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3 Easy Ways To Improve Schedule Adherence

Playvox

There’s a lot riding on your contact center schedule. Even when you get it all set, making sure agents stick to your carefully crafted schedule can be a challenge. But how well your agents follow their schedules is an important metric to manage in your contact center — one called schedule adherence.

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10 effective tips for training WFH contact center agents

Talkdesk

The latest trend in at-home agent training centers around online, specialized tools that offer hands-on practice with a contact center interface, testing employees’ ability to learn and adapt to a technology they’ll be using daily. Encourage them to introduce their role on the team as well as how the agents can contact them.

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Absenteeism Is a Pain

Contact Center Pipeline

According to Benchmark Portal, absenteeism equates to 6.48% of all scheduled hours in a contact center. Absenteeism is a pain, we all know that. Everyone is looking for a silver bullet to stop absenteeism. A quick Google search brings up thousands of articles with countless ideas for reducing absenteeism.

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The ROI of Contact Center Benchmarking

Transparent BPO

.” That adage, coined by Peter Drucker, a man regarded as the inventor of modern business management, testifies to the fact that measuring performance is vital to the success of any business or industry — including the contact center industry. “There is a term used in the industry: internal benchmarking,” he said.

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Contact Center Management: Best Practices & Strategies for Peak Performance

Calabrio

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. At the same time, contact center operations have also taken on a new level complexity.

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Contact Center Gamification: What You Need to Know to Use Games for Improved Engagement and Performance

Calabrio

Workforce Management Contact Center Gamification: What You Need to Know to Use Games for Improved Engagement and Performance Share Did you know that low employee engagement costs the global economy about $8.9 Luckily, there is: its called contact center gamification. Table of Contents: What is Contact Center Gamification?

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International Contact Centre Operations Tips & Best Practices

Callminer

Schedule adherence and after call work management are part of the overall performance management processes. Since labor cost is the single biggest expense in a contact center operation, reducing the handle time by just a few seconds per transaction can translate into significant cost and performance benefits.