BlueOcean

AUGUST 13, 2024

In the outsourced call center world, we measure everything in terms of percentages: minutes and seconds, dollars and cents. Measuring deep into the trenches of the contact center is an absolute must. We’re constantly asking questions like, how fast are agents answering calls (Average Speed to Answer)?

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It’s 2019, which means contact center metrics from 1999 are almost old enough for their first legal beer (and already knocking them back in Canada.) Those metrics were born in an era when customer service was a race, where whoever got to the finish line first (i.e. One Metric to Rule Them All. But where do we start?

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TechSee

AUGUST 26, 2024

Call centers are the frontline of customer service for many businesses. Providing excellent service in call centers is crucial for maintaining customer satisfaction and loyalty. However, call centers face a variety of challenges that can prevent them from delivering the best possible service.

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TechSee

MARCH 5, 2020

Every customer service professional knows that running a successful call center is a constant balancing act. Overworking employees can actually drive up call center costs by causing burnout and leading to high agent turnover. Call Center Agent Utilization vs. Occupancy. Sharing the Knowledge.

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Call Experts

APRIL 14, 2022

In a perfect world, customers would only call your call center if everything was going smoothly. But that’s not how the world works, and there is always a reason why people call in the first place. The ASA is a powerful metric to improve your customer experience and make sure your customers are happy.

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Calabrio

MARCH 7, 2025

Workforce Engagement How to Combat Call Center Agent Attrition Share You know the signs: increased average handle time (AHT), increased irritation, productivity decline. Even in a remote/hybrid workforce, contact center leaders (if theyre paying attention) can see when their employees are slipping.

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TechSee

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Call volumes in many contact centers are down along with the cost to serve. However, that means successful call center agents must now deal with a far greater proportion of complex issues. Helping customers resolve tricky issues puts pressure on the contact center in several ways.

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ViiBE Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

The call center agent is at the core of any call center. So how can you evaluate a call center agent’s performance? This article will teach you how to measure an agent’s performance and other important customer service metrics. What are the KPIs in a call center?

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Pointillist

JANUARY 25, 2019

By Swati Sahai Call centers are an operationally-complex element of your business, but they play a big role in your customers’ experience with your company. It’s no easy task, but the right mix of call center metrics and KPIs can help you stay the course. CES can be measured on a five-point or a seven-point scale.

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Magellan Solutions

MARCH 22, 2023

What is the Best Way to Analyze Call Center Performance? Analyzing call center performance is best done through data and analytics. By using this type of analysis, call centers can identify trends that point to issues inside their departments with less dependence on intuition or bias.

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Magellan Solutions

MARCH 22, 2023

What is the Best Way to Analyze Call Center Performance? Analyzing call center performance is best done through data and analytics. By using this type of analysis, call centers can identify trends that point to issues inside their departments with less dependence on intuition or bias.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 22, 2021

Sh e shares best practices supervisors can use for monitoring call center agents in a work-from-home scenario. COVID-19 has led us to believe that we need to rethink, amend, and strengthen our contact centers with robust technology to stay ahead of the pandemic. Comprehensive Call Center Metrics Report.

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Calabrio

MARCH 10, 2025

Analytics Call Center QA Scorecards: 7 Tips for Quality Assurance and CX Excellence Share When 75% of customers report that theyre willing to spend more with businesses that offer a good customer experience, many contact center operators might respond with surprise. 3 out of every 4 consumers is a huge proportion, after all.

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TechSee

MARCH 19, 2019

When a virtual agent fields a customer’s enquiry, collects all relevant details and passes it to a human agent for final approval, how should average handling time ( AHT ) be measured? Customer care center metrics in the era of self-service clearly require a different approach. New Self Service KPI Metrics.

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BlueOcean

JUNE 26, 2018

How do metrics and standards play a role in customer service? Paul: Metrics and standards lay a solid foundation for measuring the success of your employees, but you have to be aware of how those standards impact the customer experience. What does a “rooms per shift ratio” have to do with contact center operations, you might ask?

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ViiBE Blog

MARCH 18, 2021

Call centers face a unique dilemma created by conflicting priorities. On the one hand, customer satisfaction is a crucial goal that must be achieved by the end of a call to keep the caller’s business. On the other, each call must be handled as promptly as possible to ensure that the next caller has a short wait time.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times. Data from ICMI also reveals that 76% of call center professionals believe bilingual support improves the customer experience, brand loyalty, and customer satisfaction.

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Talkdesk

AUGUST 12, 2015

As call centers begin to include social media into their arsenal of customer support tools, agents and managers are quickly learning that the phone-centric call center nomenclature that has been around for over 50 years isn’t keeping pace. AHT – Average Handle Time. Here are some examples of this.

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LiveChat

APRIL 25, 2016

On the other side, the agent invested her time with nothing productive in it. Call centers face such scenarios on a daily basis. The key point that plays a significant role in this is ‘Average Handling Time’. Just another metric to measure the efficiency of a call center.

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Calabrio

APRIL 11, 2025

The Foundation: Building Your Strategic Call Center Training Program Moving beyond acknowledging the need for training, building an impactful call center training program requires a deliberate and strategic approach. Simply running generic sessions won’t cut it. Ask: Where are the gaps in performance?

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eGain Blogs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The importance of knowledge management in the call center is growing. ” Knowledge improves call center metrics (KPIs). . ” Knowledge improves call center metrics (KPIs). Average Handle Time (AHT). Average Speed to Answer (ASA). AVERAGE HANDLE TIME (AHT).

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InMoment XI

JANUARY 10, 2024

Contact centers are not new by any means. As a matter of fact, the first employed call center agents date back to the 1950s. But, these agents only made and received phone calls. It wasn’t until the turn of the century that these call centers evolved into multichannel contact centers.

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Playvox

JUNE 22, 2023

Tracking, reporting, and improving upon metrics are essential across all areas of business, including finance, sales, marketing, and contact center management. In uncertain economic times, they become even more critical to help navigate business health and growth. What Are Call Center Efficiency Metrics?

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Calabrio

MARCH 11, 2025

Put these expert-assembled call center quality assurance best practices at the heart of your approach to empower your agents, enrich interactions, and drive better service in the year ahead. What is call center quality assurance? Ensure agents fully understand these standards, including the metrics used for evaluation.

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InMoment XI

APRIL 9, 2025

The agent-specific insights help call center managers to motivate top performers and identify agents who require additional training. Managers can respond with effective scripts and training to improve call center metrics like first call resolution and average handle time.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 10, 2016

As a contact center manager, you’ve got a lot of metrics to choose from as your key performance indicators (KPIs). 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. Outbound Dialing. Operational Efficiency.

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ShepHyken

JULY 11, 2022

Finally, this is an all-the-time consistent effort. Time to Emphasise Real-Time CX Metrics by Ginger Conlon. Journey measurement, for example, can provide insights that allow companies to optimise the customer journey in real time. In other words, It’s essential to understand the “why” behind the metric.

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TechSee

JANUARY 24, 2023

The earlier that your call center staff can see the problem, the faster they can resolve it. By systematically and visually leading a caller through a series of steps, the service team can reduce costs by cutting the AHT spent on calls and increasing the number of customers they serve. This boosts FCR and lowers AHT.

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Calabrio

MARCH 22, 2025

At the same time, contact center operations have also taken on a new level complexity. Aspects of Oversight and Optimization Contact center management, or call center management, is the strategic orchestration of all elements within a customer interaction hub to ensure optimal efficiency, customer satisfaction, and business outcomes.

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Thematic

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Call center sentiment analysis can also help you develop tailored training programs that better meet your customers’ preferences. Supervisors and Managers Supervisors and call center managers can use sentiment insights to evaluate agent performance and assess how their team can improve customer interactions.

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Uniphore

JUNE 10, 2021

3 Ways Call Center Coaching is Leading to Customer Churn. Why then do so many call centers struggle to convert coaching into real, measurable results? Research shows that agent retention rates were nearly double the average when coaches spent 60 percent or more of their time on the call center floor.‡

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Magellan Solutions

MAY 16, 2024

Deloitte believes using an outsourced call center is vital to delivering exceptional customer experiences. An outsourced call center can be your secret weapon for delivering exceptional customer experiences. Keep outdated in-house call center operations from holding you back.

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Talkdesk

APRIL 8, 2016

Nate chatted with Talkdesk Product Manager, Robert Sur, about the importance of leveraging call center data to develop and refine a phone support strategy. I’ve been on Talkdesk’s Product Marketing team for almost a year now, and I have always considered myself to be fairly knowledgeable about the merits of call center reporting.

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ViiBE Blog

APRIL 8, 2021

Customers typically contact call centers when they are unable to resolve a problem with a product or service on their own. The key to satisfying the customer in search of a solution is the call center experience. The call center experience is the overall interaction between the customer and the call center.

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Call Experts

JULY 27, 2023

A customer service call center serves as the backbone of a company’s customer service operations, providing a centralized hub where all customer inquiries, requests, and concerns are addressed efficiently and effectively. That’s where a customer service call center comes in.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 6, 2020

What Service Level Metrics Are Most Relevant to Your Business Now? Let’s face it: Contact center metrics that measure customer service as if it’s some kind of race (think Average Handle Time) are frankly table stakes. What should your outsourcer – and you – be measuring beyond those standard metrics?

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ViiBE Blog

APRIL 22, 2021

A call center depends on many different people to function correctly. Each call center agent must balance performance targets with customer satisfaction. On top of that, software is critical to the functioning of a call center. How can I improve my call center performance?

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