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Top 3 Insights from the 2016 Global Contact Center Benchmarking Report

Calabrio

One of the places I look for trends is in the 2016 Dimension Data Global Contact Centre Benchmarking Report , the most extensive global contact center survey in the industry. Digital channels now account for 42% of all contact center interactions. What you can do: Establish an omnichannel strategy.

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Get Ready to Transform Customer Experiences at ICUC 2016

NICE inContact

The lineup of distinguished speakers, exceptional training sessions, and hands-on workshops will provide you with instrumental tools to lead your organization into the future. Here are five ways to get ready to transform customer experiences at ICUC 2016: 1. Contact Center Manager. Technical Training. Omnichannel Routing.

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Making Your Contact Center Adaptive: Advanced Management Techniques for Quickly- Changing Customer Expectations

Storyminers

What’s the most important thing contact center managers should prepare for in 2017? At most contact centers, there will be several waves of change within the 2017 calendar year. The answer to this question is the same as it was in 2016 and will be the same as in 2018. #1 1 Deepen your customer profile.

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Are Your Contact Center Agents Empowered to Provide Great Customer Service?

NICE inContact

When I think about “great” service, I envision a customer interaction that required little customer effort, that was resolved on the first contact, by the first agent, and in which the agent served as a positive ambassador for the brand. But, does hiring great contact center agents equate to great service?

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6 Keys to Successful Contact Center Technology Change Management

NICE inContact

Some of us have a hard time adjusting to a change in laundry detergent (you want me to switch from Tide to Gain?!) , so it is only natural that we and our agents sometimes have difficulty accepting and adapting to changes in our contact centers. Studies have concluded that 70% of change initiatives fail for a wide variety of reasons.

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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. Advocates will argue it is a morale builder.

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How Top Performing Contact Centers Will Own 2017

Storyminers

We touched base with leading customer experience expert Mike Wittenstein to learn how you can make your contact center adaptive to customers’ evolving omni-channel expectations in 2017. What’s the most important thing contact center managers should prepare for in 2017? Here’s what we learned. 2: Serve before you sell.