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Call Center Service Levels: Calculations, Metrics, & Industry Standards

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The most basic definition of a service level is: a measurable number of services provided to a customer within a given time period. In the context of call centers, this is often employed to measure the percentage of incoming calls that agents answer live during a set amount of time.

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SLAs For Today’s Contact Center

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If you’re in the contact center industry, 80/20 service levels are likely nothing new. Contact center managers know that SLAs are essential for defining and measuring success for their businesses. Contact centers fixate on getting them right , and it’s no wonder. Those are good questions!

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Contact Center Executive Priorities for 2018

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At least it is as stated in CCW’s Executive Report Contact Center Priorities for 2018. As I mentioned, we are all aware that intent and execution are often times two separate elements in contact centers. Definitely not fast enough for customers. Interpreting Contact Center Executive Priorities.

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8 Vital Lessons from an Award-winning Supervisor

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Adriana Thompson – Contact Center Supervisor of the Year 2018. Adriana Thompson was confronted with a challenge that so many frontline leaders in contact centers face. 59% of frontline supervisors in contact centers were formerly agents (Source: ICMI). Continue On…. Please Share.

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The Top 3 Ways to Forecast for Your Contact Center

Forecasting is no easy task. It can be difficult to schedule the right amount of agents at the right time. Download our ebook to learn how to reduce overstaffing and understaffing, lower customer wait times and improve the customer experience with proper forecasting.

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Contact Centers Focusing Less on 80/20 Service Level

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Even more astonishing is that most call centers would name the same target value for that metric: the magical “80/20”. Contact centers are realizing more and more that adhering too closely to this one metric may not yield optimal results. Definitions. Now – finally – this dominance may be fading. Thus, an “80/20?

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The Undead: AI Can’t Die Because its Definition Keeps Changing

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It doesn’t follow these rules because its definition is fuzzy. “AI” The set of technologies that are included in the definition shifts with time. There are definitely cases where these technologies are delivering real ROI, including the reduction the need for agents. Call Center 101: The Golden Rules of SLAs.