Get Your Customer Support Team the Respect it Deserves
Customer support teams can get a bad rap. As a contact center leader, you need to break down stereotypes and getting your teams the respect they deserve.
Transforming Quality Management with AI
Playvox Announces AutoQA Whether you work in what is called a contact center, customer support center, or customer experience center, you likely always need to figure out how to do more with less. This need persists, even though we can easily point to research that shows: And the Forbes data cited above includes even more…
How to Properly Tag Chat Conversations — And Why It’s Essential
Customer chats are filled with insights into what your customers want and the problems they might be having. But if your agents aren’t tagging these conversations for analysis and action, you aren’t getting the full value out of your chat software. What is Conversation Tagging? Tagging is the process of assigning meaningful labels to your…
What is Customer Sentiment Analysis — and Why is it Important?
Words matter, but language is complex and often left to interpretation. That’s especially true in your contact center, where millions of customer interactions across dozens of platforms can leave you overwhelmed by information and unable to act on what you hear from your customers. The rise in conversational commerce — chat interactions on a variety…
5 Best Ways to Keep Remote Contact Center Agents Connected and Engaged
The road to the contact center of the future is winding and uncertain. Flexibility, though, is the key to a smoother ride. Adapting to the work styles and learning preferences of your remote contact center agents is a smart place to start. You’ll increase engagement now and optimize performance long-term. Research from Playvox — including…
5 Ways Contact Center Managers are Adapting to Remote Work
Want to retain your agents? What about attracting new ones for your open positions? While these might be rhetorical questions, our customers tell us again and again that agent retention has never been more important. So we’ve got two words for you: remote work. There’s no way around it — most agents are looking for…
4 Smart Reasons to Offer Remote Work in Your Contact Center
Here’s an alarming statistic: More than half (56%) of contact center agents say they’d think about leaving their jobs if they couldn’t work remotely. Our 2022 research study of contact center agents and managers revealed a big conflict between these groups: Despite most agents’ appetite for remote work, almost half of contact centers plan to…
How One Person Can Impact Your Workforce Management Plan
“The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” – Robert Burns As a contact center leader, you’ve done the work to create a stellar workforce management plan. You have all the “rights” in place – the right people, the right channels, at the right time with the right forecast, and the right schedule…
Why You Should Analyze Customer Conversations in Chat
Chat for customer support was starting to trend before the pandemic. But as it wore on, customers took an even bigger interest, and live chat tickets surged by 50%. Today, according to Zendesk, support teams that have the fastest resolution times and highest CSAT ratings are 42 percent more likely to be messaging with their…
The Human Side of Workforce Management
During my time as a workforce management (WFM) professional, I have implemented WFM systems into several departments within multiple companies. These implementations were either with a department or company that did not have a previous WFM system or they had one but were not using it to its potential. In some instances, the workforce management…