Transparent BPO

AUGUST 13, 2019

Don’t Force Self-service on Customers Self-serve options can be great for customers who are in a hurry, but not when they need to speak with an agent. When you equip agents with the training and tools needed to do their job well, they will reward you with service level metrics met and exceeded.

Contact Center 85

Contact Center Customer Experience Gamification Interactive Voice Response 85

DMG Consulting

JANUARY 10, 2022

While it’s understandable that agents need to adhere to an agreed-upon set of working hours for a contact center to meet its service level (response time) commitments to customers, demanding overly high occupancy rates (the percentage of time that agents are required to be available to handle interactions) is not a good practice.

Contact Center 77

Contact Center Self service Gamification Enterprise 77

teleopti

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Over time, frontline staff too have come to enjoy more control over their working lives through self-service. Recent advancements in WFM like self-scheduling, intraday automation and planning optimization for customer-facing staff are taking workplace autonomy to a whole new level. Humanize the workplace.

Self service 59

Self service Contact Center Gamification Service level 59

Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

They also allow you to build greater flexibility into the schedule so that you can easily vary start times, break times and end times to satisfy agents while ensuring optimum service levels. The right IVR solution can provide better customer service as well as reduce the reliance on your agents. Gamification.

Agent burnout 53

Agent burnout Contact Center Gamification Interactive Voice Response 53

Calabrio

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Over time, frontline staff too have come to enjoy more control over their working lives through self-service. Recent advancements in WFM like self-scheduling, intraday automation and planning optimization for customer-facing staff are taking workplace autonomy to a whole new level. Humanize the workplace.

Self service 58

Self service Gamification Contact Center Service level 58

Noble Systems

MARCH 19, 2021

You won’t have to transfer a caller around to get them an answer – which is often one of the biggest customer complaints about customer service. The IVR can also provide advanced features, such as self-service for items that don’t necessarily require a live person (ie, checking an account balance). allow the number.

call center software 98

call center software Call Center Interactive Voice Response Contact Center 98

Outsource Consultants

JANUARY 27, 2025

Five key KPIs help optimize efficiency: Average Handle Time (AHT) , Service Level , Abandonment Rate , Occupancy Rate , and Average Speed of Answer (ASA). Read more about how outsourcing can help optimize AHT Achieve Optimal Service Levels Service Level measures the percentage of calls answered within a predefined timeframe.

Contact Center 67

Contact Center Abandon rate Average Handle Time outsourcing 67

DMG Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

However, when all is said and done, today’s WFM solutions still have the same two core objectives they had when first introduced over 50 years ago: forecasting the volume of work expected to arrive in a given time frame and scheduling the appropriate resources to get the work done within a service level.

Management 62

Management Gamification Contact Center Consulting 62

DMG Consulting

AUGUST 13, 2024

It’s important to measure and track shrinkage because it negatively impact’s a contact center’s ability to meet its service level commitments. Shrinkage cannot be avoided but contact center managers should implement programs to manage and minimize it and its impact on their service level. unplanned events (e.g.,

Gamification 48

Gamification Contact Center Coaching Service level 48

Expivia

JULY 21, 2021

Self-Service Technologies. Speaking of call center efficiency, advanced self-service technologies are incredibly helpful. However, self-service CANNOT be your service model. . Gamification. And gamification is a great way to do that. . Some can also be for fun.

Best practices 52

Best practices Call Center Technology Interactive Voice Response 52

OctopusTech

MARCH 1, 2023

We’ve seen businesses improve agent engagement by making individual performance stats available on agent dashboards and by the gamification of specific agent behaviors. Some companies even use call center gamification as an incentive system for performance. This may help them with benchmarking and goal setting.

Interactive Voice Response 62

Interactive Voice Response Call Center Gamification Schedule adherence 62

Insite Managed Solutions

MAY 23, 2013

Gamification: Gamification promises to make the workplace more fun by applying game design elements to business processes such as customer support, and it’s quickly gaining traction. Gartner predicts that over 70% of Global 2000 companies will have incorporated some form of gamification by 2014. Top 5 Self-Service Pitfalls.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Technology Gamification call center workforce 40

Noble Systems

AUGUST 27, 2020

Text to Speech and Automated Speech Recognition software, usually used with an IVR, to allow faster service, or even self-service. Quality Monitoring tools to manage resources and service levels, observe rep performance, and view system activities, phone lines, and queues.

Telemarketing 53

Telemarketing Call Center Gamification Contact center software 53

CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2020

There is also the new concept of ‘work support bubbles’ which mean that if there is positive COVID test in one of the bubbles, contact with other team members (and shifts) can be limited and properly controlled without impacting service levels.

Management 52

Management Schedule adherence Gamification At home agents 52

OctopusTech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As per reports by Forbes, almost 80% of consumers want to purchase products from a brand that offers them personalized service and experience. Knowledge base tools are customer support software that enables you to prepare, collect, organize, store, share and manage self-service knowledge base content of your website for your audience.

Customer Service 62

Customer Service CRM Self service Analytics 62

Playvox

JUNE 22, 2023

Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) Perhaps the most common of CX metrics, CSAT is often in the form of a customer survey on a four- or five-point scale that indicates how satisfied a customer or group of customers is with a specific product, transaction, or interaction with a company and its service level.

Call Center 52

Call Center Metrics Schedule adherence Average Handle Time 52

Balto

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The transformative shift to digital interactions has changed customer expectations to include 24/7 self-service and personalized and consistent digital experiences across different channels and platforms. Another convenient self-service option is the knowledge base. Evolving customer expectations.

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience Customer centricity Coaching Analytics 52

Balto

JANUARY 14, 2025

By aligning staffing levels with predicted demand, they improved service levels during Black Friday by 25%. Gamification : Tools turn performance goals into rewards, boosting morale. Example Use Case : A retail chain implemented machine learning to predict seasonal spikes in customer inquiries.

Call Center 52

Call Center Analytics Average Handle Time Big data 52

Vistio

APRIL 2, 2022

And while customers were forgiving during the emergency in terms of service levels, now they’re not so much so. Yeah, I think the first thing is just starting with the agent self-service experience. And let’s take something like a service level. In fact, not only comfortable, but they expect it.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Real estate Customer Service Self service 52

Fonolo

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

“Expect to see more focus on digital and self-service, less brick and mortar, more efficiency-builders for company and customer, and an increased call for the return of voice to handle the challenging stuff. Storyline: Gamification. Self Service as a Consumer Preference. Consumers feel isolated as it is.

Contact Center 176

Contact Center Gamification Call Center Average Handle Time 176

Fonolo

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

These overarching goals should take center stage in your call center operations strategy, regardless of the type of contact center your manage: Meeting and Exceeding SLAs: Every contact center has service-level agreements (SLAs) with targets they must meet. Gamification is linked to a 10% increase in customer satisfaction.

Call Center 147

Call Center Gamification Abandon rate Outbound sales 147