Calabrio

APRIL 11, 2025

Workforce Management From Onboarding to Excellence: Your Contact Center Training Guide for 2025 Jump ahead What is Contact Center Training? To drive customer loyalty and sustain success, contact centers must keep up with customers consistently rising expectations. What is Contact Center Training?

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Fonolo

JUNE 9, 2020

Is your contact center providing the best customer experience possible? One of the most challenging aspects of running a contact center is managing your team. Metrics for Evaluating Contact Center Agent Performance. Gathering feedback from customers has become an industry standard for contact centers.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time First call resolution Metrics 129

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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Calabrio

JANUARY 17, 2025

Analytics Promoting career growth in contact centers: Unlocking potential and building futures Share Contact centers have evolved from being viewed as monotonous jobs to becoming vibrant environments filled with opportunities for career growth and meaningful work.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 25, 2022

Triant explains that UJet is a pioneer in the next generation of cloud contact center applications, typically called cloud contact center as a service. I would add that proactive experiences also save organizations money by preempting a contact at the contact center. Defining Proactive.

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CX Global Media

JULY 17, 2018

How would you describe your contact center supervisors? The fact is having high-performing contact center supervisors is no longer an optional extra for organizations, but even the best organizations don’t have time to figure all this stuff out. Ineffective? Overworked? Undertrained? Dream team? The Supervisor Journey.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 21, 2021

TIP: Common KPIs for contact center agents can include Average Handle Time (AHT), First Call Resolution (FCR), and Customer Satisfaction score (CSat). Your current contact center platform may have analytics features to track agent activity, but it’s not the only method available. Give constructive feedback.

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Customer Relationship Metrics

JULY 26, 2017

It’s just the nature of the contact center industry. Or is it time to put humanity into your contact center? It’s time to put humanity into your contact center.” Managing a contact center is fast paced and furious. Doing things the popular way in the contact centers no longer works.”

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Fonolo

AUGUST 27, 2020

What is the primary purpose of a contact center agent? Both are true, but every contact center agent in the world must adhere to creating an exceptional customer experience. ” Every contact center agent will inevitably run into customers who are asking for something that you cannot do for them.

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Fonolo

JULY 21, 2020

Lots of conversations happen daily at your contact center. Saying you have an open-door work policy is easy; making sure that your contact center agents feel comfortable voicing their concerns to management is much more challenging. Is Flex-Time Right for Your Contact Center? I can’t keep up with demand”.

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SharpenCX

MAY 26, 2020

It’s common for some business leaders to view their contact center teams as an afterthought. This isn’t helped by contact centers’ notoriously high turnover rates. Call center jobs are, too often, chalked up as entry-level roles. Starting with the Source of Quality CX — Your Contact Center Agents.

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Myra Golden Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

So, last night I had the idea to coach my son using the same three-step method I tell my clients to use when they have to help an employee through a problem or to give someone constructive feedback. What is it I want Warren to Know about the contact insertion? That technique is what I call Know, Feel, Do. How do I want him to Feel ?

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Construction Coaching Feedback Contact Center 189

AWS Machine Learning

JULY 29, 2022

Establishing highly efficient contact centers requires significant automation, the ability to scale, and a mechanism of active learning through customer feedback. In traditional contact centers, one solution for long hold times is enabling self-service options for customers using an Interactive Voice Response system (IVR).

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 19, 2023

If you’re in the contact center industry, 80/20 service levels are likely nothing new. Contact center managers know that SLAs are essential for defining and measuring success for their businesses. Contact center managers know that SLAs are essential for defining and measuring success for their businesses.

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

By drawing on the aggregated knowledge and experience of the contact center workforce, effectively crowdsourcing their expertise, technology providers are creating the next generation of self service platforms. Information from each customer contact is collected, labeled by the agent, and stored for future use.

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Calabrio

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Since then, we’ve experienced entire paradigm shifts in technologies, which in turn have fueled a complete and ongoing transformation of the contact center. This allows contact centers to hire specialists from virtually anywhere. This allows contact centers to hire specialists from virtually anywhere.

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Playvox

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This is more important now with the rise of contact center agents working remotely. Leadership can share helpful feedback — that’s both positive and constructive — so employees can enhance their performance and grow their careers. Related: 7 Ways to Drive Cultural Change that Boosts Agent Morale.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Executives and managers know that contact center goal-setting helps usher in progress and bring about positive change. 7 Things Great Call Center Managers Do Every Day Why Do My Contact Center Agents Need Goals? Here are a few ways to involve your agents in contact center goal-setting.

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SharpenCX

MAY 19, 2020

Think about how this translates in your contact center. According to research out of McKinsey & Company , engaged and satisfied contact center employees are: 8.5x Especially in the contact center. Contact centers are notorious for high turnover rates. Sounds pretty great, right?

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Expivia

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This is when contact center outsourcing comes into play. Contact center outsourcing can take the weight of customer management off your shoulders. But, we’re getting ahead of ourselves… If you decide to outsource your contact center needs, you need to do it right. What Is Contact Center Outsourcing?

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Fonolo

JULY 27, 2021

Several centuries later, Galileo’s words still ring true for contact centers. These days, there are tons of key performance indicators (KPIs) and call center metrics to evaluate call center performance and call center agent performance. How to Foster Agent Engagement in a Hybrid Contact Center.

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BlueOcean

JUNE 12, 2018

Contact center implementation is an art and a science, and over 24 years in business, we’ve learned exactly what it takes to make the smoothest transition possible. Understanding with complete clarity which measures of success are most important to your organization is the most important aspect of the contact center transition.

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Callminer

JANUARY 18, 2021

Take advantage of this phenomenon by constructing your scripts to promote positive responses.” ” – Effective Call Center Scripts , Salesforce; Twitter: @SalesforceGov. ” – Contact Center Operation and Management , Digital.gov; Twitter: @digital_gov.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Constructing Care: How Your Customers Know They Matter by Chip Bell (Forbes) It sounds like a broken record. Forward-thinking businesses have been leveraging conversational AI tools for years—not only to enhance the customer experience, but also to empower contact center agents with the resources they need to do so.

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Call Center Weekly

AUGUST 21, 2017

By Jennifer Boston At the start of my contact center training career, I was propelled into an uncomfortable situation whose lessons haven proven invaluable in how I approach training new skills to a tenured staff. A long-term client unexpectedly shifted their customer service operations in-house, in response to the recession.

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Construction Contact Center Accountability Personalization 180

Playvox

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As a contact center leader, the top agents you hire, train, and manage are the clutch players. Compounding the challenges, the KPIs used by many contact centers don’t match organizational goals or business goals, affecting your contact center’s overall performance.

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Voiptime

AUGUST 15, 2022

The leadership role is the central role in the firm as the manager is the brain and heart of a contact center team. He is setting up the strategic goals and team goals, he is the pivotal person in the decision-making process, he is creating development plans, provides constructive feedback, and performs call center management.

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Spearline

AUGUST 4, 2020

If you have call center scripts in that format, you should repurpose them to platforms and networks that will make your customer service representatives more open to the most important information. New to Spearline?

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Global Response

MARCH 18, 2022

Omnichannel contact centers: the evolution of customer communication. Or, for some companies, the majority of contacts come over the phone. What is an omnichannel contact center? Keep reading to understand the different types of contact centers. Omnichannel contact center services.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 23, 2024

This is why automation is especially transformative in contact centers. Call centers are equipped with tools that allow agents to quickly access a debtor’s full account information, ensuring that every interaction is informed and constructive. How NobelBiz Omni+ can take your Contact Center to the Next Level?

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Executing on in-house customer service efforts can be difficult; it takes the right background and continual hiring and training, not to mention complex IT systems, robust contact center technologies , and proper workforce management. When you outsource your customer service, you’re essentially outsourcing your brand’s spokespeople.

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TechSee

JUNE 9, 2022

TechSee, a next-generation visual customer assistance solution, and KDDI Evolva will start providing a new contact center “Video Support Service” utilizing video from May 2022. Contact center start-up, design, construction, and operation of existing contact centers based on our extensive experience in technical support.

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Calabrio

AUGUST 7, 2019

Anyone working in the contact center industry knows Customer Contact Week (CCW) to be the end-all, be-all event for customer experience, contact center and customer care professionals. Let’s take a look at a few things Idaho Central Credit Union does differently to make it a best-in-class contact center.

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Outsource Consultants

JANUARY 27, 2025

Contact center key performance indicators (KPIs) are critical for measuring and improving customer service operations. By focusing on these essential metrics, contact centers can optimize their operations and deliver outstanding service. Many contact centers use post-interaction surveys to gather this data.

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Outsource Consultants

JANUARY 16, 2025

Contact center quality assurance is the backbone of exceptional customer service. What Is Quality Assurance in Contact Centers? Quality assurance (QA) in contact centers forms the foundation of exceptional customer service. Actionable Feedback Loops: Provide timely, constructive feedback to agents.

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Call Center Weekly

MARCH 9, 2018

By Elaine Carr, CPLP Several years ago while interviewing for my job at ICMI, an employee asked me, “What’s the biggest training obstacle for contact centers?” It should be part of a greater corporate strategy, or at least the contact center strategy. I thought for sure this must be a trick question. It creates focus.

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Callminer

APRIL 30, 2020

For more information on improving the customer experience, download our white paper, Leveraging Emotion to Improve CX & Elevate Contact Center Performance. Set time limit and end the interaction, when the customer refuses to act constructively. Summarize the main point, once your customer has stopped talking.

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