ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Alternatively, dissect average handle time for your agents’ phone conversations. If the majority of handle time for a particular issue is spent on “qualification” rather than “resolution” or “connection,” the issue is likely a simple transaction that does not benefit from a live agent conversation.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times. Other Approaches to Bilingual Customer Care Support But, as the title of this blog implies, a live agent model might not be the best option for all of your language requirements.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 30, 2018

Average Handling Time. A lower Average Handling Time means more satisfied customers, more productive agents and a lower cost per interactions. The post Guest Blog: Key KPIs You Must Monitor for an Optimal Customer Experience appeared first on Shep Hyken. Type: Performance Centric.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 29, 2018

In fact, implementing NICE inContact CXone has resulted in significant improvements in everything from average handle time (AHT) to average speed of answer (ASA) to quality assurance scores. Working with NICE inContact has accomplished all that and more. Even sales increased as a residual benefit!

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 17, 2018

With average handle time (AHT) down by 21%, adherence up by 31% and QA scores up from around 50% to 70%, the positive impact on customer satisfaction is unmistakable. The post Mattress Firm’s Contact Center Rises and Shines – Improving QA Scores and Average Handle Time appeared first on NICE inContact Blog.

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TechSee

AUGUST 26, 2024

In this blog post, we will explore these pain points, discuss best practices, and describe how AI and automation can not only improve call center customer service – they can revolutionize it. Similarly, call center agents are measured on their average handle times.

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BlueOcean

AUGUST 19, 2024

One key to succeeding in customer support is keeping accurate, relevant and meaningful metrics such as Average Handle Time (AHT), Speed to Answer, First Contact Resolution (FCR), Agent Attrition, Process Adherence, and Productivity, just to name a few. But the trick is knowing what to measure.

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SaleMove

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

With this digital-first method of customer service, businesses can increase online sales, reduce average handle times within their call center and boost overall customer satisfaction.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

MARCH 5, 2020

Once I worked with a technical support center that had a fairly wide range of average handling times (AHTs). Most of the agents had AHTs somewhere from 8 to 12 minutes, but the AHT for one agent in the group was over 20 minutes.

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TechSee

JUNE 17, 2024

There’s a lot of truth in the old saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” – because, as we wrote about in our previous blog post on this topic, visuals really do transform everything. Today visuals are revolutionizing customer service and customer experience. MAC address, IP, model number, etc).

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Myra Golden

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Twice in the last week, Contact Center Agents have reached out to me for help on reducing Average Handle Time (AHT). ” Subscribe to my blog for more ideas like this. I’m listening, and I have an answer. I say “an answer” because I’ll be sharing more solutions in the coming weeks.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 13, 2023

Talk of ChatGPT is everywhere from your LinkedIn feed to the evening news to, yes, this blog. Though initial results look positive—reduced average handle times and faster resolution—there were other more subjective issues that weren’t anticipated, such as higher agent stress as they struggled to adjust to this hands-on AI tool.

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ViiBE Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

Here are the five KPIs that we will focus on: Average Handle Time. Average Handle Time (AHT) measures how long an agent spends on a call, including speaking with the customer, hold time, and call work time. These three factors are then averaged by the total number of calls to find the AHT.

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Talkdesk

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

This is a guest blog from Pratik Salia, product manager at Knowmax , a Talkdesk® AppConnect ™ partner. Some of the most common KPIs include average handle time (AHT), first call resolution (FCR), customer satisfaction (CSAT), net promoter score (NPS) and ticket deflection ratio.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 15, 2017

Most importantly, these companies empowered the front-line teams to succeed in their jobs as well by removing metrics for job performance based on “average handling time.” Now the team had no obstacles themselves to making the Customer Experience easy for people.

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Eptica

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Part of our series on optimizing CX with Eptica, this blog post explains how reporting can power customer experience improvement , as well as giving you the ability to enhance productivity. This enables you to benchmark and compare performance and identify team and individual areas for improvement. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Upstream Works

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

This becomes even more evident with home-based agents, as supervisors have less control over their working conditions with limited visibility into real-time performance. For example, with customers feeling more stress, legacy metrics like Average Handle Time (AHT) aren’t going to drive CSAT scores.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 22, 2021

If you are looking for best practices to monitor remote agents’ performance, this blog is for you. The supervisors can also closely monitor and analyze agents’ availability, average handling time, the number of calls handled, break durations, etc. Create a High Trust Environment.

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Average Handle Time. An effective agent screen pop can have a dramatic positive impact on average handle time (AHT). On average, screen pops shave off 15-20 seconds per call, because rather than the agent having to search for the customer’s information manually in the database, that process is automated.

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BlueOcean

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Standard call measures like average handling time, first call resolution, and conversion rate are important, but these numbers are likely to be similar across vendors. Reporting In this section, you want to find out how the vendor measures their call quality and what measurements they have used in the past.

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Comm100

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A high number of missed chats may also indicate that agents are spending too much time on each chat. We’ll look more at the average handle time metric later. This key performance indicator reveals the percentage of time that agents are spending in live chats, wrap-up, and other activities, as opposed to “away” or offline.

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Kustomer

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In case you missed it, check out our previous issue on the blog , recounting real life anecdotes on how businesses have solved their customer service challenges with the help of Kustomer. We’re back again with some fresh CX stories from the frontlines. For example, selecting a top-level item would display relevant fields when needed.

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Bold360

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Decreased Average Handle Time (AHT). By reducing the number of customer transfers and time the customer is placed on hold, companies see better AHT metrics, which also impacts customer satisfaction. 6 Big Benefits It Offers Your Business appeared first on Bold360 Blog. The post What is Intelligent Routing?

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Comm100

MAY 28, 2020

If it’s high, you may need to add staff during peak busy times. Alternatively, you may need to check average handle time as it could indicate that your agents are spending too much time on each chat. It can be measured as follows: Amount of live chats per month x Average Handle Time.

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Calabrio

MARCH 11, 2025

Whatever aspect of QA your contact center is struggling with, this blog is for you. Additional metrics to consider include: NPS scores First response time (FRT) Abandon rates Hold times Average Handle Time (AHT) 4. Are you one of the many contact centers still relying on spreadsheets for QA?

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Service Untitled

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Our CCPs interaction with customers is no longer measured by average handling time but on providing a superior customer experience, as measured through customer feedback. It doesn’t matter who receives your call.

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Provide Support

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

In rush hours average handle times often shoot upward, wait times escalate, which leaves many customers frustrated. Published in Provide Support Blog , 2016. Total planned spending this year is second only to the record total spending in 2015, at $952.58. Read more. © 2003 - 2015 Provide Support LLC.

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Advantage Communications

JULY 10, 2019

These metrics - as discussed in our blog titled ‘ 7 Key Metrics to Look out for When Outsourcing Your Customer Service to a Call Center ’ - include First-Call Resolution (FCR), Net Promoter Score (NPS), Customer Satisfaction (CSAT), Call Abandonment Rates (CAR), Customer Effort Score (CES), Average Handle Time (AHT) and Service Level (SLA).

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Bottom line: You can lower cost while improving critical contact center KPIs such as customer satisfaction (CSAT), first call resolution (FCR), and average handle time (AHT). link to blog article to be published for October webinar with Swisslog “5 KPIs You Can Improve By Integrating Your Contact Center and CRM”].

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NICE inContact

MARCH 10, 2016

In this blog, we help narrow down this long list to help you focus on the metrics that, when improved upon, will really help your contact center thrive. Average Handle Time : Similar to average wait time, average handle time is the total time that a customer spends from initial call/chat/email/social message until their issue is resolved.

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SaleMove

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

With this digital-first method of customer service, businesses can increase online sales, reduce average handle times within their call center and boost overall customer satisfaction.

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Kustomer

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In case you missed it, check out our previous issue on the blog , recounting real life anecdotes on how businesses have solved their customer service challenges with the help of Kustomer. Results the customer has seen so far include a 33% improvement in agent average handle time.

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 31, 2019

In fact, I’ve included a link to an unbiased market source at the end of this blog. And, of course, as promised, there are many other terms… from Average Handle Time, and other common operational metrics, to Wrap-up codes or Workforce Optimization. There are plenty of places you can go to find that information.

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Stella Connect

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Be less concerned with average handle time, and bring your focus to first call resolution (FCR) as this metric is connected to nearly all other KPIs. #4. This blog post was originally published on November 8, 2018, and has since been updated. Make Policy Exceptions When Appropriate.

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Uniphore

JULY 30, 2021

With advanced conversational AI, you can now leverage real-time speech transcription, intent analytics, and entity extraction, to reduce average handle time by automating after call work. It's not all about cost savings either.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Average talk time (ATT) is often a neglected little contact center metric. Overshadowed by its bigger, louder counterpart, Average handle time (AHT), it often stays in the background, waiting for someone to notice it and realize its potential.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

When using older contact center systems, you are likely to find inefficiencies in the areas of average handle times (AHT), first call resolution (FCR), and agent occupancy. Assume you can make a 15% improvement to average handle time, first call resolution, self-service rate and schedule adherence.

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