Call avoidance is a common issue in contact centers and must be dealt with to ensure a positive experience for your customers. But agents can quickly become frustrated and overwhelmed when dealing with irate customers and high contact volumes, leading them to avoid interactions. While the issue is not unusual, it’s easier to manage if…
“Time is money” is a phrase attributed to Benjamin Franklin, first appearing in The American Instructor, a book published in 1748. For contact center managers, this phrase rings in their heads each time they create a forecast, build a schedule, or track schedule adherence. Working efficiently becomes even more important when costs are rising, agents…
Zendesk is an extremely powerful platform, but sometimes it can be hard to know exactly what people are talking about in your tickets, especially if you have hundreds of them — or even hundreds of thousands. Tagging lets you make sense of all that incoming information and take action for your customers. Whether you go…
If your contact center is like most, you probably have a robust set of guidelines that document your procedures, detail your standards, and outline how employees should handle various situations. But one thing many contact centers are missing is a remote work company policy. In our 2022 remote work study, we found that nearly all…
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.
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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. Whether your contact center is remote, hybrid, or moving back to the office full-time, getting agent performance right means unlocking the potential of every employee, every day. While…
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