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Balto Elevates the Agent Experience in the Contact Center with New Suite of Features

Balto

Reaffirms commitment to agent empowerment for retention and growth in the contact center. Selected agents can add their voice to the playbook, test new checklist items, and snooze or minimize prompts. Gamification. Gamification drives agents to want to achieve through the spirit of competition.

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A lifetime of lessons learned, with Steve Bederman | First Contact: Stories of the Call Center

NobelBiz

Going into 2021, we can foresee a few things that will remain in plain focus: a seamless customer journey, personalized customer experiences, relationship and agent empowerment. AI gamification From a business perspective, the idea of gamification can be a crucial part in the light of recent AI challenges.

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DMG Consulting Releases 2024 Workforce Management for the Enterprise in the Digital Era Report

DMG Consulting

Agent empowerment is a growing area of focus for contact center leaders, and WFM vendors are helping to address these needs by delivering expanded self-service capabilities via enhanced mobile apps. WFM vendors are also looking for creative ways to motivate agents via gamification to self-schedule hard-to-fill shifts and hours.

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How Contact Center Agent Burnout Decreases Productivity (And What You Can Do About It)

Playvox

Preventing Agent Burnout. Most fundamentally you need to promote a culture of agent empowerment. When you hire and onboard agents and managers with intention and care, you increase your chances of creating a positive and empowering culture. Agent burnout and related productivity drains are endemic in contact centers.

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Buddying Up – Putting Virtual Employee Assistants at the Heart of Agent Development

TechSee

Deploying the most effective and sustainable VEA would require the integration of multiple technologies, such as interaction guidance, decision support, robotic process automation, workflow optimization and agent career path development. Current approaches to agent empowerment. Gamification. Team-based models.

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AI-Enabled WFM Promotes Efficiency and Flexibility

DMG Consulting

This emerging WFM module is a critical piece in enabling the scheduling flexibility and self-service capabilities necessary to attract and retain agents. WFM vendors are also looking for creative ways to motivate agents via gamification to self-schedule hard-to-fill shifts and hours.

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Why Simplicity in Contact Centres Matters in an Era of Complexity

CSM Magazine

Here are five tactics to tackle these new complexities from an agent perspective: 1. Replace whiteboards with dashboards – the opportunity to benchmark self-performance is a fundamental part of agent empowerment and it shouldn’t stop just because the majority of agents are working from home.