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Coaching — Medicine for the Contact Center

NICE inContact

The best QM and PM programs in the world won’t drive improved results if agents aren’t receiving effective coaching — the medicine of the contact center. From my time in the contact center, I know that when things get busy, coaching is the first thing to get pushed to the side — to the detriment of agents and your customers alike.

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How Do You Know Your Agent Training is Effective?

Vistio

This can include regular coaching sessions, further training modules, and access to relevant resources such as knowledge articles and best practice guidelines. Average Handle Time (AHT): An indicator of agent efficiency. As agent training effectiveness improves, FCR rates are expected to increase.

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BPO Vendor Management Part Two: Your Top 3 Training Priorities

Outsource Consultants

Coach walks in with brand new pads and your slick designer uniforms, uttering some version of “To play like champions, we need to look like champions.”. Call it the Emilio Estevez strategy , if you want, but it’s time to rally your team around the right tools to create the all-star staff you’ve been dreaming of.

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Real-Time Guidance Is Key to a Great Service Experience

DMG Consulting

Real-time guidance and NBA tools give agents the insights they need to elevate each customer interaction from an information-gathering and delivery exercise to a problem-solving and relationship-building session. These capabilities can help agents enhance and grow relationships with customers by suggesting upsells or new products.

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The Morale Doctor is In

Monet Software

You may want to start by putting the agent in touch with a trusted member of the team, perhaps a sensitive HR professional or their quality coach, whomever has the best rapport with the individual. Can you switch up the work, put them in charge of a project, have them coach a colleague or offer other opportunities?

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5 Fun Call Center Soft Skills Training Activities

Fonolo

This will improve KPIs in the long run, including Average Handle Time, Customer Satisfaction (CSat), and First Call Resolution (FCR). This exercise is meant to help agents read between the lines of what the customer is saying, as well as understand their tone of voice. Working with goals and targets. 20 Questions.

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How To Manage The Average Handling Time (AHT) For Contact Centers?

NobelBiz

However, it is obvious that insufficient training, incompatible interfaces and other factors might result in an increase of Average Handling Time. But, how is the Average Handling Time (AHT) calculated? What is the Average Handling Time (AHT) for Contact Centers?