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JanPoor Agent Performance; Can’t or Won’t?
- Performance
- BY Ryan
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One of the most challenging jobs for a call centre manager is dealing with poor agent performance. After all, wherever poor performance is not adequately diagnosed and confronted, the costs are enormous regarding rising customer complaints, lost productivity and lost profits.
Therefore, an essential step in the performance management system is to diagnose why the performance problem occurs — the “root cause”. If we don’t correctly identify the causes, how can we possibly figure out the solution? - 31
OctJekyll and Hyde: A Tale of Two Contact Centers
- Agent Performance, Contact Center, Quality Assurance, Quality Management
- BY tracy
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Imagine a contact center where the manager has put in place defined procedures and practices to ensure flexibility, organization, knowledge retention, and effective communication. The contact manager calls all the agents and tells them, “If you want to be a successful agent and provide quality customer support, this is how to do it.” Now imagine
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SepThe Text Revolution: A New Era of Customer Service
- Communication, Customer Service
- BY tracy
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Over the past decade, email, social media and instant messaging technologies have ushered in a new method of communication. As with most declining technologies, the exodus from voice communication has been led by millennials and younger generations looking for instant attention and gratification. Text based interactions are fast, responsive and can be utilized consistently across
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AugA Guide on How to Hire Contact Center Employees
- Contact Center
- BY mark
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With the overwhelming number of applicants, the hiring process can be challenging. What`s more? As the employer, all you got to go with is a resume, a rehearsed sale pitch (for serious applicants) and an interview. Mind you, completely blown interview don’t necessarily mean that the individual is good at best, they can be great
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JulSpeak up and Listen Closely: Effective Communication in your Contact Center
- Contact Center, Customer Service, Quality Assurance
- BY tracy
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Good communication practices are at the core of every successful business. Not long ago, the ability to communicate effectively was viewed as a ‘soft’ skill that was nice to have, but not all that necessary. We at Call Criteria however, have seen firsthand how previously neglected soft skills and an individual’s ability to communicate effectively,
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JunThe Keys to a Happier, More Productive Contact Center
- Agent Performance, Contact Center
- BY tracy
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As a contact center manager, retaining quality agents can be a real threat to your quality objectives. High churn rates not only affect morale, but your business’ bottom line will likely take a hit as a result. So how do we at Call Criteria recommend you motivate and reward existing agents in order to keep
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MayWhen Being “Soft” is a Good Thing
- Agent Performance, Contact Center
- BY tracy
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As a trusted quality assurance company that helps dozens of call centers monitor and improve their performance every year, we at Call Criteria have heard the full gamut of reasons why agents are let go. While overall lack of commitment and an inability to convert leads are some of the more common triggers leading to
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AprName That Face: Knowing Your Customers Beyond the Digital World
- Customer Service
- BY tracy
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Companies today are relying more and more on text and web based interactions with their customers as we become more dependent than ever on the internet and web based communication. However, there is something intangibly irreplaceable about the human touch of meeting your customers in person. We at Call Criteria realize the value inherent in
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Apr5 Steps to Scaling Your Business Effectively
- Quality Management, Uncategorized
- BY tracy
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For some companies out there, current annual growth rates are sufficient, and growing organically without the active pursuit of scaling is enough to grow their business. However, we at Call Criteria feel that neglecting to make active attempts to scale is nearly a surefire way to be left in the dust of your competition. Scaling is
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MarSpeech Analytics Meets Manual Human Review
- Contact Center, Quality Assurance, Quality Management, Technology
- BY tracy
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In this day and age, where customers readily switch companies unless they get the experience they want, forward-thinking companies know they need to find a way to make themselves stand apart from the competition. Your contact center plays an especially important role in shaping your customer’s experience. By analyzing your customer-agent interactions (or having us