Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Making sure the team is on track with their key metric goals is a big part of call center strategy. To put it succinctly, schedule adherence is a metric that calculates whether agents are actually available during their scheduled times. Agent burnout. 5 Tips to Prevent Call Center Agent Burnout Before it Begins.

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CCNG

MARCH 8, 2023

In this blog post, we're discussing how to recognize warning signs and prevent contact center agent apathy before it affects performance metrics (and profits!). You Didn't Hire Apathetic Agents Employee blame is often the first reaction when agent apathy is discovered.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Conversations around call center optimization often focus on technology, training, and metrics, but call center workforce optimization also includes the physical elements of your operation. Ensure your space works for you, your agents, and your customers. 5 Tips to Prevent Call Center Agent Burnout Before it Begins.

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TechSee

MAY 18, 2022

While these metrics measure agents’ productivity, occupancy only considers the time agents are active when logged in , while utilization includes total work time. This means that to measure occupancy, Management would look only at the agent’s capacity to engage with customers vs. the time actually spent engaging with customers.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 3, 2021

This is where organizing your contact center metrics into custom reports comes into play. The Executive Guide to Improving 6 Call Center Metrics. To clearly depict achievements and opportunities, your contact center metrics should be displayed in a visually appealing way that clearly defines your achievements. Quality score.

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Fonolo

MARCH 25, 2021

But have you considered the impact of your agent satisfaction? Yet less than 30% of contact centers track this metric, despite its direct impact on standard industry KPIs. If you don’t know the state of your agents’ satisfaction levels, it can be difficult to create positive change. Work-life balance. Why or why not?

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Fonolo

MARCH 8, 2022

Behind hold times and high call volumes, management must ensure every agent is trained, every shift is covered, and every customer is satisfied. Put simply, your call center workforce refers to your agents. Agent burnout. Any miscalculations in forecasting or scheduling could result in overworked agents.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Average handle time is an important contact centre metric but it can be a double-edged sword that creates customer dissatisfaction. So, is Average Handle Time (AHT) still a relevant metric and what does it mean for contact centres today? It’s important to strike the balance between speed and personalised service delivery.

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JustCall

APRIL 3, 2024

This automation streamlines workflows and ensures essential information is readily accessible to agents during calls. Provide comprehensive training We all know that training your agents is essential for building a high-performing team. They can also infuriate your customers/prospects, increasing their angry customers.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 31, 2022

Agent productivity shouldn’t solely be based on the output of an agent – rather, it should consider the overall experience during each customer interaction. Learn how you can better your team performance below… How to Foster Agent Engagement in a Hybrid Contact Center. 4 Ways to Make Call Center Training More Fun.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Absenteeism, otherwise known as absence rate, is arguably one of the most overlooked call center metrics. This percentage figure reveals the amount of unapproved or unplanned time agents spend away from their work. This can cause the following call center metrics to suffer: Cost of operation. Agent satisfaction and attrition.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 15, 2023

When it comes to demystifying call center metrics, ‘occupancy rate’ shouldn’t be forgotten. Occupancy rate is basically a measure of how “busy” call center agents are when they are at work. Occupancy rate is the percentage of time that agents spend handling customer inquiries vs. waiting for calls (idle time).

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Playvox

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

When you create the right policy, you’ll get call avoidance rates down — to the benefit of both your customer satisfaction metrics and your agents’ experiences. While to the agent, it’s just handling another customer interaction, they are the “face” of the company and take the brunt of the rage from the customer.

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JustCall

MARCH 6, 2023

Call Center Productivity and Metrics Call center metrics are crucial to understand and measure performance. They reveal agent strengths and weaknesses, as well as customer satisfaction, and whether or not you have the right people and technology in place. Over time, they indicate the need for more training.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Training, coaching, legacy technology, and lack of career opportunities top the list of issues for agents along with handling irate customers. Training/Coaching. A recurrent response by agents is that they want to be empowered to help customers. Nevertheless, 78% of agents report metric manipulation.

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Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

Replacing agents lost to attrition is costly — averaging more than $14,000 per agent. To keep turnover under control, you have to make sure your managers are trained to keep engagement up and morale high. In service centers, the source of managers’ lack of connection with agents often stems from a lack of training.

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Fonolo

MAY 31, 2022

Utilization Rate will help you determine the total time your agents are logged in, assisting customers, and available to assist customers but doing other things. Some tasks to keep in mind are: Training sessions. Total Shift Time —The full amount of time an agent was scheduled to work. Coaching one-on-ones. Team meetings.

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Playvox

JULY 31, 2023

Employee self-service allows employees to access a host of information and take care of simple processes themselves, such as requesting leave, checking on their schedules, performing shift swaps, and viewing their performance against KPI metrics. This timely reaction to metrics is crucial in a fast-paced contact center environment.

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Fonolo

MAY 31, 2022

Utilization Rate will help you determine the total time your agents are logged in, assisting customers, and available to assist customers but doing other things. Some tasks to keep in mind are: Training sessions. Total Shift Time —The full amount of time an agent was scheduled to work. Coaching one-on-ones. Team meetings.

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SharpenCX

MAY 6, 2020

And, when you coach often to bring clarity to goals, expectations and performance, agents know where to improve. Workforce optimization & engagement leads to higher productivity that drives money-saving metrics. Then, you can help agents optimize their time at work. And, when you limit burnout, you cut agent attrition.

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Playvox

APRIL 6, 2023

If too many people are scheduled, you’ll see downtime between interactions, lower occupancy rates, and lower employee productivity for the agents. If not enough people are scheduled, you will often see agent burnout due to minimal breaks between interactions, a higher-than-ideal occupancy rate, and higher overtime costs.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Whether your company uses CSAT, NPS, CES, or some other metric to measure customer satisfaction, one thing is certain — customer satisfaction plays a critical role to a company’s financial success. It’s important to note, however, that much like a human agent, a virtual agent is only as good as the training it receives.

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Global Response

AUGUST 7, 2023

If so, you should have a work environment that’s designed for easy collaboration, regular training and meetings where teams can work together, workflows that support cross-team collaboration, state-of-the-art communication tools so teams can easily communicate, and so on. Invest in training and development.

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Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

Effective scheduling not only ensures adequate coverage, but leverages agents’ skills and experience to maximize customer satisfaction and helps to avoid agent burnout. In addition, WFM solutions can provide agent-level tracking to help with performance management and agent engagement.

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SharpenCX

APRIL 1, 2020

You can create specific goals and benchmarks to help your agents reduce customer churn, like improving CSAT and positive customer outcomes. On the flipside, a corporate goal like improving workplace culture and manager training isn’t actionable to your customer service team. And, do they understand each goal and why it matters?

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NobelBiz

MARCH 6, 2023

Screen calls and route them to the most appropriate agent based on the customer’s needs and/or inquiry type. This ensures that customers are connected to the right agent. Track call center metrics, such as average handling time, first-call resolution rate, and customer satisfaction scores.

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Talkdesk

JULY 16, 2019

Challenges of Performance Management Traditionally, call center managers have used a combination of quality monitoring, team trainings, and one-on-one coaching to address employee engagement and improve agent performance. Contact center agents may also take issue with the performance metrics being used to assess them.

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SharpenCX

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

With upgraded reporting, you can see how agents perform compared to industry standards and your past track record. With metrics and KPIs, you set the bar for performance across your contact center. Use metrics to know where your agents need more coaching or training. Seize the idle time to train and coach agents.

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SharpenCX

APRIL 29, 2020

And, look to your year-over-year metrics for added guidance, too. Once you have these predictions on deck, you can use WFM tools (like Sharpen + Community WFM ) and additional service-level metrics to figure out how many agents you need to take care of incoming customer needs. Coaching builds confidence in your agents.

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Balto

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Figure 2: Respondent Reasons For Thinking The Contact Center is Not a Strong Career Before managers start quizzing their job applicants about their social propensities, consider how the contact center can also be an effective training ground for those who want to work on their social skills. 5 job satisfaction rating on average).

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aircall

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Analytics also provides the means for you to set up metrics and KPIs to gauge your team’s productivity and inform your decisions about scaling your teams. To accomplish this, it’s important to use call metrics and KPIs and continually monitor a process for efficiency. Support agent burnout. 1) Analytics. Abandoned calls.

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JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

Call Recorders Automatic call recording systems record customer-agent conversations. These call records are then stored in the repository and can be played back during training sessions to equip call agents with strategies during a difficult call. Set a minimum service level for every agent.

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Robert Davis

APRIL 5, 2018

Telesales agents trained in conversational sales techniques provide a meaningful emotional connection that not only increases conversion rates and customer satisfaction, but customer loyalty as well. Let’s face it; the outbound agent will encounter many more “no’s” than “yes’s.” Outbound telemarketing is not for everyone.

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Robert C. Davis and Associates

APRIL 5, 2018

Telesales agents trained in conversational sales techniques provide a meaningful emotional connection that not only increases conversion rates and customer satisfaction, but customer loyalty as well. Let’s face it; the outbound agent will encounter many more “no’s” than “yes’s.” Outbound telemarketing is not for everyone.

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Babelforce

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

There are plenty of metrics and KPIs you can track to gain useful insight into your contact center operations. With this in mind, here are the ten call center metrics that many experts agree are absolutely vital. Top Ten Call Center Metrics. #1 CSat is a crucial CX metric that gauges how customers truly feel about your service.

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Mindtouch

MARCH 28, 2018

Ultimately, the extent to which our agents can resolve cases in a timely, accurate, and friendly manner can be the difference between a happy or dissatisfied customer. 5 Benefits of Improving Agent Productivity. Limit Agent Churn – The under-equipped agent will soon be overwhelmed by caseload, eventually leading to burnout.

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