Get Your Customer Support Team the Respect it Deserves
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.
Transforming Quality Management with AI
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…
What is Customer Sentiment Analysis — and Why is it Important?
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…
6 Smart Reasons to Offer Remote Work in Your Contact Center
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 research study of contact center agents and managers has revealed a significant conflict: While most agents strongly prefer remote work, nearly half of the contact centers plan to bring employees…
3 No-Fail Remote Workforce Training Techniques Top Contact Centers Use
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…
What Is WFM (And How Does It Apply To Our Daily Lives)?
Try a quick web search, and you’ll find pages of content answering the question, “What is WFM?” But while many of the articles (and graphics and videos) provide some answers, they’re usually packed with industry jargon unfamiliar to most people. So, rather than help, all that information often leads to further confusion and misconceptions about…
How Intelligent Contact Center Technology Reduces Agent Attrition
Contact center agent attrition can be as high as 38% — and it’s not hard to understand why. An agent’s work is frequently monotonous, stressful — thanks to angry customers taking out their frustrations on agents — and overwhelming with too many interactions to handle. It can be a thankless, unappealing job, pushing employees to…
3 Easy Ways To Improve Schedule Adherence
There’s a lot riding on your contact center schedule. Does it have enough coverage for each channel? Does it meet your agents’ needs? Does it have the right tasks at the right times? Will customers get service in the time they expect? Even when you get it all set, making sure agents stick to your…
Improve Contact Center Agent Productivity With WFM Software
The requirement to provide a better customer experience while improving agent productivity and controlling costs is paramount in contact centers in 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 agent productivity tools. By optimizing…
How Support Tagging Boosts Product-Support Collaboration
Every single support leader has either just finished a significant tagging overhaul or is slowly coming to realize that they need to do one. Tags can be the bane of many support teams’ existences — especially if they do the process manually. That said, tags can also be one of the most significant sources of…
