CX Global Media

JANUARY 15, 2019

Whether you’re fighting the battle to stop eating that dessert you love that’s bad for you, or you continuously battle a war with contact center agent performance, it’s time for you to enjoy the sweet taste of victory. In more than twenty years in the contact center industry, improving agent performance has always been a major focus.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Reducing call center shrinkage sounds like a no-brainer. If you schedule enough staff, give them the tools to do their job, and ensure they stick to a schedule, your problem is solved, right? For starters, everyone knows call center agents work very hard — but no one can be at their desk 24/7.

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Call Center Schedule adherence First call resolution Morale 81

Taylor Reach Group

MARCH 21, 2018

Calculation: Agent’s scheduled log in time – total amount of minutes out of schedule adherence X 100. Agent’s scheduled log in time. Agent’s schedule adherence is (480-10)/480 X 100 = 98%. Schedule adherence is generally calculated by your scheduling/WFM system.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

On a good day a call center can run a well-oiled machine, but call center shrinkage can derail the best-laid plans. . Picture this: You’ve got 100 agents scheduled to work on a Monday morning—enough staff to cover this notoriously busy shift. Scheduled holidays and vacations. Post-call administrative work.

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Call Center Schedule adherence Benchmark Average Handle Time 87

Fonolo

MAY 30, 2023

Managers know that call center workforce management matters. Put it another way: if customer interactions are at the heart of a contact center’s success, then effective workforce management is the backbone. That’s why contact centers are investing in it in droves. How Can WFM Help my Contact Center?

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Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

Managing forecasting, scheduling, and agent productivity in a call center is a lot like searching for the fountain of youth. While we don’t have a roadmap to the proverbial fountain, we can help steer you in the right direction for better call center workforce management (WFM). WFM to the rescue.

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Talkdesk

MAY 12, 2020

The latest trend in at-home agent training centers around online, specialized tools that offer hands-on practice with a contact center interface, testing employees’ ability to learn and adapt to a technology they’ll be using daily. Encourage them to introduce their role on the team as well as how the agents can contact them.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JULY 11, 2018

It’s a complex issue that directly influences the business—positively or negatively—through staff retention, productivity, schedule adherence, workplace culture and morale, service delivery and customer experience.

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Employee engagement Contact Center Schedule adherence Morale 133

Playvox

JULY 14, 2023

Providing an ever-improving customer experience while boosting contact center agent productivity is paramount for your business. Here’s the blueprint for achieving greater agent productivity in your call center. The quality of customer service and support can also have an impact on the productivity of a contact center.

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Contact Center Coaching Schedule adherence Abandon rate 74

Callminer

APRIL 24, 2020

call center industry is alive and well. According to the data, the industry saw a total of 32,000 new positions added in Q1 2019, with several major companies expanding their call center operations. Agents are at the heart of any call center, considering they’re on the front lines of customer interaction.

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Hodusoft

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Top 10 Tips to Improve the Productivity of Your Call Center Agents. Call centers are typically considered cost centers, evaluated primarily based on the results they produce. Particularly, the metric- cost per contact. In a call center, stress can impact agents and influence the center as a whole.

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Monet Software

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

What is call center shrinkage? One of the most important concepts in schedule adherence is shrinkage. Shrinkage can be defined as the time for which people are paid during which they are not available to handle calls. So, how should you track and manage shrinkage in your call center?

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Contact Center Pipeline

JULY 13, 2016

Being a contact center leader is a demanding job. You have an overwhelming array of statistical performance measurements to track and analyze, such as average handle time, schedule adherence, personnel budgets, workforce management, voice of the customer tracking, etc. You have a large number of people to lead.

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Contact Center Schedule adherence Personalization Average Handle Time 133

Noble Systems

MARCH 19, 2021

This is especially true for managing customer contacts, which, while vital to growing a business, can have negative impacts if not done well. Call Center Software for SMB. In the past, the technology required to power small business call center software and hardware was usually expensive and bulky.

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Fonolo

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Sure, if you’re hiring correctly, your contact center will be filled to the brim with the right personalities and work ethics for success—but being surrounded by the best call center agents means effective training, constant support, and strategic goal setting. Performance Evaluation Scorecard for the Contact Center. (It

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Contact Center Schedule adherence Abandon rate Average Handle Time 81

Expivia

JULY 19, 2023

Contact centers are the heart of any business. However, shaping an effective contact center culture isn’t just about adhering to KPIs and maintaining quality scores. Two fundamental aspects we identified at our contact center are Attitude and Effort.

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Serenova

AUGUST 25, 2020

There are two constants in the contact center. Customer expectations are evolving, and contact center leaders are working to elevate the customer experience. For this reason, workforce management has become a core focus of discussion amongst leaders looking to take their contact centers to the next level.

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Noble Systems

APRIL 21, 2020

On the contrary, call center services are in high demand, and business continuity for call centers is becoming more important for economic and societal health. Contact center agents, considered essential critical infrastructure workers during COVID-19 by CISA , have always had a stressful job.

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Global Response

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Call center KPIs are chosen to measure progress toward the goals of each brand, and selection is customized to fit each unique set of objectives. There are KPIs that may be considered basic to the contact center. Celebrate wins Achieving KPIs is a necessary part of the call center job.

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Talkdesk

APRIL 10, 2019

Tracking The Call Center Metrics That Matter Maintaining a high level of customer experience is difficult, especially considering the dozens of metrics that you could be tracking to help you answer the question “Are my customers happy?”. Downtime: How many minutes or hours per month is your contact center software down or unavailable?

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Monet Software

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Where is it written that only contact centers with 100 agents or more can benefit from a workforce management solution? These are the goals shared by every contact center regardless of size. And they are a greater challenge at smaller centers than larger ones. Certainly not here. That’s trouble.

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 23, 2019

The contact center plays a critical role in supporting these efforts: approximately 55 Appriss agents handle more than 30,000 calls monthly, working 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. But with the company’s old internal call center solution, fluctuating call volumes weren’t being identified or managed.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 15, 2023

When it comes to demystifying call center metrics, ‘occupancy rate’ shouldn’t be forgotten. Occupancy rate is basically a measure of how “busy” call center agents are when they are at work. You might think a simpler measurement like “call per hour” would answer this same question.

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Talkdesk

JULY 16, 2019

Call Center Performance Management is a program, generally led by a contact center operations manager, dedicated to calculating and improving the performance of contact center agents. That’s where leveraging contact center performance management software can help. The answer is both.

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Babelforce

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In this post: · Why do Contact Centers Measure Utilization? · Utilization measures how much of an agent’s paid time is spent on the contact center floor, handling contacts and waiting for them to arrive. Why do Contact Centers Measure Utilization? How to Calculate Occupancy. ·

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Schedule adherence Agent burnout Contact Center Metrics 52

Brad Cleveland Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

The post 7 Suggestions for Improving Schedule Adherence appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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Talkdesk

JUNE 7, 2019

Why You Should be Tracking Call Center Shrinkage in 2019 Do you know how many of your scheduled call center agents are actually available to take calls at any given time versus how many are on break, attending team meetings, doing after call work, out sick or late to their shift?

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Babelforce

MARCH 2, 2022

Conformance measures how much time an agent works with respect to the time the contact center pays them to do so. It helps contact centers to decipher whether they are getting enough “bang for their buck”. Also, avoid confusing conformance with schedule adherence. How to Calculate Conformance.

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

At first glance, the term “virtual call center agent” sounds like a Siri-like creature who exists in the ether, saving the day for troubled customers. No, a virtual call center agent is a regular human being. “Virtual” modifies the call center, so the call center is virtual but the agent is very real.

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Monet Software

JUNE 10, 2021

8 Tips for Optimizing Schedules and Enhancing Contact Center Workforce Engagement.at 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. the Same Time. We all love a win-win.

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Babelforce

JANUARY 12, 2022

In this post: What is cost per call? How to calculate Cost per call What does cost per call tell you? 4 ways to cut your cost per call. What is Cost per Call? Cost per call is broadly defined as the total contact center operational budget divided over its number of calls.

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Noble Systems

AUGUST 1, 2019

Call centers are high-pressure, stressful environments. Agents are expected to deal with demanding customers, be knowledgeable about many products and services, adhere to changing compliance regulations, all while being continuously monitored and timed. Top 10 Signs of Contact Center Agent Overload.

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Babelforce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

On any given day, call center traffic will fluctuate. Call volumes usually peak at the same time each day, which is referred to as “peak hour traffic”. It’s exactly as it says on the tin — a traffic jam of calls. Sometimes call centers can also experience a “peak season”. Increased call abandonment.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The post 7 Suggestions for Improving Schedule Adherence appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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Dialer 360

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

For call center optimization you need to think about improving your customer experience. While providing outstanding customer service should always be the aim of a call center, it shouldn’t be your primary objective. Your business needs to focus on raising the standard of the call center for it to stay competitive.

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Contact Center Pipeline

MAY 29, 2015

Our top blog post in May focused on an age-old challenge for many contact centers—schedule adherence—and offered tips for creating a culture that promotes good attendance.

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Noble Systems

OCTOBER 18, 2018

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.

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