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As a contact centre professional, you know the critical value that exceptional customer experiences powered by call centre quality monitoring deliver to your company’s brand and bottom line. Case in Point: From 2012 to 2017, the top 10 brands surveyed in KPMG Nunwood’s annual Customer Experience Excellence study achieved 10 times the revenue growth of [...]

In the race to maximise productive agent time, contact centres increase the risk of employee burnout and diminished customer experience.  Ben Willmott at Calabrio advocates the comfortable middle ground using automated Workforce Management to improve agent occupancy and reduce shrinkage.   Utilising agent time in the contact centre is rather like finding the right KPIs.  […]

Statistically, the majority of contact centres still use manual processes to adjust their intraday workforce scheduling but why play a constant game of catch-up? Dave Hoekstra of Calabrio outlines 5 reasons to invest in real-time management to balance the workload, achieve service levels and mop-up agent idle time. Intraday Management?  Real-Time Management?  Call it what [...]

Anyone working in the contact centre industry knows Customer Contact Week (CCW) to be the end-all, be-all event for customer experience, contact centre and customer care professionals. That’s why we were thrilled to see Calabrio customer Idaho Central Credit Union (ICCU) named runner-up in the “Best in Class Contact Centre, 100-199 seats” category in the […]

This year’s annual customer event combinesthe Calabrio User Forum with Calabrio Customer Connect, which means the eventis supercharged to deliver premium content at an unbelievable location. AsCalabrio's WFM evangelist, I love spending time with our customers and reallyhelping them dig into their operations. It is without question my favorite weekof the year. The Calabrio and [...]

As advances in technology have empowered customers and increased their expectations, both the cost of losing a customer and the value of retaining one have grown. The need for accurate, ongoing insights into customer preferences and behaviour is greater than ever. The traditional way businesses have tried to learn what their customers think was to […]

From day one, we designed Calabrio ONE to quickly deliver tangible business value to contact centres around the world. From seamlessly handling fast-growing, inbound contact volumes and painlessly unifying disparate data sources to tapping rich voice of the customer (VoC) insights, users rely upon Calabrio to understand what their customers really want while benefitting from [...]

Picture this: you get a call from one of your agents and they don’t agree with their evaluation score. As a contact centre manager you’ve mostly likely been here. So, what steps can you take to resolve the situation and make sure your agents are happy and aligned on contact centre best practises? Here are […]