Spreadsheets are a useful way to get your contact center organized and off the ground but can quickly become a bottleneck to growth and efficient communication. Your resource planning and quality teams can become bogged down with duplicate sheets, unnecessarily manual processes, and even end up being over-staffed in your contact center. COVID-19 and the…
Increasingly, company culture is one of the most important factors in attracting and retaining employees, boosting agent morale and in promoting higher levels of productivity. In fact, research shows that culture plays a bigger role than salary and perks.
At Playvox, we prioritize what matters most to our customers — just like you do in your contact center! From quality management to workforce management, we strive to put not only the best, but also the most efficient and effective product on the market. That’s why our recent G2 rankings are really meaningful: people who…
Focused on serving the needs of customers, helping them solve problems, teaching them how to use products, and answering their questions, customer service agents are central to business growth and effective operations. The most important factor to consider when communicating with customers is to deliver personalized and contextual interactions. Businesses need to be proactive rather…
As in-person interactions with customers have largely been suspended during the pandemic, customer experience centers have evolved from simply offering reactive support to providing proactive customer engagement. More than just a cost center, modern customer experience organizations are now responsible for support, as well as customer acquisition, retention, cross-selling, and upselling. In a digital-first world,…
Like most of you, I’ll never forget where I was the night the world shut down. I was performing at a jazz club and one of my students, Tommy, came to my show. It was my first semester teaching music as an adjunct professor at Purdue University Fort Wayne, and I was thrilled to be…
In a world where customer experience is a key to business success, contact center agents play an important role as brand ambassadors of your organization. By the time a customer reaches an agent, they’ve likely tried all self-service options and want someone who can talk with them, understand their problem, and quickly resolve it.
Making optimal use of your contact center workforce is one of the biggest challenges for any contact center leader. Balancing the needs of your company, your customers, and your agents is a time-consuming, stressful effort — especially if you’re doing it manually.
Contact center performance management is led by an operations manager who is dedicated to improving the engagement of their agents. It requires a toolkit of quality monitoring, coaching, gamification, and most importantly, a top-tier workforce management system. With the right workforce management tools, you will be equipped to boost your contact center’s success — and…
Managing a customer service operation is never easy. Especially now. Empowering agents and satisfying customers, all while maintaining exceptional levels of quality assurance, is nothing short of a juggling act. How do you keep up the act when you’re asked to tackle more and more each day?