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Understanding Average Handling Time

Brad Cleveland Blog

Once I worked with a technical support center that had a fairly wide range of average handling times (AHTs). Most of the agents had AHTs somewhere from 8 to 12 minutes, but the AHT for one agent in the group was over 20 minutes.

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Mattress Firm’s Contact Center Rises and Shines – Improving QA Scores and Average Handle Time

NICE inContact

But Mattress Firm could rest easy once it switched to NICE inContact CXone, the cloud-based, customer experience platform that supports workforce management, quality management and skills-based routing. Operational efficiency has improved, quality assurance (QA) scores are soaring and agent adherence has risen steadily.

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Young Energy Improves Average Handle Time (AHT) and Motivates Contact Center Agents

NICE inContact

In fact, implementing NICE inContact CXone has resulted in significant improvements in everything from average handle time (AHT) to average speed of answer (ASA) to quality assurance scores. Working with NICE inContact has accomplished all that and more. Even sales increased as a residual benefit!

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Better Together (Blog#3)

Enghouse Interactive

Trends and Realities of Successful Organizations (Blog Series). In our last blog , we explored how successful companies outperform customer expectations by leveraging video – a communications channel that customers have come to prefer. Blog #3 of 4: Customer-facing agents. Back office support. Subject matter experts.

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Coaching — Medicine for the Contact Center

NICE inContact

However, every day in the contact center, supervisors and managers send incomplete messages to their agents, failing to prescribe what “medicine” is needed to correct their performance problems. In the contact center, we might tell an agent “your average handle time is too high.” Select the Right QM Platform.

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How are Omnichannel and Artificial Intelligence Changing Quality Management?

NICE inContact

The current decade has brought many changes to quality management, including the increase of treating customer interactions using omnichannel – the ability to handle queries flexibly across self-service and agent-assisted media channels with full context. appeared first on NICE inContact Blog.

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New Ways to Think About Contact Center Quality Monitoring

NICE inContact

Contact center managers know that quality monitoring and management is necessary to maintain or improve Customer Satisfaction (CSAT). It can be difficult, however, to tie contact center contributions to CSAT and then to resulting dollars, making it even more difficult to justify needed quality management investments.