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How to Measure Contact Center Agent Productivity and Five Ways to Boost It

Playvox

To ensure your contact center agents spend a vast majority of their time with customers resolving issues and as little time as possible on administrative tasks and after-call work, agents need the right kind of tools, processes, coaching, motivation, and goals in place. Are agents working on what they are scheduled to do?

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Workforce Optimization: What It is and Why You Need It

Playvox

Operational costs – Agents who aren’t invested or lack training, feedback, or coaching tend to be inefficient, ultimately costing your business financially. Schedule adherence – When agents don’t adhere to schedules, they aren’t available to service customers as planned.

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What is Conformance?

Babelforce

Conformance measures how much time an agent works with respect to the time the contact center pays them to do so. It also involves taking part in coaching sessions, meetings, and huddles. Because the company is paying agents for their time. Also, avoid confusing conformance with schedule adherence.

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10 Key Metrics and KPI’s for Contact Centre Performance

Call Design

This score provides an overall view on the performance delivered, the level of customer service and includes variables such as ease-of-access, wait times and more. Even if it is not set as a KPI, management can use it to coach and train staff to improve the way they handle contacts to get better results.

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The Importance of Workforce Management for Contact Center Leaders

Serenova

An integrated workforce management system helps contact center leaders get a handle on the schedule adherence battle by building multi-channel schedules with shifts that address multiple activities across. Supports schedule compliance. Monitor agent calls for coaching opportunities.

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How to Ensure Business Continuity for Call Centers During COVID-19

Noble Systems

To make sure agents are fully engaged and can deliver accurate and consistent messaging to customers, ongoing training , coaching and interaction monitoring are essential. WEM solutions that enable agents to see their schedules and time and activity changes, apply for shift swaps, and request leave, help agents feel more in control.

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Quickly Fix Agent Performance on the Cheap

Toister Performance Solutions

Twitter: @bradcleveland Explain the “why” behind schedule adherence, the importance of being “in the right place at the right times.” Every person has a significant positive impact on wait times—a ripple effect far beyond the contacts they directly handle. Author, speaker, consultant, Brad Cleveland Company, LLC.