Playvox

OCTOBER 12, 2022

What are Best Practices for Managing Remote Contact Center Agents? and Canadian contact center employees, these six management best practices will boost remote agent engagement and up your team’s customer experience game, both of which are critical to long-term success.

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Customer Centric Support

JULY 18, 2017

Tips for creating a customer-centric quality management program. When implemented well, a Quality Management program has the potential to revolutionize both the agent and the customer experience. I look forward to my weekly coaching sessions because it shows that my supervisor really cares about my success.

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Playvox

JUNE 10, 2022

Coaching your contact center agents on their performance can either fill everyone with dread or be a productive activity that you and your agents look forward to. Either way, it needs to be done, and arming yourself with a full set of coaching tips for contact center agents will ensure the sessions are productive.

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DMG Consulting

JULY 26, 2018

Call Center Quality Assurance Best Practices for Empowering Agents. Contact center quality assurance (QA) remains a high-value application, particularly when it’s done right. Here are some best practices to help your company succeed with a QA initiative: Involve agents in the development of the QA program.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 5, 2019

However, every day in the contact center, supervisors and managers send incomplete messages to their agents, failing to prescribe what “medicine” is needed to correct their performance problems. So how can you effectively “treat” your contact center with invaluable coaching medicine? This is where an effective coach comes in.

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Enghouse Interactive

APRIL 17, 2019

Today, we’d like to give you some insight into the best practices for using omnichannel recording along with quality management in the contact center. Call recording has become a common contact center practice, with compound annual growth across the industry of 22%* into 2022.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 17, 2019

In a 2017 study titled Modern Standards for Managing Contact Center Quality, ICMI found a huge gap between the percentage of organizations that are using digital channels to communicate with customers and those that are using Quality Management (QM) to evaluate these channels.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 17, 2019

In a 2017 study titled Modern Standards for Managing Contact Center Quality, ICMI found a huge gap between the percentage of organizations that are using digital channels to communicate with customers and those that are using Quality Management (QM) to evaluate these channels.

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Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

Operational costs – Agents who aren’t invested or lack training, feedback, or coaching tend to be inefficient, ultimately costing your business financially. However, the two main components are Quality Management and Workforce Management. Prevent and close employee skill gaps with a seamless integration to coaching.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A related term, workforce engagement management (WEM), recently coined by Gartner, has rapidly become the business strategy, processes, and related technologies of choice. AI-driven tools and platforms are shaping the way contact centers engage with and manage their workforce. But it goes beyond enabling automation.

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COPC

MARCH 11, 2024

If we are not, what strategies and timelines are we considering for implementing this best practice? Do new hires feel confident in managing their workload and responsibilities? What does the coaching process look like? Are we successfully engaging new hires and keeping them excited about joining our team?

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Playvox

MARCH 27, 2023

Additionally, agents can benefit from coaching and mentoring programs that provide ongoing feedback and guidance to help them improve their performance. Real-time feedback and coaching can separate successful brands from mediocre ones by helping agents identify and correct issues as they arise.

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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

One area where you can ease AI and automation into your contact center is in your quality management (QM) processes. Automated quality management helps quality analysts be more efficient in their work. What is Automated Quality Management? Let’s start by defining what is considered quality management.

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Serenova

MAY 13, 2020

This is when quality management becomes essential. Quality management is a key contributor to boosting the customer experience because it pinpoints where your team is doing well, as well as areas for improvement. Before recording and analyzing any calls, clearly document the goals of your quality management program.

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Verint

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The latest technology to feel the touch of automation is quality management—the most widely deployed and utilized solution in the U.S. The results of Saddletree Research’s 2017 survey of end users, completed during the third quarter of 2017, reveals the relatively high level of market penetration of quality management in the U.S.

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Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

But the gap between how managers view feedback and how employees see it simply isn’t good for agent morale and mindset. To keep engagement up, feedback should be focused on coaching rather than micromanaging. A coaching solution that automatically delivers feedback on how to improve can be very effective.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 1, 2017

Do they look for any excuse to reschedule your 1:1s or coaching sessions? If you seem confused by this behavior, it may be time to look at your coaching and engagement style to help enhance your contact center performance. Thus, it’s not surprising to see this behavior in coaching and management as well.

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Uniphore

JULY 1, 2021

Online communities that enable call center workers to commiserate on their struggles and share best practices have grown by 77% in membership, and by 75% in terms of daily conversations since January 2020. Increasingly, companies listen to their customers on social media, but what about their employees?”

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DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 2, 2022

These AI-based assistants function as virtual coaches, providing agents with context-based guidance obtained from knowledge bases, FAQs, intranets, and other sources as needed to improve agent efficiency, accuracy, and quality.

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Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

WFO is often used by call centers to improve workforce management and agent performance – and in turn, the customer experience. Workforce Management. Quality Management. What are the Benefits of using a WFO Solution? A true WFO suite includes a number of technologies. WFO TERMS TO KNOW. Process Automation. Call Recording.

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Serenova

MAY 1, 2020

Remote work environments can make performance monitoring, coaching and feedback challenging because the natural, ongoing interactions between supervisors and agents are missing. Quality management tools can provide much-needed efficiency. Provide Continuous, Individual Feedback. Keep It Real.

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Playvox

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Tip: If an agent has the lowest AHT/FAHT without any sign of interaction avoidance, look for best practices to share with the team. The right workforce engagement management solution will help you train, coach , and motivate agents to reduce interaction avoidance and help them stay on the right track. Review KPIs.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Understand that the problem is not empathy in itself but how it is coached. A better approach is to encourage closer collaboration between contact centre and quality teams, utilising automated Quality Management (QM) tools to highlight AHT anomalies and uncover trends that often skew the metric.

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DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

From presenting the best recommendations for handling objections to close a sale to supplying procedures to resolve customer inquiries or identifying approaches to increase collections, RTG solutions have countless possibilities.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Let’s talk about solutions and best practices you can leverage to set your remote teams up for success. Leverage a Workforce Management Solution When you have a globally dispersed team, it becomes even more important to leverage a solution that accounts for differing schedules and skill sets.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Best Practices For Best Results There’s no one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to how contact centers should approach customer sentiment analysis. Here are five best practices for starting and maintaining a successful sentiment analysis program: Establish goals early. Are these the words of happy customers?

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JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

And the only way to succeed is through an effective contact center management system. This blog will look at the tips and best practices for contact center management. What is Contact Center Management? Contact center management is how managers run their contact center’s daily operations.

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DMG Consulting

JANUARY 10, 2019

Question: We’re implementing analytics-enabled quality management to perform automated evaluation of customer interactions. In addition to AQM evaluations, it is a best practice for supervisors to conduct some live monitoring of interactions to facilitate in-the-moment agent coaching and/or recognition.

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CSM Magazine

APRIL 25, 2023

Embrace Brand Guardianship Competition is now fiercer than ever so encourage agents to become true brand guardians, taking the lead in influencing brand perception and sharing CX best-practice across the whole organisation.

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8x8

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Most companies have implemented some sort of training or coaching program within their corporate structure and contact center. To analyze the benefits of the training or coaching, a systematic evaluation process needs to be put in place. On this level, coaches should identify things that may facilitate or hinder knowledge transfer.

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8x8

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Most companies have implemented some sort of training or coaching program within their corporate structure and contact center. To analyze the benefits of the training or coaching, a systematic evaluation process needs to be put in place. On this level, coaches should identify things that may facilitate or hinder knowledge transfer.

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8x8

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Most companies have implemented some sort of training or coaching program within their corporate structure and contact center. To analyze the benefits of the training or coaching, a systematic evaluation process needs to be put in place. On this level, coaches should identify things that may facilitate or hinder knowledge transfer.

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Playvox

MAY 4, 2023

When you’re integrating several digital channels, you need a good workforce management solution to lower handle times and provide more accurate forecasting data and capabilities across all channels. Taking it a step further, you also need a solution that takes a digital-first approach to quality management.

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Monet Software

MAY 29, 2018

Not just the script, but also a list of best practices and frequently asked questions. Peer-to-Peer Training Some contact centers have found that agents respond faster to training when it comes from another agent, rather than a manager or call center executive. Was there a selling opportunity missed?

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Taylor Reach Group

AUGUST 23, 2017

Management and their immediate Team Leaders define what those performance standards are. Best practice is for management to be transparent regarding what the performance standards are and why they are important. Status states (lunch, break, coaching, training, etc.). Quality Manager. Login time.

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Playvox

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Because many customer service centers’ remote work policies require agents to maintain specific performance standards , managers cite solutions such as workforce management (29%) and quality management (26%) as other contact center software they turned to.

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Callminer

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Best practice examples include: Hire, train, motivate, and retain top talent. Launch technology to automate, monitor, manage, and support all aspects of the customer experience. Audit work through quality management programs that reflect the optimal customer experience.

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