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How Do You Measure Your Customer Service Team’s Capacity? 

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In this article, we will explore the main aspects of capacity planning. Capacity planning is the process of understanding and predicting the volume an individual team can handle effectively to meet current and future demands. That means that your agent’s working capacity is 125 hours in a work month.

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Why AHTs Still Matter and 5 Ways to Improve Them

CSM Magazine

Average handle time is an important contact centre metric but it can be a double-edged sword that creates customer dissatisfaction. It’s important to strike the balance between speed and personalised service delivery.

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Protecting Your Contact Center Agents’ Emotional Well-Being

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Signs And Effects Of Poor Agent Emotional Well-Being In Your Contact Center Working with customers requires a lot of emotional labor from your customer service center agents — even if customers are happy. Burnout Burnout is at the heart of poor emotional well-being in a contact center.

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7 Proven Ways to Manage Contact Center Agent Staffing Shortages

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This difficulty includes finding contact center agents. It’s always been a challenge to recruit and retain talented agents. According to an article published on TechTarget , 35% of businesses report having difficulty finding contact center agent candidates with the necessary skills. Increased agent burnout.

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Workforce Management for Call Centers: What You Need to Know

Playvox

As customer interactions and support have become more complex, and contact centers provide omnichannel support, call center leaders need a better way to maximize agent performance, gain operational efficiencies, and deliver an outstanding customer service experience. Does your spreadsheet do all that?

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The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Successful Predictive Dialer Campaign for Your Business

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As the adage goes, “Lost time is never found again.” And it perfectly suits our topic for this article. Predictive dialers occupy a cornerstone place in every outbound calling strategy as they shorten the time between answered calls, enabling your team to connect with your customers and reach new leads faster.

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How to Control Call Avoidance and Interaction Avoidance

Playvox

While some might only see this as an agent behavior issue, the truth is, it’s a broad problem with a significant impact on the business. It has negative implications on your customer experience, forecasting, scheduling, and overall budget. Related Article: 17 Most Effective KPIs To Evaluate Customer Service Performance.