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3 Drivers of CX Success in 2021

Upstream Works

This becomes even more evident with home-based agents, as supervisors have less control over their working conditions with limited visibility into real-time performance. For example, with customers feeling more stress, legacy metrics like Average Handle Time (AHT) aren’t going to drive CSAT scores.

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How to Measure Contact Center Agent Productivity and Five Ways to Boost It

Playvox

Contact Center Agent Productivity Defined Call center agent productivity is based on the efficiency and effectiveness with which your agents handle customer interactions, such as incoming calls, emails, chats, and social interactions. Look at schedule adherence and schedule compliance metrics. Are your agents engaged?

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Best Practices to Monitor Your Remote Call Center Agents

ShepHyken

The supervisors can download the calls to analyze the call quality standards and score each call according to metrics like language proficiency. Comprehensive Call Center Metrics Report. They can also snoop, barge, and whisper on a live call if required.

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Using Automated Analytics to Identify Contact Centre Issues and Solutions in Turbulent Times

CSM Magazine

Insights from these analytics-driven contact centres have been captured in a free to download ebook to help other businesses support different ways of working in turbulent times. Using Calabrio Analytics, they identified that new agents had a higher proportion of calls with long and/or multiple hold times. About Calabrio.

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The Great AI Paradox for Contact Centre Agents

CSM Magazine

The majority (80%) or more rank agent engagement scores as the top measurement metric of the future ahead of traditional customer-centric KPIs such as customer effort (81%) and average handle time (80%). Learn how to activate your agents of the future by downloading Calabrio’s latest report or visit www.calabrio.com.

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3 Ways Call Center Coaching is Leading to Customer Churn

Uniphore

Many call center leaders become “metric myopic” when coaching—zeroing in on one or two KPIs during a call. While numbers, like Average Handle Time (AHT), are convenient units of measurement, they make poor coaching tools, offering little actionable advice and alienating agents who feel they’re being “set up to fail.”

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Three reasons CX initiatives are failing and how to overcome them

Lithium

For example, the contact center typically owns phone and they’re measured against metrics like Average Handle Time, First Contact Resolution, CSAT and NPS scores to benchmark improvements made in that channel. But those metrics mean nothing to the C-suite.