Fonolo

MARCH 25, 2021

Do you have the tools and resources you need to provide excellent customer service? When agent satisfaction is left unaddressed, agent burnout comes into play. Do you feel you would benefit from a mentoring or coaching program? 6 Things Contact Center Agents Are Afraid to Tell Their Managers.

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Calabrio

MARCH 25, 2025

This is where modern contact centers are turning to cutting-edge solutions, including AI, to deliver real-time performance tracking and more actionable coaching. Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) Scores: CSAT gathers direct customer feedback on their experience, providing valuable insights into agent performance.

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Toister Performance Solutions

MARCH 2, 2023

Burnout is defined by the American Psychological Association as "physical, emotional, or mental exhaustion accompanied by decreased motivation, lowered performance, and negative attitudes towards oneself and others." That study found 74 percent of contact center agents were at risk of burnout. Wait, accountability?!

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CCNG

MAY 11, 2022

Many others spend a lot of time interacting with internal or outsourced call center agents and leadership, so they have firsthand knowledge of the vital part these individuals play within the customer service organization. ? agents lack appreciation for the call center job? and world are dealing with today.

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SharpenCX

MAY 6, 2020

Good customer service drives higher revenue, happier customers, and lowers churn. Download Now: Prove your contact center’s value with the 9 business impacts of a better agent experience. Good customer service doesn’t just save revenue, it generates it. Customers seek out companies that know their history.

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Nicereply

MAY 28, 2019

Though one long shift won’t cause serious burnout for your staff, the long-term buildup of stressors and environmental factors will. Being a customer service agent is hard. All those factors can combine to cause agent burnout. A lot of the time, it feels pretty thankless.

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Playvox

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

While to the agent, it’s just handling another customer interaction, they are the “face” of the company and take the brunt of the rage from the customer. When customers are in a rage, it can be incredibly difficult to defuse the situation, creating stress and burnout for your agents.

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Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

Signs And Effects Of Poor Agent Emotional Well-Being In Your Contact Center Working with customers requires a lot of emotional labor from your customer service center agents — even if customers are happy. Burnout Burnout is at the heart of poor emotional well-being in a contact center.

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Fonolo

MAY 31, 2022

Utilization Rate will help you determine the total time your agents are logged in, assisting customers, and available to assist customers but doing other things. Coaching one-on-ones. Total Shift Time —The full amount of time an agent was scheduled to work. An overwhelmed agent is not a happy agent.

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SharpenCX

APRIL 1, 2020

And we’re here to help you do the same with quarterly customer service goals. Let’s map out quarterly customer service goals to set your team up for success. We’re walking through five steps to setting customer service goals that your team can accomplish in 90 days.

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JustCall

APRIL 15, 2024

As a sales or customer support manager, you’ve likely noticed some agents seem disengaged, burned out, or stressed. Call center agent burnout is a real problem, and the job demands can take a toll on even the most resilient employees. SQM research shows that 63% of the agents experience a high burnout rate.

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NobelBiz

JUNE 4, 2024

Customer service is the backbone of any successful call center. It’s the first point of contact between a business and its customers, making it a critical component in shaping the customer experience. What is a Customer Service Call Center?

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SharpenCX

APRIL 29, 2020

Build in time for agent coaching. To keep your team engaged and performing at their best, your agents need to be coached daily. Because productivity without engagement is another key contributor to agent burnout – the Rube Goldberg Machine of bad outcomes. Coaching builds confidence in your agents.

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SharpenCX

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

You dig through the discarded debris of packaging, find the number for customer service and give them a call. You press 4 to speak to customer service and then…you wait. Where would you be without your agents in the first place? Use metrics to know where your agents need more coaching or training.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2023

Magnus Geverts shares his top tips for beating agent burnout—and the competition—in 2023. Great news for businesses that rely on the festive season to tide them over during the leaner months but extremely stressful for agents in contact centres.

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Hodusoft

AUGUST 9, 2023

Improving Customer Service in BPOs with Multi-Tenant Contact Center Software Noted management guru Peter F. It isn’t surprising to see that many small, medium, and large businesses outsource their customer service to BPOs. Just imagine you are a business owner who is considering outsourcing customer service.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Real-Time Agent Assist uses AI and Machine Learning to analyze customer needs and emotions, then deliver real-time coaching so contact center agents can take the best next step for customers. Real-Time Agent Assist.

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JustCall

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

A whopping 86% of CX executives rank agent experience (AX) as the #1 driver of better CX. It’s a clear reflection of why businesses have started making sure that their customer service agents are performing at their best. And this isn’t just about being nice on the customer calls. These include.

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Fonolo

MAY 31, 2022

Utilization Rate will help you determine the total time your agents are logged in, assisting customers, and available to assist customers but doing other things. Coaching one-on-ones. Total Shift Time —The full amount of time an agent was scheduled to work. An overwhelmed agent is not a happy agent.

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Playvox

JULY 31, 2023

However, some of the quickest ROI can come from the employee self-service (ESS) aspects of a WFM solution. Improved Efficiency Getting your staffing levels right and creating a balanced workload across all of your customer service channels is crucial. Transitioning some responsibility to agents helps team leaders as well.

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SharpenCX

AUGUST 4, 2020

Use it to automate scheduling your agents, route coaching lessons to your team, and even alert you to KPI thresholds that need attention. Use your automation tools to gather agent information and data so you can provide better coaching. Download Now: Get Real About Coaching Your Agents with These Actionable Tips.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

While leaders often ask agents to ‘walk in the customer’s shoes’, such advice usually exacerbates these negative consequences. Understand that the problem is not empathy in itself but how it is coached. The beauty of cloud-first contact centre solutions is they make light work of scaling up and down as your business changes.

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Playvox

DECEMBER 13, 2022

While some might only see this as an agent behavior issue, the truth is, it’s a broad problem with a significant impact on the business. It has negative implications on your customer experience, forecasting, scheduling, and overall budget. Related Article: 17 Most Effective KPIs To Evaluate Customer Service Performance.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Training, coaching, legacy technology, and lack of career opportunities top the list of issues for agents along with handling irate customers. Training/Coaching. A recurrent response by agents is that they want to be empowered to help customers. Customer Challenges. The Technology Gap.

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Balto

JANUARY 18, 2025

Todays call center operates in layers: Frontline Agents Handling inbound and outbound calls, emails, and chats. Supervisors Monitoring performance and coaching agents in real-time. Workforce Management (WFM) Forecasting, scheduling, and making sure the right number of agents are on hand during peak hours.

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Balto

JANUARY 17, 2025

Todays call center operates in layers: Frontline Agents Handling inbound and outbound calls, emails, and chats. Supervisors Monitoring performance and coaching agents in real-time. Workforce Management (WFM) Forecasting, scheduling, and making sure the right number of agents are on hand during peak hours.

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Aria Solutions

MARCH 31, 2020

To help organizations understand where to start, we defined the 5 pillars a modern contact center should have to deliver the type of experience customers want. Omnichannel Capabilities that Makes Customer Service Seamless. Today’s customers communicate across channels and platforms. AI & Predictive Analytics.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2023

One of the positives to come out of the pandemic is that it made every customer service department think more about the wellbeing of employees than ever before. It’s a welcome shift because for most contact centre managers, agent stress is the biggest labour issue on their minds and it’s diminishing the customer experience (CX).

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JustCall

MAY 23, 2023

JustCall’s participation at CCW 2023 promises to be a game-changer for businesses seeking to thrive in the rapidly changing customer service landscape. Visit us at Booth #505 at CCW Las Vegas Your customer experience is under scrutiny in the contact center and customer expectations are at an all-time high.

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Balto

MARCH 29, 2023

Some common use cases for AI in the contact center industry include routine task automation, real-time language translation, customer interaction analysis, real-time quality assurance, and agent assistance and coaching. This can drastically reduce customer churn rate and result in happier and more loyal customers.

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Talkdesk

JULY 16, 2019

Call Center Performance Management is a program, generally led by a contact center operations manager, dedicated to calculating and improving the performance of contact center agents. Performance Management generally requires a number of tools like call recording , quality monitoring , coaching , and gamification.

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Balto

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Technology plays a key role here – by integrating different solutions, contact centers can seamlessly handle multichannel interactions, as well as collect and analyze data efficiently, all while ensuring that their agents’ efforts are directed efficiently while technology automates redundant tasks for them.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 15, 2023

Agents need time to take a breath and collect their thoughts between calls; If they don't get it, their performance suffers, followed by higher absenteeism and, eventually, agent attrition. Consider an agent who is engaged in call-related work for 45 minutes during a 60 minute period.

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Balto

JANUARY 21, 2025

How to Improve CSAT: Empower agents with real-time tools to resolve customer issues efficiently during the first interaction. Focus on reducing friction across the customer journey to lower customer effort scores. Gather customer feedback consistently to understand trends and coach agents on areas that need improvement.

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Balto

JANUARY 2, 2025

How to Improve CSAT: Empower agents with real-time tools to resolve customer issues efficiently during the first interaction. Focus on reducing friction across the customer journey to lower customer effort scores. Gather customer feedback consistently to understand trends and coach agents on areas that need improvement.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 6, 2023

Predictive dialers occupy a cornerstone place in every outbound calling strategy as they shorten the time between answered calls, enabling your team to connect with your customers and reach new leads faster. Agent Burnout Predictive dialing can result in a high volume of calls for agents, leading to burnout and reduced productivity.

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Playvox

APRIL 27, 2023

Synchronous customer communication channels involve real-time communication between a customer and a service agent. When communicating over these channels, the customer expectation is for an immediate or nearly immediate response from the customer service team. Addressing burnout is one solution.

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