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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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

This week, we feature an article by Andy Watson, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Customer Experience at RingCentral. A majority (81.2%) require human oversight for AI-generated content, even when using their own managed knowledge bases. Additionally, 46.9% of companies disclose AI use to customers, while 61.9%

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Interaction Metrics

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Is your survey a customer listening vehicle? On this episode of the ‘Amas Talks’ podcast, Amas and Martha agreed that if you’re considering how to improve surveys, a survey audit is the first step toward excellent survey design. Or could it be improved? Amas: You’ve been around this space forever.

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ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

There are multiple customer satisfaction metrics that your business can use to get answers to questions like “Is my customer satisfied?” Customer satisfaction metrics help you back your customer-centric mindset and identify areas (both positive and negative) responsible for leaving an impact on the overall brand experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

an independent research and publishing firm focused on customer-centric business management and the founder and editor-in-chief of CustomerThink.com. It requires more than surveys or changing how you answer the phone. The metrics you choose should line up with your actions and the goals you are trying to meet.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 15, 2019

What gets measured gets managed. The Types of Data for Your Metrics. Peppers says there are two different types of data that feed your metrics: Voice of Customer (VOC) Data: Peppers calls these metrics interactive data, meaning your customer interacts with you through a poll.

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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. of the 380 contact centre professionals they asked thought customer satisfaction was one of the most important metrics.

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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. Manage agent wellness. DID YOU KNOW? – SQM Group.

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Fonolo

MARCH 25, 2021

Yet less than 30% of contact centers track this metric, despite its direct impact on standard industry KPIs. Satisfaction surveys are one of the best ways to gain insight into how you can improve your employee experience. While tricky, agent satisfaction surveys can help you come close. How do I measure agent satisfaction?

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Calabrio

MARCH 26, 2025

AI-powered workforce management, coaching assistants, and automated feedback are transforming the industryoffering personalized coaching, optimized scheduling, and smarter workload distribution. AI-driven workforce management solves this by predicting peak call times, optimizing staffing, and integrating performance-driven shift planning.

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SharpenCX

AUGUST 31, 2021

Transparency is key when you’re managing a successful team. Your agents are concerned with their individual metrics and the day-to-day goals. As a manager, you need to be able to capture clear pictures of how your team is performing. Four Metrics to Show your Executive Team in your Call Center Dashboard: 1.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 6, 2018

Disney Store uses a tool that pops out a short survey once in a while during the buying process to understand the customer’s thoughts. The Net Promoter Score is a metric that measures the average likelihood for a customer to refer your business to their friend or family. NPS tracking.

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SharpenCX

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Call center managers are responsible for 70% of their team’s engagement. To get you started, we’ve compiled a few useful metrics and tactics to ensure your remote agents are engaged, motivated, and successful in their at-home offices. Here are a couple ways to do so: Send Out Surveys: It can be hard to ask for honest feedback.

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Interaction Metrics

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This blog will explore how to improve customer service, common pitfalls to avoid, and metrics that ensure your efforts are on the right track. How to Measure Customer Service Quality Through Workshops Use customer service surveys before and after workshops to gauge their impact. Research shows that customers are 2.4

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

A lack of regular feedback between employees and managers leads to a lack of motivation and subsequent deterioration of service quality. NPS is a customer satisfaction metric that can help you evaluate the quality of your service. To calculate it, you need to use website surveys. Talk to Your Employees.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A customer success platform for managing interactions in a single space. Account management Offer workshops on relationship-building, active listening, and consultative selling for identifying upsell or cross-sell opportunities. Encourage shadowing experienced account managers who can disseminate their best tips and tricks.

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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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ShepHyken

JUNE 23, 2020

Shep Hyken interviews Martha Brooke , founder of Interaction Metrics. Beware of survey fatigue! This happens when customers receive too many surveys, become frustrated and start ignoring them. Surveys after tech support or other customer service interactions are important so companies can learn how to improve.

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TeleDirect

MARCH 20, 2025

Focus on First-Call Resolution (FCR) First-call resolution is one of the most important metrics for measuring call center performance. Provide stress management techniques to help agents remain calm under pressure. How to Gather Feedback: Conduct post-call surveys to gauge satisfaction. Encourage teamwork and collaboration.

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Callminer

APRIL 21, 2020

The role of a call center manager is complex and challenging. Call center managers may be involved with hiring and training call center agents , monitoring call center metrics tied to agent performance , using speech analytics tools for ongoing quality monitoring , providing ongoing feedback and coaching, and more. management.

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Aspect

JULY 2, 2020

With this in mind, let’s examine some tools that can help monitor and manage the customer experience for your organization and your contact center. . Originally created to simply manage multiple social media platforms in one place, their value and functionality be came evident soon after the increase of social media marketing budgets.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Here are a few key moments in the discussion: 06:44 Patterson explains how she didn’t have a lot of experience with handling customer experience improvement projects, so she relied on her Lean Six Sigma background and project management structure, starting with Define. Complete this short survey. Please tell us how we are doing!

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CX Accelerator

JULY 22, 2019

The main reason companies measure things like their call-handle time, first-call resolution, and internal quality management (QM) scores are to improve customer satisfaction. Although these metrics are valuable, they are internal to the organization, and they may or may not affect satisfaction. Contact centers are big on analytics.

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Interaction Metrics

MARCH 27, 2025

At Interaction Metrics, our approach to increasing customer retention is informed by the real problem with most customer feedback surveys: theyre impersonal, ineffective, and often ignored. Unlike the typical survey approach, our surveys are built on three key principles: reciprocity, real listening, and scientific rigor.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Unfortunately, Reichheld says too many organizations use NPS as a stick or a metric for earning bonuses. He says that any time you link a survey-based score to someone’s career or compensation, bad things happen. He says that the financial metrics most companies use for valuations point you toward the wrong investments.

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Hodusoft

OCTOBER 23, 2024

A Comprehensive Guide to Net Promoter Score: History, Calculation Formula, Survey Tips If you are an entrepreneur or a business professional, you probably know what the term ‘Net Promoter Score’ means. The fairly new metric, which turns 21 this year, is widely used across the globe to calculate customer loyalty.

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Steve DiGioia

DECEMBER 5, 2016

an independent research and publishing firm focused on customer-centric business management, and Founder/Editor-in-Chief of CustomerThink.com, the world’s largest community dedicated to customer-centric business. Metrics are designed to focus on what the organization wants to achieve. Bob Thompson. Grant Cardone.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Key Contact Center Metrics You Should Be Tracking by Foundever (Foundever) There are myriad metrics and indicators that an organization can monitor to measure contact center performance. Peter Drucker is known for saying, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” I’m a fan of surveys, but only if they are done correctly.

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CX Accelerator

JULY 22, 2019

The main reason companies measure things like their call-handle time, first-call resolution, and internal quality management (QM) scores are to improve customer satisfaction. Although these metrics are valuable, they are internal to the organization, and they may or may not affect satisfaction. Contact centers are big on analytics.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 17, 2021

We also understand that the two departments have many shared goals and metrics that measure their success. Complete this short survey. The Financial Times selected Beyond Philosophy LLC as one of the best management consultancies for the last two years. You’ll have to listen to know for sure.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 18, 2022

However, it requires more than emailing a customer survey out over seven years or so. Customer research requires a few things to be effective in driving the metrics that matter for your experiences. Complete this short survey. Customer research is an essential part of any organization’s customer strategy.

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Nicereply

JANUARY 23, 2023

There are so many different CX metrics you could track. That’s exactly what NPS , CES , and CSAT metrics do. In this guide, we’ll explain the difference between these three most common CX metrics so you can make an informed decision on what’s right for your biz. But which one(s) should you actually use?

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CCNG

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Martech Alliance, 2021) Nearly half (48%) of survey respondents said the customer experience they deliver falls below or significantly below their customers’ expectations. Gartner, 2022) CX programs that exceed management expectations are 2.3 Forrester, 2016) The average email survey response rate is 24%. (Acquia, 2019) 78.5%

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delighted

APRIL 1, 2024

One way to measure attendee satisfaction is by surveying them after the event with the right post-event survey questions. Keep reading to learn how to effectively capture the attendee experience with post-event surveys. In this post, we’ll cover: What is a post-event survey? Why send post-event surveys?

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Callminer

JANUARY 18, 2021

Read on to learn how your international contact centre can approach agent management optimisation, procedural improvements and more. Agent Management Tips for International Call Centres. They are an easy way to track metrics and discover trends within your agents. Let your operations team handle real-time management.

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