Contact Center Optimization: 3 Essential Tips for Managers

Here’s how you can facilitate a contact center optimization with three strategic tips.

Omnichannel support.

Customers today expect to engage with businesses on their terms, through channels they are comfortable with. If your contact center is stuck to the good old voice call without any other communication mean for customers, it’s probably losing money.

Implementing omnichannel support means allowing your contact center to interact with customers via WhatsApp, Messenger, email, social media, live chat, and even text messaging, in addition to traditional phone support. This flexibility not only improves customer satisfaction by offering choice, but it also helps distribute the load more evenly across various channels, potentially reducing wait times and streamlining the service process.

For example, if a customer just needs to know what time you’re open for business, they’re more likely to scroll on your website than to call you. Maybe they can’t find the information right away and after some time they do end up calling your business. Making a chat available to them means less researching time for them, and a one less useless call for you.

AI Automation.

Manual processes are often the kryptonite to efficiency in contact centers. Put simply, after making your contact center omnichannel, infusing it with AI is the next step in optimization.

AI chatbots and voice bots are becoming increasingly common for two main reason: they’re available 24/7 and they cut repetitive questions from agents’ schedules.

By implementing automation technologies, you can eliminate tedious tasks and allow your agents to focus on what they do best—solving complex customer issues and providing exceptional service. Concretely, a voice bot might be in charge of answering repetitive questions and transferring calls to people and departments, while a chatbot can take on operative tasks like booking appointments, shipment checking, locating stores, and more depending on your vertical sector.

It’s no secret that some customers may hold negative views on chatbots and voice bots due to past experiences with ineffective virtual help that failed to resolve their concerns. However, a well-designed chatbot can significantly enhance the customer experience by quickly answering frequent inquiries and directing more complex issues to human agents. It’s all about bringing together the human and virtual side of customer service to deliver a perfect, optimized mix that doesn’t keep customers waiting in line and relieves agent workload.

Let the voice of customers be your decision maker.

Leveraging AI voice analytics in your contact center can be a game-changer for identifying both pain points and successful tactics faster, smarter, and easier.

Conversations hoard a wealth of data about customer preferences, behaviors, script adherence, and more. Theoretically, to break apart and analyze all this data, a supervisor should listen to every single contact center conversation, spot interesting parts, analyze them and give feedbacks to employees. Who has the time?

AI Voice Analytics can transcribe and analyze voice interactions in real-time, giving supervisors immediate insights into customer sentiments, call quality, and agent performance. The best part is, supervisors and managers don’t even have to read the whole transcript, because a sophisticated Voice Analytics can highlight items needing attention through smart tagging, email notifications, sentiment analysis, and more. This empowers managers to quickly pinpoint issues like recurring complaints or inefficient service approaches, and to also spot and replicate successful interaction strategies – all data that can also be used for self-service targeted agent training.

Additionally, the integral process of call recording for voice analytics serves a dual purpose by ensuring regulatory compliance. Recorded calls can be audited for adherence to legal standards, providing a safeguard for the company while simultaneously enhancing service quality.

Let Imagicle help you optimize your contact center.

Of course, this contact center optimization requires the right tools. Ideally easy to implement and use, intuitive, integrated with your calling platform. You don’t have to look any further – turn to Imagicle for everything related to your contact center optimization. The Imagicle UCX Suite provides you with a sound Call Recording with Voice Analytics, human-like AI chatbots and virtual assistants, and even an Auto Attendant or Advanced Queueing system to streamline your call management. All directly infused in your calling platform. Book a meeting to know more.