DMG Consulting

MAY 14, 2018

Question: What are some best practices for at-home agents? Answer: Here is a list of several best practices for contact center operations that include home-based agents: Invest time in hiring qualified agents. Train supervisors to manage a virtual workforce; out of sight cannot mean out of mind.

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The Call Center School

MAY 28, 2020

With more at-home agents today, your service teams need training now more than ever. That’s why The Call Center School has created its first e-book, “ Agents at Home: How to Start Your Online Training Program.”. This free guide will help you get started with remote training. It’s the present.

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CCNG

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In some cases, my trainers wanted to increase the number of new-hire training days. Or, because of struggling staffing levels, new agents were put on the schedule to work with customers before they were ready. This caused new agents to be frustrated and less productive. We’ve set up buddy systems within agent teams.

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Outsource Consultants

JUNE 6, 2022

These quick Q&A sessions may feel informal, but they often serve as a critical vehicle for ongoing training and growth. Instant messaging has become a ubiquitous part of everyday life, so dropping it into a professional environment requires little training. A recent study showed that 80 percent of U.S.

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Outsource Consultants

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This model allows for agents to work comfortably from home but within a proximal distance for occasional in-person visits. Your HQ or “hub” feeds the decentralized “spokes” of your at-home agents, with in-person visits typically narrowed around ongoing training or remedial supervision for under-performing team members.

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Tethr

JULY 6, 2020

Continuous training for “what if” instances. While pandemics don’t just happen every day, trainings should periodically take place for unexpected situations. All new call center agents should be introduced to a regularly updated continuity plan so that in the event of a disaster or a pandemic, the process can be smooth and systematic.

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Tethr

MARCH 3, 2020

Transitioning from a team of 100 percent onsite call center agents to a more flexible working environment can be daunting. Learning how to train, manage and motivate agents is challenging. Your remote agents need to be provided with the best tools and trained on how to use them. Establish training protocol.

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DMG Consulting

JULY 5, 2020

Set up a daily communication session between supervisors and each at-home agent. Part of each supervisor’s job should be to keep at-home agents informed of all work-related meetings and to make sure their agents are well. Use internal chat for handling most agent inquiries. working space, security, and more.

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Taylor Reach Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Not investing in training or professional development. Companies spend money on initially training new hires, but is that enough? Besides, we can always use the dollars allocated to training for other areas like executive retreats” – a prime example of the mindset you do not want to take as a Contact Center executive.

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Vistio

JULY 27, 2021

The next step is to evaluate your onboarding and training process. The below are the specific steps that need to be taken by senior leaders focusing on process, technology, and culture in order to deliver excellent customer service regardless of the agent’s physical location. Step 1: Treat Every Agent Equally.

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Aspect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

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 home agent. Define the Home Office. Implement effective online training.

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Outsource Consultants

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

A strong intercontinental georedundancy strategy, coupled with leveraging at-home agents, is more important than ever. Government incentives for training and hiring. The global outsourcing market is expected to exceed $400B by 2027 , with annual growth as high as 10% annually. . Top talent to recruit.

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NICE inContact

APRIL 13, 2016

Knowing this information can help you be prepared with better training and coaching that reflects your center’s needs. Are you scheduling the right agents at the right time? This is often a struggle for a number of organizations because many are still using Excel spreadsheets to forecast and extract data for agent scheduling.

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Calltools

MARCH 8, 2023

Cloud phone systems can cost as little as $10 per agent per month, according to JustCall, which can work out significantly cheaper than other technologies. Remote Flexibility With more people working from home, cloud calling allows you to adopt or maintain a remote or hybrid work model.

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Outsource Consultants

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

LMS software has emerged as a great new way to drive employee engagement for remote and in-office workers alike, giving agents and clients more flexible staffing options to improve utilization and reduce costs. Support – BPOs continue to refine training and agent support, including customer experience as well as employee experience.

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24-7 InTouch

APRIL 3, 2020

Our typical work-from-home model operates as a hub-and-spoke, with agents receiving training and orientation at one of our campuses, and then taking their equipment home with them to begin their remote agent experience. We provide our agents with best practices for a productive WFH environment.

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Skybridge

APRIL 21, 2020

It demands a continuous, long-term investment in monitoring best practices, technology upgrades, and ongoing agent and management training. Myth: At-Home Agents Feel Neglected and Become Disengaged. The key is allowing your at-home agents to enjoy the best of both worlds. We would love to talk.

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Skybridge

JUNE 10, 2020

Skybridge Americas is one of very few customer care call centers that had invested early and robustly in the technology, infrastructure, and talent necessary to run large, geographically dispersed at-home agent teams. How are your agents doing during this unprecedented, often confusing, sometimes painful time? It wasn’t easy.

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DMG Consulting

APRIL 1, 2021

For this concept to work, contact centers have to be willing to change how they think about and treat their agents, essentially transferring scheduling decision-making to them. In order to make this happen, companies need a much larger pool of trained agents, which has been the limiting factor for the process, until recently.

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24-7 InTouch

MAY 1, 2020

Here are a few ways that leading brands are successfully identifying key engagement drivers and increasing retention, tenure, and work quality to retain and engage the best work-at-home agent talent. Another at-home agent driver is the need to feel a part of the community they work within. FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING.

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24-7 InTouch

JULY 8, 2020

Active lines of communication in this rapidly-changing time were also integral and allowed for a consistent flow of information in real-time from leadership all the way down to agents and client partners around the globe. . Agents who hit speed to production and become top performers would then have the ability to work from home. .

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Skybridge

MARCH 25, 2020

Many of you are looking for ways to accelerate current plans to transition from on-site to at-home agents. Many more are trying to determine the feasibility of a first-time, rapid deployment of at-home operations. partners who can scale up as needed for new hire training and on-boarding. We understand what’s at stake.

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Skybridge

APRIL 13, 2020

They need to be secure enough to ask for feedback from their teams and make adjustments as needed in order to nurture strong virtual relationships with their at-home agents. For example, DiSC® profile is a powerful do-it-yourself training and development tool designed to improve work productivity, teamwork, and communication.

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Aspect

JANUARY 12, 2018

Studies show that 95% of agents are only willing to drive up to 30 minutes to work. For more specialized skills, contact centers may need to reach out beyond that current geographic boundary, further stimulating the need for part-time work-at-home agents. Implications for Workforce Management Software.

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VocalCom

JUNE 22, 2020

Finding new ways to engage, train and manage agents is key: a staggering 74% of call center agents are at risk of burnout ( Toister Solutions ). Agents need technologies that help them be productive while working from home. HR will also have to use digital training tools and monitor agents remotely.

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Outsource Consultants

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But to truly succeed, call centers need to empower supervisors with training to support their agents. And it’s only gotten harder for supervisors to effectively coach their agents with the shift to remote work. Call center supervisors must empower agents to tackle new, emerging challenges — but they can’t do it alone.

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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Related Article: Work-Life Balance for the At-Home Agent: 7 Ways to Encourage Healthier Habits in a Post-Pandemic Workplace. Keep More Agents On Board. But remote work is a surefire way to hang on to the agents you’ve spent so much time and money training — and who have become such valuable members of your team.

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Serenova

AUGUST 23, 2019

Even organizations that can spend the money to ramp up are faced with decreased service levels because of lack of time to adequately train seasonal staff. Managing and Training Work-from-Home Agents. The new, more cost-effective answer to the need for additional staff is work-from-home agents.

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Outsource Consultants

JANUARY 13, 2025

The right infrastructure empowers your agents to provide excellent customer service, regardless of their physical location. As we move forward, let’s explore how to effectively train and onboard remote agents to maximize the potential of your virtual customer support operations.

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COPC

OCTOBER 22, 2021

We talked with her to learn more about Transcom’s training and certification experiences with COPC Inc. And it’s what led us to decide to certify our staff and ultimately our work-at-home organization. training courses like? She is a passionate advocate for COPC Inc. and COPC Inc. certification. to your peers?

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SharpenCX

JULY 23, 2020

Download Now: The Business Impact of a Better Agent Experience in your Contact Center. In North America, the direct cost of replacing a contact center agent, including the cost of screening, recruiting, interviewing, and training an agent is more than $12,000. They no longer have to fight traffic and pay commuting costs.

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Global Response

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Outsourcing brings many benefits, including the delegation of costly and time-consuming efforts like hiring, training, quality assurance, and staffing, while creating the opportunity to focus your time on customer service strategy, insights, and the performance of your business. Virtual, or utilizing “at-home” agents.

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Calltools

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Train Contact Center Agents. Agents who joined your call center after the last holiday season might not know what to expect in the next couple of months. With proper training, you can improve experiences for both agents and customers. With proper training, you can improve experiences for both agents and customers.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2021

These full-marks ratings for Calabrio ranged from training and ongoing service and support, to product effectiveness, such as the ability to support at-home agents and remote supervisors, to product features satisfaction, including supervisor interface and user experience. Calabrio’s scores led each of these categories.

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DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It looks to the future and provides best practices for post-pandemic disaster recovery/business continuity (DR/BC) planning, as well as for the management of work-at-home agents. This year’s Report discusses the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the short- and long-term future of this increasingly important sector.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 24, 2022

To avoid bottlenecking Tier 2 agents with an influx of more sophisticated care scenarios, Tier 1 agents must be ready to resolve more complex issues for these customers. That said, this move results in a different level of work for Tier 2 agents.

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Eckoh

JUNE 19, 2020

8 PCI DSS challenges prohibit you from benefiting from Work-at-Home agents. But with every regulation change, you have to constantly change processes, implement new technology, maintain those solutions and spend time training agents. So, what hazards lie ahead and how can they best be avoided? #8 That’s a tall order.

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