9 Ways a Collaborative Culture Benefits Your Contact Center

9 Ways a Collaborative Culture Benefits Your Contact Center

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Teamwork, sharing knowledge and best practices feed company culture. According to a white paper from the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, when collaboration permeates organizations, they experience huge bottom-line benefits, including engaged employees, attracting and retaining talent, increased velocity, and profitability. With widespread collaboration, employees are more likely engaged in their work, and embracing challenges that…

6 Signs Spreadsheets Fail as a Workforce Management Tool

6 Signs Spreadsheets Fail as a Workforce Management Tool

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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…

Customer Experience

13 Easy and Creative Contact Center Rewards and Recognition Ideas

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Keeping employees happy and motivated is challenging in any workplace, and agent motivation is especially difficult for contact centers. Although you might think employee happiness is less of a priority than ROI, customer experience, or profit margins — research shows that happy employees are more productive. It’s here, at the juncture of happiness and productivity,…

Customer Experience

8 Proven Tips To Improve Agent Performance

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If you’re focused on strengthening customer service within your contact center, the first step is to boost your agents’ performance. Why? Because agent performance directly impacts customer satisfaction and sales.  Agents are the foundation and most important asset of your company — they’re on the front lines. They’re in constant communication with your customers and…

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What are the Top LMS Tools for Customer Service Teams

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Every call center or business with its own customer service department should invest in a high-quality Learning Management System (LMS). Why? Because ongoing education for your employees is crucial to keep delivering the best customer experience. Yes, it’s another expense your budget might seem too small for, but you have to recognize just how vital…

What You Need To Know About The Best Performance Dashboards

What You Need To Know About The Best Performance Dashboards

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It is said that you can’t manage what you cannot measure. Monitoring and tracking performance metrics is much easier with the right tools. Contact centers and customer service departments that still depend on cluttered spreadsheets for managing performance reports are only making their work harder. Modern solutions allow for much easier, more streamlined performance management….

How Do Performance KPIs Affect Your Strategic Impact Measurements?

How Do Performance KPIs Affect Your Strategic Impact Measurements?

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Every business has to develop effective customer service strategies to maximize performance, drive improvements, and achieve ongoing success — and success starts with measuring performance KPIs. As a manager, you should have a clear understanding of your business’s goals, values, and priorities, but building an effective strategy that takes your company’s customer service in exciting…

5 Most Effective Types Of Quality Assurance Reports

5 Most Effective Types Of Quality Assurance Reports

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Reporting is a key part of a transformative quality assurance program. Effective QA reports empower you with different types of data in a fast, user-friendly format. You can view changes in performance, progression of your employees, and overall impact of quality assurance on your team without having to scour pages of complex information yourself. Reviewing…