CX Accelerator

JANUARY 10, 2018

Take for example the goal of “enhancing our self-service channel quality and usage in 2018.” Are you doing anything innovative to equip your customer service team for success in 2018? Having now defined what the team is working toward, the individual goals are the pieces used to complete the picture.

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Customer Service Coaching Self service Quality management 159

Playvox

MARCH 19, 2024

As NLP, ML, and conversational AI evolved, modern contact centers embrace AI-powered chatbots, virtual agents or assistants, voice recognition, and other tools to deliver self-service options to customers. AI-powered solutions and tools are shaping the way organizations engage with and manage their workforce.

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Calabrio

MARCH 11, 2025

Automate performance evaluation: AI-driven QA scorecards and analytics streamline the evaluation process, freeing up managers to focus on coaching and development. It directly impacts: Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty: By ensuring consistent, high-quality interactions, QA drives customer satisfaction and fosters long-term loyalty.

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Best practices Contact Center Chatbots Call Center 52

Aspect

AUGUST 26, 2019

The more you know about the details of what’s happening in your operation, the better you can be at deciding whom to hire, whom to coach, what training to require, when to request voluntary OT, how many people to staff for chat and 1,000 other issues. The contact center is drowning in information but starving for knowledge.

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Big data Management Journey mapping Contact Center 102

Callminer

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In this day and age when self-service options are available, customers are usually calling in because they have a more complicated issue that isn’t easily solved. Audit work through quality management programs that reflect the optimal customer experience. Say, ‘I don’t know.’

Contact Center 345

Contact Center Call Center Gamification Wait times 345

Calabrio

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This granular understanding allows businesses to proactively address negative experiences, capitalize on positive feedback, and tailor agent coaching to improve future interactions. Trending Topics Tool: Leverage AI to automatically break customer conversations into a manageable list of the most common topics and pressing concerns.

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience CRM Contact Center APIs 52

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? WFO TERMS TO KNOW. Process Automation. Omnichannel Routing. Call Recording. Voice of The Customer.

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Management Gamification Quality management Schedule adherence 86

Calabrio

MARCH 7, 2025

Lack of Support and Communication: Poor communication from management, inadequate support, and a lack of feedback can create a negative work environment. Ineffective Coaching and Training: Insufficient training and development opportunities can hinder agent performance and job satisfaction. Listen to your customers!

Call Center 52

Call Center Benchmark Gamification Contact Center 52

Enghouse Interactive

APRIL 28, 2019

Today, we’d like to give you some insight into the ways omni-channel recording and quality management in the contact center can save your organization money. Using the right approach will enable your organization to deliver better service, protect callers and agents and ensure customer contacts result in positive outcomes.

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Enghouse Interactive

MAY 21, 2019

Today, we’d like to give you some insight into the ways omni-channel recording and quality management in the contact center can save your organization money. Using the right approach will enable your organization to deliver better service, protect callers and agents and ensure customer contacts result in positive outcomes.

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Quality management Management Scripts Call flow 40

Aspect

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

For customer experience managers, the influence of speech analytics upon a self-service strategy is not to be underestimated. Speech analytics has also enabled contact centres to perform even better and more inclusive quality management.

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Analytics Interactive Voice Response Self service Quality management 71

Calabrio

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Key Features & Differentiators Unified suite: Calabrio ONE integrates WFM seamlessly with quality management, business intelligence, and more, all within a single, intuitive workforce engagement management platform. Strong learning and coaching support: Talkdesk is known for its strong support team.

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Contact Center Pipeline

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Throughout December, our readers have focused on two big topics over on the blog: how to provide the best customer experience via an omnichannel approach and navigating the challenges of recruiting, training, and retaining the best agents.

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Customer Experience Quality management Self service Coaching 54

Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 21, 2020

That “ any desired information or service should be available on any device, whenever they need it or want it, and that it be delivered in a personalized manner. That self-service will be their first point of contact and they are willing to deal with digital assistants (chatbots, knowledge bases, voice authentication, etc.)

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Self service Contact Center Benchmark Chatbots 79

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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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This not only helps in ensuring compliance with protocols but also provides opportunities for coaching and feedback based on actual performance. By identifying areas for improvement, call centers can increase the quality of service and customer satisfaction. RELATED ARTICLE What is IVR?

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NICE inContact

JUNE 20, 2019

Traditionally quality management in the contact center has been focused on evaluating agent-assisted interactions — mainly phone. Incorporating evaluations on online assistants/chatbots and IVR into your quality management program could be the best and easiest place to start bridging this gap. 5) Continue to evaluate.

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DMG Consulting

JANUARY 10, 2022

The service world is also undergoing major innovation in the form of intelligent self-service solutions that customers find compelling and engaging and that are increasingly preferred over live agents to handle all but their most complex requests. Technology Takes a Leading Role.

Contact Center 77

Contact Center Self service Gamification Enterprise 77

Playvox

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Related Article: 17 Most Effective KPIs To Evaluate Customer Service Performance. When a customer has an issue that can’t be solved by self-service, they, of course, employ the most convenient means to contact your business to have their issue addressed by an agent. Related Article: What is Workforce Engagement Management?

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Contact Center Agent burnout Quality management contact center solutions 84

Calabrio

MARCH 4, 2025

Develop a clear workforce engagement management (WEM) strategy, and leverage the right tools to support them with the data, coaching, and flexibility they need to handle interactions effectively and manage their work-life balance.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Contact center software Multichannel APIs 52

8x8

MAY 23, 2018

But live agent interactions are becoming increasingly complex as self-service tools and general information on the web proliferate. Taking this a step further, this great information can even be made available to an external knowledge base or community forum to help drive call deflection through self-service.

Customer Service 48

Customer Service Scripts Coaching Contact Center 48

Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Add self-service so that customers can have control of how they engage with you. Integrate a Knowledge Base into your self-service process to ensure specific help can be provided quickly via text, documents, or text-to-speech. Use Artificial Intelligence to listen to what is being said, “why”, and the “what” behind it.

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Customer Experience Self service Banking Employee engagement 89

Enghouse Interactive

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Businesses will continue making strides down the road to automation and AI, of course, and there are a broad range of benefits to be had from doing so as they look to streamline the customer journey and make straight through and self-service approaches faster and more efficient. of all contact centre inbound interactions.

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Playvox

JANUARY 24, 2022

For these, customers expect and appreciate well designed self-service options, with the option of shifting to live service if needed. Related Article: How Quality Management Can Help Improve Your Customer Experience. 86% of buyers will pay more for a great customer experience. What are Customer Experience Metrics?

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Contact Center Customer Experience Brand ambassadors Average Handle Time 88

NICE inContact

AUGUST 6, 2019

Imagine using self-service channels that empower consumers to solve basic tasks and that enable them to move to a chat and even a phone call when they have more complex inquiries or encounter problems. For effective management, all such systems need to work seamlessly across channels.

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Interactive Voice Response Contact Center Self service Best practices 63

Serenova

OCTOBER 24, 2019

But here’s the obvious lesson (obvious, but perhaps overlooked even in the largest organizations): consistently exceptional service requires continual quality management and training. Implementing a workforce optimization program that includes ongoing quality management can be a powerful tool.

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Customer Service Quality management Airlines Scripts 67

DMG Consulting

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Recently released or updated AI-enriched WFM solutions have the potential to transform the perception of contact centers by empowering agents to select and manage their own schedules, giving them the flexibility preferred by employees across generations. Like what you’re reading? Signup for DMG’s free monthly newsletter.

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Contact Center Technology Interactive Voice Response Surveys 62

CSM Magazine

APRIL 12, 2023

With the AppFoundry, Genesys makes it easy for customers who are looking for an enterprise-grade solution like Calabrio ONE to select the best solution for their business starting with a connector for the full Calabrio ONE suite, or separately by product: Calabrio Workforce Management , Calabrio Quality Management and Calabrio Analytics.

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APIs Coaching Morale Analytics 52

DMG Consulting

MARCH 12, 2018

Quality assurance (QA)/quality management (QM) – interactions, either recorded or live, assessed on an evaluation form and scored against established contact handling criteria. sales, collections, etc.). As specific needs arise, or as your contact center grows, additional WFO components can be added.

Contact Center 48

Contact Center Gamification Coaching Analytics 48

JustCall

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

This is the essence of a call center quality assurance. What is the Relevance Of Contact Center Quality Management i n a Call Center? Call Center QA or Quality assurance ensures that an organization’s services are as expected. 3 Methods Of Contact Center Quality Management. Self-service channel.

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8x8

OCTOBER 25, 2017

All you need is a quick answer by an informed, competent customer service agent and instead, you get lengthy, unhelpful self-service menus, long wait times and apathetic agents without answers. Contact centers must constantly inspect their self-service menus to ensure they remain relevant. But where to start?

Contact Center 48

Contact Center Self service Cloud contact Wait times 48

Noble Systems

MAY 20, 2021

Voice Technologies encompass a broad scope, from speech and analytics engines, IVR, and self-service solutions including chatbots, headphones, and voice-activated applications and services that maximize NLP, NLU, NLG, AI, and more. A conversation with Chris Hodges and Ellwood Neuer at Noble Systems. All right, last question.

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Technology Interactive Voice Response Analytics Contact Center 98

DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The first is an operating environment where agents (and hopefully other contact center employees including supervisors, quality management specialists, workforce management administrators, etc.) Answer: Yes, there are two commonly accepted uses of the term hybrid workforce in the contact center world.

Contact Center 48

Contact Center Virtual Agent Coaching Self service 48

teleopti

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Use workforce management to collect and share data with the HR department to identify the skills required to meet corporate objectives and build effective recruitment and succession plans. Then, use quality evaluations and analytics to detect coaching needs and automatically schedule training at quieter times.

Customer Experience 66

Customer Experience Average Handle Time Analytics Contact Center 66

DMG Consulting

MARCH 10, 2023

Analytics-enabled quality management (AQM) (a.k.a. automated quality management). This application can fully or partially automate the quality management process and allow companies to evaluate up to 100 percent of interactions cost-effectively. Gamification. Intelligent virtual assistants.

Contact Center 48

Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Gamification Quality management 48

CSM Magazine

MARCH 13, 2022

Some benefits of Avaya OneCloud CCaaS include: Smarter self-service : Deliver intelligent, conversational self-service—24/7—with options to connect with a live agent. Avaya OneCloud is a Total Experience platform that lets you compose the experiences that each moment demands—for customers and employees alike.”.

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Gamification Customer centricity Self service Surveys 52

NICE inContact

AUGUST 6, 2019

Imagine using self-service channels that empower consumers to solve basic tasks and that enable them to move to a chat and even a phone call when they have more complex inquiries or encounter problems. For effective management, all such systems need to work seamlessly across channels.

Interactive Voice Response 54

Interactive Voice Response Contact Center Self service Best practices 54