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Redefining Contact Center Productivity for the Modern Associate

The Northridge Group

Preferred Employee Experience: What Associates Want For employees, returning to fully in-office work reduces their experience by adding transportation time and costs, childcare expenses, and additional health expenses. On the other hand, a drop in abandonment rates is indicative of contact center efficiency and productivity.

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Call Center Optimization: 5 Methods to Improve Your Operation

Fonolo

Evaluate metrics like first-call resolution , customer satisfaction score, abandonment rate, and average handle time to measure performance, and compare them to your competitors. Ask agents for feedback, resolve issues, monitor performance, and take active steps to boost morale in the office.

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How to Measure Contact Center Agent Productivity and Five Ways to Boost It

Playvox

To ensure your contact center agents spend a vast majority of their time with customers resolving issues and as little time as possible on administrative tasks and after-call work, agents need the right kind of tools, processes, coaching, motivation, and goals in place. How are managers delivering coaching?

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10 Proven tips to achieve sales targets in a call center

Dialer 360

Call center managers should provide regular coaching and training sessions to agents on product knowledge, sales techniques, objection handling, and customer service skills. By analyzing this data, call center managers can identify areas of improvement, optimize sales strategies, and provide targeted coaching to agents.

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Christmas in July? Prepare Your Holiday Season Customer Service Now

TLC Associates

Seasonal agents might not have received proper training to resolve issues or ongoing coaching to improve their skills. Even an overemphasis on average handle time can skew these numbers. Average Handle Time – If your handle times were low, know that this KPI is not necessarily a reflection of your agents’ capabilities.

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Top Call Center Metrics and How to Use Them to Thrive in a Data-Driven World

Monet Software

You might want to look at Average Speed to Answer (ASA) and Abandonment Rate (AR) along with SLAs. Furthermore, you should invest in regular coaching sessions with a focus on the low performers. Abandonment Rate: Abandon rate represents the percentage of calls that are dropped by customers before they speak to an agent.

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Do your Reports Spark Joy? Tidy up your Reports to Reduce Call Center Stress and Boost Agent Engagement

SharpenCX

As a call center manager, not only do you deal with high-stress customer situations, but you’re also responsible for team strategy, performance goals, management of budgets, employee satisfaction and coaching. And, this hurts you, team morale, and your customers. I’m sure some days you’ll do just about anything to get a breath in.