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25 Call Center Leaders Share the Most Effective Ways to Boost Contact Center Efficiency

Callminer

No sacred cows … watch out for any processes that are time vampires. Metrics, Measure, and Monitor – Make sure your metrics and associated goals are clear and concise while aligning with efficiency and effectiveness. Make each metric public and ensure everyone knows why that metric is measured. Errors happen.

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It's So Hard To Say Goodbye (But It Shouldn't Be)

Contact Center Geek

As call center leaders we know that every metric can be abused, even if unintentionally, and therefore must have a counter metric to monitor. Call centers learned this many years ago when we created incentive plans based solely on Average Handle Time without a quality metric to counter it.

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How To Be An Effective Manager

Contact Center Geek

She is lauded for having the lowest Average Handle Time, highest Call Quality scores, and highest Schedule Adherence. Mark Horstman and Mike Auzenne created the Manager Tools podcast in 2005. At the time, I was running a customer service and sales call center for a large national bank.