity rules. Have you included your OT?

Cisco - Contact Center

As part of an ongoing effort to mitigate risks to investors, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enacted new cybersecurity rules last month to provide investors greater levels of… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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Manual Call Reviews? There's a Better Way!

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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3 Common Factors Behind Client Discontent in Customer Care Conversations

CSM Magazine

Have you ever worked in a call center? Better yet, have you ever had to manage one? If you have, you would know that dealing with frustrated and angry customers is part of the job. It’s a stressful time for both the client and the agent. Statistics show that 74% of workers at call centers are likely to experience burnout. If one were to give this situation some thought, a number of questions would arise.

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Product Improvement: Practical Tips for Enhancing Your Offerings – With Use Cases

kommunicate

Last Updated on September 6, 2023 Product improvement is no longer a nice-to-have, but a strategic necessity for sustained success. If you are someone who is in charge of driving engagement for your product, some of these questions would have bothered you more often than not – 1. How can I enhance our existing product [.] The post Product Improvement: Practical Tips for Enhancing Your Offerings – With Use Cases appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.

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Managing Customer Expectations In a Call Center

SQM Group

Prevent your customers from leaving and doing business with your competitors by learning to manage customer expectations in your call center.

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Sales Transformation

Concentrix

Learn how a technology leader realized a significant and lasting sales transformation by rebuilding its sales model, improving processes and enablement tools.

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The Evolution of Conversational AI in the Contact Center Industry

Taylor Reach Group

by Colin Taylor The rapid advancement of conversational AI has had a profound impact on various industries, and one arena that has been significantly affected is the contact center industry. The dialogue surrounding the potential replacement of human agents with AI-driven conversational systems has been ongoing for decades, with technology continuously evolving to redefine customer interactions.

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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Transforming Customer Service: The AI Revolution

Win the Customer

In today’s fast-paced digital world, customer expectations are higher than ever, and they demand quick and efficient responses. This is where artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbots come into play, revolutionizing the way businesses interact with their customers. Customer service is the lifeblood of any business. It’s the bridge that connects consumers to products and services, and how companies handle customer inquiries and issues can make or break their reputation.

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New Month - Time for Newsletter and New Podcast

Jon Arnold

Still feels like summer, but it’s a new month, so it’s time for new editions of JAA’s Communications and Collaboration Review newsletter, and the Watch This Space podcast. If you’re not a subscriber, signing up to my newsletter is easy - the signup page is here. For my podcast, you can subscribe on all the major platforms, or click to listen to the current episode here.

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Balto’s Real-Time Notetaker Summarizes One Million Calls With Groundbreaking Generative AI

Balto

Balto uses best-in-class generative AI models to automatically summarize 100% of agent calls St. Louis – Balto , the first company to provide real-time guidance for contact centers, has announced that it has reached the milestone of 1 million conversations summarized with its Real-Time Notetaker product. “This is a huge achievement,” says Balto’s Vice President of Product Kyle Jones.

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Enhancing Employee Engagement Via Workplace Surveys

Anexa BPO

The success of any business hinges on its ability to foster a motivated, productive, and satisfied workforce. Employee engagement lies at the heart of achieving these objectives, playing a pivotal role in boosting team productivity, job satisfaction, and overall profitability. However, the challenge often lies in deciphering how to cultivate engagement within a team where employees might be hesitant to express their thoughts, question whether their voices are heard, or perceive leadership indiff

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The Open CCaaS Advantage Report

Over the next 12 months, what do you think will have the biggest impact on your CX automation efforts? When asked the same question, only 10% of CX leaders surveyed by Verint chose telephony. It’s no longer the engagement channel leading CCaaS conversations. The customer engagement challenges facing organizations have changed – so a new approach is needed.

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BigChange Customer Portal Opens the Door to Corporate Business for Service Firms

CSM Magazine

BigChange has launched a new Customer Portal allowing BigChange users to give their customers an easy way to book and track jobs online. The portal provides an immediate insight into the current status and history of any jobs, with access to everything from bookings to job cards and images, to quotes and invoices. Customers can even track the engineer on route and their likely arrival time.

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The Untapped Potential of Personalization for Small Businesses

Anexa BPO

In today’s competitive business landscape, personalization has become more than just a buzzword; it’s a powerful tool that can significantly impact customer engagement, loyalty, and revenue generation. However, many small businesses are still missing the boat when it comes to harnessing the true potential of personalized experiences for their customers.

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How Self-Service Options Enhance Customer Experience

Calltools

Most customers prefer talking to a person on the phone to receive customer service. However, there are others who would rather find the answers they need without connecting to a live person. Utilizing self-service options can help save your agents’ time and provide a better experience for your customers. According to Cisco, implementing AI chat resources has improved the customer experience for 53% of call centers. 5 Types of Self-Service Options Self-service options allow customers to fin

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The Ultimate Guide to On-Demand Developer Content from Cisco Live 2023

Cisco - Contact Center

Jump straight into latest perspectives about cloud application security and Cisco Full-Stack Observability with these developer sessions and interviews.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Real-Time Guidance Drives Contact Center Digital Transformation

DMG Consulting

Real-Time Guidance Drives Contact Center Digital Transformation September, 2023 In 2005, Donna Fluss, founder and president of DMG Consulting LLC, published a book called The Real-Time Contact Center , which had a twofold purpose. Its foundational objective was to give readers an appreciation for the importance and contributions of contact centers. The second objective was to lay out a business case and plan to help contact center executives and leaders transform these essential customer-facing

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Cisco Catalyst IE9300 Rugged Series switches: Enterprise-grade industrial-strength

Cisco - Contact Center

Co-authored by Vivek Bhargava.

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Now is the time for a People First Revolution!

Bill Quiseng

Despite the business turmoil of the pandemic, Skimpflation, The Great Resignation, quiet quitting, and, now, the recession, envision a time when your business will, not only survive but, soon, thrive and succeed. Just exactly when is that time? Well … Now is the time for a People First Revolution! One caveat is Employees First. Business leaders see themselves as bosses, hierarchical rungs well below their subservient “employees first” at the bottom of the ladder.

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Fine-tune Llama 2 for text generation on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

AWS Machine Learning

Today, we are excited to announce the capability to fine-tune Llama 2 models by Meta using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. The Llama 2 family of large language models (LLMs) is a collection of pre-trained and fine-tuned generative text models ranging in scale from 7 billion to 70 billion parameters. Fine-tuned LLMs, called Llama-2-chat, are optimized for dialogue use cases.

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Reimagining CX: How to Implement Effective AI-Driven Transformations

Speaker: Steve Pappas, Chief Strategist, Startup and Early Stage Growth Advisor, Keynote Speaker, CX Podcaster

As businesses strive for success in an increasingly digitized world, delivering an exceptional customer experience has become paramount. To meet this demand, enterprises are embracing innovative approaches that captivate customers and fuel their loyalty. 💥 Enter conversational AI - an absolute game-changer (if done right) in redefining CX norms.

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What’s the Role of Lead Generation in an Outbound Call Center?

Hodusoft

What’s the Role of Lead Generation in an Outbound Call Center? Outbound call centers come in many shapes and sizes. It’s not uncommon to find different types of outbound call centers performing different activities. Some provide telemarketing services, some generate leads, some conduct market research, and some conduct telesales campaigns. But generating quality leads is probably the most challenging and rewarding job of all.

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Intelligently search Adobe Experience Manager content using Amazon Kendra

AWS Machine Learning

Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning (ML). With Amazon Kendra, you can easily aggregate content from a variety of content repositories into an index that lets you quickly search all your enterprise data and find the most accurate answer. Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) is a content management system that’s used for creating website or mobile app content.

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Maximizing Deals: How Sales Call Recording Boosts Revenue

Balto

Here’s the hard truth: most sales calls don’t really result in a closed deal. If we had to make a list of reasons why your prospect didn’t consider your offering, ineffective coaching and lack of personalization would claim the top spots. Sales call recording solutions provide you with the insights you need to highlight problems that lead to lost deals and coach your reps more effectively.

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Run multiple generative AI models on GPU using Amazon SageMaker multi-model endpoints with TorchServe and save up to 75% in inference costs

AWS Machine Learning

Multi-model endpoints (MMEs) are a powerful feature of Amazon SageMaker designed to simplify the deployment and operation of machine learning (ML) models. With MMEs, you can host multiple models on a single serving container and host all the models behind a single endpoint. The SageMaker platform automatically manages the loading and unloading of models and scales resources based on traffic patterns, reducing the operational burden of managing a large quantity of models.

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Contact Center Dialers Demystified

Dive into the realm of contact center dialers with our infographic! Explore the various types – Preview, Predictive, Automatic, and Progressive Dialers – and unravel their roles in boosting call center performance.