Calabrio

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Analytics Why Manual Quality Management is Falling Behind (and what to do about it) Share The Quality Management (QM) landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation as delivering exceptional customer experiences (CX) has become a defining factor of business success. Contact centers are at the heart of this challenge.

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Balto

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Call center quality management can present numerous challenges for your business. More often than not, you’ll find yourself dealing with one of the following two issues: a lack of data for accurate quality management, or an abundance of data with limited ability to transform it into useful insights.

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Talkdesk

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Conduct effective training While recruiting and onboarding remote agents, the journey starts once agents enter the training phase. Training typically lasts between four to eight weeks, depending on processes. An effective remote training mechanism with regular assessments and scoring helps to reduce the learning curve.

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Management Average Handle Time First call resolution Self service 116

Calabrio

MARCH 22, 2025

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. Managing Technology: The contemporary contact center is an increasingly digital place.

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Calabrio

MARCH 11, 2025

Automate performance evaluation: AI-driven QA scorecards and analytics streamline the evaluation process, freeing up managers to focus on coaching and development. Uncover actionable insights: AI illuminates trends and patterns in customer interactions, enabling data-driven decisions for process optimization and agent training.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Call centers need to invest in the training required to ensure the software is used to its maximum capacity. No doubt for training purposes – to be able to listen to calls and find insight as to ways to improve their processes. Others may baulk at the inordinate amount of time or effort to manage the process as well.

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Calabrio

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Average Handle Time (AHT): Tracks the average duration of a customer interaction. Average Speed of Answer (ASA): Measures how quickly calls are answered. After-Call Work (ACW): Tracks the time agents spend on post-call tasks.

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Call Center Metrics Gamification Contact Center 52

Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

Improved performance management and agent empowerment. Leading contact center quality management solutions provide comprehensive evaluations of 100% of interactions. In the process, they equip leaders to identify skill gaps, deliver targeted coaching, and develop effective ongoing training programs. Peckham Inc.

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Analytics Customer Experience Agent Empowerment Contact Center 52

SharpenCX

MARCH 4, 2020

Download Now: Get real about coaching and training your agents with these 7 techniques. A typical call center coaches and trains agents in a few different ways. To build call center improvement strategies for a better CX, put coaching and quality management into your daily routine.

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Call Center Feedback Coaching Average Handle Time 84

Calabrio

APRIL 8, 2025

Optimize Agent Performance, Coaching, and Quality Management Traditional KPIs like average handle time (AHT) or first-call resolution (FCR) don’t always paint a complete picture. A longer call, for instance, might represent an agent skillfully handling a complex issue, resulting in high positive sentiment.

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Contact Center Best practices Coaching Analytics 52

Calabrio

MARCH 7, 2025

Workforce Engagement How to Combat Call Center Agent Attrition Share You know the signs: increased average handle time (AHT), increased irritation, productivity decline. High turnover at contact centers poses a significant challenge for workforce management, training, and maintaining service consistency.

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Playvox

MARCH 27, 2023

Operating a successful contact center demands attention to a wide range of factors, from investing in your agents’ well-being and training to implementing the right tools and technology. Training programs should be designed to meet the specific needs of the contact center and its agents.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Contact center managers know that quality monitoring and management is necessary to maintain or improve Customer Satisfaction (CSAT). It can be difficult, however, to tie contact center contributions to CSAT and then to resulting dollars, making it even more difficult to justify needed quality management investments.

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Fonolo

APRIL 7, 2022

Call quality monitoring is an essential piece of the puzzle when it comes to increasing and maintaining high customer satisfaction (CSat) scores. Quality management is also a great way to find holes in a call center agent’s skill set and address them head on with specific training. Record and monitor at random—openly.

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Playvox

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Here are a few tips you can use to quickly spot this behavior: Review Average Handle Time (AHT) or First Answer Handle Time (FAHT). Short handle time could mean the agent just needs more training on a process to do it correctly. Related Article: What is Workforce Engagement Management?

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Streamlined processes, well-trained agents, and effective tools contribute to smoother operations and faster issue resolution. Optimization helps reduce unnecessary expenses while maintaining service quality. WFO encompasses a range of practices, from forecasting and scheduling to performance management and agent training.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 5, 2019

However, every day in the contact center, supervisors and managers send incomplete messages to their agents, failing to prescribe what “medicine” is needed to correct their performance problems. In the contact center, we might tell an agent “your average handle time is too high.” Select the Right QM Platform.

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Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

Improved Agent Productivity and Morale: When agents are equipped to resolve issues on the first contact, it reduces the need for follow-up interactions, freeing up their time for other critical tasks. This includes building knowledge bases, participating in training, and proactively engaging with customers.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Quality monitoring should also involve every part of your party that leads to customer engagement; think online chat messages (live or automated), social media interactions, and emails. Keeping tabs on customer interaction quality can help you determine where your business stands. High AHTs generally point to low-quality interactions.

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Outsource Consultants

JANUARY 16, 2025

Actionable Feedback Loops: Provide timely, constructive feedback to agents. The most effective QA programs offer immediate insights, allowing for real-time improvements. Targeted Training and Development: Use QA findings to inform personalized coaching sessions and broader training initiatives.

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Global Response

MARCH 1, 2022

Are you looking to make sure call center agents are equipped to handle each call as efficiently as possible? Then you may want to look at average handle time and first contact resolution. In this situation, the best KPIs to track would include average handle time and FCR (first call resolution).

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Fonolo

MAY 7, 2015

And that involves everything from deciding operational strategies, analyzing and developing call center technology and processes, meeting the financial objectives of the call center, and recruiting, training, and administering all employees. In short, a great call center manager is the key to a successful contact center. Embrace them.

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Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

Replacing agents lost to attrition is costly — averaging more than $14,000 per agent. To keep turnover under control, you have to make sure your managers are trained to keep engagement up and morale high. In service centers, the source of managers’ lack of connection with agents often stems from a lack of training.

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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?

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Monet Software

DECEMBER 14, 2018

If coaching sessions involve still spending time going over the same skills agents should have learned in their initial training, then something is amiss. Not enough time. An agent has an issue with average handle time; the coach tells him this and suggests this is the area to focus on until the next coaching session.

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Playvox

APRIL 5, 2022

These include cost and efficiency metrics, such as first contact resolution (FCR) and average handle time (AHT). The core of workforce engagement management (WEM) suites are workforce management (WFM) and quality management (QM) solutions. How to Select the Right WEM Solution for Your Contact Center.

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Contact Center Coaching Metrics Gamification 77

Monet Software

MAY 29, 2018

Often, average handle time drops – which sounds good until you realize that it’s happening not because agents are being more efficient, but because they have one foot out the door already and are rushing through their last few calls. Encourage a Culture of Professionalism This starts in training. That’s a problem.

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Connect

APRIL 18, 2024

The technology can also boost agent productivity with automation, real-time guidance, and performance coaching and enhance operational efficiency by reducing costs, optimising resources, and enabling data-driven decisions.

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Fonolo

APRIL 7, 2022

Call quality monitoring is an essential piece of the puzzle when it comes to increasing and maintaining high customer satisfaction (CSat) scores. Quality management is also a great way to find holes in a call center agent’s skill set and address them head on with specific training. Record and monitor at random—openly.

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teleopti

OCTOBER 18, 2019

What if this could happen in real-time and go one step further to tell the customer service representatives (CSRs) and managers whether a customer interaction is going well or suggest how to improve it in the experience? 5-point plan for Customer Experience Intelligence incorporating WFM.

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Outsource Consultants

MARCH 9, 2018

This includes ensuring the agents receive the proper training, quality management, and calibrations to drive high-level performance. Confirm the agents are being trained well so they’re confident and knowledgeable in their abilities. Call centers can train their agents to do more for your business.

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JustCall

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

This is the essence of a call center quality assurance. What is the Relevance Of Contact Center Quality Management i n a Call Center? Call Center QA or Quality assurance ensures that an organization’s services are as expected. 3 Methods Of Contact Center Quality Management. Strategical.

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Noble Systems

MAY 20, 2021

How do all of these modern speech technologies impact business productivity? Well, time is money, and speech technologies can reduce average handle time and potentially speed up resolution of customer issues.

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Technology Interactive Voice Response Analytics Contact Center 98

JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

Contact center management is how managers run their contact center’s daily operations. It includes managing various activities such as employee hiring and onboarding, agent coaching and training, task scheduling, team communication, performance monitoring, etc.

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Taylor Reach Group

AUGUST 23, 2017

Available time. Busy/Not ready time. Talk time. Warp time. Hold time. Status states (lunch, break, coaching, training, etc.). Average talk time. Average hold time. Average handle time. Quality/Compliance score. Quality Manager.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 26, 2024

This applies to historical and real-time conversation analytics as well as related applications built on its technology, including transcription, analytics-enabled quality management (AQM), real-time guidance (RTG), next best action, real-time coaching, automated post-interaction summarization, and more.

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