With many Contact Centres moving to remote and hybrid working, the workforce as we traditionally know it has changed. But offering increased flexibility to Contact Centre agents comes with the complexities of managing the shift patterns of a disparate workforce and the added challenge of keeping remote workers engaged. This is where Workforce Management and Engagement can help.
Introducing workforce engagement into the Contact Centre
Never before have workforce engagement solutions and practises been so vital to the successful operation of a modern Contact Centre.
Transform your processes and technology
With our combination of operational consulting expertise and market-leading tools, we can help you transform processes and technologies in the following areas:
- Resource Planning (WFM) – accurately forecast omnichannel demand, produce flexible schedules that meet the needs of customers and employees, and optimise performance with automated tools and intelligence.
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Quality and Compliance (QM) – remove the manual burden from managers and quality analysts by automating the selection and evaluation of interactions across all channels to provide an exceptional customer experience, remove risk, and provide development opportunities for employees.
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Speech and Text Analytics – gather insight on reasons for contacting, trends, and areas that require improvement from both an employee and process point of view to continuously evolve and improve.
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Performance Management and Gamification – increase leadership effectiveness by providing visibility, empower agents to own their performance and ensure motivation regardless of where employees are working from.
Together, this ensures that your workforce is empowered to provide the best experience to your customers whilst being as engaged, efficient and productive as possible.
Increasing challenges
- Remote and hybrid working have made it more difficult to have visibility and control of workloads, as well as ensuring that quality levels can be maintained
- Increased flexible working and the rise in digital channels as communication preferences have made it harder to accurately forecast customer demand and schedule employees for even smaller contact centres
- Finding and retaining top talent requires greater engagement with employees, ensuring they are motivated to perform, as well as receiving the coaching and development they deserve
- Customers are more demanding than ever, requiring their enquiry to be dealt with quickly, to a high standard, and by someone with the right skills first time.
Adapting to modern needs
We understand that true workforce management and engagement is about more than just purchasing software, turning it on and expecting it to magically solve all your problems. That’s why our consulting team bases its advice on real-world operational expertise. Our team is ready to help you deploy WFM/WEM tools and optimise your associated processes, using our best-in-class know-how.
Always have the right number of people with the right skills, doing the right tasks at the right time
Easy to deploy
Advanced capabilities
Reduction to staff costs
Less agent churn
Boost customer experience
Improved service
Savings in excess of 30% by effective scheduling
We can help with your Workforce Engagement planning and implementation
Contact centres are challenging environments. Our Workforce Engagement solutions from Verint and Genesys are designed to help you improve the working lives of your agents while also improving the experience of your customers by giving your supervisors and managers the tools they need to motivate, develop and train a workforce that’s ready for anything. With a proven return on investment that can be realised in less than six months, it’s worth having a talk to our experts about how your contact centre can experience great productivity gains with IPI.
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