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The Ultimate Guide to Call Center Agent Performance

Fonolo

Your current contact center platform may have analytics features to track agent activity, but it’s not the only method available. Schedule Adherence Schedule Adherence is another older metric that can still be a useful measure of agent attendance. A better approach is to focus on improving agent satisfaction.

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Workforce Optimization: What It is and Why You Need It

Playvox

Operational costs – Agents who aren’t invested or lack training, feedback, or coaching tend to be inefficient, ultimately costing your business financially. Schedule adherence – When agents don’t adhere to schedules, they aren’t available to service customers as planned.

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12 Call Center Best Practices You Need to Be Doing Right Now

Callminer

Quality monitoring software , such as speech analytics , automatically monitor and score 100% of calls, helping managers deliver objective feedback and improve agent performance. In addition to call monitoring and scoring, managers and supervisors should also make it a point to schedule in time for targeted coaching sessions with agents.

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How to Take Your WFM to the Next Level

Call Design

Or we could focus on “right time”, concentrating on our forecast accuracy and schedule adherence. We define our agents as “top producers” or “needs coaching”. DIRECTOR OF WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT AND ANALYTICS AT WORLD TRAVEL HOLDINGS. Clearly this leaves one last thing to focus on “the right agent”. Dan Smitley.

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Transforming Your Contact Center Culture: A Case Study in Attitude and Effort

Expivia

Quantifying effort was relatively straightforward – it’s about showing up consistently, being open to coaching, and demonstrating commitment to improving. The advent of analytics helped us address this issue. With analytics, we could measure agents’ tone during conversations, enabling us to quantify attitude.

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How to Ensure Business Continuity for Call Centers During COVID-19

Noble Systems

VoIP via home broadband along with a VPN connection to the corporate network will provide secure access to enterprise applications such as CRM, workforce engagement, analytics, and gamification systems. Cloud-based contact centers allow for remote configuration so that agents can work from home. Create and implement a staff training plan.

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Taking a Closer Look at How to Rise to the Challenge of COVID-19

Serenova

Advanced Reporting & Analytics. Supervisors can identify exactly where each agent is delivering great service while uncovering opportunities for additional training and coaching. Serenova WFM can help minimize administrative effort, improve agent engagement and schedule adherence, and reduce labor costs.