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How to Handle High Call Volume: 10 Strategies for Success in Sales and Contact Centres

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So, how do you manage call surges during unanticipated high-traffic periods? This blog unlocks the secrets of using IVR automation with JustCall to handle high call volume with ease and free up your agents for what matters most! This includes lead management, call logging, and generating summaries. High call volume: What is it?

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The Role Of Employee Self-Service In Workforce Management

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When thinking about workforce management (WFM), often people think of forecasting and scheduling. Ensuring that employees can be a part of managing their schedule has big benefits. Workforce management processes focus on optimizing how, where, and when work gets done, and who is best suited to do the job.

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7 Proven Ways to Manage Contact Center Agent Staffing Shortages

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Being short-staffed causes gaps in the schedule and results in a situation where there are simply not enough agents to handle volume. Increased abandon rates. So, staffing shortages don’t just increase abandons, they also increase volume, which can back up queues even more. Increased agent burnout.

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Optimize Your Call Center Layout with These 5 Tips

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5 Tips to Prevent Call Center Agent Burnout Before it Begins. Develop agent seating plans. Assigned seating may remind you of grade school, but this approach can really help support your agents so they can do their best work on the daily. Optimize placement of management. Prioritize quiet zones.

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How to Create a Call Center Performance Report

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Here are some examples of how raw data can inform reporting: Hold time is an analytic that informs reporting on abandonment rates and service level. Number of calls is an analytic that informs reporting on agent occupancy rate. This metric measures whether your agents are managing and adhering to their schedules.

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The Role of Real-Time Data in Workforce Management

Playvox

Maximizing workforce management efficiency through real-time data is an often-overlooked advantage for contact centers. There are several roles within the workforce management space, and each one is important in its own way. Related Article: 5 WFM Scheduling Tips To Make The Most Of Your Agents (and Improve Efficiency!)

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4 Key Contributors to Call Center Absenteeism and How to Address Them

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Abandonment rate. Agent satisfaction and attrition. Now that we’ve established the importance of managing call center absenteeism, it’s time for the next topic: how to manage its root causes. Do the noise levels allow agents to properly support your callers? Customer satisfaction (CSat).