ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

He has more than 20 years of experience as a customer service and contact center professional leading high-performing teams. My Comment: Of course, you listen to your customers! That’s what the title implies, but there’s more to this article than a tip on listening.

Customer Service 33

Customer Service Contact Center outsourcing Customer centricity 33

Playvox

APRIL 5, 2022

But without getting contact center performance right, all other CX elements – such as marketing, user experience, etc. How do you build a high performance contact center? Of course, getting to this point is a journey, and taking the first steps towards improvement can be intimidating. will ultimately fall flat.

Contact Center 77

Contact Center Coaching Metrics Average Handle Time 77

NICE inContact

JUNE 17, 2019

If the answer is “no” or “I don’t know,” it might mean you’re among the vast majority not evaluating these channels as part of your quality program. 90% of businesses support phone, and 83% measure phone quality — great! Well, now you don’t need all the time and resources in the world, you just need Quality Management Analytics.

Quality management 54

Quality management Analytics Customer Experience Management 54

NICE inContact

JUNE 17, 2019

If the answer is “no” or “I don’t know,” it might mean you’re among the vast majority not evaluating these channels as part of your quality program. 90% of businesses support phone, and 83% measure phone quality — great! Well, now you don’t need all the time and resources in the world, you just need Quality Management Analytics.

Quality management 54

Quality management Analytics Customer Experience Management 54

Serenova

APRIL 10, 2020

For contact centers, this means finding ways to keep agents safe while maintaining business continuity and effectively handling volume spikes. Ultimately, the long-term success of your contact center depends on motivated, engaged and happy agents delivering positive customer experiences.

Contact Center 85

Contact Center Benchmark Government Coaching 85

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.

Best practices 67

Best practices Contact Center First call resolution Average Handle Time 67

Playvox

OCTOBER 12, 2022

For many remote contact centers, it’s time to shift into a busier season, when the stakes are especially high for customer experience. Most people, including customer service agents, are ready for a restart, which makes now the perfect time for contact center leaders to revisit their remote work playbooks.

Best practices 76

Best practices Contact Center Management contact center solutions 76

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.

Coaching 69

Coaching Contact Center Average Handle Time Best practices 69

Playvox

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Agent burnout directly harms the quality of customer service your business provides and significantly hurts your company’s bottom line. It’s hard to ignore the fact that contact centers are plagued with high agent burnout and turnover rates. Some contact centers experience almost no turnover at all. Consider this.

Agent burnout 68

Agent burnout Contact Center Gamification Agent Empowerment 68

Fonolo

MAY 7, 2015

Simply knowing how to run a call center isn’t enough for success. Not for the weak at heart, only some call center managers have the grace, tenacity, and skills to handle the extreme pressures of the contact center manager’s job. Make Your Contact Center a Great Place to Work.

Call Center 126

Call Center Management Contact Center Coaching 126

Playvox

OCTOBER 18, 2022

There’s a storm brewing in customer service centers, and the aftermath could create some big challenges for contact center management. In our 2022 study of customer support agents and managers, 68% of agent respondents said they didn’t want to return to an office. The State of Remote Work in Contact Centers.

Contact Center 69

Contact Center Management Coaching contact center workforce 69

Playvox

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Working with virtual teams of agents in your contact center can sometimes mean you feel disconnected from them — or even worried that you aren’t able to properly manage their performance. Agents who felt their contact centers were handling remote work well told us they appreciated: Clear expectations.

Contact center software 52

Contact center software Contact Center Coaching Quality management 52

Playvox

MARCH 21, 2024

Let’s face it — no one contacts your contact center to tell the person who answers the phone, text, or chat to tell your organization that they love your brand, service, or product. Most interactions that contact center agents have daily are to solve a problem or issue, adjust a payment, or ask a clarifying question.

Morale 90

Morale Contact Center Quality management Coaching 90

USAN

JUNE 26, 2018

When Amazon released its contact center service, Amazon Connect, it was met with skepticism by some industry insiders because it didn’t have the features other solutions offer. After working with the cloud-based contact center service for a little over a year, we’ve seen firsthand the power of Amazon Connect in its simplicity.

Contact Center 51

Contact Center Automatic Callback Interactive Voice Response Quality management 51

Playvox

MAY 2, 2023

While it might seem like just about everything is in the cloud these days, many contact centers still haven’t taken the leap. But moving to a cloud contact center can have big benefits for your company, your customers, and your agents. Remote work continues to be a highly desirable benefit for contact center employees.

Cloud contact 52

Cloud contact Contact Center contact center solutions Quality management 52

DMG Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2021

Contact Center Technology Paves the Way for Enterprise-Wide CX Improvement. But the investments are not fully resolving their service problems, based on the rising level of complaints about customer service in the market, as contact centers are only one of the many departments within companies that participate in the customer journey.

Enterprise 59

Enterprise Contact Center Technology Analytics 59

8x8

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Most companies have implemented some sort of training or coaching program within their corporate structure and contact center. However, simply training your contact center personnel is not enough. Effective coaching can help maximize employee potential and significantly improve contact center effectiveness.

Contact Center 48

Contact Center Coaching Quality management contact center solutions 48

8x8

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Most companies have implemented some sort of training or coaching program within their corporate structure and contact center. However, simply training your contact center personnel is not enough. Effective coaching can help maximize employee potential and significantly improve contact center effectiveness.

Contact Center 48

Contact Center Coaching Quality management contact center solutions 48

8x8

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Most companies have implemented some sort of training or coaching program within their corporate structure and contact center. However, simply training your contact center personnel is not enough. Effective coaching can help maximize employee potential and significantly improve contact center effectiveness.

Contact Center 48

Contact Center Coaching Quality management contact center solutions 48

DMG Consulting

JANUARY 8, 2018

Question: How can we improve our contact center coaching? Coaching can include a wide range of functions facilitated by numerous contact center and workforce optimization (WFO) applications. periods of low volume) to minimize customer and contact center impacts.

Coaching 48

Coaching Contact Center Gamification Analytics 48

DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Contact center quality assurance (QA, also known as quality management (QM)), has been around for over 40 years. When QA was the best way (and in many cases, the only way) to gain an understanding of what was happening in the contact center, some feedback was better than nothing.

Analytics 76

Analytics Contact Center Quality management Construction 76

Playvox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Quality assurance and monitoring is a tough, but necessary part of operating contact centers for consistently high customer experience at scale. Quality scorecard monitoring ensures customer service standards are met and exceeded using an adapted set of metrics to measure agents’ performance. What are QA Scorecards?

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Metrics Coaching Quality management 52

Playvox

MAY 4, 2023

Unlike my favorite fruit seller, you’ve got hundreds or thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of customer issues that require sophisticated, efficient customer care through the right contact center solutions. What Is A Digital Contact Center? Is your contact center omnichannel? We, the customers, of course!

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Multichannel contact center solutions Average Handle Time 52

Playvox

DECEMBER 13, 2022

But now that tickets, emails, and chat have entered the picture, interaction avoidance encompasses any effort contact center agents make to bypass working with customers in any channel. What does that look like day to day in your contact center? Related Article: 3 Tips For Optimizing Your Contact Center Schedule.

Contact Center 84

Contact Center Agent burnout Quality management contact center solutions 84

ROI CX Solutions

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Through clever applications of new technology, call centers and their customers can greatly benefit from increased efficiency and a higher quality of service. Why AI is transforming the contact center landscape Let’s take a look at just a few of the various AI use cases in contact centers.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center call center solutions Call Center Chatbots 52

DMG Consulting

APRIL 16, 2019

Workforce Optimization Ushers in the Real-Time Contact Center. It’s hard to overstate how much the contact center technology sector has progressed in the past 15 years. Thirteen years ago, DMG Consulting published the book The Real-Time Contact Center. By Donna Fluss. who interact with them.

Contact Center 48

Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Analytics Self service 48

NobelBiz

APRIL 5, 2022

These days, the contact center is the face of a company. The customer experience can make or break your business, so it’s important to understand the factors that make a great customer service representative and a great contact center. However, managing a contact center doesn’t come without its challenges and risks.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Interactive Voice Response First call resolution Call Center 52

Serenova

JUNE 5, 2020

Heightened stress levels also have a detrimental impact on employee retention—an ongoing problem for contact centers that becomes more damaging during crisis, when call volume can peak. It’s not just your contact center agents who are working from home. See what matters to your contact center with customizable dashboards.

Call Center 75

Call Center Schedule adherence Contact Center Gamification 75

NobelBiz

AUGUST 3, 2021

What are the flaws in your contact center? In order to find the accurate answer to these questions, business owners and managers must go beyond guesses and instinct and rely on scientific, clear, and quantitative facts. Team Management: how dedicated are your agents? Is your client satisfaction decreasing?

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Coaching Construction 52

Myra Golden Media

JULY 15, 2019

This consistency gives the quality management team credibility, and it saves everybody lots of middle of the forehead aches. To calibrate is to gain consensus, as a team, on what a quality contact (phone call, email, or chat) sounds like, looks like, and feels like so that every evaluator is rating the calls/contacts the same way.

Calibration 153

Calibration Coaching Morale Feedback 153

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.

Contact center software 40

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

Monet Software

MARCH 4, 2021

After a tumultuous 10 months for contact centers and agents, new possibilities open. This may seem an awfully philosophical topic to raise in reference to contact centers. This may seem an awfully philosophical topic to raise in reference to contact centers. What do I mean? #1 2 Employee engagement improved.

call center workforce 71

call center workforce Employee engagement Contact Center Call Center 71

Noble Systems

MAY 20, 2021

The global Contact Center Intelligence Market, including speech solutions, is expected to see a CAGR of more than 25% through 2027. Most contact centers only have the resources to review a very small percentage of their call volume. Some insights are just too good to keep within the contact center.

Technology 98

Technology Interactive Voice Response Analytics Contact Center 98

DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Cloud-based contact center infrastructure (CBCCI) vendors have spent most of the last 20 years playing functional catch-up to the leading on-premise vendors. It’s undeniable that contact center platform vendors are having a highly positive disruptive impact on the pace of innovation in the CBCCI sector.

Contact Center 75

Contact Center contact center solutions CRM Enterprise 75

Aspect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Over the past few months Aspect customers have been reaching out to discuss their plans to implement a work from home strategy for their engagement centers (contact centers), and it has inspired me to share more globally what we have seen in the industry, and what’s driving this interest. Implement effective online training.

At home agents 78

At home agents Coaching Gamification Metrics 78

COPC

JULY 8, 2021

continues to deliver value to contact centers and customer experience industries by maintaining strong programs that give our customers actionable training, resulting in higher CSAT scores and reduced costs within their operations. The EMEA region of COPC Inc., recently graduated its 5,000th student, Marc Birker. At COPC Inc.,

Best practices 52

Best practices Contact Center outsourcing Quality management 52

Call Design

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

While an operational plan focuses on short-term goals, a strategic plan embodies a long-term outlook for your contact center, projecting from 12 months to around five years ahead. This course breaks down essential workforce management operations to ensure all facets of your business are running as they should be.

Average Handle Time 60

Average Handle Time Benchmark Contact Center Education 60