Creating Personalized Customer Journeys with AI

Creating Personalized Customer Journeys with AI

Nearly 75 percent of consumers expect a personalized customer journey when interacting with companies, and even more get frustrated when they don’t receive it. From the ads in our Instagram feed to our Amazon product recommendations, personalization is everywhere—including today’s contact center. Approximately 70 percent of customers say that having an agent who knows who…

Coaching for Success: How to Empower Call Center Agents

Coaching for Success: How to Empower Call Center Agents

In today’s fast-paced contact centers, empowering agents is crucial for delivering exceptional customer service. Effective coaching techniques can transform your call center into an engagement hub. This article will explore how to empower call center agents, focusing on practical tips that leaders can implement to enhance performance and reduce turnover. Let’s dive into the essential…

Boosting Contact Center Efficiency Through Agent Empowerment

Boosting Contact Center Efficiency Through Agent Empowerment

In a Deloitte survey, contact center leaders named customer experience (CX) and cost control as the top strategic priorities. These two terms may seem incongruent – how can you deliver outstanding CX while controlling costs?  The answer lies in agent empowerment. By focusing on employee engagement and agent empowerment, you create contact center efficiencies and,…

The True Cost of Agent Disengagement

The True Cost of Agent Disengagement

There is nothing easy about being a customer service agent in a contact center. In their fast-paced world, every interaction counts. From resolving customer issues to promoting brand loyalty, the success of a support center hinges on the efficiency and effectiveness of its agents. In addition, with the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI), agents are…

The Real Cost of Employee Turnover in a Contact Center

The Real Cost of Employee Turnover in a Contact Center

The struggle is real:  Finding ways to boost agent engagement and retention with your most talented team members is crucial not only to the bottom line, but to delivering outstanding customer experience (CX).  As a contact center leader, it’s advantageous to understand the real cost of employee turnover, and, more importantly, make it a strategic…

Spotting Customer Service Agent Burnout Before It’s Too Late

Spotting Customer Service Agent Burnout Before It’s Too Late

As anyone who has worked in a contact center can tell you, the environment is both fast-paced and high-pressure. When the expectations from customers are at an all-time high, there can be no greater problem than agent burnout. Burned-out agents are more likely to make mistakes, be disengaged, and, more concerning, provide poor customer service….

AI in Customer Experience: Insights from Quality Management and Other Contact Center Solutions

AI in Customer Experience: Insights from Quality Management and Other Contact Center Solutions

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been written about increasingly frequently in the past year. There is probably one area where there are more expectations for AI than in customer experience. This makes sense since in many companies, contact centers are seen as a cost center so those operating call centers or holding support centers under their…

Automated Quality Management: More Than Just Scoring

Automated Quality Management: More Than Just Scoring

AI has been quietly knocking on contact center doors for years. But in 2023, with the thunderous buzz around ChatGPT and generative AI, the call finally became impossible to ignore. Today, AI is solidly inside every top-performing contact center—everything from automated quality management to virtual agents. For customer experience (CX) leaders, the question is no…

The Future of Customer Service: A Shift to Digital Contact Center

The Future of Customer Service: A Shift to Digital Contact Center

Contact centers and customer service teams remain essential touchpoints for better customer engagement. Over the last decade, companies have understood how essential agent engagement and motivation are to delivering better customer experiences and the importance of building out processes and managing people to deliver gratifying customer experiences. With developments in AI, such as automating quality…