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Benchmarks: What We’re Seeing For Average Handle Time and First Resolution Time in Q2 & Q3 2020

Kustomer

2019 feels like aeons ago at this point, and what does it really tell us if a business’ first response time increased by 30 seconds from 2019 to 2020? While there are several metrics that I could have focused on for this project, I chose to spotlight two: First Resolution Time and Average Handle Time.

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5 Must Haves for the 2019 Call Center

Talkdesk

Sheila McGee-Smith of McGee-Smith Analytics and Patrick Russell, Principal, Product Innovation Marketing at Talkdesk, joined together in a recent webinar to discuss the five must-haves for the 2019 call center. Metrics can help to answer key questions about the operational effectiveness of your contact center.

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Customer Service Management: It’s Time to Change the Metrics

CSM Magazine

With the large volumes of contact center advisors still incentivized based on speed – typically the Average Handle Time (AHT) – CX goals are quite often unachievable. But that model has little place in the customer centric market of 2019. Customer Experience Metrics. Companies have two options: speed or quality.

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Guest Blog: Are You Setting the Right Customer Experience Goals?

ShepHyken

Time to start planning for your 2019 customer experience initiatives. Given the current state of technology, your strategic goals must now go beyond improving metrics. This rings especially true in the contact center, where many of the simpler, repetitive tasks are still performed by humans. Technology is on your side.

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The Health of the Contact Center: Are You Ready for 2019?

This report is a must-read for contact center leaders preparing to engage agents and improve customer experience in 2019. A survey of 1,000 contact center professionals reveals what it takes to improve agent well-being in a customer-centric era.

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5 ways of delivering CX reporting best practice

Eptica

To read the three previous posts in the optimizing CX series on creating blended agents , improving the agent experience and reducing Average Handling Time while safeguarding quality, simply click on the links. The importance of trust to customer experience in 2019. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Are You Using 1999 Metrics to Measure 2019 Customer Care?

BlueOcean

It’s 2019, which means contact center metrics from 1999 are almost old enough for their first legal beer (and already knocking them back in Canada.) Those metrics were born in an era when customer service was a race, where whoever got to the finish line first (i.e. One Metric to Rule Them All. But where do we start?

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