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Contact Centers Focusing Less on 80/20 Service Level

Fonolo

In the wide world of call center metrics, “service level” has always held a special place. Its origins go back over 5 decades, to the earliest days of call centers. Contact centers are realizing more and more that adhering too closely to this one metric may not yield optimal results. Definitions.

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Calculating Average Handle Time in Light of Customer Experience and IVRs

Taylor Reach Group

Definition of Average Handle Time: The average time spent handling a contact with a customer, which may be a call, email, chat or any kind of request. Calculation: Total Handle Time/Total Contacts. By: Peg Ayers and Turaj Seyrafiaan.

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The Essential Guide to WFM – Key Features to Look For

CCNG

Ultimately, if your software cannot produce the required number of full-time equivalent (FTE) to meet your goal (service level or abandon rate) then it’s not a WFM platform. Scheduling Core Features Matching Schedules to Forecasted Volume The common definition of WFM is “right people, right place, right time”.

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Boost Productivity with the “Right” Contact Center KPIs and Gamification

Noble Systems

Improving contact center agent productivity can have a major impact on bottom-line results. There are many lists of “Top” Contact Center KPIs that you can access with a simple Internet search. There are many lists of “Top” Contact Center KPIs that you can access with a simple Internet search. Service Level.

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Schedule like a Boss

Monet Software

8 Tips for Optimizing Schedules and Enhancing Contact Center Workforce Engagement.at the Same Time. Many contact center managers, however, don’t realize how much more value their scheduling activity can deliver to employees, beyond letting agents know when to show up for shifts. We all love a win-win.

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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.

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Measuring Call Quality in Your Contact Center Using Workforce Management Metrics

Monet Software

Whether you are the CEO, COO, QA Analyst or Customer Service Agent, the number one goal of your contact center is to deliver a quality experience that lends itself to an increase in customer satisfaction. Average Handling Time. Contact Quality. Service Level. Customer Satisfaction.