From VoIP to Unified Communications and WebRTC
Worse, office stress is on the rise worldwide. According to Korn Ferry, in the span of 30 years employees have become 20% more stressed about their jobs. Similarly, the American Institute of Stress points to the combined topic of work issues as the leading cause of anxiety.
While fixing office stress will take definite effort, for now, you can at least keep yourself sane through the workday with these tips. Continue reading “Four Simple Strategies to Reduce Office Stress”
Many companies are struggling to increase workplace productivity and maintain employee loyalty and job satisfaction of their office workers.
The fact is that today people tend to spend less and less time at their assigned workstations. This trend is increasing with more Millenials and Gen Z employees entering the workforce. These generations crave autonomy, mobility and flexibility in their working arrangements.
To meet these expectations, many companies design their offices to provide more freedom and mobility to their employees, and embrace the newest technologies that offer:
Any company interested in growing is striving to win new customers and retain their existing ones. Your customers, in fact, have the same need. Let’s see how you can help them.
Would you agree that winning new customers and retaining the existing ones, for the most part, depends on the performance of the customer service department?
In this article we will see in detail some typical challenges that call agents face each day, that prevent the company from achieving its business goals, and how you can help them overcome these problems.
✔ Flexibility in managing agent opt-in/ opt-out option
In a critical situation, when there is a high load of incoming calls, call agents have no easy way of adding themselves to a call queue. They either have to depend on a system administrator to do it for them or to remember complicated procedures to do it via a dedicated Feature Code.
Let’s keep in mind that the primary tool used by contact center agents has always been, and still remains, the desk phone. What about a simple button that allows a call agent to opt-in/ opt-out of getting calls from the selected call queue directly from the desk phone?
Continue reading “Six common customer service problems that are killing the business growth”
Today, successful organizations must be dynamic and able to respond quickly to feedback. A new UC platform is the information system of this lean revolution. Team members will be able to communicate and make decisions faster and more effectively, and customers will be able to collaborate with team members without proxies. New ideas or new ways of looking at business can appear when the tools we use to communicate inspire us.
The UC platform itself must thus adapt over time to transforming needs, both inside and outside the organization, allowing users to collaborate better with customers and to always provide better service.
In order to do this, the UC platform must be constantly fine-tuned by users and updated to take advantages of all the latest improvements. UC solutions providers must strive to always provide new usage scenarios and ideas to organizations. Organizations at all levels must be open to adapt to new technologies.
In one of the previous blog articles (Introducing Lean Communications), I explained how lean communication can improve the way organizations work. This approach must also be applied to the deployment phase by making it as incremental and simple as possible.
The adoption of a new UC system must be supported and required by one or more key users, usually managers of departments inside a company. These key users must support the adoption by understanding the advantages.
The role of key users is very important, and they must be involved in all steps of the platform introduction. Key users, before and after the deployment, must collect important feedback from other users and create requirements for the UC solution.