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How to Train and Onboard (Work From Home) Contact Center Agents in 2021

Uniphore

How to Train and Onboard (Work From Home) Contact Center Agents in 2021. How do you make every agent sell to and serve your customers just like your very best agents? How do you shorten the learning curve in the contact center and retain more agents when 91% of agents are likely to quit in 2021?

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5 Key Aspects of Cutting-Edge Contact Center Software and How to Choose the Right One

NICE inContact

There’s a lot to consider when making the software choice for your contact center. And this is why NICE inContact is especially grateful to be recognized by Frost & Sullivan as the recipient of the 2020 European Contact Center as a Service Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership Award.

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How COVID Has Shifted the Contact Center RFP Timeline

BlueOcean

From the most basic choices, like where to shop for groceries or who to visit in-person; to the most complex business decisions, like what to do about employee safety or how to ensure business continuity—suddenly there were more questions to ask, more at stake, and more ways to fail. The Post-COVID Contact Center RFP Timeline.

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The 5 Biggest Challenges Facing In-House Contact Centers. Is Outsourcing the Answer?

BlueOcean

We also took a look at how outsourcing your customer care to the right contact center partner may enable your organization to circumvent these obstacles without sacrificing commitment to your customers. The challenging part of business continuity in the contact center is just how many variables there are.

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The Future of Contact Centers: A New Paradigm for Superior Customer Experience

Speaker: Jim Rembach, Editor in Chief, CX Global Media

Most contact center leaders view the touchpoint from agent to customer as the most important. The touchpoint from contact center leaders to their employees has become essential in order to introduce these new technologies as a form of empowerment rather than a total replacement.

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What You Need to Know About Contact Center BCP When Outsourcing

BlueOcean

We’ve discussed in the past how COVID-19 has impacted our approach to contact center redundancy measures. For our clients, leading up to March 2020, we had developed an effective hybrid approach of brick-and-mortar plus at-home support on a small scale – about 5% of our business was work-from-home.

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How to motivate your WFH contact center staff – tactics for remote employee engagement

TechSee

COVID-19 has forced many companies to transition their contact centers to enable remote work at scale. How can they drive remote employee engagement? Call Center Engagement ideas. Research shows that collaborative contact center work environments perform 50% better and reduce errors by 25%.

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The Post-Covid CX Powered by AI

Speaker: Brian Morin, CMO, SmartAction & Aarde Cosseboom, Director of GMS Technology and Product, TechStyle Fashion Group

Adapting to a post-COVID world means recession-proofing your contact center with AI that reduces reliance on live agents with virtual agents that are always on, perfectly trained, and at a fraction of the cost. Thursday July 16, 2020 11AM PST, 2PM EST, 6PM GMT Sketch a back-of-the-napkin ROI in minutes.

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The 5 Categories That Rule Virtual Agents

Speaker: Brian Morin, CMO, Mark Landry, VP Product, Marilyn Cassedy, Director of Customer Success, SmartAction

Having a keen awareness of where or how AI fits in your contact center for a great CX and ROI begins with understanding how to broadly classify your interactions. Join Brian Morin, Mark Landry, and Marilyn Cassedy of SmartAction, and learn how to streamline your customer service.

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What Do Your Employees Need to Provide Outstanding Customer Experiences?

Speaker: Laura Sikorski, Contact Center Consultant

Your Contact Center today is truly an Interactive Engagement Center and the most customer-focused area in your organization. Your company is judged on how your staff relates to your customers on all channels. How do you go beyond reports to measure your customer satisfaction and business profitability?