6 Signs Spreadsheets Fail as a Workforce Management Tool

6 Signs Spreadsheets Fail as a Workforce Management Tool

Let’s face it. Spreadsheets were made to manage numbers, not people. For scheduling and managing the complexities of a high-demand agent workforce, spreadsheets do not cut it. In fact, they can be a detriment to the effective operations of your contact center. If you’re struggling with forecasting, scheduling, and monitoring your workforce in real-time, you’re…

What is Workforce Management and When Should Your Contact Center Implement It?

What is Workforce Management and When Should Your Contact Center Implement It?

For anyone asking, “What is workforce management?” there’s never been a better time to understand—and turn up—its power to transform and optimize your business. Workforce management is the critical link between today’s top-performing contact centers and thriving brands—across every industry. And it’s increasingly top-of-mind for customer experience leaders who want to help reduce costs and…

What Should I Be Doing As A Quality Analyst In Digital Customer Service?

What Should I Be Doing As A Quality Analyst In Digital Customer Service?

As a quality assurance specialist in customer service, you play a crucial role in your contact center’s success. You have the power to improve customer experiences as part of an ongoing quality assurance program. Without your expertise, the management team may not understand where agents are struggling and they may face challenges in achieving excellent…

Customer Experience

Bad Customer Service Examples (And How to Fix Them)

We all know them. The bad customer service examples that evoke PTSD like they happened yesterday. That time when you were accidentally disconnected five times only to have to start fresh in the queue each time. The rude employee in the drive through who messed up your order and blamed you. Being transferred to agent…

Customer Experience

Call Center Quality Assurance Solutions For Tip-Top Customer Service

Great customer service requires clear guidelines and knowledgeable staff. You have to know and clearly define what you need from your agents. But even that isn’t enough. For a variety of reasons, your agents might not deliver the customer service you need them to. So, you have to somehow monitor what they’re doing and create…

HR Management for CX

Measure Agent Performance With These 10 Best Metrics

When you’re a contact center leader, you have plenty of daily decisions to make related to agent performance—choices that directly impact your organization’s bottom line. Not having a handle on contact center agent performance metrics, overall operational performance, and customer sentiment is not an option for you. In fact, without the means to clearly measure…

Customer Experience

8 Steps To Create A Quality Assurance Program From Scratch

If your company is growing quickly, it’s crucial to build a sturdy foundation as you scale your customer service support team and strive to deliver exceptional customer service. This strong foundation will allow your team to be on the same page and provide uniform customer service to accomplish your contact center goals. But to achieve…

Top Reasons for Call Center Turnover and How to Reduce It

Top Reasons for Call Center Turnover and How to Reduce It

It’s no secret that delivering outstanding customer experience (CX) and employee experience (CX) are intrinsically linked. Yet contact centers continue to struggle with staffing shortages and high agent turnover rates. According to a recent Deloitte Digital survey, 63% of contact center leaders are facing staffing shortages and are having to get more creative and proactive…

Quality Assurance For Salesforce: Tips To Up Your Game With QA

Quality Assurance For Salesforce: Tips To Up Your Game With QA

Are you tired of using spreadsheets to do quality assurance for Salesforce? QA platform, such as Playvox, that integrates with your CRM, makes it quick and easy to create QA dashboards. It allows you to do all your QA from one central location. Oversee your entire team’s stats from one user-friendly board.