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How to Teach Call Center Soft Skills

Fonolo

Unlike the hard skills or technical skills required to operate call center technology, soft skills relate more to an agent’s demeanor during a customer interaction. Adaptability, to keep up with changing technology and customers’ needs. Make a soft skills scorecard that reflects the needs of your contact center.

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7 Steps to Better Call Center Quality Monitoring

Fonolo

DID YOU KNOW: Fonolo’s Voice Call-Back technology has saved customers about 77 years of hold time annually. Employ the right technology to collect and analyze data. Depending on the size of your contact center, you might need to step up your tech game. Develop a quality monitoring scorecard for your team.

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What’s the Downside of Tying Agent CSAT Scores to Their Performance?

SurveySensum

It Encourages Gaming the Score Under pressure to maintain or improve scores, agents may manipulate customer feedback , pushing customers to provide higher ratings even if their experiences don’t warrant it. She suggests focusing on metrics like “attendance and schedule adherence” that are within the agent’s control.

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How the Latest Outsourcing Trends and Strategies Are Reshaping the Industry 

Execs In The Know

Which technologies and tools will help your teams get more efficient and provide that ease of use for the customer without spending more? The goal isn’t to just hit a number on a scorecard. What’s the technology you’re looking to implement? What does the customer journey look like for you?

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Improving support quality while embracing AI: Strategies from Intercom and Klaus

Intercom

From swiftly handling common queries to assisting human agents in tackling complex issues, generative AI chatbots have swooped in and changed the game of customer support in just a matter of months. And while some support roles are going to change, we’ve seen how this new technology is also creating the need for new jobs and roles to appear.

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15 CX Experts Talk about the Future and Challenges of Customer Experience in 2018 [part 2]

Lumoa

More brands will (and should) bring up customer feedback to the decision-makers in the company, and with the help of some new amazing technologies we’re changing the way businesses see their customers. It’s not about software or a number – if you focus only on the NPS score you will never deliver the game-changing customer experience.

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Quality, Productivity, and Striking the Right Balance

Customer Service Life

For email, text, and social media it’s often a guessing game as to how long they take agents to complete. Here are some suggestions for doing so in your contact center: Look at quality and productivity side by side in a performance dashboard or scorecard. Improve your tools and technology.