ViiBE Blog

MAY 13, 2021

Customers often contact a call center when they are frustrated or experiencing an issue with a product or service. In the background, entire systems run behind the scenes to manage their call and put them in touch with a representative as efficiently as possible. There are different types of call centers.

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Uniphore

JUNE 10, 2021

3 Ways Call Center Coaching is Leading to Customer Churn. Why then do so many call centers struggle to convert coaching into real, measurable results? Research shows that agent retention rates were nearly double the average when coaches spent 60 percent or more of their time on the call center floor.‡

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ViiBE Blog

APRIL 22, 2021

A call center depends on many different people to function correctly. Each call center agent must balance performance targets with customer satisfaction. On top of that, software is critical to the functioning of a call center. How can I improve my call center performance?

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Brad Cleveland Blog

MARCH 5, 2020

Once I worked with a technical support center that had a fairly wide range of average handling times (AHTs). Most of the agents had AHTs somewhere from 8 to 12 minutes, but the AHT for one agent in the group was over 20 minutes.

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Stella Connect

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Fast-growing companies with ambitious customer service goals and limited resources may find call center staffing tricky — what’s the magic number of agents you need to meet demand and service customers effectively ? Calculating the right call center staffing level for your customer service team should rely on a tried-and-true formula.

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ViiBE Blog

AUGUST 19, 2020

There are several ways a company can enhance its operations to create a successful call center. To provide this dedicated, quality support by phone, many companies establish call centers. Call centers are well-known for being at the heart of customer success operations. Support Call Center Employees .

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NICE inContact

MARCH 29, 2018

In fact, implementing NICE inContact CXone has resulted in significant improvements in everything from average handle time (AHT) to average speed of answer (ASA) to quality assurance scores. Working with NICE inContact has accomplished all that and more. Even sales increased as a residual benefit!

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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. It’s no easy task, but the right mix of call center metrics and KPIs can help you stay the course.

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Advantage Communications

JULY 10, 2019

When it comes to outsourcing your customer service to a call center, there are a range of metrics that call centers use to ensure they are delivering a superior customer experience (CX) for your customers.

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Uniphore

JUNE 7, 2021

Nearly half of the respondents (46%) reported most often using the software to automate tasks and reduce average handle time. Ultimately, with the right agent assist tool and implementation plan, your agents — and therefore, your customers — are set up for a better experience on the calls to come. Download Now.

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SaleMove

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Together, we are poised to optimize call center operations and improve the customer experience for businesses seeking to realize the benefits of a digital-first approach. . The post Glia and Infosys Partner to Enhance Digital Customer Service for Businesses Worldwide appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 10, 2016

As a contact center manager, you’ve got a lot of metrics to choose from as your key performance indicators (KPIs). In this blog, we help narrow down this long list to help you focus on the metrics that, when improved upon, will really help your contact center thrive. So, what are the top metrics you should be looking at?

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 8, 2019

Call Center Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) is, together with other customer related measurements like Net Promoter Score (NPS) and Customer Effort Score (CES), among the most widely recognized and frequently used KPIs in the call center. Let’s investigate. . Let’s leave that for another post….

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times. Data from ICMI also reveals that 76% of call center professionals believe bilingual support improves the customer experience, brand loyalty, and customer satisfaction.

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Talkdesk

APRIL 8, 2016

Nate chatted with Talkdesk Product Manager, Robert Sur, about the importance of leveraging call center data to develop and refine a phone support strategy. I’ve been on Talkdesk’s Product Marketing team for almost a year now, and I have always considered myself to be fairly knowledgeable about the merits of call center reporting.

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SaleMove

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Together, we are poised to optimize call center operations and improve the customer experience for businesses seeking to realize the benefits of a digital-first approach. . The post Glia and Infosys Partner to Enhance Digital Customer Service for Businesses Worldwide appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 30, 2018

Average Handling Time. A lower Average Handling Time means more satisfied customers, more productive agents and a lower cost per interactions. Customer Care departments in general and Call Centers, in particular, are famous for having high employees’ turnover. Type: Performance Centric.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 13, 2023

Talk of ChatGPT is everywhere from your LinkedIn feed to the evening news to, yes, this blog. Like most people in the customer care sector, we are diving deep into where ChatGPT fits, or might fit, into the contact center world.

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Instead, we live in a customer-centric world, where metrics like Average Speed of Answer (ASA), Average Handle Time (AHT), and First Call Resolution (FCR) are, by themselves, short-sighted and more focused on controlling costs instead of enhancing the experience.

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Talkdesk

JUNE 21, 2019

Reducing average wait time and average handle time in your contact can yield huge customer satisfaction increases for your business. In this blog, we outline what call wrap up time is and actionable steps you can take to reduce it in your contact center.

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Talkdesk

MAY 11, 2015

Over the years, call center software technology has made considerable strides. These technological advances have allowed both call center managers and agents to optimize their performance, giving way to better business outcomes and ultimately increasing profit. You’re unable to listen to live calls or barge into calls.

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Uniphore

JUNE 16, 2021

You probably already think enough about Average Handle Time, or AHT for short. AHT is the average length of time it takes an agent to complete a call. Many contact centers, therefore, have opted to favor outcome metrics such as First Contact Resolution or Net Promoter Score, with secondary emphasis on AHT.

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NICE inContact

JULY 12, 2019

Even when you’re already convinced of the advantages of digital customer service, there’s a series of steps to take before actually integrating a new system into your call center software. Time is money, right? No one wants to spend too long integrating digital customer service into your call center software.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

If you are a call center manager, you likely ask these questions on a regular basis. Below is a list of call center metrics you should look at to improve not only your efficiency, but also your quality and outcomes. Keep track of how many calls it takes a customer to get a problem resolved. Average Handling Time.

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

However, benefits extend to other contact center metrics as well. Average Handle Time. An effective agent screen pop can have a dramatic positive impact on average handle time (AHT). If screen pops improve the AHT, then they also in turn will have a positive impact on the wait time.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

If your efforts aren’t optimally performing, it may be time to jumpstart a self-service transformation project in your contact center. Contact centers collect, store, and manage vast amounts of fundamental data to measure things like average handle time, number of calls, agent engagement, and other key-performance indicators.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

If your efforts aren’t optimally performing, it may be time to jumpstart a self-service transformation project in your contact center. Contact centers collect, store, and manage vast amounts of fundamental data to measure things like average handle time, number of calls, agent engagement, and other key-performance indicators.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Not only are cold transfers frustrating for customers who have to repeat themselves, but they also are the cause of large expenditures within call centers. Numerous internal transfers lead to increased and lengthy average handling times for live agents, which can be incredibly expensive for companies.

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VDS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Emerging technologies help companies reduce average handle time (AHT), increase customer satisfaction (CSAT), and increase profitability. The idea is to let technology handle mundane tasks, nuisance calls, and authentication, so your agents can focus on everything else. Virtual Hold. Slow Wi-Fi?

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

But there are dozens of other processes in which agents collect information from a customer over the phone, and these calls aren’t just long, they’re expensive. Many companies have been able to significantly reduce live agent minutes and the average handle time for calls by using virtual agents to take over the drudgery of data gathering.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Spend any time around a contact center and you’ll likely hear the acronym FCR. The definition has changed a bit over time as call centers transformed into contact centers that handle more than just calls. Back in the call center days, FCR stood for First Call Resolution.

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Stella Connect

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Incorporate a QA scorecard , as well as plenty of simulated service interactions, in your call center training program to boost agents’ confidence. Be less concerned with average handle time, and bring your focus to first call resolution (FCR) as this metric is connected to nearly all other KPIs. #4.

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Pointillist

MARCH 1, 2019

For a business, that means high costs and inefficient call center operations. Call centers, therefore, want to improve first call resolution rate, reduce call volume, and excel at customer service while reining in high costs. But how exactly will customer journey analytics work in a call center operation?

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Bold360

APRIL 28, 2021

The frustrated customer might wait a few minutes and then call into the bank’s call center, where they faced lengthy wait times as other customers were doing the same thing. Customers would repeatedly click on the live chat button, but no agent was available to help.

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Talkdesk

AUGUST 3, 2016

This mammoth blog post puts customer satisfaction front and center. These include average handle time, replies per ticket and average first reply time. Lara Ponomareff || CEB Blogs. Talkdesk introduced a new call center KPI: Customer Sentiment Score (CSS). Ernest Wong || Talkdesk.

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TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

For example, the technology can identify patterns that indicate a customer’s intent based on web activity or text and route the call or chat to the appropriate agent. Intent prediction enables call centers to up their game by giving customers the assistance they need in the way they want it. Emotion analytics. Gamification.

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Playvox

MARCH 27, 2023

Related Article: 7 Simple Tips To Give Quality Feedback In Your Call Center 3. Setting Clear And Attainable Goals For Your Agents To enhance contact center productivity, it’s essential to establish clear and achievable goals for agents. Related Article: Best Ideas To Increase Productivity In Your Call Center 8.

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