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Contact Center Trends 2021: The CX Watershed

Fonolo

As the focus of contact center turns to creating value rather than reducing expenses, KPIs like customer satisfaction and service level will become increasingly favored over metrics like Average Handling Time. Call Centers Will Change in 2020. Improving Average Handle Time (AHT).

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Best Practices for Recruiting, Hiring and Training

COPC

offers three recommendations to determine the appropriate skill set needed in hiring call center professionals to address the needs of an omnichannel customer. For instance, it is common for a sales queue to hear that the minimum requirement is either “prior sales experience” or “prior call center experience.”