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How One Person Can Dramatically Impact Your Workforce Management Plan

Playvox

As workforce management professionals, we are faced with the daunting task of figuring out the ideal forecast, matching that forecast with a schedule and then making sure that our “master plan” works in the real world – meaning all the people that we are counting on for their shifts work their shifts as planned. Balloon Game.

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Workforce Management for Call Centers: What You Need to Know

Playvox

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). What is Workforce Management for Call Centers?

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Being Your Personal Best as a Contact Center Leader

Contact Center Pipeline

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. You also need to keep your department […].

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The Only Call Center Agent Performance Metrics You’ll Ever Need

Fonolo

But most metrics that contact center managers use to measure agents focus on optimizing them rather than encouraging them. I’m personally in favour of a more straightforward NPS system: Yes or No. Still, many managers use this back to front. The Smart Contact Center Manager’s Guide to Managing High Call Volume.

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The Role Of Employee Self-Service In Workforce Management

Playvox

When thinking about workforce management (WFM), often people think of forecasting and scheduling. Ensuring that employees can be a part of managing their schedule has big benefits. Workforce management processes focus on optimizing how, where, and when work gets done, and who is best suited to do the job.

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6 Ways to Reduce Call Center Shrinkage

Fonolo

Let’s say a part-time agent is scheduled for 20 hours in a week, and spends 4 hours doing other tasks: the shrinkage rate for that person is 4/20 or 20%. Track Schedule Adherence. Schedule adherence is an area where your workforce management (WFM) tools can be very helpful. Address Absenteeism.

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The Importance of Workforce Management for Contact Center Leaders

Serenova

For this reason, workforce management has become a core focus of discussion amongst leaders looking to take their contact centers to the next level. However, a recent study highlighted that more than 69% of businesses still have no cross-channel workforce management solution in place. What is Workforce Management?