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Moving From Best Practices to Next Practices

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For decades, organizations have clung to the comfort of best practices, those tried-and-true methods that promise safe results. In a world thats constantly evolving, best is usually just a nicer way of saying barely keeping up. Why Best Practices Dont Cut It Anymore Best practices are like comfort food.

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Guest Post: 5 Contact Center Best Practices That Make Clients Happier

ShepHyken

They provide some tips and tricks to set your business up for success in the contact center. Following best practices and applying hacks has proven fruitful for a lot of contact centers. You wouldn’t have a contact center if you had no customers to start with. Invest in your agents.

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Contact Center Metric Best Practices in 2021

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With the pandemic finally starting to ease off, it is a good time to re-evaluate the industry best practice metrics for Contact Centers. In speaking with many executives over the years, they have questioned how these metric best practices evolved. His specialty area is Contact Center Optimization.

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Remote Call Centers: Tools, Tips & Best Practices for Remote Contact Center Managers & Agents

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However, there are a number of important guidelines and tips you can keep in mind to help ease your center’s workforce into remote working and mitigate contagion risks. Best Practices for Better Remote Working. Establish and Maintain Clear Communication Practices. Make Lulls in Response Time Clear to Customers.

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Beyond the Hype: Contact Center AI That Works

Speaker: Sam Hahn, VP of Technology & Technology Evangelist, eGain Corporation

If AI is a red-hot topic, AI and knowledge management for contact centers is white hot! Register for upcoming webinar “Beyond the Hype: Contact Center AI That Works”. You will learn top trends, proven use-cases, best practices, and real-world at-scale success stories for contact center AI.

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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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Best Practices to Monitor Your Remote Call Center Agents

ShepHyken

Sh e shares best practices supervisors can use for monitoring call center agents in a work-from-home scenario. COVID-19 has led us to believe that we need to rethink, amend, and strengthen our contact centers with robust technology to stay ahead of the pandemic. Create a High Trust Environment. Here’s how!

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Contact Center Cloud Migration Done Right

Speaker: Sheila McGee-Smith, Founder and Principal Analyst, McGee-Smith Analytics

Is your head in the clouds when it comes to your contact center's future? If so, you're not alone; over the past three years, thousands of companies have begun the process of leaving premise-based contact center headaches behind and moving to the cloud. The top 5 tips for successful contact center cloud migrations.

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Sustaining Employee Engagement in the Contact Center

Speaker: Paul Ellis, Contact Center SME & Business Consultant for One You Love Homecare LLC

Engagement integrates their personal goals into their work so they not only bring the quality the contact center requires, but each person feels cared about and cared for in the process — like customers require. Best practices for leaders in the contact center to truly get to know their employees and gain mutual trust.

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6 Killer Applications for Artificial Intelligence in the Customer Engagement Contact Center

If Artificial Intelligence for businesses is a red-hot topic in C-suites, AI for customer engagement and contact center customer service is white hot. This white paper covers specific areas in this domain that offer potential for transformational ROI, and a fast, zero-risk way to innovate with AI.

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5 Best Practices for AI Self-Service Without Compromise

Speaker: Tom Lewis, CEO of SmartAction

However, a common concern exists among both contact centers and customers: does this switch to self-service degrade the quality of service? Join Tom Lewis, CEO of SmartAction, and learn 5 best practices that leading organizations are using to transform to AI self-service without compromising an ounce of Customer Experience (CX).

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Best Practices for Keeping Remote Employees Engaged

Speaker: Dave Hoekstra, Calabrio

The benefits of a strong quality assurance program stretch far beyond the walls of the contact center, but in recent times of remote working, you may be struggling to assess agent performance and keep employees engaged.

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Virtual + Engaging: How to Bring Classroom Training Online (with Infographic)

10 tips for virtual contact center training that makes at-home workers feel part of the crew while they learn. Download the article to get your virtual training best practices!

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The Rise of the AI Coaching System: Powering the Empathic Enterprise

Contact center leaders understand that frontline agents need in-call guidance to manage complex calls and drive higher levels of employee and customer experience. Real-time agent assist technology is enabling leading contact centers to accomplish these goals.

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Data-Driven Approach to Proving Customer Success

Speaker: Irit Eizips, CEO, CSM Practice

Customer service, including contact center support and other customer facing teams must then: track the right customer data to prove value was achieved, and track the right KPIs to continuously improve their customer success strategy. What the best practices are for tracking and proving customer value.