Agent Experience

Posted on September 06, 2023 in Agent Experience • AI • Artificial Intelligence • Call Center Technology • Call Center Tools • Contact Center • Customer Experience • Vrirtual Contact Center

by Colin Taylor The rapid advancement of conversational AI has had a profound impact on various industries, and one arena that has been significantly affected is the contact center industry. The dialogue surrounding the potential replacement of human agents with AI-driven conversational systems has been ongoing for decades, with technology continuously evolving to redefine customer […]

Posted on May 11, 2023 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Technology • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Leadership • People management • Planning • Quality • Quality Assurance • retention • Strategy • WFM

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by Colin Taylor I was in Las Vegas last week attending and speaking at Call & Contact Center Expo US and it was a great time. I got to see a number of familiar faces and meet a bunch of new friends. I also saw a lot of very interesting technologies. I was particularly impressed […]

Posted on January 06, 2023 in Agent Experience • AI • Best Practices • Blog • Call Center Management • Contact Center • Contact center consulting • Contact Center Industry Statistics • Customer Experience • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • FCR • Forecasting- WFM • Opinion • Planning • Quality Assurance • Virtual Call Center • Vrirtual Contact Center • WFM

By Colin Taylor As I look at the new and shiny year ahead, I wonder what delights and innovations and opportunities may lie ahead for Contact Center operations.  I think in many ways we will finally shake the post-pandemic hangover; we just need to take two aspirin and realize that what we have been dealing […]

Posted on October 20, 2022 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Education • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • People management • Quality • Training • WFH • WFM

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By Peg Ayers As Supervisors and Managers, we often feel we must have all the answers. We need to share our great experience and knowledge with those on our teams. We’ve been promoted for our skills, and we need to make sure everybody understands that. This can lead to coaching conversations where we spend more […]

Posted on October 14, 2022 in Agent Experience • AI • Call Center Consulting • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Leadership • WFH • WFM

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By Colin Taylor We are now into the fourth quarter of the year. Retail and ecommerce firms are gearing up for the holiday season, which means more staff. But where are they going to find more staff? It is hard to find new staff. We can blame the Great Resignation if we like, but where […]

Posted on September 26, 2022 in Agent Experience • Best Practices

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By Colin Taylor [This post was adapted from a webinar that Colin Taylor delivered for Customer Contact Central on September 8, 2022. You can see the replay here while available: https://www.customercontactcentral.com/frs/22041151/top-industry-secrets-for-successful-contact-center-scripting/email] When we think of a script a number of things can come to mind: The Cambridge English Dictionary defines it as both ”the words […]

Posted on February 11, 2022 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Contact Centre Ops • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • People management • Training • WFM

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By Colin Taylor A lack of agent training is a sure-fire way of ensuring customers are disappointed. Learning a new skill or capability provide both enjoyment and a break from the mundane, and brings with it the opportunity to increase earnings. But to be effective, organizations need to ensure that they take a measured and […]

Posted on January 07, 2022 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Blog • Business continuity • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call center Humor • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Center Industry Statistics • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Forecasting- WFM • Incentives • Leadership • Opinion • People management • Success • Supervisor • Training • WFH • WFM

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By Peg Ayers As the New Year begins, many of us turn to thoughts of self-improvement, swearing off sweets, resolving to run three miles a day or promising not to spend hours in front of the television every weekend. But how many of us look at our contact centers and think about making this New […]

Posted on October 31, 2021 in Agent Experience • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Employee Engagement • Virtual Call Center • Vrirtual Contact Center • WFH • WFM

By Colin Taylor Halloween, the night of the dead, the end of all things, whatever you call it, this time of year with the harvest behind us and the ghouls and goblins; not to mention Squid Game characters who have now darkened our door; can be a frightening time. It is more frightening perhaps as […]

Posted on September 03, 2021 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Hiring a call center consultant • People management • Turnover • Virtual Call Center • Vrirtual Contact Center • WFH • WFM

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by JD Fairweather After several months of remote working – a workstyle many contact center leaders would have deemed impossible to implement a year and a half ago – employers are finding it difficult to lure staff back into the office. The Delta variant notwithstanding, it seems that employees are far too settled into the […]