Calabrio

MARCH 25, 2025

This is where modern contact centers are turning to cutting-edge solutions, including AI, to deliver real-time performance tracking and more actionable coaching. Agent performance is at the core of overall contact center productivity as well as customer experience quality.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

More effectively identifying and managing customer vulnerability isn’t just a benefit for consumers, companies that can successfully support vulnerable customers deliver better customer service and improve customer retention and loyalty. To address the growing vulnerability in call center customer bases…”.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 11, 2025

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. This distinction is crucial because it helps us uncover hidden truths about customer satisfaction.

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TeleDirect

MARCH 14, 2025

Empower Call Center Agents with Proper Training A knowledgeable and confident customer service team plays a crucial role in providing superior CX. Well-trained agents can handle customer concerns efficiently and create positive interactions. Teach agents how to handle difficult customers with empathy and patience.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

It requires a genuine understanding of your customer cohorts and their goals, perceptions, and needs. To share how to choose, track, and act on effective onboarding metrics, ChurnZero Customer Success Enablement Team Lead Bree Pecci joined CSM Practice for a drill-down into customer-centric onboarding. Irit: Hi everyone.

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

JULY 9, 2018

It begins with setting metrics. The right metrics or key performance indicators (KPIs) should effectively measure a business’s specific capacities. Here’s a list of the most crucial metrics that inbound call center must measure. Simply put, it’s getting it right the first time and reducing customer effort.

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Comm100

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Customer service agents should be adequately and continuously coached to learn the skills they need to provide quality customer service. Just like coaching in any other field, the coach needs to take the time to observe those being coached and to build them up where they need help.

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Calabrio

APRIL 11, 2025

A comprehensive needs assessment involves: Analyzing Performance Data: Dive into key metrics like Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) , First Call Resolution (FCR) , Average Handle Time (AHT) , and other factors of QA scorecards. Ongoing Development and Retention Training doesn’t stop after onboarding.

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TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Paul is a Transformational, hands-on, customer service department leader with extensive experience using performance metrics, lean process improvements, and positive leadership in building effective, efficient, and happy customer service departments. Brian Cantor, Managing Director, Digital at Customer Management Practice.

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SharpenCX

APRIL 14, 2020

Metrics are more than just numbers on a page. Metrics don’t exist in a vacuum. When they work in a relationship with one another, your metrics can measure success and failure and recognize progress. When they work in a relationship with one another, your metrics can measure success and failure and recognize progress.

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SharpenCX

JANUARY 21, 2020

Download Now: Get real about coaching with 7 practical tactics to coach and train your agents. How do you know what metrics to measure to see if your customers are satisfied and loyal? Let’s take a look at what metrics to measure in your contact center to become a more customer (and employee) centric company.

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SharpenCX

MAY 26, 2020

Organizations must wake up to the truth of the matter — remarkable customer service is a competitive advantage. Now, 89% of businesses compete on the customer experience they deliver — not just through the initial sale. Your customer service experience also plays a key role in customer retention strategies, too.

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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. So how can you balance the need for operational efficiency with meeting customer expectations? CSAT is measured at the end of a customer survey, using a five-point scale.

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Fonolo

DECEMBER 6, 2022

As leaders and managers, you need to get down and dirty with metrics, KPIs, and agent performance to run a successful contact center. Finally, if your chosen communication channel has remained phone and IVR for the last five years, conduct some audience research to see what channels your customers prefer to communicate with.

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Balto

JANUARY 17, 2025

Heres the simplest way to describe call center management: its everything that happens behind the scenes to make sure customer interactions run smoothly, agents stay motivated, and the business keeps moving forward. Youre dealing with metrics and KPIs, sure, but also human emotions, tech stacks, and rapidly evolving customer expectations.

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Balto

JANUARY 18, 2025

Heres the simplest way to describe call center management: its everything that happens behind the scenes to make sure customer interactions run smoothly, agents stay motivated, and the business keeps moving forward. Youre dealing with metrics and KPIs, sure, but also human emotions, tech stacks, and rapidly evolving customer expectations.

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Interaction Metrics

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

But heres the problem: too many companies chase a better NPS the wrong waybombarding customers with ineffective surveys and gathering unreliable data. Instead of improving the customer experience, they end up frustrating customers even more. At Interaction Metrics, we take a smarter approach. The result?

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JustCall

MAY 6, 2022

This is why data-driven sales coaching is so important. . As a sales manager or leader, a big part of your responsibility is to coach your reps and assist them in their growth. Now, of course, real-time sales coaching is far from easy. Speaking to everyone with a single coaching program is ineffective. .

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Customer Relationship Metrics

JULY 26, 2017

This results in higher profits, lower costs, higher customer retention and referrals. Organizations must create performance management and employee development programs that use customer relationship metrics to drive their service delivery. Think about the evaluation, the calibration, and the coaching.

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TeamSupport

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Whether Support is motivated by customer retention, operational efficiency, financial contribution, or attainment of customer satisfaction, the key is to define and achieve positive business results from support operations with strategies that align to tangible and measurable support metrics.

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Taylor Reach Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

This internally focused approach could be in conflict with what customers feel and experience. In fact, we have seen situations where internal quality results had negative correlations with customer satisfaction and by extension customer retention! It is not meant to be punitive.

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Toister Performance Solutions

JUNE 6, 2017

"What are the best metrics for my customer service team?" In other situations, customer service leaders don't feel they have enough data. So let's settle one question right here: there's no single metric that's best for every situation. Here's a guide to help you pick the right metrics along with a few caveats.

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Education Services Group

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Strong CSMs want to push their customer conversations up a level, and to drive continued value and partnership. Here are some helpful coaching tips: Help CSMs remove tactical communications out of their recurring strategic meetings. The post Coaching Tips for Helping CSMs Move Beyond the Tactical appeared first on ESG.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2025

Improved Customer Retention Why does empathy matter for customer retention? When customers sense that support genuinely cares, theyre more likely to stay loyal. And loyal customers arent just repeat buyers. Blend initial sessions with ongoing coaching to keep empathy top of mind.

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Outsource Consultants

AUGUST 3, 2020

Here are some key themes to consider to lower your average handle time (AHT): Coach — Reducing AHT can be as simple as executing a playbook. Make sure you’re helping new and existing agents understand the best practices for common customer scenarios. . Boost Customer Satisfaction for Travel Industry ROI.

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Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In the contact center, WFM provides the necessary metrics to gain insights into the number of agents and supervisors with the right skill sets that are required to complete the work at any given time of day, week or month. WFM is a set of processes that helps optimize employee productivity. What is Workforce Optimization (WFO)?

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Outsource Consultants

JANUARY 16, 2025

The Customer Experience Professionals Association reports that companies prioritizing quality assurance see an average increase of 25% in customer retention rates. This includes establishing measurable KPIs and creating detailed rubrics for evaluating customer interactions. Consider both objective and subjective metrics.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2025

Improved Customer Retention Why does empathy matter for customer retention? When customers sense that support genuinely cares, theyre more likely to stay loyal. And loyal customers arent just repeat buyers. Blend initial sessions with ongoing coaching to keep empathy top of mind.

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Playvox

MAY 24, 2023

For just about any business or department, metrics are crucial to measuring performance. For the typical contact center, metrics are the key to identifying the reason behind a bad day and being able to create operational efficiency that helps avoid a repeat. The customer retention that follows these efforts makes them worth it.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Finding a partner who has a proven track record of attracting, training, engaging, and retaining agents in the language of your high-volume customer demographics is going to be the top priority of your RFP process. You’ll want to ask about labor markets, hiring timelines, retention stats and more.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Most of us are aware that it costs less to retain existing customers than to acquire new ones. That means that higher customer retention means higher profits for your business. But what makes a customer leave, and what makes a customer want to stay? It’s vital to customer retention.

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Playvox

JANUARY 24, 2022

What’s worse, without customer experience metrics in place, is that you won’t know until it’s too late. At that point the impact of customer frustration will already be hurting your bottom line. Related Article: How Quality Management Can Help Improve Your Customer Experience. What are Customer Experience Metrics?

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Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

Meanwhile, the AI-powered Trending Topics feature can be used to automatically sort all your conversations into a prioritized list of about 100 of your customers most common concerns. Discover what performance coaching is and why your CX team could use it. Based on historical data, AI forecasts future customer trends and demand.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

It requires a genuine understanding of your customer cohorts and their goals, perceptions, and needs. To share how to choose, track, and act on effective onboarding metrics, ChurnZero Customer Success Enablement Team Lead Bree Pecci joined CSM Practice for a drill-down into customer-centric onboarding. Irit: Hi everyone.

Metrics 52

Metrics SaaS Surveys Self service 52

Amity

OCTOBER 31, 2016

I’m the VP, Customer Success here at Uberflip. The first being product adoption, the second being customer retention, and the third being customer expansion. It might help to start with a bit of a history, give that, relative to other teams here at Uberflip, Customer Success is still very new.

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Playvox

JULY 31, 2023

Much of a team leader’s time is taken away from their key role of providing coaching and development to their people when they have to get involved in manual, immediate, repetitive, and cumbersome tasks like leave approval and shift swaps. This timely reaction to metrics is crucial in a fast-paced contact center environment.

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Calabrio

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Radial split agents into natural advocates (as a control group), and non-natural advocates (as a test group), then provided sentiment coaching to increase the use of “advocacy” language and reduce the use of “powerless to help” language. Runner Up – Superior Propane.

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