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What Are the Elements of Good Strategic Planning?

Call Center Weekly

Align the most important resource (people) and present the strategy and the project implementation plan, highlighting the importance of their individual contribution to meeting the goals. Institute scheduled update meetings with staff and front-line representatives. This is an opportunity to create a valuable Horizontal Unit Team.)

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What is Workforce Management?

Babelforce

This includes forecasting contact volume, scheduling staff and analyzing performance. In other words, WFM involves studying the past, managing the present and predicting the future. They also face a very erratic demand, making it challenging to schedule staff effectively. Why does workforce management matter?

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How to evaluate a call center agent’s performance?

ViiBE Blog

The center’s total call volume and the number of staff present at any time will affect this KPI. Two crucial related KPIs that affect employee performance are schedule adherence and absenteeism. Schedule adherence compares an employee’s scheduled hours to the actual hours they spend working.

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The Importance of Workforce Management for Contact Center Leaders

Serenova

An integrated workforce management system helps contact center leaders get a handle on the schedule adherence battle by building multi-channel schedules with shifts that address multiple activities across. Supports schedule compliance. This ultimately means better experiences for your customers.

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How To Use Gamification To Improve CX In Your Contact Centre

Call Design

Textbook knowledge, learning from presentations or listening to co-workers presents limitations when training agents. Schedule adherence. Understanding that every agent is different, catering for their unique characteristics, behaviours, and preferred learning styles is vital to the training courses they do.

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What is Peak Hour Traffic?

Babelforce

What challenges can peak hour traffic present? Peak call times can present challenges for call center agents and managers. Reduced schedule adherence. It’s important for call center agents to maintain schedule adherence. This increases the risk of agent error and unresolved customer problems.

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Quickly Fix Agent Performance on the Cheap

Toister Performance Solutions

Twitter: @bradcleveland Explain the “why” behind schedule adherence, the importance of being “in the right place at the right times.” Twitter: @greg_p_collins Highlight an Agent for great service at your next team meeting, presenting them a funny trophy for their desk (think old bowling trophy from Goodwill). Brad Cleveland.