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Is "Agent" Offensive to Contact Center Professionals?

CX Accelerator

Written by Jeremy Watkin and Community Dear contact center agent: What if I told you that if you come to work for us you can do the exact same job as you’re doing now but we’ll instead call you a customer service hero, guru, rockstar, or ninja? That’s the Miriam Webster definition. Are you sold?

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Is "Agent" Offensive to Contact Center Professionals?

CX Accelerator

Written by Jeremy Watkin and Community Dear contact center agent: What if I told you that if you come to work for us you can do the exact same job as you’re doing now but we’ll instead call you a customer service hero, guru, rockstar, or ninja? That’s the Miriam Webster definition. Are you sold?

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The Truth About Attrition in the Contact Center

BlueOcean

At first glance, attrition seems like a chink in the armor for contact centers. Across every industry, the fact that people leave their jobs and move on is a basic truth, but in the contact center, the attrition metric receives quite of a bit of negative attention. Here’s what you need to know.

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4 Essential Resources to Read Before You Craft Your Contact Center RFP

BlueOcean

The purpose of a contact center RFP is no different: it’s an essential process to use when choosing an outsourcer. However, the contact center RFP is unique and can’t be modeled on the same old RFP template used for other services your company may procure. Sample Contact Center RFP Timeline.

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Onboarding contact center agents: A first impression that really counts

Talkdesk

An agent’s experience with your organization begins long before they start answering calls and resolving customer demands. Most definitions of employee experience include several stages that usually begin with attraction and recruitment. These definitions have one thing in common: the importance of onboarding.

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How to Engage Employees and Win Customers With Automation

Uniphore

In the contact center, the leading driver of improvements has been automation. Say goodbye to outdated Employee Experience (EX) metrics and KPIs How is your contact center currently measuring EX? If you’re like many contact centers, you’re probably looking at metrics like AHT and error rate.

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The Hybrid Workforce: A New Challenge For Contact Centers

NobelBiz

Contact centers and almost no industry has been spared, as working habits, job schedules, communication patterns and technologies have all been altered drastically. The hybrid work environment is growing, and businesses are continuing to implement new technology to equip their employees with the necessary tools to work from home.