article thumbnail

Call Center optimization: Tools and best practices to increase performance

NobelBiz

Hold queues and smart call routing play a pivotal role. Hold Queues : Ensures calls are answered promptly, minimizing wait times. Smart Call Routing : Directs calls to the most suitable agent based on expertise, language, or past interactions. This increases the likelihood of first-call resolution.

article thumbnail

7 Step Action Plan for Call Center Development

Fonolo

First-call resolution: The ability to resolve customer issues in a single call is a great KPI to monitor for agents. Specific: “Agent X aims to improve their first-call resolution rate from 37% to 55%, from October 2022 to March 2023.” Experiment with gamification. . What are SMART goals?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Call Center Dialer Software: Optimization Best Practices

NobelBiz

Brad Butler, Contact Center Software Consultant @ NobelBiz Improved Agent Productivity Long wait times can be a significant challenge for contact centers, causing negative consequences for both agents and customers. To mitigate these issues, many contact centers use dialers to eliminate unwanted wait times.

article thumbnail

3 Keys to Q4 Contact Center Success in 2021

Outsource Consultants

Waiting is the Hardest Part (But It Doesn’t Have to Be). Customers have not only come to expect inevitable wait times — they’ve come to loathe them. When faced with unanticipated hold times and slow inquiry resolution. It’s no wonder customers have such low expectations.

article thumbnail

Hyper Efficiency: The Next Frontier in Contact Center Operations Management

NobelBiz

The following formula is used to get the AHT (Average Handle Time): the duration of the exchange itself (AHT), the duration of the caller’s wait (MEA), and the duration of the file’s post-call processing (ACW). One way to tackle these agent-related issues is by introducing gamification into the contact center workflow.

article thumbnail

A Beginner’s Guide On An Effective Inbound Call Strategy

OctopusTech

We’ve seen businesses improve agent engagement by making individual performance stats available on agent dashboards and by the gamification of specific agent behaviors. Choose and focus on the right metrics Inbound call centers have so many things they can measure that it’s tempting to make each measurement equally important.

article thumbnail

Contact Center Trends 2021: The CX Watershed

Fonolo

Nobody escaped the long lines and endless waiting times. And contact centers were utterly overwhelmed in the floods of anxious customer calls. Storyline: Gamification. While much has changed in the last decade, one storyline will remain constant: Contact center teams will continue to face surges in call volume bravely.