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The Right Way to Do Call Quality Monitoring

November 12, 2019

Every contact center engages in some form of Call Quality Monitoring in order to improve agent performance and customer satisfaction. The goal is to identify calls that are failing to meet your standards for good quality, and to implement corrective measures. Even with call quality programs in place, many contact center managers find they are spending far too much time trying to obtain an accurate and fair picture of what is happening on interactions between staff and customers – and even more time getting to the root causes of why.

Understanding the Types of Biometrics

November 12, 2019

Contact centers regularly deal with highly confidential information such as payment card numbers, Social Security numbers, and other sensitive data. A single breach of that information can spell disaster, instantly damaging the trustworthiness of any organization, even if they have a stellar reputation and pristine history.

5 Easy Steps to Improve Call Center Performance Management

November 11, 2019

Every call center has a large volume of performance management information produced from all the systems that they use. But call center performance management is, by no means, an easy job. The elements of a good performance-management system are simple, but integrating them into a business’s fundamental operating system is more difficult than it seems. It requires strategic vision, hard work, difficult decisions, the ability to motivate people to hit tough targets, and much more.

What to Look for in a Workforce Management Solution

November 11, 2019

Contact centers are growing more complex by the day. New channels require more advanced agent skill sets, and customers have higher expectations for every interaction. It’s a lot to ask of employees, who have the power to make every customer contact successful.

Performance Management Tips for Cross-Generational Success

November 11, 2019

What do you get when you put a Baby Boomer, a Gen-Xer, a Millennial, and a Generation Z-er in a room together? A contact center! The generational diversity in today’s contact center is incredible. Varying levels of expertise, coupled with different perspectives on organizational and customer problems, is invaluable to the contact center.

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What You Need to Know About Omnichannel

November 11, 2019

Today’s customers expect omnichannel customer service. But what really does that mean? How is omnichannel customer service different from (or: better than?) multichannel customer service? Here’s the basics on what’s what between “multi” and “omni” – and why you should care. Looking at year-over-year industry statistics from the yearly Dimension Data Customer Experience Benchmarking, the […]