Playvox

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Not only do contact center agents want additional flexibility in their work schedules, but many leaders saw that agents did not need to be in a defined office space to get their jobs done well. However, managing remote teams effectively comes with its own set of challenges. First, let’s define remote work.

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Serenova

AUGUST 25, 2020

For this reason, workforce management has become a core focus of discussion amongst leaders looking to take their contact centers to the next level. However, a recent study highlighted that more than 69% of businesses still have no cross-channel workforce management solution in place. What is Workforce Management?

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Playvox

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

A remote work location requires a different mindset from contact center management — and a distinct set of guidelines. Remote work agreements make clear for both agents and managers what the qualifications are for working outside the office and what’s expected of those who do. What Is A Remote Work Policy?

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Playvox

JULY 14, 2023

To ensure your contact center agents spend a vast majority of their time with customers resolving issues and as little time as possible on administrative tasks and after-call work, agents need the right kind of tools, processes, coaching, motivation, and goals in place. Are agents working on what they are scheduled to do?

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Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

If you’re a contact center manager, you’ve probably heard a lot about how to manage and engage your workforce with WFM and WFO – especially recently. What is Workforce Management (WFM)? At the core, it is comprised of forecasting accuracy, effective scheduling, and efficient rostering. Let’s take a look.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Still, many managers use this back to front. The Smart Contact Center Manager’s Guide to Managing High Call Volume But the real value of occupancy rate — if you’re looking to improve agent performance — is forecasting demand and ensuring that agents aren’t overworked.

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Callminer

APRIL 24, 2020

Following the agent interview and selection process, managers should be keyed into how best to facilitate ongoing agent support, growth, and training. Quality monitoring software , such as speech analytics , automatically monitor and score 100% of calls, helping managers deliver objective feedback and improve agent performance.

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Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

Are you taking the right steps to evolve toward workforce engagement management? 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.

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Call Design

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

For the workforce management team, we know that means we need to accurately forecast the interactions, schedule the agents, and real time manage the environment. Or we could focus on “right time”, concentrating on our forecast accuracy and schedule adherence. What does it take to get to the next level of WFM?

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Serenova

AUGUST 25, 2020

For this reason, workforce management has become a core focus of discussion amongst leaders looking to take their contact centers to the next level. However, a recent study highlighted that more than 69% of businesses still have no cross-channel workforce management solution in place. What is Workforce Management?

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Babelforce

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Managing Utilization Rates. These include paid breaks, restroom visits, and coaching sessions. To manage costs and make sure advisors spend the majority of their paid time doing their primary job. After all, it is not the agent who designs their schedule. Managing Utilization Rates. How to Calculate Occupancy. ·

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Babelforce

MARCH 2, 2022

It also involves taking part in coaching sessions, meetings, and huddles. When conformance rates fall short of this mark, leaders must step in to manage and support agents. Also, avoid confusing conformance with schedule adherence. Conformance will not highlight such issues, but adherence will.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2023

The collaboration enables Salesforce Service Cloud customers to more efficiently manage forecasting, scheduling, adherence, capacity planning and long-term scheduling within Salesforce Contact Center along with the ability to easily make changes in real-time, based on Playvox’s AI insights. About Playvox.

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Monet Software

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

As a manager, you are in the perfect position to implement modern solutions to improve morale in your call center. Workforce engagement management, a relatively new term in the market, combines solutions that help drive employee engagement through listening to the voice of your employee. Meeting Performance Standards.

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Hodusoft

JUNE 7, 2024

Call Center Management: Challenges, Strategies, Tips, and Best Practices In today’s time, setting up a call or contact center is extremely easy. He famously said “Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.” Why do businesses need call center management?

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Call Design

JULY 6, 2021

Here’s a list of 10 key metrics that can be used by contact centre managers to ensure the delivery of both strong customer experiences and financial performance through workforce efficiency. Even if it is not set as a KPI, management can use it to coach and train staff to improve the way they handle contacts to get better results.

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Talkdesk

JULY 16, 2019

What is Performance Management? Call Center Performance Management is a program, generally led by a contact center operations manager, dedicated to calculating and improving the performance of contact center agents. That’s where leveraging contact center performance management software can help. The answer is both.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Richard Pinnington of Calabrio discusses how workforce management means so much more in challenging times. . “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” these immortal words are probably as true today as they were when Charles Dickens wrote a “A Tale of Two Cities” nearly 200 years ago. This brings a new set of challenges.

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Contact Center Geek

MARCH 22, 2019

She is lauded for having the lowest Average Handle Time, highest Call Quality scores, and highest Schedule Adherence. Of course, she is given training on how to approve time sheets, how to score a call, and, so very often, how to run reports, but she never gets training on how to actually manage her team members.

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Noble Systems

APRIL 14, 2021

Imagine a call center – a hub of inbound and outbound calls, staffed by a team of agents and managers – but the agents and managers are located off-site, whether in small groups in other offices or individually at their own homes. Reporting gives managers the critical information they need to make informed decisions.

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Monet Software

JULY 30, 2019

As a call center manager, these waves of data that come from different channels and platforms can be overwhelming. Furthermore, you should invest in regular coaching sessions with a focus on the low performers. A workforce management tool can get you those numbers and greatly improve your ASA.

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Noble Systems

APRIL 21, 2020

SIP-compatible softphones enable managers to monitor agents remotely. To make sure agents are fully engaged and can deliver accurate and consistent messaging to customers, ongoing training , coaching and interaction monitoring are essential. Create and implement a staff training plan.

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3CLogic

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

7 Employee Retention Strategies For Contact Center Managers. Go Beyond Metrics To Offer Individualized Coaching. Monitoring agent performance metrics — which includes service level, agent schedule adherence, call resolution, average handle time, and customer satisfaction — is critical for identifying opportunities to improve.

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Serenova

JUNE 5, 2020

To maintain business continuity, organizations must find ways to help employees manage stress. With childcare centers and schools closed, navigating the challenges of trying to work productively in shared spaces can mean managing relationships, (often increasing) responsibilities, schedules and personal wellbeing. Monitoring.

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Customer Service Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In this case, supporting metrics like average handle time and schedule adherence are managed to optimize the time spent with customers. This whole process is still more manual than we’d like but we’re looking at a couple of workforce management tools that show promise and the time savings may prove worth it.

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COPC

APRIL 19, 2023

Previously, we discussed the importance of a well-designed scorecard in our blog, Benefits of a Balanced Scorecard for Performance Management. Striking the perfect balance in a scorecard is essential for maximizing its effectiveness as a robust performance management tool. Even utilization may be out of an agent’s hands.

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Serenova

MAY 21, 2020

At the start of the COVID-19 lockdown, transitioning agents to work from home (WFH) while maintaining merely acceptable customer experiences was the most contact centers could manage. In fact, they may have made managing even more challenging, as still-fluctuating call volumes add to the problem. ProScheduler delivers: Forecasting.

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Toister Performance Solutions

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Twitter: @bradcleveland Explain the “why” behind schedule adherence, the importance of being “in the right place at the right times.” Social Media and Customer Experience Manager, NumberBarn. Director of Workforce Management, VIPdesk Connect. Customer Care Manager and Vendor Oversight, UCare. Brad Cleveland.

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Serenova

APRIL 19, 2020

CxEngage Quality Management provides native call recording, screen capture and quality assurance capabilities all within a unified interface, which means fewer applications to manage. Supervisors can identify exactly where each agent is delivering great service while uncovering opportunities for additional training and coaching.

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

JULY 9, 2018

First Contact Resolution (FCR) is an essential part of managing your company’s relationship with your customers. To improve AHT, quality training and customized coaching should be done. Agent Schedule Adherence & Agent Attrition Rate. First Contact Resolution.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 15, 2023

cctr #occupancy #cctrmanagement Click To Tweet Keeping a close eye on the occupancy rate allows contact center managers to prevent agent burnout. Another danger is confusing occupancy with schedule adherence. How to Calculate Occupancy Rate Calculating occupancy rate isn’t as simple as it might seem.

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Babelforce

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Analytics used in this way by call centers can include KPIs gathered by the software used by call center agents to make/manage calls, and even predictive analytics model customer behaviour to anticipate contact spikes. Schedule adherence. Document Management System (DMS). Call center blockage. Conformance. Cost per call.

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Taylor Reach Group

AUGUST 23, 2017

We are all familiar with the maxim that “you can’t manage what you don’t measure”, and it is certainly true. 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.

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Noble Systems

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Identification of areas for improvement and definition of new goals should be discussed during coaching sessions. Managers should set the desired threshold for agents and teams. Agents taking too much time dallying between calls needs to be dealt with through coaching and setting expectations. Service Level.

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OctopusTech

MARCH 1, 2023

Every inbound call center will have unique priorities, but here are some examples of metrics that are usually dashboard-worthy: Average handle times Abandon rate Average wait time Service levels First call resolution Schedule adherence Customer satisfaction Forecast accuracy Net Promoter Score Quality scores 4. Fight the urge.

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Noble Systems

JUNE 27, 2019

It analyzes both live calls and call recordings to prompt agents, spot trends, identify reasons for customer calls, improve quality, measure script adherence and discover training and coaching needs. Workforce Management (WFM). Although it may not happen next year, technology is moving in that direction.

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Noble Systems

MARCH 19, 2021

This is especially true for managing customer contacts, which, while vital to growing a business, can have negative impacts if not done well. These teams can benefit greatly from call center solutions for small business that can help them manage customer contacts and improve SMB customer service delivery. Call Center Software for SMB.

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