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The Role of Contact Center Agents in Product Innovation

Contact Center Pipeline

As we turn the page to a new year, and in the spirit of new beginnings, I’d like to challenge managers and leaders to consider alternative approaches to drive innovation and business change. Change must bubble up from within an organization, not merely cascade down from above, because in the next two years we’ll witness […].

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Agents Will Be Empowered Only If They Feel Valued — And You Must Continuously Prove It to Them

CCNG

One of the major initiatives abuzz in the Contact Center industry is agent empowerment and how it will improve performance and CX. Agents who feel empowered are comfortable making decisions on their own, which gives them a keen sense of ownership with every customer interaction. The concept is simple.

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Boost Agent Satisfaction in Your Contact Center with These 9 Inclusive Practices

Fonolo

Fostering an inclusive work environment is essential if you want a high-performing contact center team. If you haven’t been paying attention, agent attrition has continued to rise, according to our State of the Contact Center 2020 report. 3 Reasons Why Agent Satisfaction is the New Customer Satisfaction.

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Training Your Call Center Agents to Sound the Alarm on Harassment in Abusive Customer Interactions Instantly Can Fuel Your Agents’ Empowerment

SharpenCX

Contact center agents are prone to burnout. Read up on 8 reasons that agents experience burnout and how you can avoid it. . How could this persistent verbal abuse affect your contact center? As a manager, you can provide training to support and coach agents through those abusive online experiences.

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How to Fearlessly Empower Your Contact Center Agents

Speaker: Jeff Toister, Employee Training Expert, Bestselling Author, Speaker

An ICMI study revealed that 86 percent of contact centers don't fully empower their agents to deliver an outstanding customer experience. Agents worry about doing the wrong thing and getting in trouble. Contact center leaders worry about agents giving away too much or serving customers inconsistently.

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CX4Now: CX and Contact Center Trends to Watch, According to These Influencers

Fonolo

If you’ve been following the CX and contact center industries over the past few years, you know the landscape has drastically changed. We asked nine influencers and leaders in the CX and contact center spaces to weigh in on the biggest trends for 2023. And their answers may not be what you expect.

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Agent Empowerment: Putting Firstline Employees First in the Contact Center

Noble Systems

Advancements in technology have contact centers light years ahead of where they were five – even two years ago. Businesses that continue to ignore the needs of firstline employees – such as contact center agents – do so at their own peril. Agent Experience Demands No Friction and Easy Access to Data.