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How to Boost Call Center Forecasting Accuracy

Monet Software

Forecasts are never 100%, but real-time call center data analysis helps fill the gaps. As we discussed here , contact center leaders spend significant time and energy creating detailed workforce management forecasts. This enables managers to view workforce metrics over time to guide their scheduling efforts.

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How to Create an Annual Call Center Forecast

Monet Software

Inevitably, the CFO wants an accurate budget and the recruitment team needs to know how many full-time equivalents (FTEs) to bring on two months from now. With these demands alone, new call center analysts can easily be overwhelmed by the prospect of predicting costs and call volumes that include 12 months of forecasting.

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7 Things Great Call Center Managers do Every Day

Fonolo

UPDATED FEBRUARY 2020: The call center is an extremely stressful work environment. Simply knowing how to run a call center isn’t enough for success. Below we look into some of the things call center managers must do every day to be successful, along with tips on how to execute them.

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Down with Spreadsheets and Erlang Formulas!

Monet Software

It’s that time of year again. No, not the holidays—the deadline for the 2020 annual call center budget ! Contact center managers are putting the pieces together to get a full picture of their future resource needs. 2 Handle Time Estimates. 3 Occupancy and Shrinkage Predictions.

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Top Tips for Managing Spikes in Customer Contact Volumes

Monet Software

With the right strategies in place, sharp changes in contact volumes shouldn’t overwhelm agents, degrade the customer experience, or harm the call center budget. To anyone unfamiliar with contact centers, it would seem that staffing is a basic math problem. It’s all a matter of forward-thinking. Staffing is Never Simple.

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Ten Dumb Things Smart Contact Center Executives Do

Taylor Reach Group

Keeping current on Contact Center technologies will allow you to understand where these technologies can be applied to increase customer satisfaction, improve KPIs, reduce costs and/or optimize Contact Center operations specific to your organization’s desire. Not reading trade press, blogs and newsletters. “We

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Top trends for the contact center in 2019 – part 1, the human touch

Noble Systems

Many of the 2019 trends indicate a “back to basics” approach with an emphasis on the ultimate goal for contact centers — to foster meaningful connections with consumers. After researching several articles, white papers and ebooks on the topic, this blog’s intention is to bring clarity to what the experts are saying.