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For today’s team leaders, every minute counts. Shifting business requirements and changing customer habits mean it is vital for managers to have full visibility of their contact centre operations along with the power to adapt agent schedules, at speed, whenever the need arises. Likewise, flexibility in terms of work life balance is important for customer service agents therefore, options such as home-working are becoming increasingly popular.
In modern workforce management (WFM) solutions, integrated web-based scheduling and resource planning enables managers, team leaders and their agents to connect in real-time. Previously sold as add-on modules, the latest action-based web tools are finally coming into their own as an all-inclusive part of any self-respecting WFM package. Designed to perform on a range of modern browsers, they encourage collaboration and promote visibility and transparency, a perfect line of sight, for both managers and agents.
Top three benefits of collaboration web-based tools
Bringing agility to the contact centre is a top priority for many contact centre managers. By maximising the functionality of the latest web-based resource planning and scheduling tools, team leaders are guaranteed a wealth of benefits operationally, culturally and commercially. Here are three very good reasons to make them a critical and strategic part of your contact centre strategy:
Furthermore, with access to a wealth of historic data and advanced reporting functionality it becomes possible to speedily predict, create and search future schedules. This will ensure contact centres are well prepared in advance with enough coverage and the right-skilled agents in place to deliver an exceptional multi-channel customer experience at all times.
Finally, prepare to create a winning front-line team. When every minute counts, a web-based tool makes it possible to track schedule adherence, monitor individual and team performance (to identify training gaps), set up performance reviews and relevant coaching sessions, all in real-time and without leaving your desk.
Don’t just take our word for it – listen to Rentalcars.com
Take a look at what one of Teleopti’s customers has achieved. Rentalcars.com, one of the the world’s largest online car rental services, manages 800 sales and customer service advisors to handle over 7.5 million car rentals around the world, every year. The company’s solution has been instrumental in ‘looking after people’, in their own words, a top priority for Rentalcars.com. By centralising resource planning, leaders and advisors have a good line of sight of their own and their colleagues’ activities wherever they are.
Never underestimate the power of web-based technology. The latest collaborative ways of working enable modern team leaders to keep tabs on their contact centre and keep staff motivated and happy. The result? Increased efficiencies in time and costs, unrivalled service quality, loyal customers and a healthy corporate performance – what are you waiting for?
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About Ben Willmott:
Ben is a WFM consultant for Teleopti with ten years’ experience in the contact centre software industry, involved with technical installations before consulting and pre sales support. Since joining Teleopti a year ago he has worked on implementations of Teleopti WFM with Omni-channel routing platforms and other WFO software.
About Calabrio:
The digital foundation of a customer-centric contact center, the Calabrio ONE suite helps enrich and understand human interactions, empowering your contact center as a brand guardian. We maximize agent performance, exceed customer expectations, and boost workforce efficiency using connected data, AI-fueled analytics, automated workforce management and personalized coaching. Only Calabrio ONE unites WFO, agent engagement and business intelligence solutions into a true-cloud, fully integrated suite that adapts to your business.
Published: Wednesday, December 7, 2016
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