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Avoiding burnout through games, scoreboards and empowerment in your contact center

Vonage

And for many of us working in the world of contact centers, we give a lot. In a recent study from Toister Performance Solutions , service expert Jeff Toister evaluated responses from more than 600 contact center agents with 74 percent self-reporting at risk for burnout. Does gamification prevent burnout?

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Five Tactics to Retain Your Top Call Center Agents

NICE inContact

Check out these five tactics to retain your top call center agents: 1) Recognize Your Agents. Recognition via a performance management program in the workplace can fulfill that need and keep employees around longer. Avoiding job boredom in the contact center is crucial to keeping them around.

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Facing the Future of Contact Center Employee Engagement

Verint

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.”. Don’t Panic!”

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Innovations in Performance Management: Verint’s Workforce Optimization

Natalie Petouhof

announced substantial enhancements to its Verint Workforce Optimization ™ software designed to help contact center, back-office and branch operations better manage the performance of employees and operations. Performance management is a practice and culture that applies to individuals, teams and departments.

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29 Customer Service Training and Coaching Tips

Stella Connect

Customer service coaching refers to the practice of ongoing communication between the agent and their manager to hone in on how to improve on specific skills, achieve specific goals, and develop their craft so they can handle even the most difficult customer interactions. Greg Levin, OFF CENTER, LLC ( www.offcenterinsight.com ). .

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Employee Engagement and Better Customer Engagement in 2016

Verint

Everyone is looking for a competitive advantage in 2016. While a good bit of the discussion focuses on the customer experience—and it should—providing tools for success to the people who speak daily with your customers should be front and center as well.

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29 Customer Service Training and Coaching Tips

Stella Connect

If you’re in a call center performance management role, you’ve probably invested a lot of time and energy in your customer service training and coaching programs. These best practices will not only produce better results on the contact center floor, but they’ll help you bring far more value to your organization.