Playvox

MARCH 27, 2023

Operating a successful contact center demands attention to a wide range of factors, from investing in your agents’ well-being and training to implementing the right tools and technology. Training programs should be designed to meet the specific needs of the contact center and its agents.

Contact Center 84

Contact Center Gamification Coaching Quality management 84

Calabrio

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Customer Experience The Link Between Customer Satisfaction and Employee Retention Share How Happy Employees Create Loyal Customers and Drive Business Success The contact center industry is plagued by high attrition rates, averaging around 32% and reaching as high as 60%.

Coaching 64

Coaching Gamification Employee engagement Morale 64

Contact Center Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Our September issue focuses on many agent issues; performance metrics, attendance, agent desktops, employee engagement, customer experience…and more. We’re planning our agent celebrations for Customer Service Week next month. It is a busy time of year. Our agents have tremendous impact on our customer satisfaction.

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Contact Center Employee engagement Metrics Customer Experience 100

Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

Every workplace has its pros and cons, but contact center agents have one of the toughest jobs out there. Just like agents are protecting your company, contact center leaders and managers need to protect them and their mental health. Burnout Burnout is at the heart of poor emotional well-being in a contact center.

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Contact Center Agent burnout Morale Coaching 78

DMG Consulting

JANUARY 10, 2022

Contact Center Workplaces Are in the Midst of a Renaissance. This is the case for many contact centers, where agents have been under-appreciated, under-recognized and under-rewarded for decades. The employee-employer relationship in contact centers is finally being re-evaluated and redefined, and not a moment too soon.

Contact Center 77

Contact Center Self service Gamification Enterprise 77

Calabrio

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Workforce Management The Top 5 Aspect Workforce Alternatives & Competitors Share Delivering exceptional customer experiences is more critical than ever in today’s competitive business landscape. This cloud-native approach also simplifies administration and ongoing development.

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contact center workforce Contact Center Analytics Quality management 52

Playvox

AUGUST 15, 2022

Contact centers succeed or fail on agent performance. Today’s top-performing contact center leaders know remote workforce training and agent engagement are the new imperatives for performance optimization. Recent research by Playvox sheds new light on the state of contact center remote work.

Contact Center 77

Contact Center Gamification Surveys Management 77

Calabrio

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Workforce Management Top 5 Verint Workforce Management Competitors and Alternatives Share In todays competitive landscape, delivering exceptional customer experiences is paramount to success. In this environment, Verint is a well-known provider of customer engagement solutions. Why Look for Verint Alternatives?

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Management contact center workforce Contact Center Schedule adherence 52

Calabrio

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Workforce Management Top 5 NICE Workforce Management Competitors and Alternatives Share Todays contact centers cant afford to settle for good enough when it comes to their workforce management (WFM) software. And theres no doubt that the platform offers a wide array of solutions for contact center teams.

Management 52

Management contact center workforce Schedule adherence Contact Center 52

SharpenCX

AUGUST 31, 2021

When organizations practice transparency with their employees, they see greater success in several areas. They have increased employee engagement, a stronger company culture, and foster a comfort that empowers employees to communicate freely. Then, it makes your job as the manager tricky. Customer Churn Metrics.

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Call Center Metrics Benchmark Contact Center 128

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.

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Agent burnout Contact Center Gamification Agent Empowerment 68

DMG Consulting

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Contact Center Key Technology Trends for 2025: AI Leads the Charge Based on findings from a recent DMG Consulting survey, 2025 is shaping up to be an excellent year for technology investments in contact centers. Workforce management (WFM) came in second place, identified by 40.8% of survey participants.

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Contact Center Technology Interactive Voice Response Surveys 62

DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Automated quality management (AQM) – conversation analytics enables organizations to automatically review up to 100% of their voice and digital customer interactions, up significantly from the 1% – 3% typically evaluated in a contact center’s manual QM program, and at a considerable cost savings.

Analytics 48

Analytics Coaching Employee engagement Quality management 48

Playvox

MARCH 31, 2022

Every interaction our workforce engagement management (WEM) software enables helps agents love their job and encourages customers to love their favorite brands. From workforce management to quality management , we strive to deliver the full suite of solutions contact centers need to bring WEM into the digital era.

Contact Center 63

Contact Center industry standards Employee engagement Quality management 63

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.

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Contact Center Management Coaching contact center workforce 69

CSM Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2023

Playvox, one of the leading providers of workforce engagement solutions for digital-first and CRM-centric contact centers, today announced the launch of a global collaboration with Salesforce (NYSE: CRM). Playvox solutions deliver a powerfully simple way to achieve efficiency and effectiveness in the contact center.

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Contact Center Schedule adherence Gamification CRM 59

Monet Software

APRIL 24, 2020

High-speed internet, cloud-based applications and other technologies have opened a new vista for the call center—the remote agents. Most contact centers have had to quickly transition to working from home as a direct effect of COVID-19. No longer is the company limited to the talent pool surrounding the contact center.

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Contact Center Management call center workforce Gamification 62

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? It’s also sometimes referred to as quality assurance.

Contact Center 77

Contact Center Coaching Quality management Schedule adherence 77

Playvox

MARCH 12, 2023

Running a smooth and efficient contact center can feel like the ultimate struggle, but don’t worry, you’re not alone. Providing noteworthy customer experiences is a top priority for any business, and a well-run help desk, support center, or customer service center is the key to improving contact center performance.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Gamification Metrics Quality management 52

Calabrio

MARCH 25, 2025

In today’s digital landscape, this involves gathering data from diverse sources like surveys, social media, online reviews and, crucially, contact center interactions. In the contact center, this can also include quality assurance scores and other agent performance insights.

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Journey mapping Contact Center Analytics Surveys 52

Playvox

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The term “buyer’s market” is best known for describing the state of the real estate market, but it’s also applicable to contact centers. Likewise for agents, if they don’t feel engaged, appreciated, or see a growth path, they too can take their talent to another organization. What is Workforce Engagement?

Contact Center 73

Contact Center Coaching Real estate Brand ambassadors 73

Playvox

JANUARY 30, 2024

According to a recent Gallup survey , only 23% of employees worldwide and 32% in the U.S. fall in the “engaged” category. In order to be successful, managers need to be better equipped to provide ongoing feedback and employ effective strategies to boost employee engagement.

Gamification 79

Gamification Contact Center Coaching Quality management 79

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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Morale Agent burnout Contact Center Coaching 100

Fonolo

APRIL 7, 2022

“This call may be monitored for call center quality assurance.”. Anyone who’s ever called a contact center would recognize this familiar line —and for good reason. Call quality monitoring is an essential piece of the puzzle when it comes to increasing and maintaining high customer satisfaction (CSat) scores.

Call Center 87

Call Center Contact Center Average Handle Time First call resolution 87

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. How does WFO work in the Call Center?

Management 86

Management Gamification Quality management Schedule adherence 86

CSM Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

David Singer, Vice President of Product Strategy for Verint , explains why contact centers will need to stay agile to support the evolving needs of customers and employees. New technologies will help contact centers be more agile in the new year. Supporting Customer Engagement as Channel Preferences Evolve.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Coaching Quality management Employee engagement 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

DMG Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2020

Interaction analytics (IA) is a highly valuable application for contact centers, with even higher potential for making major contributions to other enterprise departments. The pandemic has changed contact centers in what is hopefully a lasting way. The uses of IA have been expanding inside and outside of contact centers.

Enterprise 78

Enterprise Contact Center At home agents Analytics 78

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.

Management 88

Management Gamification Calibration Quality management 88

COPC

MARCH 11, 2024

Early attrition poses a significant and costly challenge for contact centers. and Centrical have teamed up to present the Improving Contact Center Retention Series, offering strategies to increase call center retention and lower attrition-related expenses. To address this issue, COPC Inc.

Call Center 97

Call Center Gamification Coaching Employee engagement 97

JustCall

MARCH 9, 2023

This is how important customer experience is, especially in the context of contact centers. While your call agents strive for favorable first-call resolution metrics, your business should focus on providing them with the right customer contact center software that lets them do their job well.

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Contact center software Contact Center call center software contact center solutions 52

CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Customer loyalty is more important than ever, and prioritizing customer service — with an excellent, dynamic, and engaged contact center — can help your company stand out. If you can enable, empower, and engage your agents, you provide better interactions, which leads to higher customer retention. for school pick-up.).

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Customer emotions Morale Quality management 52

Verint

DECEMBER 15, 2017

In 2018, the contact center industry will be all about automation. The latest technology to feel the touch of automation is quality management—the most widely deployed and utilized solution in the U.S. contact center industry, and likely the global contact center industry.

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Quality management Call Logging Management Employee engagement 29

Playvox

MARCH 12, 2024

Think about the last time you reached out to a contact center for one of the services or products that you purchased. You could have contacted the company in a multitude of ways — chat, text, social media, or even an “old-fashioned” telephone call.

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Morale Gamification Contact Center Quality management 78

Playvox

JANUARY 12, 2023

No matter where your contact center team is physically located, bringing out their best performance can be a big challenge. Remote and hybrid work are no longer hard-to-find benefits in customer support centers. Remote and hybrid work are no longer hard-to-find benefits in customer support centers. But does it have to?

Quality management 69

Quality management Coaching Contact Center Best practices 69

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. Process Flow: One of the most important operating principles in contact centers is the adherence to communication scripting and workflow.

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Quality management Management Scripts Call flow 40

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.

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Contact Center call center solutions Call Center Chatbots 52