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?
How to Know if You Need a Workforce Engagement Management Solution: Answer These 12 Questions A spring 2021 article on SHRM references the turnover “tsunami” that’s on the horizon, given that more than half of employees surveyed say they’ll look for a new job in the next year. With turnover rates for contact centers already…
The contact center industry is full of specialized terminology, with many contact centers having a jargon all their own. It’s a challenge to keep track of every individual term and its definitions, so we put together a comprehensive glossary of the most frequently used and difficult-to-define words that contact center professionals rely on to make…
The phrase “SOC 2 Type II compliance” may sound complex and technical. But it’s actually an important credential that lets you know if a vendor is truly committed to information security.
Let’s face it. Spreadsheets were made to manage numbers, not to manage people. For scheduling and managing the complexities of a high-demand agent workforce, spreadsheets do not cut it. In fact, they can be a detriment to the effective operations of your contact center.
After another successful year, Playvox is humbled to have been honored by TrustRadius as the recipient of the 2021 Top Rated Award in the Call Center Workforce Optimization category. With a trScore of 9.1/10 and more than 63 verified ratings and reviews, all of us at Playvox are thankful to be recognized by the TrustRadius…
Are your customer service representatives (CSRs) cross-selling and upselling relevant products and services to your customers? If they aren’t, you’re missing out on a great opportunity to offer a better customer experience and generate extra revenue. As more contact centers explore implementing cross-selling and upselling, they’re finding very little information on how to do it…