Calabrio

MARCH 31, 2025

Contact Center AI Generative AI in Contact Centers: The Tech and Use Cases Driving a Revolution in Customer Service Share The contact center landscape is undergoing a dramatic shiftone driven by the adoption and innovation of AI. At the center of the speed and scale of this revolution in customer service is generative AI.

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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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Calabrio

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Customer Experience The Link Between Customer Satisfaction and Employee Retention Share How Happy Employees Create Loyal Customers and Drive Business Success The contact center industry is plagued by high attrition rates, averaging around 32% and reaching as high as 60%. Happy employees lead to happier customers.

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Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

By analyzing call recordings, live interactions, and other customer service data, businesses can pinpoint strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities to enhance the overall customer experience (CX). Transform the way you analyze conversations with automated quality management. If theyre still cutting, that is.)

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Customer Service Life

AUGUST 28, 2019

In this article I’ll briefly discuss some of the distinctions between the different support channels when it comes to the skills I listed above, and then I’ll share some tips to keep quality assurance simple for your multi-channel customer service team. Create a quality definitions guide. Communication Skills.

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

You’ve heard of quality management (QM), and your contact center probably has a quality program in place today. But what’s all this hype about using analytics to perform quality activities, and could it help you? This means fewer – but higher quality- evaluations. The post What is Quality Management Analytics?

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Calabrio

APRIL 11, 2025

trillion in global sales are at risk in 2025 due to one thing: bad customer experiences. This involves in-depth call center customer service training in both hard and soft skills (empathy, communication, problem-solving), more detailed product/service education, and process mastery. The stakes have never been higher.

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SharpenCX

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

If you’re anything like me, you’ve lived through a few (or a dozen) bad customer service experiences. Because of those memories, I try to avoid calling customer service at all costs. And I’ve worked in customer service. News flash: customer service in call centers doesn’t have to be terrible.

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Myra Golden Media

JULY 15, 2019

Need some guidance on how to develop and execute a quality program that is robust, fair, and that your employees buy-in to – and one that doesn’t make your supervisors need to sip wine just to get through a coaching discussion with employees? Here’s the 8 Step Quality Program we use at Myra Golden Seminars.

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Callminer

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

If you wouldn’t do that in front of your mom, you shouldn’t do that while on the phone with your customer. We train our customer service reps to avoid playing off the caller’s emotions…”. You have to have grace under fire in any customer service position, but especially when you only have voice at your disposal.

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Monet Software

JANUARY 15, 2019

We all know the importance of quality management (QM). But we also know there are only so many hours in the day, and that a quality management program can sometimes take a lot of them. Still, this is not an optional pursuit for a contact center to maintain optimal customer service.

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SharpenCX

MARCH 25, 2021

As customer service leaders continue to embrace the life where agents can work from where they’re most comfortable, new challenges catapult to the top of priority lists. Gartner research shows in two years, nearly nine in 10 leaders think 20-80% of the customer service workforce will still work from home.

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Calabrio

APRIL 24, 2025

AI-Powered, Automated Quality Management Manual quality assurance, typically covering only 1-3% of interactions, is being revolutionized by automated quality management. This identifies coaching opportunities and ensures compliance adherence far more comprehensively than manual methods.

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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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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Calabrio, the customer experience intelligence company, today announced its new coaching solution for agent performance management, Calabrio Performance Coaching. Identifying individual or team skill gaps allows leaders to better offer coaching and support to agents that need it.

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Balto

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Call center quality management can present numerous challenges for your business. More often than not, you’ll find yourself dealing with one of the following two issues: a lack of data for accurate quality management, or an abundance of data with limited ability to transform it into useful insights.

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Monet Software

JULY 18, 2018

If your contact center is already recording calls and monitoring calls, then you are two-thirds of the way toward an effective quality management program. Aligning these efforts toward specific performance goals will keep service from sagging. So why not make it a point to score those for quality management?

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NobelBiz

APRIL 3, 2023

As businesses strive to provide exceptional customer experiences, call centers have become an increasingly important part of the customer service strategy. Contact centers are responsible for handling customer inquiries and complaints while providing solutions. Why is Call Center Quality Management Important?

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SharpenCX

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Read Next: How to Implement Consistent Customer Service Training to Build your Dream Team in your Contact Center. Pick skills to focus on and check for problem solving skills, product knowledge, customer empathy, speed, and organization. Working in customer service, no matter the industry, is tough.

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Calabrio

APRIL 8, 2025

These core steps in the sentiment analysis process ultimately enable businesses to transform vast amounts of unstructured customer feedback into structured, actionable insights about customer feelings and experiences. Pinpoint Root Causes of Friction and Delight Why are customers really frustrated?

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Monet Software

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Your quality management (QM) program runs on data. If the feedback and numbers you collect are accurate and up to date, you’ll have a much better chance of making the kinds of changes that will improve customer service. Before quality management can work, you need to be very clear on what you hope to accomplish.

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Babelforce

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Call center coaching is a quality management tool that offers agents feedback, examples, and performance assessments in order to improve their performance and wellbeing. When agents understand good practices to follow, they can heighten their skills and deliver top customer service. 1 Keep things private.

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Calabrio

MARCH 11, 2025

Workforce Management 9 Contact Center Quality Assurance Best Practices: Modernize Your Approach, Optimize Your Performance Share Even as AI enters the picture, the human interaction between agent and customer is, and will remain, at the core of customer service operations. What is call center quality assurance?

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Netomi

JANUARY 5, 2022

Customer service leaders come in all shapes and sizes. This is especially true in the customer service industry. Customer Experience (CX) has catapulted into one of the most important aspects of determining business success. Top 51 Customer Service Leaders and CX Influencers (Editor’s Choice): Adam Toporek.

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Monet Software

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The college and pro football regular seasons are wrapping up, and every year that means one thing – some coaches will be out of a job. Coaching is important, whether you run a football team or a contact center. And if you’re not getting the most out of your coaching efforts, it will impact customer service.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

MARCH 5, 2025

Strategic coaching is essential to employee engagement and the highest levels of performance. Tactical coaching is focused on specific skills or requirements. By strategic coaching, I mean coaching that is ongoing and focused on developing the whole person.

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Calabrio

MARCH 25, 2025

This is where modern contact centers are turning to cutting-edge solutions, including AI, to deliver real-time performance tracking and more actionable coaching. Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) Scores: CSAT gathers direct customer feedback on their experience, providing valuable insights into agent performance.

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DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Automated quality management (AQM) – conversation analytics enables organizations to automatically review up to 100% of their voice and digital customer interactions, up significantly from the 1% – 3% typically evaluated in a contact center’s manual QM program, and at a considerable cost savings.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JULY 27, 2023

Athletes often describe their best coaches as mentors and supporters that pushed them to be their best. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case with customer service coaching. Many employees face coaching with nervousness and sometimes even dread.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

With corporate budgets tightening, contact center leaders might be tempted to cut into your quality management funding. But quality management is a vital area of your business — it’s what ensures your customers get top-notch service. What Is A Quality Management Program?

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Playvox

MARCH 19, 2024

Contact center AI is a collection of tools or contact center software designed to enable smarter, data-driven, and more efficient customer interactions, with the ultimate goal of delivering better CX. This compares to 19% of baby boomers and 43% of Gen X customers who report they would do the same. And the list goes on.

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Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

It is through this lens that workforce optimization has evolved to mean the business strategies, processes, and supporting automation technologies that maximize contact center and agent productivity and efficiency to allow organizations to deliver outstanding customer experience (CX).

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Janeen Ansell is the Operations Manager at TeleDirect , a leader in business process outsourcing (BPO) with a multi-tier menu of solutions for a variety of commerce requirements. She leads a team of highly engaged Team Leaders, Trainers, and Supervisors who share her commitment to exceptional customer service. Craig Borowski.

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SharpenCX

AUGUST 31, 2021

A customized dashboard offers many benefits : Focused insights to improve training and coaching methods Compiled data to improve decision making Transparency to increase agent productivity Clarity around team goals and benchmarks. Your leadership cares about the health of your customer base.

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Playvox

MARCH 27, 2023

Whether you’re looking to implement new technologies, fine-tune your staffing strategy, or empower your agents to provide exceptional customer service, you’re in the right spot. The training should cover a range of topics, such as customer service skills, communication skills, product knowledge, and technical skills.

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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. Voice of The Customer. Quality Management. What are the Benefits of using a WFO Solution? A true WFO suite includes a number of technologies. Call Recording.

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Calabrio

MARCH 31, 2025

But what if there were a way to turn work into something quite a bit more like playand to motivate and empower your teams to deliver elevated customer service in the process? Find research, tips, and examples drawn straight from the experiences of Calabrio customers to step up your call centers gamification and performance today.

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