ByPlayvox Team
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During the global pandemic, customers massively turned to digital communications, and, according to consumer studies, this change is here to stay. While presenting a tremendous opportunity for business growth, this trend also creates challenges for contact centers. Customers now expect to do business with an omnichannel contact center that delivers consistent and seamless customer experiences…
ByNikki Quinn
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The requirement to provide a better customer experience while improving productivity and controlling costs is paramount in contact centers at the best of times. During a recession, it could be the difference between survival and failure. Workforce management (WFM) continues to be one of the most important contact center productivity tools. By optimizing the use…
ByRohit Rakkar
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WFM scheduling can easily be thought of as something you do to benefit your customer experience, but it’s so much more than that. Effective scheduling is also a way to accommodate your customers and your agents. And, you can reduce turnover just by being more considerate of your agents’ needs. What Is WFM Scheduling? WFM…
ByKristyn Emenecker
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If the last 24 months have taught us anything, it’s that long-term capacity planning is in dire need of an overhaul. Our world is dynamic. Business is dynamic. And hiring is dynamic. In the dynamic world of customer support and service, capacity planning, or the process of long-term forecasting and planning for staffing needs, can’t…
ByNikki Quinn
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Service standards help to establish positive and effective interactions between a customer and a business. For example, in a restaurant, customers expect a level of promptness, friendliness, service-mindedness, and food-oriented knowledge. Service quality is as important to a business as the taste of the food coming from the kitchen. No matter what kind of restaurant…
ByRohit Rakkar
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There’s nothing more important than creating an optimal contact center schedule to ensure you and your agents have the structure you need to provide the best service possible. But have you taken the time to check that your contact center schedule isn’t doing more harm than good? A cluttered, complicated schedule can create inefficiencies and…
ByCarver Matheidas
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Workforce management has a lot in common with team sports. They both carry a sense of purpose, a goal the team can orient its actions around. They both come with coaches, leaders who motivate the team to do their best work. And they both benefit from smart huddles, where planning, communication, and expectations converge. As…
ByRohit Rakkar
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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…
ByCarver Matheidas
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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,…
ByPlayvox Team
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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.