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Contact Center Workforce Management Best Practices

Fonolo

By scheduling call-backs for quieter times, you increase efficiency and decrease agent downtime. Meeting service level agreements Customers value a fast response when they reach out for customer support. Meeting service level agreements Customers value a fast response when they reach out for customer support.

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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

SharpenCX

Good leaders know that simply having agents in their seats doesn’t make for standout customer experiences. To meet the sky-high expectations of today’s customers, agents need to be engaged at work. Because productivity without engagement is another key contributor to agent burnout – the Rube Goldberg Machine of bad outcomes.

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How to Keep Your Customers Happy in a World with the Highest Expectations: 6 Data-Backed Methods to Put People First and Build Positive Experiences

SharpenCX

Because it determines your agentsempowerment, productivity, and happiness at work. Internally, it breaks down team morale. Unproductive, undervalued agents can’t make customers happy. Customers want you to meet them where they are. Ready to improve your customer (and agent) retention rates?

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

TechSee

The contact center industry continues to face extremely high agent turnover, with some outbound and telemarketing centers experiencing attrition rates as high as 27% annually. Virtual Employee Assistants (VEA) – or digital buddies – have been tapped as an effective solution to help contact centers both support and motivate their agents.

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3 Management Techniques to Use (And 2 to Ditch) to Erase the Bad Call Center Agent Experience in 2021

SharpenCX

Conversation after conversation reveals a consistent pain in the call center experience: agents don’t know what’s expected of them. Yet still, they get reprimanded and put on PIPs when they fail to meet business requirements. Read Next] How agent empowerment impacts customer service. Talk about demoralizing.

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Contact Center Management: Best Practices & Strategies for Peak Performance

Calabrio

By focusing on agent empowerment, process optimization, and data-driven decision-making, businesses can create a contact center that not only meets but exceeds customer expectations, fostering long-term relationships and driving business success. The ability to deliver personalized and seamless customer experiences is paramount.

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Why Simplicity in Contact Centres Matters in an Era of Complexity

CSM Magazine

While frontline staff are united in their desire to meet rising customer expectations, they are also now divided by where they want to work. Here are five tactics to tackle these new complexities from an agent perspective: 1. Allow employees flexibility, by way of agent-driven self-scheduling, to increase morale and decrease attrition.