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Since contact center agents interact with customers daily, it is essential that you create a plan and strategy for keeping at homeagents engaged from afar. Tips to Keep At-HomeAgents Engaged. Here are eight tips to keep your at-homeagents engaged and productive. Use gamification.
Question: Can gamification be used for work-at-home (WAH) agents? Answer: The forced migration of on-site contact center employees to work-at-homeagents has renewed interest in employee empowerment tools. The benefits of gamification solutions go far beyond the crucial need to enhance employee engagement.
In order to best serve your customers, agents need to be ready to answer questions and facilitate processes quickly. Luckily, at-homeagents love the flexibility and convenience of working from home. Set Goals — Just like lowering AHT, you call center agents should always be aiming toward metric goals.
Here are some best practices to consider as you define or enhance your work from home program, specifically for your customer engagement center. Define the Agent Profile. Not everyone makes the perfect work at homeagent. Define the Home Office. Define Call Monitoring and Speech Analytics metrics.
Luckily, solutions have emerged, like gamification, to give supervisors fun and motivating incentives that target key performance metrics, such as: Best CSAT agent score. These incentives can be shared with all your agents and integrated into existing solutions and third-party tools. Lowest AHT. Highest FCR.
As your team grows more confident and skilled through these training strategies, you’ll observe improvements in key performance metrics and customer satisfaction scores. This allows agents to seek quick clarifications or support, similar to walking up to a colleague’s desk in a physical office.
Anyone not performing to satisfaction will be required to report to the office five days per week until metrics are maintained.” Agents must meet certain performance standards. Related Article: Work-Life Balance for the At-HomeAgent: 7 Ways to Encourage Healthier Habits in a Post-Pandemic Workplace.
Gamification: Gamification promises to make the workplace more fun by applying game design elements to business processes such as customer support, and it’s quickly gaining traction. Gartner predicts that over 70% of Global 2000 companies will have incorporated some form of gamification by 2014. 2017 Key Metric Success.
Not only does it mean better CX, but it creates a more meaningful and rewarding work experience for the agent, which keeps agents engaged and productive. Support and Collaboration of Remote Agents. The group also had questions related to support and collaboration for remote contact center agents.
Having more gamification, having more activity and engagement in this, that’s really critical in today’s workforce. Interesting you talk about gamification. I think sometimes what I’m seeing in the industry is that people are wanting to move away from gamification.
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