CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Reduce Average Call Handling Times : organisations need to ensure that disgruntled consumers can get the support they need as quickly as possible. Analysing each call to identify issues that displease customers and push up average handling times will help you minimise these common causes of friction.

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Customer Interactions

JULY 7, 2015

At Call Centre & Customer Management Expo 2011 NICE will demonstrate how achieving this balance creates a contact center where average handle time is reduced, first call resolution is improved, cross-sell and up-sell is increased, customer loyalty is strengthened and process compliance is adhered to.

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Natalie Petouhof

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

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Kustomer

JULY 1, 2021

He wrote a book about barrier busting in 2011 that I thought was so fascinating and just broke down the customer experience, each step, and how you look for barriers and break them. Tom, do you think the KPI average handle time is antiquated? Tom and I go way back. We were actually colleagues at Gallup.

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Wait Times Customer Experience Call Center Contact Center 98

Stella Connect

JUNE 25, 2018

If your center’s goal is to improve its First Call Resolution rate, the quality of each customer interaction takes precedence over your team’s Average Handle Time (AHT) per-call, for example. Agent Training vs. First Call Resolution © 2011 MetricNet, LLC and United Business Media LLC. All rights reserved.

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Stella Connect

JUNE 25, 2018

If your center’s goal is to improve its First Call Resolution rate, the quality of each customer interaction takes precedence over your team’s Average Handle Time (AHT) per-call, for example. Agent Training vs. First Call Resolution © 2011 MetricNet, LLC and United Business Media LLC. All rights reserved.

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First Call Resolution Tips Effort Score Contact Center 40

Kustomer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Generally, average handle time is not going to correlate at all to customer loyalty or to a meaningful metric in most environments. Yeah, I mean, it’s hard to put a pin on that. I mean, if we look at even like the CXPA, I mean that’s only, shoot, nine years old. Gabe Larsen: (02:36). Nate Brown: (02:37).

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