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Best Practices for Auditing Calls to Maintain High QA Standards

TeleDirect

Implement Real-Time Call Monitoring Monitoring live calls enables immediate feedback and intervention when necessary. Conduct Calibration Sessions for Accuracy Calibration sessions ensure consistency across QA teams. Reduce average handling time (AHT) without compromising quality.

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10 Key Metrics and KPI’s for Contact Centre Performance

Call Design

A common grade of service is 70% in 20 seconds however service level goals should take into account corporate objectives, market position, caller captivity, customer perceptions of the company, benchmarking surveys and what your competitors are doing. Calibration is key when measuring quality to ensure any suggestion of bias is removed.

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

Callminer

Average handling times (AHT) increase. This can be achieved if all agents are trained on both campaigns so that the queue hold time can be reduced. Re-visiting key performance metrics : When thinking about a call center and metrics, we mainly focus on Average Handle time (AHT) or average talk time.

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Putting Humanity in Contact Centers

Customer Relationship Metrics

You’ve conducted surveys, created committees, put in recognition programs, and still you struggle. A Towers Watson survey, shows that only half of managers set effective employee goals. Think about the evaluation, the calibration, and the coaching. Surveys that “only” ask you to rate agent performance. Trust and Fairness.

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Call Center Insights in 2025: Enhance the Customer Experience

Balto

These systems can also detect when wait times exceed acceptable thresholds and alert supervisors in real-time. They utilize key performance indicators (KPIs) such as average handle time and customer satisfaction scores to help agents and managers make informed decisions, identify issues, and enhance operational efficiency.

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Replacing Customer Service Surveys with Sentiment Analysis

Balto

“Do you enjoy filling out customer service surveys?” ” Then why do we pester our customers with surveys? You can eliminate post-transaction surveys with a new sentiment analysis technique called the sentiment arc. Do you have to calibrate against actual customer surveys?

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The Coming Disruption of the Contact Center Outsourcing Industry

Taylor Reach Group

The CCO’s employ forecasts which are matched to the contractual KPI’s, most commonly, Service Level (the percentage of contacts answered within a specified time-period, which often varies by channel), Average Handle Time and Abandon rate. Internally the quality assessors can calibrate between themselves.