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The Pivot to 100% Remote Training in the Contact Center

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Making Virtual Agent Training Work for You. Done right, you’ll avoid increasing training time while simultaneously sustaining high graduation rates and reported agent preparedness. ?. Grab a copy of our Agent Training eBook for more insight. Request a download here.

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5 Tips for Successful Business Continuity Planning for Contact Centers

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The goal of a BCP for a contact center is to minimize the disruption to both agents and customers, so that business can continue as normally as possible. A BCP for a contact center should be aligned with the overall organization’s BCP to ensure a cohesive message and streamlined protocol throughout the enterprise. .

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How Conversational AI Can Optimize Your Workforce

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The current labor shortage is a big problem, especially for contact centers. Without enough agents in a contact center, customers cannot get the help they need. Virtual agents also scale quickly to handle unpredicted or seasonal volume. The number one priority for all agents is helping people.

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10 Ways the Best Call Centers Thrive in the New Normal

Uniphore

We also learned just how important contact centers are to our everyday lives. Today, as companies look past the pandemic, one thing remains certain: we now expect more from remote support centers than ever before. At Jacada, we recognized the challenges of overwhelmed—and often understaffed—contact centers early on.

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The Contact Center of the Future with Real-Time AI

What does the contact center of the future look like? Depending on the customer base, you may have 40% of your chat, SMS, and email answered by a chatbot, 30% of voice calls answered by a virtual agent or voice bot, and only 30% actually answered by a human.

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Hold times are unacceptable – now more than ever

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Without automation and self-service, every customer requires an agent’s help to resolve their query. The surge in contact volume stresses the contact center operations. In the last few weeks we’ve already seen brands reallocating sales and other staff to handle customer queries to strengthen the contact centers.

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Wanted: Customer Service Change Agents for Contact Centers

Tricia Morris

According to the same Forrester survey referenced above, online community, virtual agent, mobile customer service, social media and live chat have also increased in usage. Contact centers are working to address this growing and changing channel use. Agent responsibilities are changing.