Calabrio

APRIL 11, 2025

Workforce Management From Onboarding to Excellence: Your Contact Center Training Guide for 2025 Jump ahead What is Contact Center Training? trillion in global sales are at risk in 2025 due to one thing: bad customer experiences. This is where effective contact center training comes in.

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Contact Center Training Call Center Average Handle Time 130

Calabrio

MARCH 25, 2025

Workforce Management How to Measure, Evaluate, and Improve Call Center Agent Performance Share In today’s competitive business landscape, call center agents serve as the critical frontline, directly shaping customer perceptions and driving brand loyalty.

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Call Center Measurement Self Service How To 130

Calabrio

MARCH 22, 2025

Best Practices Contact Center Management: Best Practices & Strategies for Peak Performance Share The modern contact center is no longer seen as a mere service function at the periphery of the business. At the same time, contact center operations have also taken on a new level complexity.

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Contact Center Management Strategy Call Center 130

Calabrio

MARCH 11, 2025

Workforce Management 9 Contact Center Quality Assurance Best Practices: Modernize Your Approach, Optimize Your Performance Share Even as AI enters the picture, the human interaction between agent and customer is, and will remain, at the core of customer service operations. Missing key parts of the customer journey?

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Contact Center Call Center Effort Score Chatbots 130

InMoment XI

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In a world where customer service and support are crucial to business success, the importance of an efficient and effective contact center cannot be overstated. What is a Contact Center and How Does it Work? They serve as centralized hubs where businesses manage customer interactions.

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Contact Center Customer Service Omni-Channel Call Center Solutions 273

Calabrio

MARCH 7, 2025

Workforce Engagement How to Combat Call Center Agent Attrition Share You know the signs: increased average handle time (AHT), increased irritation, productivity decline. Even in a remote/hybrid workforce, contact center leaders (if theyre paying attention) can see when their employees are slipping. Next stepattrition.

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Call Center How To Contact Center Gamification 130

Calabrio

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Analytics Voice Analytics: Unlock Insights in Your Contact Center Conversations Share In the data-driven contact center of today, understanding the nuances of customer conversations is paramount. Plus, AI has driven an increase in the capacity of contact center tools. What is voice analytics?

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Contact Center Analytics Self Service Analysis 130

Calabrio

MARCH 31, 2025

Workforce Management Contact Center Gamification: What You Need to Know to Use Games for Improved Engagement and Performance Share Did you know that low employee engagement costs the global economy about $8.9 Luckily, there is: its called contact center gamification. trillion dollars ?

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BlueOcean

JANUARY 30, 2024

So, you’ve been handed responsibility for investigating the benefits of potentially outsourcing your company’s customer service for the first time. What math should go into the business case around call center outsourcing costs? (Or And the over-all result will be a reduction in FTE with no loss of service or quality.

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Contact Center Call Center Comparison Customer Care 296

Calabrio

APRIL 24, 2025

However, ask most contact center leaders and theyll tell likely you that the industry isnt changing just because AI is transforming the way contact centers work and interact with customersits evolving because it has to. How exactly are contact centers using AI, though? In short, its unsustainable.

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Contact Center Self Service Customer Experience Analytics 130

NICE inContact

AUGUST 3, 2020

What do you call an operation that provides customer service? A call center? Or a contact center? Many people refer to everything as call centers, similar to how some refer to all facial tissue as Kleenex and all soda as Coke.

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Call Center Contact Center Customer Service Omni-Channel 169

Uniphore

JULY 23, 2021

Employee disengagement is rampant in contact centers. Imagine a fire department where two-thirds of the firefighters on duty weren’t ready to respond to a call. Here’s how employee disengagement is hurting contact center CX and what you can do to motivate your agents again. Register Now.

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Contact Center Call Center Social Media Employee Experience 246

eglobalis

MARCH 30, 2025

Using natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning, companies can interpret the tone and emotion behind customer interactions on a massive scale. AI can infer customer sentiment from what theyre already saying or writing. Crucially, it can highlight why customers feel that way by extracting common themes.

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Survey Banking NPS Effort Score 334

TechSee

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Contact centers are always looking for ways to reduce costs. This is particularly true during periods of uncertainty and economic downturn, when call center cost savings contribute to business continuity. The Best Call Center Cost Reduction Strategies. ” Techniques to optimize time.

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Call Center Self Service Strategy Contact Center 196

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 21, 2020

An outbound call center is a customer service or sales operation that makes outgoing calls to customers or prospects. Outbound call centers require unique technology, KPIs, and compliance requirements.

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Call Center Training Sales Technology 256

Uniphore

JUNE 22, 2021

You listen to your customers on social media. Do you listen to your customer service employees? No need to dig through thousands of threads across Quora, Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter to hear what your call center agents are REALLY saying about their jobs… We took care of that for you.

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Call Center Self Service Social Media Contact Center 219

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

What makes a great contact center agent isn’t as easy to define as you might expect. There’s another layer to be considered as well: generational differences in the contact center workforce. What balance will achieve the highest level of contact center performance across this generational divide?

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Contact Center Multi-Channel Call Center Training 225

BlueOcean

JUNE 26, 2018

When it comes to customer experience, there’s a lot of cross-over between the hospitality industry and the contact center industry. We’re both in the business of earning a customer’s repeat business through the quality of the experience we deliver. How do metrics and standards play a role in customer service?

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Customer Service Hospitality Contact Center Hotels 353

BlueOcean

JUNE 6, 2017

At first glance, attrition seems like a chink in the armor for contact centers. Across every industry, the fact that people leave their jobs and move on is a basic truth, but in the contact center, the attrition metric receives quite of a bit of negative attention. Here’s what you need to know.

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Contact Center Call Center Employee Engagement Employee Experience 218

InMoment XI

DECEMBER 13, 2024

One of the most crucial touchpoints in their journey is the call center. In fact, 89% of customers say that a quick response to an initial inquiry is important when deciding where to take their business. Therefore, a positive call center experience is essential for business growth. What Is A Call Center Dashboard?

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Call Center Contact Center Social Media Effort Score 195

Comm100

OCTOBER 25, 2021

It’s well documented that millennials hate phone calls , and to meet the needs of these customers, businesses are undergoing digital transformation to remain competitive. Call centers are evolving to become contact centers in increasing numbers, supporting a wide variety of contact channels for customers.

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Contact Center Omni-Channel Knowledge Base Social Media 246

TechSee

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Providing better customer experiences (CX) is a hot button issue that has become increasingly critical to forward-thinking call centers over the last few years. Call center leaders realize that the time has come to deliver real measurable value to the enterprise. Infrastructure: Accelerated digital transformation.

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Call Center Omni-Channel Self Service Strategy 182

Comm100

JUNE 5, 2018

Unsurprisingly, the enthusiasm of AI has spilled over to customer experience (CX) in the hope of improving call center efficiency. This uncertainty has generated myths about AI, such as the popular thinking that AI will replace call center agents or equally popular, that AI will solve all CX problems.

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Contact Center Call Center Self Service Chatbots 171

NobelBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The customer service world is evolving rapidly alongside advancements in technology. Contact centers are now tasked with handling more calls per hour while delivering a seamless customer experience, optimizing costs, and maintaining quality. The secret weapon? Automation.

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Contact Center Call Center Self Service Chatbots 52

Retently

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The challenge lies in ensuring that every touchpoint across all channels meets the high standards your customers expect. This is where Quality Assurance tools come into play—they help pinpoint inconsistencies, monitor agent customer service performance, and highlight areas for improvement.

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Ecommerce Retail Software Customer Service 135

InMoment XI

JANUARY 10, 2024

Contact centers are not new by any means. As a matter of fact, the first employed call center agents date back to the 1950s. But, these agents only made and received phone calls. It wasn’t until the turn of the century that these call centers evolved into multichannel contact centers.

Contact Center 195

Contact Center Omni-Channel Customer Satisfaction Retail 195

InMoment XI

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In the fast-paced world of customer service, call center management plays a pivotal role in ensuring efficient operations, customer satisfaction, and improving the customer experience. What is Call Center Management? How do Call Centers Work? Let’s dive in!

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Call Center Management Strategy First Call Resolution 195

BlueOcean

MAY 14, 2018

The purpose of a contact center RFP is no different: it’s an essential process to use when choosing an outsourcer. However, the contact center RFP is unique and can’t be modeled on the same old RFP template used for other services your company may procure. Sample Contact Center RFP Timeline.

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Contact Center Resources Guidelines Culture 214

NICE inContact

MARCH 28, 2019

Many small businesses count on customer service as a competitive differentiator against larger companies. Having a small business call center is a key piece of creating a competitive advantage with customer service. . If you’re a small business without a call center today, why should you create one?

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Call Center Competitive Advantage Self Service Contact Center 154

InMoment XI

JANUARY 16, 2024

Specifically, the world’s leading brands have begun using contact center AI to create a more efficient and effective customer service experience. By integrating these advanced technologies, these companies aim to streamline customer interaction, automate routine tasks, and optimize their overall operations.

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Contact Center Virtual Agent e-support Telecommunications 195

BlueOcean

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You’re prepared for the future of customer service. And you’re ready for your outsourced customer service RFP to hit the road and bring you some stellar options for a new contact center partner. Here’s the short list of the best questions to ask about AI in the contact center.

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Contact Center Self Service Chatbots Case Study 195

Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

Analytics Call Quality Monitoring: Best Practices and Tech for More Effective QA in 2025 Share Call Quality Monitoring: Best Practices and Tech for More Effective QA in 2025 What area do you see as the biggest opportunity for growth in your contact center? What is call quality monitoring?

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Contact Center Call Center Average Handle Time Customer Satisfaction 130

Thematic

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Contact centers are the frontlines of customer interaction. And they have a huge impact on customer satisfaction, brand loyalty, and the financial success of an organization. That’s where contact center sentiment analysis comes in. They handle millions of conversations on a daily basis.

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Contact Center Analysis Net Promoter Score Effort Score 62

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Whether they need help setting up a new device or to repair a damaged product, the way in which these interactions are handled are at the heart of customer satisfaction. Eric Esguerra, Vice President, Customer Service & Operations at Miele Canada Ltd. Paul Husar, Senior Call Center Manager at LG Electronics.

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Customer Service Contact Center Chief Customer Officer Call Center 251

BlueOcean

JANUARY 30, 2024

So, you’ve been handed responsibility for investigating the benefits of potentially outsourcing your company’s customer service for the first time. What math should go into the business case around call center outsourcing costs? (Or And the over-all result will be a reduction in FTE with no loss of service or quality.

Contact Center 156

Contact Center Call Center Comparison Customer Care 156