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7 Essential Tips for Reducing Average Handling Time

VocalCom

For this reason, average handling time, or AHT, is often considered an important metric to measure in the contact center, as agents strive to offer great customer service while keeping their interactions as short as possible. Keeping agents well-informed is essential to reducing average handling time.

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ROBUST KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS CAN CUT COSTS

CCNG

It seems logical that the average time could be reduced if customer-facing agents could find the answer at conversational speed without having to scroll through articles, frantically trying to find the right information.With a reduced average handle time, the contact center would be able to handle these calls with a lower headcount.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of October 2, 2023

ShepHyken

AHT, as in average handle time, is a metric used to measure the average length of time for a customer support call. Some companies look for low AHTs, hoping to manage more calls per hour or shift with a lower time. My Comment: For those in the customer support world, this article is for you.

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5 Workforce Management Benefits for Contact Centers

Global Response

Drives Service Levels with Proper Forecast The ability to use historical data, trends and other variables such as special events, allows WFM to create volume and staffing forecasts that align with business needs. This includes efficient management of time off requests from a business needs perspective. Five WFM Benefits are: 1.

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What Is Call Center Forecasting (and How to Increase Your Forecast Accuracy)

Babelforce

Here you determine how many Full-Time Equivalents you need compared to how many you have by pulling together a forecast for staffing and workload. Workload forecast is the contact volume (the number of incoming calls and messages) multiplied by contact average handle time AHT (time needed for a call). Conclusion.

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Ensure Business Continuity in Your Contact Center: Five Building Blocks

Aspect

They must know what to ignore and what to address in order to meet customer demands when facing disrupting events such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and pandemics — which levers to pull and when to manage the uncertainty brought on by these changes. annual improvement (decrease) in average handle times.

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Guest Blog: 4 Easy Ways to Achieve Difficult Customer Contact Goals

ShepHyken

Alternatively, dissect average handle time for your agents’ phone conversations. If the majority of handle time for a particular issue is spent on “qualification” rather than “resolution” or “connection,” the issue is likely a simple transaction that does not benefit from a live agent conversation.