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How to Measure Contact Center Agent Productivity and Five Ways to Boost It

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To ensure your contact center agents spend a vast majority of their time with customers resolving issues and as little time as possible on administrative tasks and after-call work, agents need the right kind of tools, processes, coaching, motivation, and goals in place. How are managers delivering coaching?

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How To Identify And Address Call Avoidance

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Take a look at these examples of avoidance strategies by agents and what you can do about them. Review short handle times or average handle time. The agent will typically show a shorter handle time than their peers. Actions: Review hold time reports. How To Address Call Avoidance.

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Call Center Improvement Strategies that Work: 4 Ways to Offer your Agents Instant Feedback and Finally Deliver on Your Customer Experience Promises

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This fleeting access to memory is why in-the-moment coaching is so impactful. Download Now: Get real about coaching and training your agents with these 7 techniques. A typical call center coaches and trains agents in a few different ways. And, they cram months (and months) of feedback into a single coaching session.

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How to Tailor Your Customer Analytics & Reports to Appeal to 3 Different Internal Stakeholders (Your Agents, Managers, and the C-Suite)

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Turns out, only a measly 1% of contact center leaders feel fully confident in their current data strategy. Distill all the data living in your contact center down into a few important charts and graphs in your reports, so you can pull out actionable insights for coaching. Let’s change that. .

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13 Best Practices for Call Queue Management in Your Call Center to Improve Your Customer Experience

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Download Now: Use customer data to fuel better customer experience strategies. Research says American consumers spend an average of 13 hours a year waiting in a call queue. Simplify your queues so agents can gracefully handle interactions, and so customers get the outcomes they deserve. Explore different routing strategies.

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Are You Using 1999 Metrics to Measure 2019 Customer Care?

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Instead, we live in a customer-centric world, where metrics like Average Speed of Answer (ASA), Average Handle Time (AHT), and First Call Resolution (FCR) are, by themselves, short-sighted and more focused on controlling costs instead of enhancing the experience. Contact us here.

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Why A Digital Contact Center Is Essential for Meeting Today’s Customer Expectations

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You also need one that empowers your workforce, harnessing the power of motivation and coaching for more agent productivity. Related eBook: Why Digital Matters: Connecting With Customers Beyond Voice Data, Data, Data I’m in love with my new smartwatch. But I digress, let’s talk about the real stars of our show — the customers.