Fonolo

MARCH 16, 2023

Your contact center may run like clockwork, with engaged agents answering calls quickly, solving problems, and creating satisfied customers in record time. But without the contact center KPIs and metrics that managers use to measure the effectiveness of their operations, you’d never know for sure.

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CCNG

APRIL 12, 2023

Demand and customer expectations are on the rise across all industries and those in the contact center industry can feel it. Customers, with no other choice than to contact companies in any fashion other than face-to-face, found new ways to engage with businesses. So, what makes for a healthy contact center?

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Nicereply

APRIL 13, 2021

Getting the right tickets to the right agent can have a positive impact on average handle time because it avoids the ticket being passed around from agent to agent. As customer support professionals, we’re not strangers to data and metrics. How to calculate Average Handle Time (AHT). What is AHT?

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CCNG

AUGUST 23, 2023

In today's fast-paced business landscape, contact centers play a pivotal role in shaping customer experiences and influencing brand perception. In this #JMPsBlog , we will explore the incredible potential of data analytics in contact centers, along with considerations and watchouts that organizations must keep in mind.

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ShepHyken

JULY 11, 2022

Finally, this is an all-the-time consistent effort. Time to Emphasise Real-Time CX Metrics by Ginger Conlon. Journey measurement, for example, can provide insights that allow companies to optimise the customer journey in real time. In other words, It’s essential to understand the “why” behind the metric.

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Callminer

APRIL 20, 2018

Change isn’t necessarily bad, but it certainly is confusing when you have to cut through the noise and determine which best practices and trends will launch your contact center ahead of the competition. Each contact center has its own priorities and goals, each of which is influenced by customer expectations.

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CCNG

JULY 27, 2022

There is a great deal of debate about what metrics call centers should measure now, especially with COVID-19 and the accompanying shift to work-at-home agents, staffing shortages, and persistent supply chain issues straining customers’ patience. Times have changed, and where necessary, call center and BPO metrics must change with them.

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Global Response

MARCH 12, 2025

Read Time: 12 minutes Table of Contents Introduction Looking to understand and use contact center analytics to boost efficiency and build customer loyalty? Best practices: Anticipate future customer demands by focusing on the most critical metrics, using consumer data responsibility, and leveraging real-time and historical data.

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Toister Performance Solutions

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Average handle time, or AHT, is an important metric in contact centers. It measures the average length of a call. Many contact center leaders track AHT closely because shaving even a few seconds off the average call could allow the contact center to handle more volume without adding staff.

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 28, 2025

With the advancement of the contact center industry, benchmarks continue to shift and challenge businesses to meet higher customer expectations while maintaining efficiency. In 2025, achieving the right benchmarks means understanding the metrics that matter, tracking them effectively, and striving for continuous improvement.

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Read the Full Industry Report Here: Contact Center Trends 2021. Contact Center Teams Had to be More Empathetic. Nobody escaped the endless waiting times. . The pandemic thrust contact centers on to the frontline. Read the Full Industry Report Here: Contact Center Trends 2021.

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Global Response

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This article will explore the benefits of omnichannel outsourcing and how to effectively communicate with customers across various channels in an omnichannel contact center and adapt to their changing preferences. What is an omnichannel contact center? Keep reading to understand the different types of contact centers.

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Fonolo

MARCH 2, 2021

Tracking is vital to providing a great customer experience and running a call center. But most metrics that contact center managers use to measure agents focus on optimizing them rather than encouraging them. Top Contact Center Trends 2021. Here are the critical call center agent performance metrics.

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ROI CX Solutions

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Reading Time: 12 minutes Table of contents Introduction The holiday season has arrived! While this season is an exciting time to enjoy with loved ones, contact centers can quickly become overwhelmed this time of year by an influx of calls, stressed-out customers, and increased demands.

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Fonolo

JUNE 9, 2020

Is your contact center providing the best customer experience possible? One of the most challenging aspects of running a contact center is managing your team. Metrics for Evaluating Contact Center Agent Performance. Average Handle Time (AHT). Where should you begin?

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2019

Given the current state of technology, your strategic goals must now go beyond improving metrics. Customer Experience will be the primary focus for successful operations in 2019 but is that “unwavering commitment to better CX” controlled by smaller metrics that don’t have a big effect on the experience as a whole?

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Calabrio

APRIL 11, 2025

Workforce Management From Onboarding to Excellence: Your Contact Center Training Guide for 2025 Jump ahead What is Contact Center Training? To drive customer loyalty and sustain success, contact centers must keep up with customers consistently rising expectations. What is Contact Center Training?

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Call Design

JULY 6, 2021

Understanding how to make a profit on the double bottom line (DBL) involves employing a broad range of KPIs and key metrics to ensure a contact centre meets every need that a business may have in supporting their customers. According to a Contact Center Helper report, 95.7% Average Handle Time (AHT).

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Fonolo

JANUARY 17, 2023

If there’s one thing managers need to understand about digital transformation, it’s how artificial intelligence is changing CX in the contact center. Gartner reports that AI chatbots alone can save the contact center industry up to $80 billion in annual labor costs by 2026. What AI tools Will Improve Contact Center CX?

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Fonolo

MARCH 4, 2021

Contact center reporting can be stressful for even the most seasoned managers and directors. But when your team’s performance is being evaluated based on cold hard metrics, it can be downright nerve-wracking to explain the numbers to upper management. The average call center has an FCR of 72%. DID YOU KNOW?

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 22, 2021

Sh e shares best practices supervisors can use for monitoring call center agents in a work-from-home scenario. COVID-19 has led us to believe that we need to rethink, amend, and strengthen our contact centers with robust technology to stay ahead of the pandemic. Real-time Remote Monitoring. Here’s how!

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CCNG

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Many Contact Centers use metrics of averages to base decisions, i.e.: Average handle time (AHT) Average cost-per-contact (ACC) Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) Averages have their place in management decision-making, but they cannot be overly relied upon.

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve decided up your contact center game. Picking an effective contact center strategy is a process that requires thought, evaluation, and preparation. We’ve got eight essential tips so you can start improving your contact center today.

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TechSee

MARCH 19, 2019

Once upon a time, measuring customer service success was straightforward. Hire some agents, train them, and use standard contact center KPIs to measure how well they perform. Customer care center metrics in the era of self-service clearly require a different approach. New Self Service KPI Metrics.

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Fonolo

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Entrepreneur and CRM expert Bobby Darnell describes business development as a “contact sport.” When it comes to contact center development, what Darnell means is that you must engage. You can’t passively improve a call center. . Call center development is an essential subset of any overall business development plan.

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The Northridge Group

JULY 20, 2023

Contact centers are in a state of flux, with many contact center associates (and workers in general) hesitant to return to the office full-time and forgo the flexibility that comes with a work-from-home (WFH) or hybrid environment. Seeing is Believing, Or Not?

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Calabrio

MARCH 11, 2025

Workforce Management 9 Contact Center Quality Assurance Best Practices: Modernize Your Approach, Optimize Your Performance Share Even as AI enters the picture, the human interaction between agent and customer is, and will remain, at the core of customer service operations. What is call center quality assurance?

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Calabrio

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Workforce Management 2025 Call Center Productivity Guide: Must-Have Metrics and Key Success Strategies Share Achieving maximum call center productivity is anything but simple. In this guide, well take a look at different definitions of and approaches to contact center productivity.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 12, 2023

The same holds when considering how artificial intelligence is changing the contact center. . Tools like interactive voice response (IVR) and smart call routing are tried and true ways to save time and money – and offer better service. Improved contact center operations . How to Buy Contact Center Software.

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Fonolo

MARCH 16, 2021

Still getting to grips with call center metrics and which ones are the most important? This blog will teach you what FCR is, the difference between First Call Resolution and First Contact Resolution, and everything about FCR that you need to know to succeed in a contact center. Contact Center Trends 2021.

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Calltools

JANUARY 10, 2024

Average handle time (AHT) is an important metric call center agents use to measure how much time it takes to interact with a customer. This metric measures the average length of time on the phone with the customer and includes the wait time and time spent on agents after the call has been completed.

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Calabrio

APRIL 8, 2025

Analytics A Guide to Contact Center Sentiment Analysis & Measurement Jump ahead What is Contact Center Sentiment Analysis? How Does Contact Center Sentiment Analysis Work? In the contact center, customer interaction analytics can run into the same issue when analyzing a voice call.

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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In this post, we demonstrate how the CQ solution used Amazon Transcribe and other AWS services to improve critical KPIs with AI-powered contact center call auditing and analytics. The goal was to refine customer service scripts, provide coaching opportunities for agents, and improve call handling processes.

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Calabrio

MARCH 22, 2025

Best Practices Contact Center Management: Best Practices & Strategies for Peak Performance Share The modern contact center is no longer seen as a mere service function at the periphery of the business. At the same time, contact center operations have also taken on a new level complexity.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

To learn more about how call centers can address customer vulnerability, we reached out to a panel of call center experts and business leaders and asked them to answer this question: “How can contact centers address increased customer vulnerability?”. One thing contact centers need to get better at is…”.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 11, 2025

Maybe youre all too familiar with the way your contact center seems to be a black hole of data. Measuring the Success of Conversation Intelligence When measuring the success of conversation intelligence programs, one of the most crucial distinctions is separating soft skills metrics from customer experience metrics.

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