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Workforce Management for Call Centers: What You Need to Know

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Managing forecasting, scheduling, and agent productivity in a call center is a lot like searching for the fountain of youth. While we don’t have a roadmap to the proverbial fountain, we can help steer you in the right direction for better call center workforce management (WFM). But getting to this nirvana is no picnic.

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Top Call Center Efficiency Metrics And How To Improve Them

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Call center leaders are under increased pressure to improve operational and agent efficiencies and look for cost-cutting opportunities while delivering outstanding customer experience (CX) — a tricky balancing act for sure. What Are Call Center Efficiency Metrics? Is your call center prepared?

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The Importance of Accurate Forecasting for Omnichannel Volume

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Customer service centers will continue to entrench themselves in innovation, adapting to customers’ ever-increasing needs and demands while safeguarding employee experience. Once you achieve this, you need to consider your workforce planning with digital and omnichannel forecasting for customer service in mind.

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How Call Centers Manage the Holiday Rush

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Centers incentivize employees to work over the holiday and be prepared. Having more people in the call center doesn't always mean readiness to handle holiday workloads. Balancing headcount with technology helps to enhance customer service experience during the holidays. How Call Centers Manage the Holiday Rush.

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Employee experiences are connected to customer experiences.

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There is a connection between employee experiences and customer experiences. Upset or frustrated employees are likely to affect your business and lead to unsatisfied customers. It is essential to focus on employee satisfaction. . Employee experiences are connected to customer experiences.

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AI in Quality Management: A Game Changer for Contact Centers

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Advances in technology allow contact centers to use data in much more manageable ways, redefine how to engage with customers, gain efficiencies, and leverage actionable insights to improve quality management (QM) and the customer journey. How Quality Management Processes Have Shifted It could be called the perfect storm for contact centers.

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Workforce Optimization: What It is and Why You Need It

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It has however morphed from the days of regarding the call center as a cost center to realizing contact centers and the agents who work there are valuable contributors to the customer experience. In addition to that, contact centers provide omnichannel support using a hybrid workforce.