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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. Being a contact center leader is a demanding job. You have a large number of people to lead.

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How One Person Can Dramatically Impact Your Workforce Management Plan

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And, we have all seen the impact of just one person doing something NOT in the plan and the downstream effects. For example, one person may log in late for their opening shift. Another person may not adhere to scheduled breaks or lunches. One person may leave early from their closing shift. Balloon Game.

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6 Ways to Reduce Call Center Shrinkage

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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 Only Call Center Agent Performance Metrics You’ll Ever Need

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I’m personally in favour of a more straightforward NPS system: Yes or No. Schedule Adherence. Schedule Adherence is another old but still useful measure of how well agents are turning up for work. Let’s put the humanity (and reality) back into KPIs and avoid the meaningless sliding scales.

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What is Call Center Shrinkage?

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Call center managers have little control over some of the external factors affecting the time agents spend actually taking calls, though you can work to improve absenteeism and schedule adherence. . Scheduled holidays and vacations. Track employee schedule adherence and improve it where you can. Late arrivals.

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The Ultimate Guide to Call Center Agent Performance

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I’m personally in favour of a more straightforward NPS system: Yes or No. Schedule Adherence Schedule Adherence is another older metric that can still be a useful measure of agent attendance. So — as with all post-contact measures — not all low scores are directly related to the agent’s performance.

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Workforce Management for Call Centers: What You Need to Know

Playvox

And 46% of customers will buy more when given a personalized experience. The result—it’s easier to build schedules and manage the daily fluctuations 3. Improve Schedule Adherence It’s one thing to create the schedule with ease, but another important call center key performance indicator is schedule adherence.