Agent Evaluation

Traditional quality assurance (QA), which has been primarily focused on monitoring and improving internal agent quality and compliance for the past 30 years, is now also being used to uncover valuable insights to improve business operations and customer satisfaction. The emergence of workflow automation and embedded analytics with new QA solutions are helping customer facing organizations around the world reduce the manual steps required by most traditional QA programs by 60 to 80 percent. Better yet, the latest QA solutions take you straight to what really matters – delivering insight into critical business issues and opportunities to improve customer experience and revenue outcomes. This resource guide outlines and reviews the key considerations and top ten capabilities of importance when purchasing a new, more effective QA solution.

Read the report reprint to learn more about 13 of 14 product categories that VPI's recording, QA and workforce optimization solutions ranked first in DMG Consulting's 2012 Product and Market Report.

The latest report from the National Association of Call Centers (NACC) shows a very optimistic outlook for the call center industry. Learn about benchmark research and the latest trends in call recording, quality monitoring, speech analytics, performance analytics and E-learning.

There is immense pressure on contact centers to improve customer satisfaction while reducing internal costs. Without the right technologies and processes in place, it can be virtually impossible for contact centers to create the best possible customer service environment. Download the white paper to learn how to harness the power of unified workforce optimization solutions to get call recording, quality assurance, WFM, analytics, performance management, E-learning and customer surveying to work together to optimize contact center performance, customer satisfaction and compliance. You'll also learn how to quickly identify critical customer issues and realize process improvement opportunities across multiple communication channels - use analytics to identify high value interactions, prevalent reasons for customer calls, bottlenecks in contact center processes, and gaps in agent skills and knowledge. You'll discover proven methods for creating highly effective agent learning programs - personalize training content selection and delivery based on individual performance measures and skill gaps, prioritized by ranking of business objectives.

Traditional call center quality assurance has reached the end of its life cycle – it is too cumbersome to embrace the latest customer mindset and often contributes to customer dissatisfaction, organizational turmoil and reduced agent morale. The new, intelligent call center quality assurance systems automate workflow and rapidly identify insights into critical business and customer experience issues and opportunities. Perhaps most importantly, call center quality assurance now encompasses the entire process of doing good business throughout your contact center.

The Quality Assurance (QA) process for most contact centers has been a cumbersome undertaking for three decades. Now, there is a better way – the next generation of QA solutions is here. Utilizing workflow automation and analytics, they can reduce the manual steps required by most QA applications by 60 to 80 percent while ensuring the voice of the customer (VOC) is still heard.

No other contact center measure has as much impact on enterprise performance as First Contact Resolution (FCR). Improved FCR rates often result in significantly reduced operating costs, increased opportunities to sell, and improved employee and customer satisfaction and loyalty. But as many have found, FCR isn't always so easy to track and improve. The good news is that new, affordable analytics tools are making the quest for FCR much easier.

Download this complimentary 35 page report executive summary to learn which contact center quality management and liability call recording technologies help call center managers achieve their primary goals, key contact center quality management and liability recording technology trends altering the direction of contact centers, How to take your contact center quality management program to the next level and increase productivity while enhancing the customer experience and agent satisfaction and many more call center quality management skills!

In today's highly competitive and rapidly evolving marketplace, it's crucial to equip agents with the appropriate skills to respond to customers effectively and efficiently. E-learning and coaching tools are proven to help contact centers mitigate agent churn, reduce staffing shortages and improve performance. This brand new white paper provides proven best practices and groundbreaking techniques for deploying e-learning and coaching solutions in the contact center.

Analytics can help you transform your contact center’s quality assurance (QA) program from mere internal compliance monitoring to a business value generating engine. Analytics and workflow automation can help you reduce the manual steps required by most traditional QA programs by 60 to 80 percent. Better yet, they take you straight to what really matters – delivering insight into critical business issues and opportunities to improve customer experience and revenue outcomes. Attend this informative session to learn how to get more value from your QA program by using analytics to classify and assign interactions for review based on their business value.

Traditional touch tone and speech IVRs have failed because they try to take customers down a linear path. Learn how conversational virtual call agents powered by artificial intelligence can help you successfully automate a much broader range of your inbound and outbound call types for just one-fifth of the cost of a human agent and achieve much higher call completion and customer satisfaction rates than traditional speech IVRs. You’ll also learn how several world-class organizations are already using cloud-based virtual call agents to lower costs, improve customer experience and gain a strong competitive advantage. You'll also learn about how easy it is to get started successfully automating your calls with VPI's Risk Free 30-Day Trial.

Learn how you can now automate a much broader range of your call types for just one-fifth of the cost of a human agent and achieve much higher call completion and customer satisfaction rates than traditional speech IVRs and even some human agents. You’ll also learn how several world-class organizations are already using conversational virtual agents to lower costs, improve customer experience and gain a strong competitive advantage.

Quality and Performance Demo

• You and your team are invited to learn how VPI's latest software version release VPI EMPOWER 5.2 will help your organization more effectively capture, analyze and leverage multimedia interactions to improve workforce performance, build customer loyalty, minimize risk, and ensure regulatory compliance. 

• VPI’s flexible, open architecture system runs on standard industry hardware, is cost effective and includes robust features that will enable you to leverage powerful data associated with interactions like never before.

Join this Webcast to learn how to get more value from your QA program by automating low-value tasks and classifying interactions by their business value to improve the customer experience and grow revenue.

Listen to this webast to learn how to identify the relevant metrics for your particular organization that will yield the results that matter - both to internal and external stakeholders.

Watch the Webcast to join Mohan Nair, a proven six sigma black belt with 20+ years contact center management experience, as he explores many of the misunderstood and forgotten elements of the original Lean Six Sigma model and foundational practices that comprises a good Quality Assurance program within contact centers.

Learn how analytics is changing the way companies do business and dramatically improving contact center quality and operational performance. Listen to this webinar to improve your QA programs, customer experience and retention.

Experience VPI EMPOWER, the next generation in contact center quality, performance and risk management software tools. Learn how easy it is to  uncover critical trends, issues and opportunities all from a personalized Web-based portal interface.

Learn how Michele Rowan, a 12-year contact center veteran and former VP of Performance Management for Hilton Reservations and Customer Care, successfully launched Hilton Hotels Corporation's first European at-home call center program!

Learn how Michele Rowan, a 12-year contact center veteran and former VP of Performance Management for Hilton Reservations and Customer Care, successfully launched Hilton Hotels Corporation's first European work-at-home call center program! 

Experience the many benefits of VPI's new VPI EMPOWER™ software suite of interaction recording and contact center workforce optimization solutions. Presented by renown Industry Analyst, Ted Lubowsky, from DMG Consulting.