Fonolo

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Reducing call center shrinkage sounds like a no-brainer. If you schedule enough staff, give them the tools to do their job, and ensure they stick to a schedule, your problem is solved, right? For starters, everyone knows call center agents work very hard — but no one can be at their desk 24/7.

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Monet Software

JUNE 10, 2021

An optimal schedule is cost-efficient and good for the bottom line, but it can also be a core part of the employee engagement strategy, if you follow a few simple tips. #1 Better schedules make for better shifts, too, because agents neither feel overwhelmed nor underutilized. Download it now to become a true scheduling boss.

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Calabrio

APRIL 11, 2025

The Foundation: Building Your Strategic Call Center Training Program Moving beyond acknowledging the need for training, building an impactful call center training program requires a deliberate and strategic approach. Simply running generic sessions won’t cut it. Ask: Where are the gaps in performance?

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

JULY 9, 2018

Here’s a list of the most crucial metrics that inbound call center must measure. It is a direct reflection of an agent’s and a center’s capacity to solve problems, answer questions, and provide needs the very first time a customer calls. A 2016 survey by Call Center Helper shared that 62.7%

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Outsource Consultants

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

India’s call centers have long been a cornerstone of global customer service. At Outsource Consultants, we’ve observed how Indian call centers are setting new benchmarks for service excellence. This proactive approach has led to improvements in first-call resolution rates for many Indian call centers.

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Pointillist

JANUARY 25, 2019

By Swati Sahai Call centers are an operationally-complex element of your business, but they play a big role in your customers’ experience with your company. It’s no easy task, but the right mix of call center metrics and KPIs can help you stay the course.

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Calabrio

MARCH 22, 2025

At the same time, contact center operations have also taken on a new level complexity. Aspects of Oversight and Optimization Contact center management, or call center management, is the strategic orchestration of all elements within a customer interaction hub to ensure optimal efficiency, customer satisfaction, and business outcomes.

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Global Response

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Call center KPIs are chosen to measure progress toward the goals of each brand, and selection is customized to fit each unique set of objectives. They should be timely and actionable. Abandon rate = calls abandoned ÷ (calls abandoned + calls answered). Average handle time. Agent status.

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Monet Software

JULY 30, 2019

This specifically applies to contact centers which are in the frontline of customer service and are gathering heaps of information, insights and data every minute, every hour, every day. As a call center manager, these waves of data that come from different channels and platforms can be overwhelming. Want to know the best part?

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

In our on-going effort to demystify 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. You might think a simpler measurement like “call per hour” would answer this same question.

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Talkdesk

JUNE 7, 2019

Why You Should be Tracking Call Center Shrinkage in 2019 Do you know how many of your scheduled call center agents are actually available to take calls at any given time versus how many are on break, attending team meetings, doing after call work, out sick or late to their shift?

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Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

Managing forecasting, scheduling, and agent productivity in a call center is a lot like searching for the fountain of youth. While we don’t have a roadmap to the proverbial fountain, we can help steer you in the right direction for better call center workforce management (WFM).

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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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Playvox

JUNE 22, 2023

In uncertain economic times, they become even more critical to help navigate business health and growth. Call center leaders are under increased pressure to improve operational and agent efficiencies and look for cost-cutting opportunities while delivering outstanding customer experience (CX) — a tricky balancing act for sure.

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Outsource Consultants

JANUARY 27, 2025

Five key KPIs help optimize efficiency: Average Handle Time (AHT) , Service Level , Abandonment Rate , Occupancy Rate , and Average Speed of Answer (ASA). Optimize Average Handle Time (AHT) AHT measures the average time spent on a customer interaction, including talk time, hold time, and after-call work.

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Hodusoft

DECEMBER 28, 2022

What is Call Center Management? Call center management backed by cutting-edge call center technologies helps managers oversee their teams and be on top of things. By implementing call center management, organizations can accurately measure, monitor, and optimize their performance.

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Hodusoft

JUNE 7, 2024

Call Center Management: Challenges, Strategies, Tips, and Best Practices In today’s time, setting up a call or contact center is extremely easy. The way a call center is managed goes a long way in determining its success or failure. Why do businesses need call center management?

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Serenova

AUGUST 25, 2020

This article provides a roadmap for how call centers can leverage workforce management solutions to optimize customer experience and employee engagement. Supports schedule compliance. Schedule adherence assesses how closely a contact center agent follows their scheduled activities. Minimize hold time.

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Fonolo

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Sure, if you’re hiring correctly, your contact center will be filled to the brim with the right personalities and work ethics for success—but being surrounded by the best call center agents means effective training, constant support, and strategic goal setting. Performance Evaluation Scorecard for the Contact Center. (It

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Taylor Reach Group

MARCH 27, 2018

Contact centers, customer service and customer experience: news, views and how to's. Inside this issue: Call Center, Contact Center and Customer Experience Events - April 2018. Operational Indicators - Average Handle Time (AHT). Calculating Schedule Adherence in the Contact Center .

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Noble Systems

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Due to fluctuations of incoming calls, you may want to establish different thresholds for peak times and off-peak times. First Call Resolution (FCR). It stands to reason that resolving more issues on the first call will positively impact agent and call center productivity. Average Handle Time (AHT).

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3CLogic

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Monitoring agent performance metrics — which includes service level, agent schedule adherence, call resolution, average handle time, and customer satisfaction — is critical for identifying opportunities to improve.

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Outsource Consultants

JANUARY 24, 2025

Performance Metrics and KPIs Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) provide quantifiable measures of contact center performance. Essential KPIs include: Average Handle Time (AHT) Measures the time spent per interaction. First Call Resolution (FCR) Tracks the percentage of issues resolved on the first contact.

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Quality Contact Solutions

DECEMBER 31, 1969

One of the most commonly asked questions when it comes to inbound call center outsourcing is around metrics. Because there are so many metrics that are available to track internally, externally, at the inbound call center agent level and the program level, it’s no wonder people stop to think “where do I begin?”

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Playvox

AUGUST 25, 2022

A workforce management professional can have all the “rights” in place – the right people at the right place at the right time with the right forecast and the right schedule – but we cannot account for all aspects of human behavior. I often thought to myself: What difference does it make if I am a couple of minutes late logging in?

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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. You might think a simpler measurement like “call per hour” would answer this same question.

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OctopusTech

MARCH 1, 2023

Most companies will set up or adopt a call center to field customer service requests and complaints. These call centers organize phone support queues and equally distribute calls to reps on the service team. What Are Inbound Calls?

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Monet Software

JULY 25, 2019

Workforce management is a critical task for contact centers and help desks, as poor planning and execution can have a negative impact on your business (revenues, costs) your customers (satisfaction, loyalty) and even your employees (motivation/turnover/burn-out). It all depends where you stand. Improving customer satisfaction.

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JustCall

MARCH 9, 2023

Contact center metrics and key performance indicators are these parameters – the reflection of how a business has made its customers happy. While earlier businesses didn’t focus much on delivering value to customers through their call centers, the trends today have changed. What is the most important KPI at a call center?

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Babelforce

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

There’s a lot of terminology to get your head around in call centers and customer experience. Working with contact centers around the world, we know that better than anyone!). It is a key KPI for tracking call center performance. This does not include time spent navigating an IVR system. lunchtime).

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Customer Service Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Lesson 1 – Define productivity for your contact center Without a clear definition of productivity and how to measure it, you’ll be hard-pressed to improve. In this case, supporting metrics like average handle time and schedule adherence are managed to optimize the time spent with customers.

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Taylor Reach Group

AUGUST 23, 2017

Available time. Busy/Not ready time. Talk time. Warp time. Hold time. Schedule Adherence. Average talk time. Average hold time. Average handle time. Status states (lunch, break, coaching, training, etc.). First contact resolution (FCR). CSAT/NPS score.

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Noble Systems

JUNE 27, 2019

In addition to automating scheduling using factors such as work rules, availability and SLAs, WFM can send reminder messages about shifts, breaks, training and meetings to agents to improve schedule adherence.

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Serenova

AUGUST 25, 2020

This article provides a roadmap for how call centers can leverage workforce management solutions to optimize customer experience and employee engagement. By merging your routing engine, your operations team can take control of task distribution logic and instill a set of processes that are less time-consuming.

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Contact Center Geek

MARCH 22, 2019

She is lauded for having the lowest Average Handle Time, highest Call Quality scores, and highest Schedule Adherence. This is a common practice in many contact centers. At the time, I was running a customer service and sales call center for a large national bank.

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Dialer 360

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Some the people probably also knows about the inbound and outbound centers. But the most significant thing is how you can improve the level of call center service? For a beginner, an incoming call center is where reps answer a call from customers. What Is A Call Center Service Level?

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Playvox

JULY 14, 2023

Here’s the blueprint for achieving greater agent productivity in your call center. Contact Center Agent Productivity Defined Call center agent productivity is based on the efficiency and effectiveness with which your agents handle customer interactions, such as incoming calls, emails, chats, and social interactions.

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