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5 Tips To Reduce Your Call Center’s Average Handle Time (AHT)

Global Response

If so, it might be time to start reducing your average handle time. Although average handle time might seem like a small—and primarily internal—metric, it can make a big difference on customer satisfaction. your average handle time. Ready to perfect your CX?

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ROBUST KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS CAN CUT COSTS

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The drive toward self-service is a reality and with good reason, as customers want self-service. DO MORE WITH LESS There is a difference between a knowledge base and knowledge management systems. A knowledge management system can be used with all agent channels and should have an AI component.

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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. As customer self-service has become more prevalent, AHT has gone up for most companies.

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How DSW Reduced Their Average Handle Time By 19%

SmartAction

While DSW has encountered tremendous growth, that has also meant mounting customer service pressure yielding millions of inbound calls per year. DSW turned to SmartAction in 2018 to collaborate on a self-service strategy to augment their NICE inContact platform with conversational AI. Q: Tell us about DSW’s growth.

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Study: The Health of the Contact Center

What does it take to engage agents in this customer-centric era? Download our study of 1,000 contact center agents in the US and UK to find out what major challenges are facing contact center agents today – and what your company can do about it.

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New KPI Metrics in the Era of Self Service

TechSee

With many of these channels and tools enabling self-service, old-school KPIs are no longer sufficient. When a virtual agent fields a customer’s enquiry, collects all relevant details and passes it to a human agent for final approval, how should average handling time ( AHT ) be measured? Call Deflection Rate.

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Key contact center metrics you should be tracking

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Average Handle Time (AHT) An efficiency metric, average handle time measures the amount of time it takes each agent to converse with a customer. Lowering AHT lowers the cost to serve and increases agent availability. However, to be a genuinely effective metric, AHT needs to be viewed in context.

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The Health of the Contact Center: Are You Ready for 2019?

A survey of 1,000 contact center professionals reveals what it takes to improve agent well-being in a customer-centric era. This report is a must-read for contact center leaders preparing to engage agents and improve customer experience in 2019.

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6 Killer Applications for Artificial Intelligence in the Customer Engagement Contact Center

If Artificial Intelligence for businesses is a red-hot topic in C-suites, AI for customer engagement and contact center customer service is white hot. This white paper covers specific areas in this domain that offer potential for transformational ROI, and a fast, zero-risk way to innovate with AI.