NICE inContact

AUGUST 23, 2019

Gen-Z was born between 1996 and 2010, with the oldest workers of the era being 23 years of age, and prime entry-level job candidates in your contact center. While both generations have commonalities, it’s important to recognize the differences and how to cater your performance management strategy to their unique needs and preferences.

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Calabrio

AUGUST 7, 2019

Anyone working in the contact center industry knows Customer Contact Week (CCW) to be the end-all, be-all event for customer experience, contact center and customer care professionals. Let’s take a look at a few things Idaho Central Credit Union does differently to make it a best-in-class contact center.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 29, 2021

Check out the “Contact Center Leader’s Guide to Gamification” eBook for more tips and tricks.

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NICE inContact

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Agent attrition is not a new concept in the contact center. The average lifespan of a contact center agent is traditionally short, resulting in human resource departments trying to understand this costly trend, usually turning to some kind of retroactive metric. But these do not offer predictive insight.

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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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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Contact center management is hard. You manage employees in an industry that has one of the highest turnover rates out there. Let’s look into some ideas that will help you successfully manage you contact center environment while keeping your cool in the process. Very hard, actually. Consolidate tools.

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Calabrio

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Customer Experience The Link Between Customer Satisfaction and Employee Retention Share How Happy Employees Create Loyal Customers and Drive Business Success The contact center industry is plagued by high attrition rates, averaging around 32% and reaching as high as 60%. This prevents employee burnout and keeps service levels high.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Hiring remote workers can be a competitive advantage for companies, especially contact centers. But there are a lot of misconceptions about remote workers and how they impact a contact center’s productivity and culture. This type of performance management tool will give supervisors room to breathe easy.

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 23, 2019

The contact center plays a critical role in supporting these efforts: approximately 55 Appriss agents handle more than 30,000 calls monthly, working 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. But with the company’s old internal call center solution, fluctuating call volumes weren’t being identified or managed.

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Retently

OCTOBER 11, 2024

These tools, often called conversation review or customer support quality management software, help monitor customer interactions, train, and onboard agents, and continuously refine support operations. Pricing: Retently’s plans focus on advanced feedback management tools, allowing businesses to efficiently manage and act on customer feedback.

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Vonage

JULY 22, 2016

And for many of us working in the world of contact centers, we give a lot. In a recent study from Toister Performance Solutions , service expert Jeff Toister evaluated responses from more than 600 contact center agents with 74 percent self-reporting at risk for burnout. Does gamification prevent burnout?

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Playvox

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Is gamification the right choice for your contact center? Employee engagement is one of the most challenging aspects to master in the contact center. Some of the reasons driving disengagement include pay, industry, management, and company culture. Gamification is no longer a buzzword.

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NICE inContact

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Agent attrition is not a new concept in the contact center. The average lifespan of a contact center agent is traditionally short, resulting in human resource departments trying to understand this costly trend, usually turning to some kind of retroactive metric. But these do not offer predictive insight.

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Calabrio

JUNE 17, 2019

As contact center professionals, we all understand the importance of workforce management tools and processes in ensuring that we have enough agents to work each shift. Contact center employees want to ensure that any organization they join will allow them the freedom they require to enjoy this balance.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Employee engagement is one of the most challenging aspects to master in the contact center. One proven way to motivate your team is to drive engagement with gamification. Some of the reasons driving disengagement include pay, industry, management, and company culture. The Psychology Behind Gamification.

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 23, 2019

If there is one single area you want to focus on in 2019 for contact center improvement, consider Performance Management. The contact center industry has always experienced higher attrition rates than many other industries, and with current workplace turnover at an all-time high, this has not changed.

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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

COVID-19 has forced many companies to transition their contact centers to enable remote work at scale. Call Center Engagement ideas. A collaborative contact center is one where agents work together to make decisions and respond to customer requests based on group advice and guidance. billion from 2020 to 2024.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 29, 2018

Young Energy uses a variety of CXone solutions, including NICE inContact CXone Workforce Management Enterprise, NICE inContact inView TM Performance Management for CXone and NICE inContact CXone Quality Management Enterprise. Issues are identified and addressed immediately.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 1, 2017

If you seem confused by this behavior, it may be time to look at your coaching and engagement style to help enhance your contact center performance. Thus, it’s not surprising to see this behavior in coaching and management as well. Implement performance management tools. This makes work fun and engaging for agents.

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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. Improve AHT with knowledge bases.

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Playvox

JANUARY 30, 2024

Numerous studies link employee satisfaction, performance, and engagement with management’s ability to provide actionable, positive feedback and coaching. Yet managers continue to fall short. One strategy is incorporating gamification in the workplace. Implemented correctly, gamification can increase motivation and engagement.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As a contact center leader, the top agents you hire, train, and manage are the clutch players. Compounding the challenges, the KPIs used by many contact centers don’t match organizational goals or business goals, affecting your contact center’s overall performance.

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Calabrio

OCTOBER 15, 2019

We’re all about our customers, and we judge ourselves by our ability to add tangible business value to their contact centers around the world, from easily managing soaring inbound volumes across multiple communication channels to leveraging new levels of customer experience intelligence to drive deeper engagement with customers.

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Playvox

MARCH 27, 2023

Operating a successful contact center demands attention to a wide range of factors, from investing in your agents’ well-being and training to implementing the right tools and technology. Training programs should be designed to meet the specific needs of the contact center and its agents.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 13, 2019

Why would I get a performance management tool as well?” When I worked in a contact center, there was a complicated projections report that we presented to the leadership team every Monday morning. Looking back now, I laugh, because all these problems could have been avoided with a performance management platform.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As contact centers around the world grapple with the realities of hybrid work , the Great Resignation, heightened customer expectations, and supply chain woes, many are turning to industry research and data that can provide guidance, perspective, and clarity to help them maintain and grow their CSAT and NPS scores. contact centers.

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Playvox

OCTOBER 12, 2022

For many remote contact centers, it’s time to shift into a busier season, when the stakes are especially high for customer experience. Most people, including customer service agents, are ready for a restart, which makes now the perfect time for contact center leaders to revisit their remote work playbooks.

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TechSee

JUNE 4, 2019

Nowhere is that truer than in call center training – bringing new agents up to speed on products, processes and the productivity expected of them. Traditionally, contact centers have trained new agents using one-on-one coaching or classroom-style role-playing, where the focus is on imparting knowledge and customer service etiquette.

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NICE inContact

APRIL 1, 2019

And without real visibility into its contact center operations, managers and agents were at the mercy of wildly fluctuating call volumes and Excel spreadsheets for scheduling and forecasting. Enter NICE inContact Workforce Management, which City Liaison/Admin Dora Castro describes as “ our savior.

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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

While agents have been explicit in their desire to continue remote working, nearly half of the contact center managers in our survey are planning to bring agents back to an office in 2022. Our survey uncovered five ways contact center managers are adapting to remote work. Adopt New Management Styles.

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Playvox

APRIL 25, 2023

How can you spice up remote agent training at your contact center to make it the most engaging and effective it can be? Make A Plan Despite the ongoing debate on the benefits and drawbacks of in-person, hybrid, and remote work, recent data and predictions support remote and hybrid work in a contact center. Engagement.

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Playvox

AUGUST 15, 2022

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. Recent research by Playvox sheds new light on the state of contact center remote work.

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Playvox

APRIL 11, 2023

Engaged contact center agents are essential to the success of any customer service operation. But disengaged agents create challenges in a customer service center. Keep contact center agents engaged and dedicated to delivering world-class customer interactions by implementing these best practices today.

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Calabrio

OCTOBER 3, 2019

As companies embrace digital possibilities to empower their workforce and re-define the customer experience, VP of Product Marketing and Management, Magnus Geverts, takes a closer look at what’s next for WFM. Over time, frontline staff too have come to enjoy more control over their working lives through self-service.

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Playvox

APRIL 5, 2022

But without getting contact center performance right, all other CX elements – such as marketing, user experience, etc. How do you build a high performance contact center? Fortunately, there is a way forward: leveraging the right workforce engagement management (WEM) tools. What is a High Performance Contact Center?

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Kustomer

JULY 8, 2021

Darryl recognizes that as a leader in the contact center world, it can be difficult to fully buy into the idea of AI services when some existing processes are alright as is. Many leaders question why they should even buy into AI when innovation is already happening within their contact centers. TRANSCRIPT. Read More Hide.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 3, 2020

This week we feature an article by Tom Paton who writes about how customer service teams are using gamification as a way to improve performance and retention. Managing motivation can be a real struggle for customer service teams. Managing staff is far too big a topic for a single blog post. What is gamification?

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