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Strive to create the best possible customer experience for your company by focusing on the vital strategic area of performance!

Just as developing an effective service center is a common goal for many companies, determining how to measure its success in real data and KPIs proves to be an intriguing challenge. Read the reports below and learn valuable lessons in effective contact center agent training, coaching, best practices and many more important topics.

As you read, you’ll learn about different contact center solutions available from the best vendors. Be provided with unique insights, expert advice, top analysis and much more about solutions from the industry leaders. To view software vendors click here.


Customer Service Workforce Performance Management

  • Crafting a Back Office of the Future
    — Presented By: NICE

    Let this sink in: one out of five customer complaints handled by the contact center are related to back office issues. That means if back office employees don’t have the tools they need, CX can suffer.

  • DMG Forecasting and Scheduling in the Digital Era
    — Presented By: NICE

    WFM solutions need to adapt to today’s complex digital environments. Enterprises need accurate forecasting and scheduling for synchronous and asynchronous interactions and scheduling flexibility. Read DMG Consulting’s report “Forecasting and Scheduling in the Digital Era” for insights on what to look for in WFM solutions.

  • The Case for the Anti-Script: A Multifactor Analysis of Script Adherence
    — Presented By: Balto

    Though scripts are a cornerstone of contact centers, they have not advanced at the same pace as other industry technologies. This presents pain points for managers and agents alike as companies have to pay for enforcement tools, perform ongoing training,

  • Why the Biggest Contact Centers Have the Least Effective Call Scripts
    — Presented By: Balto

    Call scripts are used in contact centers of all shapes and sizes — across the industry, they are considered an easy way to help ensure all of a contact center’s agents are driving calls to the same goals. But if

  • Call Scripts in 2022: What In-Person, Virtual, and Hybrid Agents Really Think
    — Presented By: Balto

    As contact centers incorporate new technology and practices to keep up with shifting industry trends and competitors, call scripts remain one of the most widely used tools in the industry. So how useful is the classic script for agents alongside

  • Attrition and the Contact Center Workforce
    — Presented By: Balto

    Attrition is a vital issue at contact centers: every year, about 30-45% of contact center employees leave for voluntary or involuntary reasons.

  • Enable Contact Center Agents to Work from Wherever They Need to Be
    — Presented By: Amazon Connect

    The contact center is often the first or most urgent of your customer touch points, serving as a 24 7 global face and voice of the company. As such, businesses are increasingly finding ways to incorporate contact centers into the

  • Making the Grade: Using Automated Scorecards to Improve Agent Performance
    — Presented By: CallMiner

    The measure of success (or failure) of a call center is simply the sum of the performances of each of its agents. In order to improve agent performance a call center must find a way to affect and sustain change

  • ICMI Toolkit
    — Presented By: NICE CXone

    The Road to Customer Experience Maturity A Self Assessment The customer experience (CX) revolution has taken the business world by storm—from industry to industry, countless organizations have disrupted seemingly impenetrable markets through superior CX design. While this can be intimidating,

  • Operations Leader’s Guide to Contact Center Solutions
    — Presented By: NICE CXone

    A decision framework to help simplify your solution search. Read this white paper to learn how upgrading contact center performance need not be an arduous process.

  • Thriving in the Experience Economy
    — Presented By: NICE CXone

    The complex and truly challenging part of the customer experience comes in excelling at the human to human interactions and mastering the use of automation and intelligence as appropriate.  This can’t happen without an investment in technology that enables these

  • How to Battle Contact Center Complexity
    — Presented By: Jacada

    This guide aims to cut through the clutter and help CX practitioners understand the state of the industry, navigate pitfalls and show how to roll out assisted service projects, while also minimizing risk.