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Hark the Herald Agents Sing: It’s Holiday Season in the Contact Center!

BlueOcean

It may be that a reduced incident rate will be more important than a reduced average length of a phone call, so adjust your metrics as necessary. For instance, crafting themes for your spikes like “Holiday Hell” or “Operation Save Christmas” can help rally your troops and create a culture of resilience.

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Deck the Halls 2018: Coping with Peak Season Holiday Spikes in the Contact Center

BlueOcean

Of course, greater retail sales inevitably lead to higher call volume in the contact center. It may be that a reduced incident rate will be more important than a reduced average length of a phone call, so adjust your metrics as necessary. In 2018, that number has skyrocketed to a massive $1.1

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How Contact Center Agent Burnout Decreases Productivity (And What You Can Do About It)

Playvox

Best-in-class contact centers are able to engage employees and create a supportive, motivating culture. It also becomes harder to meet service levels and customer experience goals measured by metrics such as first contact resolution, customer satisfaction, and customer effort score. Become a Workplace of Choice. ENJOYING THIS ARTICLE?

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High Performance Contact Centers Begin With the Right WEM Suite

Playvox

Of course, getting to this point is a journey, and taking the first steps towards improvement can be intimidating. High scores on key metrics are the first measures of a high performance contact center. These include cost and efficiency metrics, such as first contact resolution (FCR) and average handle time (AHT). Motivation?

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How to Pick the Right Customer Service Training Software

CSM Magazine

More and more companies are turning to online customer support training solutions to complement or even replace traditional training methods and to hone their customer support capabilities and culture. Course management. Gamification has become an almost integral part of every learning and training program. Reporting metrics.

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Best Contact Center Software for Remote Workers

Playvox

A 2020 Gartner report suggests that companies’ hesitation to continue remote work is because they perceive it will have negative effects on productivity, trust, and culture — not that it actually does. Related eBook: 9 Contact Center Metrics Essential for Success. So why the disconnect? Motivation.

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How Online Communities Create Customer Advocacy and Retention

ChurnZero

Once you have this ingrained in your company culture, you are already on your way to creating customer advocates. Of course, making sure that your customer is at the heart of everything you do in SaaS is much easier said than done. Engage customers with rewards, badges, and gamification features.