Fonolo

MARCH 25, 2021

But have you considered the impact of your agent satisfaction? Yet less than 30% of contact centers track this metric, despite its direct impact on standard industry KPIs. If you don’t know the state of your agents’ satisfaction levels, it can be difficult to create positive change. Work-life balance. Why or why not?

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Balto

JANUARY 17, 2025

Heres the simplest way to describe call center management: its everything that happens behind the scenes to make sure customer interactions run smoothly, agents stay motivated, and the business keeps moving forward. Youre dealing with metrics and KPIs, sure, but also human emotions, tech stacks, and rapidly evolving customer expectations.

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Balto

JANUARY 18, 2025

Heres the simplest way to describe call center management: its everything that happens behind the scenes to make sure customer interactions run smoothly, agents stay motivated, and the business keeps moving forward. Youre dealing with metrics and KPIs, sure, but also human emotions, tech stacks, and rapidly evolving customer expectations.

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Balto

JANUARY 21, 2025

Thats where call center agent performance metrics come in. When the right metrics are tracked and acted upon, the results are undeniable. Agents become more confident, customers become more satisfied, and your entire operation becomes more effective. Start by aligning your metrics with clear business goals.

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Balto

JANUARY 2, 2025

Thats where call center agent performance metrics come in. When the right metrics are tracked and acted upon, the results are undeniable. Agents become more confident, customers become more satisfied, and your entire operation becomes more effective. Start by aligning your metrics with clear business goals.

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Monet Software

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Declining customer satisfaction ratings and other metrics. An agent suffering from burnout may not show all of these symptoms. If you fear a particular agent is suffering from burnout, offer immediate support, much like you’d comfort someone with a bad cold and recommend fluids and rest. Loss of confidence.

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Nicereply

MAY 28, 2019

All those factors can combine to cause agent burnout. If you’re not familiar with the term, agent burnout refers to when someone starts feeling cynical, disengaged, overwhelmed, and even depressed as a side effect of overworking. Outside of the negative effects on your agents, burnout also impacts your business.

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SharpenCX

MAY 6, 2020

Coaching your agents improves the quality of service they provide. When you manage your team by coaching them, you’re showing agents that you’ll listen to them. And when an agent is listened to, they feel valued and empowered. Then, you can help agents optimize their time at work. And, they enjoy doing it.

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JustCall

APRIL 15, 2024

As a sales or customer support manager, you’ve likely noticed some agents seem disengaged, burned out, or stressed. Call center agent burnout is a real problem, and the job demands can take a toll on even the most resilient employees. Excessive workload strict metrics 2. Focus on quality over quantity metrics 6.

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SharpenCX

APRIL 29, 2020

And, look to your year-over-year metrics for added guidance, too. Once you have these predictions on deck, you can use WFM tools (like Sharpen + Community WFM ) and additional service-level metrics to figure out how many agents you need to take care of incoming customer needs. Build in time for agent coaching.

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Playvox

JULY 31, 2023

Much of a team leader’s time is taken away from their key role of providing coaching and development to their people when they have to get involved in manual, immediate, repetitive, and cumbersome tasks like leave approval and shift swaps. This timely reaction to metrics is crucial in a fast-paced contact center environment.

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Playvox

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

When you create the right policy, you’ll get call avoidance rates down — to the benefit of both your customer satisfaction metrics and your agents’ experiences. While to the agent, it’s just handling another customer interaction, they are the “face” of the company and take the brunt of the rage from the customer.

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Fonolo

MAY 31, 2022

Utilization Rate will help you determine the total time your agents are logged in, assisting customers, and available to assist customers but doing other things. Coaching one-on-ones. Total Shift Time —The full amount of time an agent was scheduled to work. Some tasks to keep in mind are: Training sessions. Team meetings.

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Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

But the gap between how managers view feedback and how employees see it simply isn’t good for agent morale and mindset. To keep engagement up, feedback should be focused on coaching rather than micromanaging. Remember that understanding their role and goals was the most important factor in agent engagement.

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SharpenCX

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Where would you be without your agents in the first place? It’s vital that you know where your team’s strengths and weaknesses lie, so you know how to coach to better performance. Use the DISC Assessment or the StrengthsFinder Test to identify how your agents thrive and collaborate. Tip #3: Coaching for a Better Team.

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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? Understand that the problem is not empathy in itself but how it is coached.

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Babelforce

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

These include paid breaks, restroom visits, and coaching sessions. As such, the metric is a crucial consideration for the planning team. Many contact centers may also consider utilization an indicator of agent productivity. Many will, however, calculate utilization rates for individual agents and teams automatically.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Training, coaching, legacy technology, and lack of career opportunities top the list of issues for agents along with handling irate customers. Training/Coaching. A recurrent response by agents is that they want to be empowered to help customers. Nevertheless, 78% of agents report metric manipulation.

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Fonolo

MAY 31, 2022

Utilization Rate will help you determine the total time your agents are logged in, assisting customers, and available to assist customers but doing other things. Coaching one-on-ones. Total Shift Time —The full amount of time an agent was scheduled to work. Some tasks to keep in mind are: Training sessions. Team meetings.

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Playvox

DECEMBER 13, 2022

When some agents avoid working with customers, that puts pressure on other team members to pick up the slack. This can lead to burnout, creating additional increases in agent stress that lead to high call-outs or high attrition rates. What To Do if Contact Center Agents Are Participating in Interaction Avoidance.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 15, 2023

When it comes to demystifying call center metrics, ‘occupancy rate’ shouldn’t be forgotten. Occupancy rate is basically a measure of how “busy” call center agents are when they are at work. Occupancy rate is the percentage of time that agents spend handling customer inquiries vs. waiting for calls (idle time).

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SharpenCX

APRIL 1, 2020

With objectives set, your agents have more manageable metrics and outcomes to impact. Assign KPIs and metrics to track goals – and check on progress often. When agents can’t measure progress toward their objectives and goals, productivity stalls and performance plateaus.

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Talkdesk

JULY 16, 2019

Call Center Performance Management is a program, generally led by a contact center operations manager, dedicated to calculating and improving the performance of contact center agents. Performance Management generally requires a number of tools like call recording , quality monitoring , coaching , and gamification.

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Balto

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Technology plays a key role here – by integrating different solutions, contact centers can seamlessly handle multichannel interactions, as well as collect and analyze data efficiently, all while ensuring that their agents’ efforts are directed efficiently while technology automates redundant tasks for them.

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Balto

JANUARY 14, 2025

Real-Time Analytics: Provides live insights to assist agents during ongoing interactions. Contact center analytics is a crucial tool that helps businesses track and analyze performance metrics, ultimately aiming to enhance operational efficiency and customer satisfaction. Misinterpretation of metrics leading to poor decisions.

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Balto

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The whole team benefits before, during, and after an internal promotion.” – Michelle Barbeau, Senior Customer Enablement Manager The only metric which didn’t improve linearly with rate of internal promotion was whether or not respondents were actively working towards a promotion. Suddenly, their work has greater meaning and impact.

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Playvox

APRIL 27, 2023

Address all challenges that come up — for customers and agents. Leverage advanced analytics to gauge metrics such as customer retention rates and employee productivity. Agents won’t burn out trying to channel jump to satisfy needs. Remember to keep it focused on key metrics.

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Hodusoft

AUGUST 9, 2023

Multi-tenant contact center software offers customizable performance dashboards that present key metrics, real-time analytics , and reporting capabilities in a visually appealing manner. This ensures adherence to quality standards and provides opportunities for targeted coaching and training to improve performance.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 6, 2023

Screen calls and route them to the most appropriate agent based on the customer’s needs and/or inquiry type. This ensures that customers are connected to the right agent. Track call center metrics, such as average handling time, first-call resolution rate, and customer satisfaction scores.

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NobelBiz

JUNE 4, 2024

WFM involves forecasting call volumes, scheduling staff, and managing day-to-day operations to ensure that the right number of agents are available to handle customer interactions at all times. This not only helps in maintaining optimal staffing levels but also in reducing operational costs and minimizing agent burnout.

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Noble Systems

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Connect customers with the right agent, right away – First-call resolution and customer satisfaction are very important metrics for a call center. If you can get your callers to the right agent to solve their problem – and if you can get them there quickly – they are less likely to leave.

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aircall

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The time spent on your website, the pages visited, the reactions to changes you implement in your product, there are countless metrics to track in order to understand your customers. This is a recipe for agent burnout , and for an unsuccessful and unsustainable strategy. Customer service is everyone’s job.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This is a metric that assesses the efficacy and quality of customer service and has a direct impact on customer satisfaction. The callback feature of the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) guarantees that the consumer is reached again by an agent who is qualified to address his queries.

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Robert Davis

APRIL 5, 2018

Let’s face it; the outbound agent will encounter many more “no’s” than “yes’s.” Agent burnout is high due to the aforementioned “rejection factor” inherent in outbound selling. The agent turnover rate for outbound programs can often be two to three times higher than for inbound or other call center functions. List yield.

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Robert C. Davis and Associates

APRIL 5, 2018

Let’s face it; the outbound agent will encounter many more “no’s” than “yes’s.” Agent burnout is high due to the aforementioned “rejection factor” inherent in outbound selling. The agent turnover rate for outbound programs can often be two to three times higher than for inbound or other call center functions. List yield.

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Telemarketing Outbound sales outsourcing Quality calibration 40