Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

A higher FCR indicates that a contact center is handling more interactions efficiently and effectively in a single interaction, leading to increased customer satisfaction and reduced operational costs. To calculate FCR: Track all interactions initiated by customers within a given period, such as one month.

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Calabrio

MARCH 22, 2025

Best Practices Contact Center Management: Best Practices & Strategies for Peak Performance Share The modern contact center is no longer seen as a mere service function at the periphery of the business. Effective management is crucial for transforming it into a hub of customer intelligence and value creation.

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teleopti

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Modern workforce management (WFM) solutions capture huge amounts of data to create a library of valuable information. Use it to spot deviations from normal events such as unexpected spikes in call volumes or even different average handling time (AHT) patterns. Finally, don’t cut corners!

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Calabrio

APRIL 8, 2025

As a result, key customer interactions lose an all-important element: their humanity. Even just before the rapid rise of AI in the contact center, a study found that 59% of all consumers felt companies had lost touch with the human element of customer experience. Today, though, the tide is turning.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 22, 2019

In Part One of this two-part series, we sought to demystify the forecasting and scheduling components of contact center workforce management. Once those areas are identified, you can adjust agents’ shifts, moving around shift times, breaks, lunches, etc. Intraday management. Schedule changes. as necessary.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 22, 2019

In Part One of this two-part series, we sought to demystify the forecasting and scheduling components of contact center workforce management. Once those areas are identified, you can adjust agents’ shifts, moving around shift times, breaks, lunches, etc. Intraday management. Schedule changes. as necessary.

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Fonolo

MAY 7, 2015

The way your agents feel about their job will be hard to hide over the phone; a happy employee will rub off their colleagues as well as your callers, improving both the customer experience and the workplace atmosphere. Be Active in the Customer Experience Community. Average Handle Time.

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Balto

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Louis, MO — Balto, the leader in uniting contact center agents with AI for better conversations, is excited to announce the release of a suite of features for its market-leading real-time guidance platform dedicated to improving the agent experience in the contact center.

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pindrop

JANUARY 8, 2021

Pindrop Trace® correlates activities across calls, accounts, and time to analyze relationships within seemingly unrelated data sets to find and prevent more fraud, faster. . Protect passively works in the background to monitor calls and account events to identify anomalies without requiring genuine customers to jump through hoops. .

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Then, there’s the constant battle between operations (who want ‘fast and cheap’) and the contact center (whose job is to make ‘customers feel loved’). This perennial tug of war is damaging to agent morale, the customer experience and health of the overall business.

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Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

While we don’t have a roadmap to the proverbial fountain, we can help steer you in the right direction for better call center workforce management (WFM). Read on for a complete guide on how to improve operational efficiency and deliver a better customer experience (CX) through WFM.

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Verint

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Enhancing what you have to deliver better experiences. A question being asked within many organizations is—how can we deliver better customer experiences? What solutions should we invest in to help achieve customer experience goals and meet customer expectations?

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Verint

JUNE 6, 2017

As discussed in a recent blog post by Laurie Wickham, the 2017 Verint Engage Global Customer Conference took place recently in Orlando, Florida with attendees from 17 countries and a variety of industries.

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Verint

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

This week as we celebrate Valentine’s Day, it’s a good time to remember the role that emotion plays in customer service. If you haven’t, consider how your positive feelings about a brand partly arise from the good feelings you had about a customer service experience—or several of them. Have you thought about that before?

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Verint

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

You may know from personal experience that low-performing, partially effective contact center technologies and overwhelmed customer service employees are not a winning combination. Being mindful with your contact center IVR and WFO strategies can help you get better at the things you care about for your business.

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Balto

APRIL 20, 2023

For example, those that did layoffs cared slightly less about customer satisfaction and customer retention than those who did not do layoffs — and significantly less about net promoter score (NPS). They did, however, care more about dials per week and average handle time. Is the Contact Center a Good Career?

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Calabrio

MARCH 7, 2025

This prediction process is critical to workforce planning and a cornerstone of effective call workforce center management (WFM). Plus, as well explore below, its accuracy has a direct impact on your ability to deliver exceptional customer experience. Why is accurate call center forecasting so important?

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