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Building the Contact Center SOW: The Framework for Success

BlueOcean

When outsourcing customer support whether for the first time or the fifth time your company’s relationship with the contact center is understandably complex. The contact center SOW is the framework for your relationship. Pro tip: Set aside a section for tech requirements.

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Contact Center Management: Best Practices & Strategies for Peak Performance

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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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From Onboarding to Excellence: Your Contact Center Training Guide for 2025

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Workforce Management From Onboarding to Excellence: Your Contact Center Training Guide for 2025 Jump ahead What is Contact Center Training? To drive customer loyalty and sustain success, contact centers must keep up with customers consistently rising expectations. What is Contact Center Training?

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Contact Center Gamification: What You Need to Know to Use Games for Improved Engagement and Performance

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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. Table of Contents: What is Contact Center Gamification?

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The Innovator’s Guide to the Digital-first Contact Center

In the contact center industry, first-generation digital channels like email and web chat have seen significant adoption, along with video chat and co-browsing capabilities. Social platforms are now becoming mainstream contact center channels.

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On-Site vs Virtual Procurement: The Best Way to Find Your Contact Center Outsourcer

BlueOcean

In our world of outsourced customer care solutions, one of the big challenges we continue to wrestle with on the sales side of things is the significant change in the contact center RFP process. Pro Tips: Remember, the folks on the call are in competition with each other. Pro Tips: Act like this is an in-person meeting.

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5 Tips to Lower Contact Center Attrition

NICE inContact

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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Contact Center Cloud Migration Done Right

Speaker: Sheila McGee-Smith, Founder and Principal Analyst, McGee-Smith Analytics

Is your head in the clouds when it comes to your contact center's future? If so, you're not alone; over the past three years, thousands of companies have begun the process of leaving premise-based contact center headaches behind and moving to the cloud. The top 5 tips for successful contact center cloud migrations.

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How to Fearlessly Empower Your Contact Center Agents

Speaker: Jeff Toister, Employee Training Expert, Bestselling Author, Speaker

An ICMI study revealed that 86 percent of contact centers don't fully empower their agents to deliver an outstanding customer experience. Contact center leaders worry about agents giving away too much or serving customers inconsistently. Gain practical tips from case studies featuring leading companies.

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8 Contact Center Trends to Watch in 2020

Over the last decade, many of the trend predictions for contact centers have revolved around AI, omnichannel technology, digital transformation, a growing focus on employee experience, and the evolution of analytics. What does 2020 look like for this industry?

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Virtual + Engaging: How to Bring Classroom Training Online (with Infographic)

10 tips for virtual contact center training that makes at-home workers feel part of the crew while they learn. Download the article to get your virtual training best practices!

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Linking & Networking for a Better Agent Experience

Speaker: Jeremy Watkin, Director of Customer Experience at FCR

If you're a contact center leader you've undoubtedly been inundated with sales people trying to get you to hop on the chatbot bandwagon. Tune in for some practical tips for improving agent engagement, reducing attrition, and improving your overall customer experience. But is this the best place to burn our operational calories?