3CLogic

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The contact center industry is constantly evolving. Rapid technological advancements have affected customer expectations, with 73% demanding better personalization and 81% faster service. In fact, 80% of customers report valuing the experience provided by an organization just as much as its products.

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Contact Center Self service Coaching Benchmark 98

Fonolo

DECEMBER 8, 2020

AI has been making a relentless assault on the contact center for several years. Read All the Contact Center Trends Here: Contact Center Trends 2021. Contact Center Execs Had Been ‘Back-Burnering’ Upgrades. Read All the Contact Center Trends Here: Contact Center Trends 2021.

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Contact Center Benchmark Technology Wait times 154

CX Global Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

I’ve been very fortunate to have gained different perspectives in the contact center industry. Your solution provider can be a key source for discovering the contact center best practices , so make sure their activity in contact center learning opportunities like networking events and education are part of your decision criteria.

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Best practices Contact Center CCNG Coaching 174

Hodusoft

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Achieving Excellence: Best Practices for Contact Center Performance and Quality Assurance Whether you are an entrepreneur or a professional in the contact center industry or any other sector, you know that implementing best practices can enhance performance by leaps and bounds and drive success.

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Best practices Contact Center Contact center software Abandon rate 52

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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Best practices Contact Center Management Call Center 52

LiveVox

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

AI benchmarks stand as the North Star for contact center operators, leading the way towards excellence and best practices that will set the next standard. The post AI Benchmarks in Customer Service: Prepping For the Enhanced Contact Center appeared first on LiveVox.

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Benchmark Contact Center Customer Service Best practices 74

Transparent BPO

MARCH 11, 2020

.” That adage, coined by Peter Drucker, a man regarded as the inventor of modern business management, testifies to the fact that measuring performance is vital to the success of any business or industry — including the contact center industry. “There is a term used in the industry: internal benchmarking,” he said.

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Benchmark Contact Center outsourcing Schedule adherence 71

Toister Performance Solutions

MARCH 11, 2021

This past year has been tough on contact center agents. Some contact centers endured unimaginable spikes in volume. A report from Benchmark Portal found that agent satisfaction has remained fairly high. Benchmark Portal's last Agent Voices Report was released in 2015. The survey was conducted in 2020.

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Contact Center Benchmark Surveys Feedback 121

Fonolo

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We thought we were bold when we said more than 65% of contact centers would move to the cloud in 2020. Read the Full Industry Report Here: The State of the Contact Center in 2020. We’ve spoken to the experts for our State of the Contact Center 2020 report. It happened even faster than we thought.

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Contact Center Consulting Consulting call center association 135

Calabrio

MARCH 31, 2025

Workforce Management Contact Center Gamification: What You Need to Know to Use Games for Improved Engagement and Performance Share Did you know that low employee engagement costs the global economy about $8.9 Luckily, there is: its called contact center gamification. Table of Contents: What is Contact Center Gamification?

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Gamification Contact Center Call Center Metrics 52

The Northridge Group

AUGUST 23, 2022

The Contact Center is increasingly serving as the face of a company for customers. Contact center associates are often the only people within a company that most customers will ever get the chance to interact with. They typically take calls from customers who are shopping for private insurance or Medicare.

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Healthcare Contact Center outsourcing contact center associations 128

ShepHyken

JUNE 30, 2017

This week we feature an article by Shaista Haque who writes about the top technology trends of 2017 that she believes will disrupt customer experience benchmarks. By combining the two worlds, we can now see major advancements in the field of customer service, education, fitness, communication and much more. Shep Hyken.

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Government Technology Benchmark call center software 239

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.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Best practices Coaching Analytics 52

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. Missing key parts of the customer journey?

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Best practices Contact Center Chatbots Call Center 52

Spearline

JANUARY 25, 2022

According to Forrester , it costs 5 times more to acquire new customers than it does to keep an existing one. Customer churn is a fact of life for almost every organization around the world. What is customer churn? Qualitrics define customer churn as “when someone chooses to stop using your products or services.

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Contact Center Telecommunications Call flow Benchmark 132

Calabrio

MARCH 27, 2025

Analytics What Is Average Handle Time (AHT) in the Contact Center? 5 Best Practices to Improve AHT Share Every conversation in a contact centerfrom start to finishholds helpful insights about the customer experience and service performance. It’s called average handle time (AHT).

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Average Handle Time Best practices Contact Center Metrics 52

Callminer

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Kaye Chapman is the Learning & Development Manager at Comm100 , a global provider of AI-powered digital customer conversation software. She has a wealth of experience working alongside contact centers, improving processes and delivering engaging, effective and fun learning and development solutions. Employee engagement.

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Call Center Metrics Contact Center Wait times 561

Talkdesk

MAY 12, 2020

The latest trend in at-home agent training centers around online, specialized tools that offer hands-on practice with a contact center interface, testing employees’ ability to learn and adapt to a technology they’ll be using daily. Encourage them to introduce their role on the team as well as how the agents can contact them.

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Contact Center Schedule adherence At home agents Scripts 119

CX Global Media

AUGUST 28, 2018

Contact centers around the world face similar challenges, yet so many continue to work in silos. To tear down the barriers that are preventing you from delivering an exceptional customer experience, you can’t do it alone. Many contact center leaders have an opportunity to accelerate their success by collaborating with others.

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CCNG Contact Center Chief Customer Officer Coaching 136

Fonolo

APRIL 14, 2022

On its own, calculating your net promoter score isn’t enough to take your customer experience to the next level. The best strategy is to use a combination of data reports and benchmarking to ensure your findings reflect “the big picture” Creating a Customer Service Strategy That Drives Business Growth.

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Benchmark Call Center Surveys Interactive Voice Response 91

TechSee

MAY 18, 2022

In today’s age of customer-centric service, call centers must deliver quick answers, short hold times, and the ability to speak to a live representative on demand. How can Management ensure their call centers are up to par? They can either staff up significantly or improve their call center occupancy.

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Call Center Contact Center Benchmark Agent burnout 109

Taylor Reach Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

There are a lot of smart — very smart — individuals managing and directing Call and Contact Centers today. This is my top ten list of really dumb things that smart call and contact center executives do. Contact Center staff is one of the most expensive and important assets within the Contact Center.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time At home agents First call resolution 111

Fonolo

AUGUST 24, 2017

We’ve been chatting a lot about customer satisfaction (CSat) recently, but for very good reason; measuring the degree to which your product / service meets customer expectations is critical to the success of your brand, regardless of the vertical or size. Understand Your Customers’ Expectations. Test Your Own Experience.

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Contact Center Caller satisfaction Benchmark Call Center 98

CCNG

JULY 11, 2020

However, for many contact centers it’s now time to focus on the new path forward. Once again, your ability to navigate a constantly changing environment and overcome new challenges will determine your ability to deliver great customer service and continued success. But, don’t think you have to do it alone.

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CCNG Benchmark Contact Center Customer Care 195

Fonolo

JULY 8, 2021

Companies use all sorts of metrics and techniques to evaluate their customers’ satisfaction with their products and services. Google reviews, social media activity, and customer service surveys all help companies learn about their customers’ experiences. How to leverage Net Promoter Score in your call center.

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Benchmark Contact Center Airlines Metrics 142

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Replicant , a leader in Contact Center Automation. He shares how contact centers can automate the most common customer service calls and empower human agents to focus on empathy and more complex customer issues. Effective customer service closes the gap quickly and efficiently.

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Contact Center Benchmark Customer Service Technology 33

Fonolo

APRIL 24, 2018

It’s been an exciting year so far in the world of contact centers. In just the last month we saw the release of Apple’s Business Chat, the announcement of Twilio’s new Flex call center platform and the acquisition of Altocloud by Genesys. You should also check out, 4 Contact Center Reports to Start Off Your Year.).

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Contact Center Call Center Self service Surveys 99

CX Global Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Empathy training is a waste of time and will have little to no effect on the customer experience in your contact center. Many, if not all of these 7 elements can be found in contact centers where empathy is part of the customer experience. High-performing contact centers avoid this pitfall.

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Contact Center Benchmark Surveys Coaching 113

Real Blue Sky

MARCH 6, 2023

There are many reasons to consider whether to outsource your contact center. Before the internet, customer service was typically limited to a brick-and-mortar storefront, letter-writing, or a phone call to customer service. Thankfully, this perspective on the contact center has shifted significantly.

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outsourcing Contact Center Real estate Business Process Outsourcing 98

Callminer

JUNE 9, 2020

Ultimately, AHT is not a success metric – rushing agents to close tickets, rather than resolve issues, would hasten your AHT but would not make for happy customers – but it is an important metric for calculating call center levels, assessing efficiency for the call center overall or for specific agents, and establishing performance benchmarks.

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Average Handle Time Best practices Call Center Coaching 182

Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

As in any field, it’s important to be aware of key trends and best practices in customer service to ensure that you are delivering an experience that is on par with the best players in the game. A company’s CS standards can set them apart if they always aim to go above and beyond for customers. And: The more unique, the better.

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Customer Service Best practices Contact Center Call Center 110

Talkdesk

DECEMBER 1, 2020

More than 60% of customers are extremely willing or very willing to switch brands to have a better customer service experience. Customer experience (CX) is critical to retaining and driving business and the mandate to improve it is constant. The Talkdesk CX Maturity Model evaluates CX based on nine core areas: .

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Contact Center Benchmark Enterprise Customer centricity 104

Fonolo

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The field of customer service is very close to my heart. As a young student I worked as a customer service representative, and as a “young” professional, I’ve dedicated myself to a solution that improves contact center interactions around the world. Walking in The Shoes of Your Customers | Nigel T Packer.

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Customer Service Contact Center Benchmark Feedback 102

Fonolo

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This is especially true for contact center and customer service professionals – after all, customer behavior is constantly shifting, and it’s critical for businesses to meet their expectations. Fortunately, e-learning has made call center management courses more accessible than ever.

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Call Center Management Benchmark Contact Center 147

Taylor Reach Group

APRIL 9, 2019

In much the same way as your doctor will administer blood tests, X-rays, EEG and EKG tests to determine your relative state of health, the Audit or Assessment conducts numerous tests to determine the health of you contact center. Your doctor then makes recommendations to improve your health: get more exercise, watch what you eat etc.

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Contact Center Call Center Consulting Consulting 126

Fonolo

AUGUST 10, 2017

Whether you’re a customer service director, manager, or representative, reading a few good words of wisdom always seems to help inspire your next course of action. Let’s take a moment to read through our picks of the 5 most useful quotes for customer service professionals: 1. Understanding Industry Benchmarks.

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Customer Service Benchmark Contact Center Education 97