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The Coming Disruption of the Contact Center Outsourcing Industry

Taylor Reach Group

The CCO’s employ forecasts which are matched to the contractual KPI’s, most commonly, Service Level (the percentage of contacts answered within a specified time-period, which often varies by channel), Average Handle Time and Abandon rate. Internally the quality assessors can calibrate between themselves.

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The Coming Disruption of the Contact Center Outsourcing Industry – Part 2

Taylor Reach Group

This point and the futility or calibrating a 5 to 6 on a 10-point scale are why most quality programs actually offer no insight into actual quality. Together this makes for an effective quality program, without expensive and time-consuming calibration and ambiguous results. The old Contact Center Outsourcing (CCO) model is broken.

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Looking for an Inbound Call Center Outsourcing Partner? Keep These Tips in Your Glovebox

Quality Contact Solutions

Consider metrics such as average speed of answer, abandon rate, utilization, talk times, first call resolution, etc. Regularly held calibration sessions between the client and the outsourcer are essential, especially at the beginning of the partnership. The purpose is to ensure alignment and course-correct as needed.

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Call Center Dialer Software: Optimization Best Practices

NobelBiz

Every step of the process can be calibrated to minimize the agent’s effort, from dialing the number to logging the call in the CRM. Abandon Rate must be monitored as progressive dialing does not measure agent or customer statistics. Requires Larger amounts of data to “churn” if higher ratios are set.

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Scorecard Template: Improve CX With a Call Center Scorecard

Voxjar

Average abandonment rate: the rate at which a customer gives up on connecting. For help building an objective and effective scoring process, check out our guide to call center call calibration. Did the rep follow compliance procedures? Average handle time: how quickly reps resolve inquiries.