Working Smarter: Presented by Calabrio

Contact centers use advanced technology like AI and machine learning—not to replace human interactions, but to enhance them. Dave is joined by Amazon Web Services’ Shalima Bhalla to discuss how Calabrio, AWS, and Amazon Connect work together to improve the agent experience. The result? Easier, more efficient, and more enjoyable contact center experiences for everyone.

Calabrio recently released a report on the State of the Contact Center, where we surveyed 250 consumers and contact center managers to understand where the contact center sits in their minds and ours.  Listen in as Dave and Shep discuss some of the key insights revealed and some things your contact center can do to close the gap.

Calabrio recently released a report on the State of the Contact Center, where we surveyed 250 consumers and contact center managers to understand where the contact center sits in their minds and ours.  Listen in as Dave and Shep discuss some of the key insights revealed and some things your contact center can do to close the gap.

Dave Hoekstra is joined by Kathy Sobus of ConvergeOne to discuss how employee engagement can help create Brand Guardians for your contact center, quiet quitting, and the statistics presented in the latest State of the Contact Center report released by Calabrio. 

Be sure to read the blog from Kathy and Calabrio at https://www.calabrio.com/wfo/workforce-management/how-to-create-support-brand-guardians-in-your-contact-center/

How is music from David Bowie, Steely Dan and the Who related to the contact center? Find out by joining Dave Hoekstra and Zack Taylor from Cisco to learn how the contact center overcomes current challenges they face in the contact center.

Ashley is a major reason that Alliant Energy has paved the way in the US using preference-based scheduling with Calabrio WFM. Listen to hear about their implementation process, agent feedback and challenges they have overcome to ultimately decrease attrition and maintain agent wellbeing!

Juanita Coley has had a long and productive career in call centers and workforce management, and we are here to talk about it all!  Listen to find out her "why" in what she does, how she empowers herself and others to succeed, and in general has a lot of fun doing it.  With her extensive experience in workforce management, Juanita and Dave definitely have a conversation for the ages!

Dave speaks to Sandrine Asseraf, Group Managing Director of Webhelp, about how reimagining CX goes beyond just a few quick changes.  The pandemic forced us all to think about CX differently, so how does a huge organization like Webhelp go about keeping their clients happy while moving thousands of agents home?  The answer is Webhelp Anywhere, a philosophy that takes the holistic customer into account. Join us for a discussion on the results of Webhelp's CX survey, with some surprising results!

Dave talks to Tim Wittenburg and Craig Zweyber from Calabrio about how to ensure data security is always given the proper respect.  Tim and Craig discuss simple best practices to secure data, avoid breaches, and how Calabrio strives to keep our customer's data secure.

Join Dave Hoekstra, Product Evangelist at Calabrio as he talks to Kunal Rahalkar, Founder and CEO of Datagamz about how employee engagement can dramatically impact overall CX.  Topics include "How to find the best agent", how to incorporate performance testing vs. Performance Management, and and engaging discussion about how different regions of the world refer to the names of fruit.