NICE inContact

AUGUST 22, 2019

In Part One of this two-part series, we sought to demystify the forecasting and scheduling components of contact center workforce management. In Part Two, we will seek to address intraday management and employee engagement as components of a WFM program. Employee engagement. Intraday management.

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Contact Center Management contact center workforce Employee engagement 54

NICE inContact

AUGUST 12, 2019

For seasoned workforce managers, predicting contact volumes and creating perfect schedules are second nature – even although, to those of us on the outside, they seem to speak a whole different contact center language! Scheduling is a critical contact center function, but like forecasting, can be tricky.

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Contact Center Management contact center workforce Employee engagement 59

Monet Software

JUNE 10, 2021

8 Tips for Optimizing Schedules and Enhancing Contact Center Workforce Engagement.at Many contact center managers, however, don’t realize how much more value their scheduling activity can deliver to employees, beyond letting agents know when to show up for shifts. the Same Time. We all love a win-win.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 12, 2019

For seasoned workforce managers, predicting contact volumes and creating perfect schedules are second nature – even although, to those of us on the outside, they seem to speak a whole different contact center language! Scheduling is a critical contact center function, but like forecasting, can be tricky.

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Contact Center Management contact center workforce Employee engagement 54

Hodusoft

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Top 10 Contact Center Software for 2022-2023. Before the advent of contact center software, customer service representatives would handle all customer requests and complaints through telephone calls. That transformed call centers into contact centers. HoduCC – Contact Center Software.

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Contact center software Contact Center Interactive Voice Response contact center solutions 40

Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

Does your contact center “talk the customer talk” but sometimes gets stuck when it comes to matching up customer expectations with service and support delivery by your agents? Are you taking the right steps to evolve toward workforce engagement management? If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”

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Coaching Contact Center Quality management Schedule adherence 77

Verint

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In my previous blog post , I discussed the rise to prominence of employee engagement in today’s contact center industry. As a reminder, 82 percent of participants in Saddletree Research’s recent survey of end-users ranked employee engagement as a highly important component of their contact center operational strategy.

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Monet Software

DECEMBER 17, 2020

How COVID-19 changes the SMB contact center hiring process—and how it doesn’t. Call center recruiting has changed in recent years. Maximizing hiring impact was already challenging for many SMB contact centers, even before COVID-19. COVID-19 impacts on hiring call center agents.

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Call Center contact center workforce Contact Center Employee engagement 118

Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

Call center workforce management is the art and science of having the right number of agents available at the right times to answer an accurately forecasted volume of incoming customer contacts at the service level standard set by a contact center while minimizing cost. WFM to the rescue.

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Serenova

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

If you’re a contact center leader, there’s a lot about Millennials and Generation Z worth understanding. In fact, these younger generations just may be your contact center’s BFFs. Tapping into these generational shifts is one of five trends highlighted in our e-book, Contact Center Trends You Need to Know 2019.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 14, 2017

Plagued by rising costs, employee churn, absenteeism and declining standards, contact centers across the world are facing a combination of challenges unprecedented in the 50-year history of the industry. Engagement isn’t just about keeping people focused on their day-to-day workload.

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Contact Center Employee engagement Technology Metrics 206

Monet Software

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

How to treat employee burnout and reinvigorate call center engagement for the long haul. Do you feel it spreading through your contact center workforce? If you’re seeing symptoms of burnout in your SMB contact center, or in online interactions with certain remote agents, it’s time to do something about it.

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USAN

MAY 10, 2022

Most contact centers have been optimizing the customer experience for years. They’ve started offering a more robust omnichannel experience, allowing customers to engage with them in myriad ways and enabling agents to provide proactive service efficiently and effectively. Why Boosting Agent Engagement Matters.

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Gamification Contact Center contact center workforce Employee engagement 52

Noble Systems

APRIL 14, 2021

The virtual call center has become a hot topic, as the coronavirus pandemic has moved call center teams from centralized offices to individual homes. A virtual contact center is designed to support distributed workforces. Advantages of using a virtual contact center solution versus a traditional call center.

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Aspect

JANUARY 21, 2019

So, it’s not surprising that contact center employees, like the rest of the human race, would like to be able to make their lives easier. Unfortunately, the contact center environment has a few more limitations. And happy employees are vital to an effective contact center.

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contact center workforce Morale Contact center software Contact Center 75

Serenova

APRIL 16, 2020

When employees feel supported, they perform better, making it easier to maintain business continuity in the short-term. Employee care programs also have a long-term impact on employee engagement , productivity, loyalty and retention. A Cloud-based Support Center for a Global Workforce.

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Monet Software

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Can SMB call center quality management be about more than quality? Yep, it’s the linchpin of employee engagement, too! Monitoring and scoring calls—these quality assurance (QA) tasks are constant at nearly every contact center. It’s much the same with contact center roles. But QA can be so much more!

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Morale Quality management contact center workforce Employee engagement 48

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)? WFM is a set of processes that helps optimize employee productivity. What is Workforce Optimization (WFO)?

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Management Gamification Quality management Schedule adherence 86

Verint

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

While you may or may not have previously considered gamification a key part of these employee engagement efforts, it can help keep your employees focused on what matters and what helps drive the bottom line. After all, those are the people who serve your customers and help determine if they stay loyal or not.

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Fonolo

MARCH 8, 2022

One vital aspect of call center efficiency is call center workforce management (WFM). Industry Report: State of the Contact Center 2022. What is Call Center Workforce Management? Put simply, your call center workforce refers to your agents. The benefits? The right software is key.

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call center workforce Call Center Agent burnout Management 75

NobelBiz

MAY 22, 2022

The 2020 pandemic started a cascade of unforeseen changes and transformations that radically changed the contact center world. As a response to the pandemic lockdowns, call center businesses rushed to move their operations to the cloud and implement work-from-home systems ASAP. Let’s meet the experts!

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Noble Systems

AUGUST 8, 2019

Contact centers have been hiring increasing numbers of work-at-home agents in recent years and it looks like this trend is expected to grow. According to the National Association of Call Centers, over 50% of contact centers in the United States tout that some percentage of their agents are now working from home.

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Verint

DECEMBER 15, 2017

In 2018, the contact center industry will be all about automation. contact center industry, and likely the global contact center industry. contact center industry. For these individuals, automated scoring can be introduced to the contact center at their own pace.

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Verint

JUNE 29, 2017

The latest enhancements to the Verint Employee Engagement and Engagement Channels suites are based on feedback from our customers and the changing needs of the marketplace. Now, all of its employees have fast and consistent access to information—and the single central repository is still maintained.

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Verint

AUGUST 23, 2017

Rapidly changing technology, shifting work-life priorities, and a surprisingly high “disengagement rate” have all collaborated to drive the need for changes—big ones—in the contact center. of employees are disengaged. We all know today’s workforce is changing quickly and dramatically. Think about that for a minute.

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Gamification Employee engagement Contact Center Best practices 42

Verint

MAY 11, 2015

I’ve written a few blogs about clients who have enjoyed improvements in employee productivity with employee scorecards ( Leading Financial Services Firm , Does Kindergarten Belong in Business , Vision Insurer Enhances Employee Engagement ), and this healthcare insurer is no different.

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Management Coaching Employee engagement Healthcare 42

Verint

JUNE 6, 2017

As discussed in a recent blog post by Laurie Wickham, the 2017 Verint Engage Global Customer Conference took place recently in Orlando, Florida with attendees from 17 countries and a variety of industries.

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Employee engagement Quality management Analytics Best practices 34

Verint

AUGUST 18, 2017

It was also interested in surfacing trends and hidden insights, as well as creating more transparency about employee performance. See how Humana has put Verint to work to help its members thrive.

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Customer Service Healthcare Analytics Contact Center 42

Verint

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Increase Employee Engagement by Providing Transparency. This combination of scorecards and automated quality can generate a greater sense of fairness in the evaluation process, empowering agents to examine their performance and self-correct behavior—ultimately increasing employee engagement.

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Average Handle Time First call resolution Employee engagement Coaching 26

Verint

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

In a new article for Contact Center Pipeline , I discuss some simple, practical ways that organizations can demonstrate to their customers that they matter. If you haven’t, consider how your positive feelings about a brand partly arise from the good feelings you had about a customer service experience—or several of them. Read more.

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Verint

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Maybe you haven’t thought about this yet, but are you aware that contact centers are now using automation to modernize quality management? Automated Quality Management automates scoring of up to 100 percent of agent calls, ensuring modern, employee-empowering and cost-effective quality management.

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Verint

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

It’s the Verint Engage global customer conference, and registration is underway for this year’s event at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel May 14 – 17. Inspiration. Professional growth. Networking. There’s a single event that can help you with all of these—and help you better leverage your Verint solutions, to boot.

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Entertainment Best practices Journey mapping Management 36

Verint

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Top 5 Best Practices for Extending WFO Beyond the Contact Center. Verint’s Craig Seebach, vice president, workforce optimization strategy, will present this content at 11 a.m. The contact center is often just the start of the customer’s journey. Empower Your Employees with More Data, More Automation.

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Contact Center Self service Best practices Coaching 6

Verint

MAY 29, 2015

Can you remember the last time you experienced a customer service call that actually left you satisfied? When a service interaction is seamless, that moment lives on in a customer’s mind—and it sets the expectation for how all future experiences should go.

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Big data Personalization Customer Service Management 44

Verint

MARCH 29, 2018

and author of Before Happiness and The Happiness Advantage, will be a keynote speaker at the Verint Engage global customer conference at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel May 14 – 17. Shawn Achor, founder, GoodThink, Inc.

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Big data Journey mapping Customer Experience Management 23

Verint

JUNE 2, 2015

Verint’s Donna Denehy, enterprise workforce optimization, will present “Have You Listened to Your Customer Today?” CRMXchange Virtual Conference: Quality Assurance and Analytics. June 1-4; Online Webinar. ET on June 1. She will explore how recording, analytics and customer feedback are all involved in the ongoing transformation of quality.

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Analytics Enterprise Feedback Customer effort 35