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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eGain Blogs

JUNE 1, 2021

Best-practice dashboards and reports to measure and assess knowledge gaps and contact center performance, including KPIs like FCR (First-Contact Resolution), ASA (Average Speed to Answer), AHT (Average Handle Time), etc. The article was curated by Susan Hash , the Editorial Director of Contact Center Pipeline magazine.

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eGain Blogs

JUNE 1, 2021

Best-practice dashboards and reports to measure and assess knowledge gaps and contact center performance, including KPIs like FCR (First-Contact Resolution), ASA (Average Speed to Answer), AHT (Average Handle Time), etc. The article was curated by Susan Hash , the Editorial Director of Contact Center Pipeline magazine.

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COPC

AUGUST 4, 2016

I found this article in CRM magazine, Inbound and Outbound Converge in the New Contact Center , to be an interesting one because it discusses some of the changes in our industry that are being made possible by process and technology, but with an eye to improving the customer experience. By Leonard Klie – CRM magazine.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This is particularly worrying, considering agent KPIs are forensically measured and metrics such as Customer Satisfaction and Average Handling Time are easily affected by loud noises — whether these come from the customer’s or the agent’s side.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 5, 2024

By prioritizing understandability, customers experience improvements in key contact center metrics including average handle time, first call resolution, sales conversion, and churn. The technology supports use cases from customer support, to business development resources (BDR), to sales.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

And it is this lack of visibility which negatively impacts both average handling time and first contact resolution. One of the most common causes of WISMO and WISMR contacts is a lack of access to delivery performance insights for teams, so much so that many brands only hear about issues when the phone rings.

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Talkdesk

JULY 31, 2017

This conversation originally appeared in Opentalk magazine. You meet with customers all the time. Average speed to answer and average handle time are great, but what you really want to do is avoid a second interaction. To read more of Opentalk magazine, click the button below.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Using Calabrio Analytics, they identified that new agents had a higher proportion of calls with long and/or multiple hold times. Calabrio Desktop Analytics was then used to drill deeper into how agents handled particular scenarios. This revealed that new agents: Maintained an average handle time that was significantly above target and.

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Talkdesk

JULY 31, 2017

This conversation originally appeared in Opentalk magazine. You meet with customers all the time. Average speed to answer and average handle time are great, but what you really want to do is avoid a second interaction. To read more of Opentalk magazine, click the button below.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Average handling time is a metric that is measured by all contact centres. With call times shortened, agents are free to answer more of these calls during the working day, reducing wait times, which is often a common complaint of customers. Reduce AHT.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This implementation showcases the immense potential of human-centric digital transformation to drive meaningful progress.”

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RapportBoost

DECEMBER 2, 2018

From Associated Press to Yahoo Tech’s David Pogue – and including Businessweek, CNET, Consumer Affairs, Fast Company, Financial Times, Inc., RapportBoost.AI Learn more about how to supercharge chat conversations for your brand from the team at RapportBoost.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 1, 2018

Typical service KPIs for contact centers include: Average Handling Time (AHT), First Response Time (FRT), First Contact Resolution (FCR), Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) and Employee Satisfaction (ESAT). And the metrics they use are specific to the needs and issues of their target customer.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Reduce Average Call Handling Times : organisations need to ensure that disgruntled consumers can get the support they need as quickly as possible. Analysing each call to identify issues that displease customers and push up average handling times will help you minimise these common causes of friction.

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CSM Magazine

JULY 16, 2020

Net promotor scores and CSAT’s will improve, customer retention will increase, and agent attrition will reduce alongside average handling time. Agents that are well trained and have access to the right tools and knowledge will provide a far more efficient and effective customer experience and create happy, satisfied customers.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Faster resolution lowers average handling time (AHT) and drives efficiency through the enterprise. SmartAssist automates up to 80% of calls and chats without ever reaching a live agent, resulting in increased customer satisfaction and a superior customer experience. Agent Assistance.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As a result, AAA Northeast’s contact centre leaders were able to increase awareness and clarity regarding safety procedures, reduce Average Handle Time (AHT) and improve the customer experience. This analytics intelligence guided the organisation to ramp up agent training on the GPS toolkit.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2022

Reassess success criteria – too many customer service organisations are so focused on metrics – such as the number of conversations per hour or average handling times that customers end up being treated as a statistic rather than a real person.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2021

The knowledge management system focuses on reducing the average wait and hold times and offers quick resolutions. It is a single platform accessible to agents containing the information required to save considerable time on communication and drastically bring down average handling times.

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CSM Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Operational: first time resolution, average handle time, and escalation rate. There are lots of different metrics leaders might choose to include on a scorecard, depending on their particular business needs.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 23, 2021

Traditionally, support representatives have not been empowered to own the resolution process – spending an inordinate amount of time trying to understand the user issue but lacking contextual insight.

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CSM Magazine

JULY 16, 2020

Net promotor scores and CSAT’s will improve, customer retention will increase, and agent attrition will reduce alongside average handling time. Agents that are well trained and have access to the right tools and knowledge will provide a far more efficient and effective customer experience and create happy, satisfied customers.

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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. Customer experience (CX) has become a priority for the vast majority of organisations – or has it? Companies have two options: speed or quality.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Occupancy – it’s good to know how many of your resources are being used at any one time but it’s even better to keep some agents in ‘reserve’ to handle random contact arrival patterns and maintain service levels.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This metric is the result of all other CX metrics like average handle time , average speed to answer, average response time, etc. Agent Effort Score – It measures the effort an agent has to put in finding the answer to the customer queries. Bottom line.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2021

Or are they purely operational, seeking to improve efficiency such as reduced average handling time (AHT), time to answer or to reduce call volumes in general? Are your goals financial in nature, involving cost savings or revenue targets? Do they centre around increasing customer engagement?

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CSM Magazine

JULY 10, 2023

Demand on the Contact Centre Is Changing It’s the ability to take breaks but then it’s harder than ever before to be able to take breaks and there’s a lot of reasons for that; demand is high, occupancies are getting higher, average handle times are higher.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

As a result, Contact Centres such as Vitality Insurance and Samsung have saved thousands of pounds through measurable improvements in Average Handle Time and First Contact Resolution while at the same time increasing CSAT scores and successfully demonstrating the fair treatment of customers to industry regulators.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

If an interactive voice response (IVR) system is difficult to use, customers either hang up or zero out to an agent, raising inbound call volume and prolonging average handle time. Human nature drives us to select the path of least resistance.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

And that’s good news for your business, too, in terms of: Agent empowerment : Even where AI doesn’t directly interact with the customer, it can shave off huge chunks off average handling time by providing your agents with automated call summaries and response emails, boost issue resolution with contextually relevant recommendations or drive revenue (..)

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The majority (80%) or more rank agent engagement scores as the top measurement metric of the future ahead of traditional customer-centric KPIs such as customer effort (81%) and average handle time (80%). Listen to Your Agents Contact centre managers around the world have different ways to improve agent engagement.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

As a result, Contact Centres such as Vitality Insurance and Made.com have saved thousands of pounds through measurable improvements in Average Handle Time and First Contact Resolution while at the same time increasing CSAT scores and successfully demonstrating the fair treatment of customers to industry regulators.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 12, 2017

Rather than reducing staff or altering workloads, call centers should first look for a much more straight-forward approach to decrease operational expenses, such as reducing average handling time (AHT). AHT is the sum of talk time, hold time and call wrap-up time divided by the total number of calls.

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CSM Magazine

APRIL 12, 2018

In most call centers, average handle time is one of the leading metrics used to manage a rep’s performance. Employees need to know that we leaders have their backs. Creating the Right Behaviors by Using the Right Metrics. There’s an old adage: What gets measured gets managed.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2021

This brings drastic improvement to digital containment (customers like Ed will have more self-serve troubleshooting resources next time) and improve average handle time for the agents, since there’s now documentation about this issue and the steps needed to replace the product.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

McKinsey and Company found that companies that have already applied advanced analytics have reduced average handle time by up to 40 percent, cut employee costs and boosted the conversion rate on service-to-sales calls by nearly 50 percent—all while improving customer satisfaction and employee engagement.

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