Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

Every workplace has its pros and cons, but contact center agents have one of the toughest jobs out there. Just like agents are protecting your company, contact center leaders and managers need to protect them and their mental health. Burnout Burnout is at the heart of poor emotional well-being in a contact center.

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Playvox

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If your contact center is like most, you probably have a robust set of guidelines that document your procedures, detail your standards, and outline how employees should handle various situations. But one thing many contact centers are missing is a remote work company policy. What Is A Remote Work Policy?

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Playvox

APRIL 5, 2022

But without getting contact center performance right, all other CX elements – such as marketing, user experience, etc. How do you build a high performance contact center? Fortunately, there is a way forward: leveraging the right workforce engagement management (WEM) tools. What is a High Performance Contact Center?

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Contact Center Net Promoter Score Metrics Average Handle Time 77

Think Customers

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

For too many years, contact center measurements have been focused on efficiency instead of customer experience. Metrics such as average handle time (AHT), number of contacts handled, average wait time, and average speed of answer have all been heavily used and tracked.

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Contact Center Customer Centricity Metrics Net Promoter Score 88

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

That’s what has happened in the outsourced contact center space when it comes to SaaS clients — there’s been a metamorphosis from customer service cost center to customer success revenue protection and generation center. As usual, we’re biased, but we can prove why we believe the answer is yes. It’s possible.

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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. The value of that improved metric plays a big role in the client’s bottom line.

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TechSee

AUGUST 26, 2024

Similarly, call center agents are measured on their average handle times. These two metrics are closely related, as longer handle times will naturally result in longer wait times for customers. Chat Interactions Contact centers aren’t just for the phone.

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

That’s what has happened in the outsourced contact center space when it comes to SaaS clients — there’s been a metamorphosis from customer service cost center to customer success revenue protection and generation center. As usual, we’re biased, but we can prove why we believe the answer is yes. It’s possible.

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TechSee

JANUARY 24, 2023

This performance improvement is especially valuable when asking customers to perform complex tasks that extend the time of the call. While visual engagement often improves multiple KPIs within the call center, this article will focus on the relationship between the efficient use of visual assistance and the direct effect on AHT.

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Engagement Average Handle Time Call Center Connections 109

Call Experts

JULY 28, 2022

Contact center support is a vital part of any business. A contact center can help save you time and money while delivering outstanding service to your customers. The right contact center will improve customer satisfaction , which leads to increased sales and profitability. What Is A Contact Center?

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

With good cloud-based contact center solutions, implementing agent screen pops have never been easier. However, benefits extend to other contact center metrics as well. Average Handle Time. An effective agent screen pop can have a dramatic positive impact on average handle time (AHT).

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BlueOcean

JUNE 26, 2018

When it comes to customer experience, there’s a lot of cross-over between the hospitality industry and the contact center industry. I look for how engaged a candidate is in this conversation. How do metrics and standards play a role in customer service? What role do employee engagement and incentives play in your success?

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Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Make no mistake; contact center performance is ultimately defined by core “outcomes” like customer satisfaction, loyalty and revenue. Intermediary metrics, however, play an immensely important role in diagnosing performance, identifying challenges and uncovering opportunities.

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Interactions

APRIL 17, 2019

Companies have adopted new technologies in their contact centers to support a more customer-first approach. Contact centers, before this change in focus to customer experience, had a straightforward goal: to handle as many calls as possible, as quickly as possible. Traditional Contact Center KPIs.

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VDS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Transitioning your contact center to Genesys Cloud can be a daunting task, but with the right strategies, it can be a seamless process. In this article, we will provide you with a step-by-step guide on how to smoothly transition your contact center to Genesys Cloud without any disruptions. Why Migrate to Genesys Cloud?

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Contact Center Roadmap Customer Satisfaction Communication 52

NICE inContact

AUGUST 22, 2019

In Part One of this two-part series, we sought to demystify the forecasting and scheduling components of contact center workforce management. In Part Two, we will seek to address intraday management and employee engagement as components of a WFM program. Real-time adherence. Employee engagement.

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Contact Center Management Average Handle Time Metrics 54

NICE inContact

AUGUST 22, 2019

In Part One of this two-part series, we sought to demystify the forecasting and scheduling components of contact center workforce management. In Part Two, we will seek to address intraday management and employee engagement as components of a WFM program. Real-time adherence. Employee engagement.

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Contact Center Management Average Handle Time Metrics 54

Eptica

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Date: Monday, September 28, 2015 The evolution of contact center performance. Author: Pauline Ashenden In the past contact centers were often viewed as a cost cente r, meaning that the primary goal of companies was to run them as efficiently as possible while still responding to customers competently.

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Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The pressure to reduce contact center costs is immense. But many contact center leaders struggle to achieve these outcomes while simultaneously improving customer satisfaction. Contact centers are now considered more than just service centers.

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RapportBoost

OCTOBER 20, 2018

23 to discuss how established enterprises can turn their contact centers into profit centers by optimizing conversations, training agents and utilizing augmented intelligence. is the leading conversational sales analysis platform for brands that use chat, SMS and messenger tools to engage customers. RapportBoost.AI

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Upstream Works

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

These drivers will continue into the new year has contact centers strive to meet new customer demands – by upgrading technology while knowing how to deploy the new capabilities. Agent engagement is another concern and IT needs to think about countering the isolation that can come from working solo.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

oz contact centers are sometimes too efficient for their own good leading to poor customer service and high agent attrition rates. It’s time to introduce a ‘less haste, more speed’ culture supported by the latest technology. Metrics that matter. Most make the mistake of developing a set of metrics that focus.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Average handle time is an important contact centre metric but it can be a double-edged sword that creates customer dissatisfaction. So, is Average Handle Time (AHT) still a relevant metric and what does it mean for contact centres today?

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Today, contact center leaders who embrace the cloud are quick to see its benefits – powering engaging customer experiences while positively impacting business outcomes. As contact centers continue to become drivers of business growth, there are significant quantitative and qualitative results to consider.

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Contact Center Virtual Agent Net Promoter Score Fashion 48

TechSee

MARCH 5, 2020

Overworking employees can actually drive up call center costs by causing burnout and leading to high agent turnover. A report by HDI shows that when call center agent utilization rates approach 60–70%, the contact center will experience high attrition because they are pushing the agents too hard. Engagement is everything.

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Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

They are also looking for engaging, personalized, high-quality interactions. Friendly, engaging conversations and highly knowledgeable agents also rank as top customer demands. Most commonly, agent performance is measured by a combination of traditional ‘efficiency’ metrics plus quality metrics like CSAT and NPS,” says Gadi Shamia.

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Contact Center Net Promoter Score Average Handle Time Customer Centricity 40

Eptica

MAY 18, 2016

Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 Meeting the needs of contact center agents. Author: Anne-Merete Jensen Delivering a great customer experience is vital to every organization today – and much of the responsibility for delivering this comes down to contact center agents. Published on: May 18, 2016.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

With the large volumes of contact center advisors still incentivized based on speed – typically the Average Handle Time (AHT) – CX goals are quite often unachievable. AHT has dominated contact center measurement for decades. Companies have two options: speed or quality. Quality versus Quantity.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 1, 2023

AHT, as in average handle time, is a metric used to measure the average length of time for a customer support call. Some companies look for low AHTs, hoping to manage more calls per hour or shift with a lower time. Two areas not typically considered in this metric, should be. What an honor.

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Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

Call center workforce management is the art and science of having the right number of agents available at the right times to answer an accurately forecasted volume of incoming customer contacts at the service level standard set by a contact center while minimizing cost. WFM to the rescue.

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Call Center Contact Center Management Omnichannel 52

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. Real-time Remote Monitoring. Here’s how!

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RapportBoost

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

– Event, sponsored by Talkdesk, to cover top priorities for contact centers on how to connect with customers, prospects via their preferred channels – San Diego, CA. The event, sponsored by Talkdesk , will discuss the top priorities for contact centers in connecting with customers and prospects via their preferred channels.

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eGain Blogs

APRIL 10, 2023

But without accurate knowledge that is consolidated in a unified hub and optimized with analytics, self-service will do nothing but trigger rage by the time the customer gets to a human contact center agent. The average salary of a contact center agent in the US is $33,000, per Glassdoor.

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TechSee

JUNE 11, 2019

Focusing on one metric would often harm others. Conversely, when trying to improve NPS, agents would often spend additional time building relationships with their customers, driving up call durations. It enhances all customer service KPIs, including those measuring contact center productivity and CX quality.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

As cloud communications companies like RingCentral and inContact have matured, the contact center world has been seeing an increasingly rapid move to the cloud. Taken together, these two movements are bringing about real change in the contact center. Here at RingCentral , many of our customers fall into that category.

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Ecrion

JULY 17, 2019

That’s why it’s critical to proactively define the customer metrics that are most important to your business and measure progress on them over time. Read on to learn about the most crucial customer service metrics that businesses across industries use to evaluate their success. Average reply time. Ticket backlog.

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Innovative CX

AUGUST 10, 2021

This article focuses on how we bring together all the various metrics within an organization to paint a picture of its performance at delivering better experiences. First let’s distinguish between metrics and measurements. A Metric is a measurement of the degree that any attribute belongs to a system, product, or process.

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