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Why empathy in customer service is not enough

As consumer expectations rise, businesses are increasingly focusing on building empathy in customer service interactions. With agents handling more complex queries, building a rapport with customers is vital to reassure them, improve the experience, and better meet their needs. It may feel like a luxury to encourage agents to focus their full attention on the customer's needs of the moment…
Helen Billingham
August 17, 2023
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3 Options to Integrate Call Recording with Microsoft Teams

3 Options to Integrate Call Recording with Microsoft Teams Recording customer interactions is essential to improving productivity, increasing satisfaction and better understanding customer needs. That’s why it is a crucial part of contact centre operations. Delivering four key benefits: It ensures compliance and security by providing information on what was said during the interaction It enables agent evaluation, highlighting opportunities…
Barbara Stuart
January 13, 2023
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Native Teams Contact Centre – The New Era

Anna Stokes, Director of Product Management at Enghouse, talks about the 2022 release of Enghouse’s native Teams Contact Centre. Benefits of a Microsoft Teams Contact Centre Anna, could you outline the primary drivers for organisations who want to move their contact centre to Teams? (more…)
Barbara Stuart
August 26, 2022
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Measuring the Value (ROI) of a Microsoft Teams Contact Centre

The recent pandemic forced us into remote working... …Remote working forced many organisations to implement collaboration solutions. …And collaboration solutions brought unforeseen improvement. The rate of the implementation of collaboration and other solutions – which would have not arrived in many organisations for another 8-10 years (or so Gartner and McKinsey estimate) – is what is being called the dramatic…
Barbara Stuart
June 14, 2021
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4 Steps to Mitigating Risk in your Teams Contact Centre Migration

4 Steps to Mitigating Risk in your Teams Contact Centre Migration With Teams adoption fast outpacing all other UC and collaboration platforms, more and more businesses are looking seriously at its feasibility for their own needs. If you’re one of them, DON’T leave your contact centre behind! A Teams environment adds huge benefits to the contact centre, arguably even more…
Barbara Stuart
May 25, 2021
Cloud Contact Center, CCaaS, Remote Working, WFHCommunications CentreContact centre, Multi-channel, Omni-channelCX, Customer Experience, Customer Service, SupportDigital TransformationIntegration & OptimisationIVR/Self-ServiceMicrosoftQuality management, quality monitoringResourcesRetailTraining

How to Choose a Contact Centre

Shopping for a contact centre? The first step is to understand how important this purchase is to the business, and then work out your contact centre strategy. Read our eBook "How to Choose a Contact Centre - Buyers Guide"  for advice on tackling key challenges and templates to help you understand your needs, as well as tailored examples of successful…
Barbara Stuart
February 20, 2021
Cloud Contact Center, CCaaS, Remote Working, WFHCompliance, PCI-DSSContact centre, Multi-channel, Omni-channelCX, Customer Experience, Customer Service, SupportDigital TransformationIntegration & OptimisationMicrosoftQuality management, quality monitoringRetailTrainingUnified CommunicationsWorkforce optimization

5 Steps to Developing a Basic Business Continuity Plan

Is your business prepared for an emergency? The COVID-19 pandemic is the most recent example of why organisations of all sizes need to consider building a Business Continuity Plan. As we continue in these troubling times, we are seeing clearly that being well prepared is critical. A Business Continuity Plan’s objective is to quite simply to do everything that you possibly can…
Larry Ekiert
August 11, 2020