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5 Best Practices for Training Remote Call Center Agents

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The 2019 LinkedIn Workforce Learning Report states that 94% of employees polled would remain with an organization longer if there were learning opportunities available. If your staff feels like their workload is manageable, it’ll help keep burnout at bay, leaving agents with some more mental capacity to engage in training sessions.

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Prepare Your Business Communication For Severe Weather

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In 2021, 87% of the agents at one call center company were currently working from home. Conversely, in 2019, only 19% of those agents worked from home. Contact Center features like ACD queuing and routing features like skill-based routing and escalation queues can alleviate high call volumes, long wait times, and agent burnout.

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Meet Customer Needs Without Overwhelming Your Agents: 6 Workforce Management Strategies to Engage your Team and Still Surpass High Customer Expectations

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And, look to your year-over-year metrics for added guidance, too. What happened in May of 2019, and how did volume compare with April and June of 2019? In May of 2019, you handled an average of 2000 interactions per day. Look to your historical data and reports to find metrics to input into the calculator fields.

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This is our 1000th Post! A Look Back at Our Greatest Hits

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Call Center Metrics. Telltale Signs: How to Identify Call Center Agent Burnout. On the Horizon: Customer Service Trends in 2019 [Report]. 4 Contact Center Reports to Kick off 2019. The Top Contact Center Trends to Watch in 2019. Investing in Agents. Is Chat Eating into Phone-Based Customer Service?

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The Health of the Contact Center: Are You Ready for 2019?

A survey of 1,000 contact center professionals reveals what it takes to improve agent well-being in a customer-centric era. This report is a must-read for contact center leaders preparing to engage agents and improve customer experience in 2019.

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What is Call Center Performance Management?

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Contact center agents may also take issue with the performance metrics being used to assess them. Quality assurance reviewers may give feedback based on only one or two recorded calls, which the agent may not see as representative of their overall performance. The post What is Call Center Performance Management?

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Is the Contact Center a Good Career? Tenured Agents Say Yes

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The whole team benefits before, during, and after an internal promotion.” – Michelle Barbeau, Senior Customer Enablement Manager The only metric which didn’t improve linearly with rate of internal promotion was whether or not respondents were actively working towards a promotion. Suddenly, their work has greater meaning and impact.