CX Accelerator

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

After demanding a supervisor, the representative said, “I am your highest point of contact of contact in this office. Luke Jamieson , thinking about how we engage with our customers and employees says: 8) have high employee attrition (or turnover). 30) can't focus on employees and their well-being.

Customer Centricity 316

Customer Centricity Company Airlines Net Promoter Score 316

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 23, 2023

(This is updated version of our most popular blogs: 52 RFP Questions (2013), 51 RFP Questions (2016), 60 RFP Questions (2020)) Every few years we update our recommended list of contact center RFP Questions. How many full-time employees do you have? How many physical centers do you operate? Hourly staff?

Customer Care 177

Customer Care Contact Center Comparison Employee Engagement 177

Uniphore

AUGUST 6, 2021

These are some of top contact center pain points driving employee disengagement today. In our webinar, What Your Call Center Agents Rant About on Social Media , we went beyond the annual Voice of the Employee survey to explore how agents really view the contact centers they work in—and why they’re leaving at an alarming rate.

Self Service 246

Self Service Contact Center Knowledge Base Call Center 246

BlueOcean

MARCH 13, 2023

Talk of ChatGPT is everywhere from your LinkedIn feed to the evening news to, yes, this blog. Like most people in the customer care sector, we are diving deep into where ChatGPT fits, or might fit, into the contact center world. So let’s get into it. Those first three are what we’d expect.

Contact Center 156

Contact Center Customer Experience Self Service Chatbots 156

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

As companies embrace the digitization of customer support, the new standard is much more than a phone conversation with a call center representative or a visit from a field agent. With a career spanning over 20 years, Eric has an extensive amount of experience in Contact Center and 3rd party and onshore vendor management.

Customer Service 251

Customer Service Contact Center Chief Customer Officer Call Center 251

Uniphore

JUNE 9, 2021

In the contact center, the leading driver of improvements has been automation. Getting the most from automation requires an “employee-first” approach that arms your agents with intuitive solutions to help them work more efficiently and effectively. Unleash and Unburden Your Employees.

Engagement 246

Engagement Contact Center How To Metrics 246

Verint

AUGUST 17, 2017

At the end of 2016, I conducted 20 interviews with customer service professionals who were members of the National Association of Call Centers (NACC). The question was, “What’s keeping you up at night when you think about your contact center in 2017 and beyond.”. Figure 1 below illustrates responses to this question.

Contact Center 30

Contact Center Employee Engagement Engagement Gamification 30

Uniphore

JUNE 10, 2021

We also learned just how important contact centers are to our everyday lives. Today, as companies look past the pandemic, one thing remains certain: we now expect more from remote support centers than ever before. At Jacada, we recognized the challenges of overwhelmed—and often understaffed—contact centers early on.

Call Center 246

Call Center Self Service Contact Center Case Study 246

Uniphore

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Contact centers can have the best customer service agents and the latest and greatest technology. Contact center leaders have a lot on their plate–from ensuring customer satisfaction and encouraging technology adoption to keeping agents happy and well-trained. Experience on the Frontline.

Contact Center 130

Contact Center Leadership Training Technology 130

ShepHyken

JUNE 28, 2019

Yet bank employees did not disappear with the advent of the ATM. In general, technology is augmenting —not replacing — the employee. In the contact center industry, for example, there are fewer phone conversations going into customer support centers than in the past. Technology replacing humans.

Contact Center 111

Contact Center Self Service Banking Airlines 111

Uniphore

JUNE 22, 2021

Do you listen to your customer service employees? No need to dig through thousands of threads across Quora, Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter to hear what your call center agents are REALLY saying about their jobs… We took care of that for you. Jacada's Call Center Life: 2021 Edition. Well, at least, we tried. Check it out!

Call Center 219

Call Center Self Service Social Media Contact Center 219

ShepHyken

APRIL 14, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Jaime Scott, writes about how engagement is crucial to delivering an excellent customer service experience. Remember that engaged employees work harder, care more about the company, the people they work with and ultimately care more about the customer. – Shep Hyken.

Contact Center 82

Contact Center Competitive Advantage Employee Engagement Engagement 82

NICE inContact

AUGUST 12, 2019

For seasoned workforce managers, predicting contact volumes and creating perfect schedules are second nature – even although, to those of us on the outside, they seem to speak a whole different contact center language! This blog is Part One of a two-part series that aims to demystify these four components. Forecasting.

Contact Center 149

Contact Center Management Employee Engagement Call Center 149

NICE inContact

JULY 19, 2019

So why subject your contact center to just one flavor of gamification ? Studies show gamification positively impacts employee engagement, and employee engagement impacts the bottom line. This challenge is ideal for less-tenured employees and helps to keep new-hires engaged and motivated.

Gamification 137

Gamification Contact Center Employee Engagement Call Center 137

NICE inContact

JULY 1, 2019

In the course of planning and traveling, customers contact Swedish Rail for a variety of reasons, from checking on delayed trains to disturbances on the tracks—volume that rises considerably during bad weather and vacations. But physical distance wasn’t the only thing separating the two contact center locations.

Contact Center 141

Contact Center Transportation Travel Social Media 141

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Call center optimization is a strategic approach that focuses on enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of call center operations. This article delves into the essential aspects of call center optimization, including the tools and best practices that can drive performance improvements.

Call Center 105

Call Center Tools Contact Center Net Promoter Score 105

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 31, 2019

For contact center agents, it sometimes feels like either the workday drags on or it flies by with a flash. So, let’s breakdown “flow” into a few tactical strategies that can be used in a modern call center utilizing performance management software. Some people refer to that phenomenon as “being in the zone.” Set clear goals.

Contact Center 136

Contact Center Management Call Center Sports 136

NICE inContact

AUGUST 22, 2019

In Part One of this two-part series, we sought to demystify the forecasting and scheduling components of contact center workforce management. In Part Two, we will seek to address intraday management and employee engagement as components of a WFM program. Employee engagement. Intraday management.

Contact Center 136

Contact Center Management Employee Engagement Average Handle Time 136

NICE inContact

AUGUST 22, 2019

In Part One of this two-part series, we sought to demystify the forecasting and scheduling components of contact center workforce management. In Part Two, we will seek to address intraday management and employee engagement as components of a WFM program. Employee engagement. Intraday management.

Contact Center 136

Contact Center Management Employee Engagement Average Handle Time 136

NICE inContact

AUGUST 12, 2019

For seasoned workforce managers, predicting contact volumes and creating perfect schedules are second nature – even although, to those of us on the outside, they seem to speak a whole different contact center language! This blog is Part One of a two-part series that aims to demystify these four components. Forecasting.

Contact Center 136

Contact Center Management Employee Engagement Call Center 136

NICE inContact

AUGUST 23, 2019

Gen-Z was born between 1996 and 2010, with the oldest workers of the era being 23 years of age, and prime entry-level job candidates in your contact center. To cater to both generations, you need to provide up-to-date communication solutions in your contact center. Gamification is one key way to do so.

Contact Center 137

Contact Center Gamification Management Social Media 137

NICE inContact

AUGUST 23, 2019

Gen-Z was born between 1996 and 2010, with the oldest workers of the era being 23 years of age, and prime entry-level job candidates in your contact center. To cater to both generations, you need to provide up-to-date communication solutions in your contact center. Gamification is one key way to do so.

Contact Center 136

Contact Center Gamification Management Social Media 136

Uniphore

JUNE 17, 2021

Calls that are unresolved, require multiple contact points or—worst of all—are dropped can frustrate customers to the point of no return. This stress, in turn, feeds into employee attrition rates—a major call center pain point. Better First Contact Resolution in 3 Steps. Intro to Call Center Life. Did you know?

Self Service 182

Self Service Call Center First Call Resolution Social Media 182

NICE inContact

AUGUST 16, 2019

Agents remain the most critical resource in any contact center. But, every contact center continues to struggle with big challenges when it comes to engaging, motivating and retaining agents. What your agents like the most working in contact centers is helping customers.

Contact Center 156

Contact Center Self Service System Training 156

Calabrio

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This is especially true for contact centers that, at the forefront of the customer experience, have access to vast amounts of data containing highly valuable customer information. Analytics software is helping contact centers tap into that information for a better understanding of customer preferences, expectations and requirements.

Contact Center 162

Contact Center Leadership Self Service Analytics 162

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As one of Europe’s largest and fastest-growing energy producer/retailers, the company has more than 20,000 employees and had been generating power—electricity and heat—in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The company engaged Webhelp , a leading global BPO and its partner, NICE inContact.

Contact Center Software 137

Contact Center Software Contact Center Software Company 137

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

With an outdated, on-premises Cisco call center system, Empire Today was facing a $1 million price tag to upgrade to modern functionality. The contact center lacked modern features and functionality and didn’t have skills-based routing or dashboards. More employee engagement, Check, check. Improved efficiency.

Abandon Rate 137

Abandon Rate Contact Center Wait Times Case Study 137

Lumoa

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Happiness-Contributing Experiences: Create and deliver meaningful and life-enriching products and services that make customers and employees feel empowered. When your approach to customer experience incorporates these three elements, customers and employees come away feeling pleasant and enriching emotions.

Competitive Advantage 208

Competitive Advantage Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Effort Score 208

Steve DiGioia

MAY 17, 2021

According to several employees and training manuals, Apple Inc’s sales associates are taught an unusual sales philosophy: not to sell, but rather to help customers solve problems. To that end, employees receive no sales commissions and have no sales quotas. E ye contact. Maintain EYE CONTACT with the client without staring.

Customer Service 341

Customer Service e-support Self Service Customers 341

NICE inContact

MAY 10, 2019

As I searched for ways to discipline my accident-prone, very determined, yet very sensitive and sometimes diva-like 5-year-old daughter, I had a revelation: Dealing with rude customers in the contact center can be similar to this challenge. Train your employees to expect the unexpected. 3) Build Healthy Relationships.

Interaction 200

Interaction Contact Center Guidelines Training 200

TechSee

JUNE 10, 2021

Of course, in-person contact puts employees and customers at risk. This blog challenges that status quo. Here are four truck roll optimization innovations to consider to improve customer experience, save a massive amount of money, and keep employees and customers safe. . Four Truck Roll Optimization Innovations.

Self Service 207

Self Service Innovation Analytics Transportation 207

NICE inContact

AUGUST 16, 2019

Agents remain the most critical resource in any contact center. But, every contact center continues to struggle with big challenges when it comes to engaging, motivating and retaining agents. What your agents like the most working in contact centers is helping customers.

Contact Center 136

Contact Center Self Service System Training 136

Uniphore

JUNE 21, 2021

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technology is dramatically improving contact center efficiency and agent productivity. Automating the right processes can pay huge dividends — from error reduction to shorter call times — creating a measurably better customer experience (CX) and employee experience (EX). Easier employee buy-in.

Contact Center 147

Contact Center Call Center ROI Tools 147

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Making for a jointly admirable and problematic reality, the customer contact community often takes a lofty, wide-eyed approach to strategy and technology. Today’s thought leaders and customer contact professionals clearly understand the importance of delivering exceptional experiences. Are the tools easy to use?

Omni-Channel 95

Omni-Channel Self Service Policies Abandon Rate 95

NICE inContact

JUNE 10, 2019

Also, Pierre is very engaged because the restaurant also has a strong performance management program, letting him know how many tips he’s receiving in real-time and providing additional incentives for how quickly he can cycle through customers. I’m talking about your contact center. Now, Pierre is an incredible server.

Contact Center 136

Contact Center Employee Engagement Tips Management 136

NICE inContact

JULY 25, 2019

According to the JOLTS survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the employee turnover rate is higher now than it has been in the past 18 years. Retaining call center agents doesn’t occur by chance, it happens by implementing practical, proven retention tactics. Employees don’t want to be stagnant. 2) Ask for Feedback.

Call Center 141

Call Center Gamification Contact Center Social Media 141

Calabrio

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This is especially true for contact centers that, at the forefront of the customer experience, have access to vast amounts of data containing highly valuable customer information. Analytics software is helping contact centers tap into that information for a better understanding of customer preferences, expectations and requirements.

Contact Center 130

Contact Center Leadership Self Service Analytics 130