Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

Managing forecasting, scheduling, and agent productivity in a call center is a lot like searching for the fountain of youth. While we don’t have a roadmap to the proverbial fountain, we can help steer you in the right direction for better call center workforce management (WFM).

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Hodusoft

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Top 10 Tips to Improve the Productivity of Your Call Center Agents. Call centers are typically considered cost centers, evaluated primarily based on the results they produce. Particularly, the metric- cost per contact. In a call center, stress can impact agents and influence the center as a whole.

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Quality Contact Solutions

DECEMBER 31, 1969

One of the most commonly asked questions when it comes to inbound call center outsourcing is around metrics. Because there are so many metrics that are available to track internally, externally, at the inbound call center agent level and the program level, it’s no wonder people stop to think “where do I begin?”

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Playvox

JULY 14, 2023

Here’s the blueprint for achieving greater agent productivity in your call center. Contact Center Agent Productivity Defined Call center agent productivity is based on the efficiency and effectiveness with which your agents handle customer interactions, such as incoming calls, emails, chats, and social interactions.

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Monet Software

JUNE 10, 2021

An optimal schedule is cost-efficient and good for the bottom line, but it can also be a core part of the employee engagement strategy, if you follow a few simple tips. #1 Better schedules make for better shifts, too, because agents neither feel overwhelmed nor underutilized. Download it now to become a true scheduling boss.

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Talkdesk

JULY 16, 2019

Call Center Performance Management is a program, generally led by a contact center operations manager, dedicated to calculating and improving the performance of contact center agents. Performance Management generally requires a number of tools like call recording , quality monitoring , coaching , and gamification.

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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. You might think a simpler measurement like “call per hour” would answer this same question.

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OctopusTech

MARCH 1, 2023

Most companies will set up or adopt a call center to field customer service requests and complaints. These call centers organize phone support queues and equally distribute calls to reps on the service team. What Are Inbound Calls?

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Fonolo

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Sure, if you’re hiring correctly, your contact center will be filled to the brim with the right personalities and work ethics for success—but being surrounded by the best call center agents means effective training, constant support, and strategic goal setting. Performance Evaluation Scorecard for the Contact Center. (It

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

In our on-going effort to demystify 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. You might think a simpler measurement like “call per hour” would answer this same question.

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Taylor Reach Group

MARCH 27, 2018

Contact centers, customer service and customer experience: news, views and how to's. Inside this issue: Call Center, Contact Center and Customer Experience Events - April 2018. Operational Indicators - Average Handle Time (AHT). Calculating Schedule Adherence in the Contact Center .

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Playvox

AUGUST 25, 2022

All these singular actions can negatively impact service level metrics and the customer experience. A workforce management professional can have all the “rights” in place – the right people at the right place at the right time with the right forecast and the right schedule – but we cannot account for all aspects of human behavior.

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Monet Software

JULY 25, 2019

Workforce management is a critical task for contact centers and help desks, as poor planning and execution can have a negative impact on your business (revenues, costs) your customers (satisfaction, loyalty) and even your employees (motivation/turnover/burn-out). It all depends where you stand. Boost productivity.

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Serenova

AUGUST 25, 2020

This article provides a roadmap for how call centers can leverage workforce management solutions to optimize customer experience and employee engagement. Supports schedule compliance. Schedule adherence assesses how closely a contact center agent follows their scheduled activities. Minimize hold time.

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Playvox

JUNE 22, 2023

Tracking, reporting, and improving upon metrics are essential across all areas of business, including finance, sales, marketing, and contact center management. In uncertain economic times, they become even more critical to help navigate business health and growth. What Are Call Center Efficiency Metrics?

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Serenova

AUGUST 25, 2020

This article provides a roadmap for how call centers can leverage workforce management solutions to optimize customer experience and employee engagement. By merging your routing engine, your operations team can take control of task distribution logic and instill a set of processes that are less time-consuming.

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

JULY 9, 2018

How does a contact center know it’s consistently delivering high quality service? It begins with setting metrics. The right metrics or key performance indicators (KPIs) should effectively measure a business’s specific capacities. Here’s a list of the most crucial metrics that inbound call center must measure.

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ViiBE Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

The call center agent is at the core of any call center. So how can you evaluate a call center agent’s performance? This article will teach you how to measure an agent’s performance and other important customer service metrics. What are the KPIs in a call center?

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Dialer 360

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Some the people probably also knows about the inbound and outbound centers. But the most significant thing is how you can improve the level of call center service? For a beginner, an incoming call center is where reps answer a call from customers. What Is A Call Center Service Level?

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Monet Software

JULY 30, 2019

This specifically applies to contact centers which are in the frontline of customer service and are gathering heaps of information, insights and data every minute, every hour, every day. As a call center manager, these waves of data that come from different channels and platforms can be overwhelming. Want to know the best part?

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Contact Center Geek

MARCH 22, 2019

She is lauded for having the lowest Average Handle Time, highest Call Quality scores, and highest Schedule Adherence. This is a common practice in many contact centers. At the time, I was running a customer service and sales call center for a large national bank.

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JustCall

MARCH 9, 2023

Contact center metrics and key performance indicators are these parameters – the reflection of how a business has made its customers happy. While earlier businesses didn’t focus much on delivering value to customers through their call centers, the trends today have changed. You want this metric to be as low as possible.

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Pointillist

JANUARY 25, 2019

By Swati Sahai Call centers are an operationally-complex element of your business, but they play a big role in your customers’ experience with your company. It’s no easy task, but the right mix of call center metrics and KPIs can help you stay the course. CES can be measured on a five-point or a seven-point scale.

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Babelforce

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

There’s a lot of terminology to get your head around in call centers and customer experience. Working with contact centers around the world, we know that better than anyone!). Make sure to bookmark this page for the next time someone asks you to define a predictive dialer! Metrics and measurables.

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Customer Service Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It’s at this point in the meeting that they reveal the millions of metrics available to any contact center leader who adopts the platform. As someone who loves my metrics, I get giddy as I start considering just how many I can fit onto a single dashboard. But are more metrics really better?

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3CLogic

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

According to a report from research-driven AI company ASAPP , the primary reasons for contact center attrition are: Inadequate training. Metric standards that don’t make sense. Go Beyond Metrics To Offer Individualized Coaching. Low-quality feedback from supervisors. Technology that isn’t up to par. Rude or aggressive customers.

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Taylor Reach Group

AUGUST 23, 2017

Metrics, Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s), Reports – we have a lot of names for the information and data we review to help keep our centers on track and performing as we want them to. Contact Centers can generate an immense amount of data and reporting on just about anything that we could conceive. Login time.

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Noble Systems

JUNE 27, 2019

In addition to automating scheduling using factors such as work rules, availability and SLAs, WFM can send reminder messages about shifts, breaks, training and meetings to agents to improve schedule adherence.

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