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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 shorten the learning curve in the contact center and retain more agents when 91% of agents are likely to quit in 2021? There’s no way around it: How contact centers currently train and onboard agents is completely messed up.

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In 2021, Chatbots are a No Brainer for Contact Centers

NICE inContact

Each year, NICE inContact surveys both consumers and businesses to understand trends in consumer behavior and expectations as well as understand priorities, strategies and technology adoption forecasts from businesses. Last year, we discussed the numerous impacts that the global pandemic had on both businesses and consumers.

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How Intelligent Contact Center Technology Reduces Agent Attrition 

Playvox

Contact center agent attrition can be as high as 38% — and it’s not hard to understand why. It can be a thankless, unappealing job, pushing employees to leave or causing potential employees to avoid applying for contact center jobs altogether. What Causes Contact Center Agent Attrition?

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How 2021 Looks for Contact Centers? | With Steve Bederman

NobelBiz

Steve Bederman: For contact centers, 2020 was eventful and revolutionary. The earliest mindset of the industry was always to remain in its comfort zone but with the pandemic, they had to learn how to work from home and adopt new technologies. Today we are back to having normal traffic for those contact centers.

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Navigating the Worker Shortage in the Contact Center

Speaker: Brian Morin, Helena Chen, and Sofia Burton from SmartAction

The latest trend in the contact center has CX leaders worried -- across industries, there is a massive shortage of workers. Key takeaways: Why there’s a shortage of call center agents during a time of relatively high unemployment. How to mitigate the impact of an understaffed contact center with conversational AI.

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5 Ways to Automate Contact Centers with AI in 2021

Upstream Works

AI has many valuable uses in the contact center, from providing data and channel options to reducing costs. With AI enabling better forms of self-service, automation can address many contact center challenges with limited cost impact or added strain to the existing pool of agents. Managing Routine Inquiries.

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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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How the Art of Listening Matters with Conversational AI

Speaker: Brian Morin, CMO & Helena Chen, Director of Product Marketing at SmartAction

Join our most densely packed informational webinar where we discuss the secret sauce behind great speech technology in the contact center –> how NLU augments speech recognition for the highest accuracy possible since speech is never 100% right. Participate and learn: Why speech recognition technology is never 100% accurate.