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

JustCall

It shows more customers are interested in your product or service. But, it also leads to chaotic calls and handling long call queues for customer support and sales teams. It can further lead to a dip in customer experience and a shrinking ROI. A surge in call volume is always good news for your business.

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Workforce Management for Call Centers: What You Need to Know

Playvox

Call center workforce management is the art and science of having the right number of agents available at the right times to answer an accurately forecasted volume of incoming customer contacts at the service level standard set by a contact center while minimizing cost. Does your spreadsheet do all that?

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Finding the Balance with Call Center Efficiency: 5 Tips for Improving Efficiency and Empowering your Agents

SharpenCX

Of course, some idle time is necessary to prevent agent burnout. When we talk about idle time, we’re not talking about bathroom breaks, minutes of rest and mindfulness, or your agent’s lunch hour. Agents could use idle time to send out customer surveys with questions regarding recent interactions.

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How to Improve Call Center Productivity

Balto

Average Handling Time (AHT). The Average Handling Time (AHT) is the total amount of time an agent spends handling a customer, measured in seconds. This includes the time spent in the phone call itself, in addition to after-call work and hold and transfer time.

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What Is Contact Center AI?

Balto

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) in your contact center can help you solve even the most challenging customer experience problems. And with customers having higher service level expectations than ever, deploying AI solutions into your existing contact center systems is vital for business success.