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Before you build an agent improvement plan, ask yourself: why spend time recruiting and training new agents if you don’t have to? Most contact centers planned for growth this year, but hiring great talent has been challenging. Companies like xtDirect had to reduce their agent count by 25% due to...
No one wants to discover an outdated knowledge. Maybe you just cringed after digging up that old PDF in your company’s content (with the old company logo) last updated in August 2016. You might be thinking—wow…I sure hope a customer never sees that. Is it time to fix an outdated knowledge base?...
Still getting used to leading a modern customer service team, a largely distributed workforce, adjusting to the ‘new normal’? Chances are your customer service team is too; most agents can’t just tap a coworker on the shoulder like they used to whenever a customer has a question. You need some...
Leaders across all departments—including the contact center—are now dealing with hiring challenges AND problems with legacy technology just a few years removed from the 2020 pandemic. More contact center agents are working remotely than ever before, managers are struggling to boost agent...
How can developing a call center decision tree help your team? Do you know how much time your support team wastes each year finding answers to complex customer questions? Inefficiency costs companies more than you might realize: 516 million hours each year from inefficient software alone according...
Every contact center knowledge manager I’ve met knows the frustration of selling an IT initiative up the ladder only to have it rejected. You spend hours speaking to different vendors, comparing feature after feature, giving recommendations to your manager, responding to emails—all to no avail....
There is more content, on more platforms, in more locations, than at any time in the past. If you’ve managed knowledge in any context, you know how time consuming it can be to find what you need, especially if knowledge is siloed in multiple locations (as it is for many companies). You know how...
So much of business momentum is predicated on trust, and nowhere else is that truer than in the contact center. You can build a tremendous contact center operation, including a foundational knowledge management solution, only to find frustration high, adoption low. From AI to digital scorecards...
Customer service orgs are under pressure. High volumes, distributed teams, yet same expectations for efficiency. As a natural response, digital transformations are accelerating across the industry, with workplace automation suddenly becoming the new buzzword for contact centers. But are these...
2020 is certainly one of the most fast-paced and challenging times for businesses and contact centers. In fact, things are changing so fast that failing to keep up or simply following a pre-established plan can actually lead to falling behind the pack. In just a few short months, the ‘new normal’...
The term “AI initiative” is often met with curiosity, and hostility. Companies and contact centers that have tested the waters know that an AI initiative is like an iceberg – with benefits peaking above the waterline, while a mountain of painstaking work hides underneath the surface. Time,...
As your support tickets keep coming in, wouldn’t it be nice to use knowledge to deflect a few requests? It took us 20 minutes to find this post on Reddit and yet companies take years to realize that providing content does not mean providing answers. Conventional wisdom suggests the more knowledge...