Kayako

JANUARY 19, 2017

For live chat, that means responding to customers quickly and streamlining chat handling times. In 2016 Kayako’s support team worked on a six-month project aimed at improving chat availability, average chat handling time (CHT) and first response Time (FRT). The first step was diving deep into our metrics and understanding ways we could reduce our average handle time for chats. Stage 1: Identify reasons for high average handle time.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 17, 2018

With average handle time (AHT) down by 21%, adherence up by 31% and QA scores up from around 50% to 70%, the positive impact on customer satisfaction is unmistakable. The post Mattress Firm’s Contact Center Rises and Shines – Improving QA Scores and Average Handle Time appeared first on NICE inContact Blog. As the leading specialty bedding retailer In the U.S.,

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Knowmax

OCTOBER 14, 2020

How to reduce average handle time in a contact center. Customer Experience AHT

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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. The post Young Energy Improves Average Handle Time (AHT) and Motivates Contact Center Agents appeared first on NICE inContact Blog.

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Brad Cleveland

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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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Taking the time to tag the call, log the details, update the CRM system or forward customer feedback to the relevant department provides vital information to contact center managers, chief experience officers, R&D personnel and customer journey mappers. One important KPI is Average Handling Time (AHT), which measures the average duration of communications between agents and customers.

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Eptica

JULY 4, 2018

Date: Wednesday, July 4, 2018 Author: Anne-Merete Jensen - Senior Business Consultant How to reduce Average Handling Time and improve quality. In our first article, I’m going to look at how you can improve Average Handling Time (AHT) , reducing the time it takes to respond to consumers, while maintaining quality and efficiency. Creating individual responses on email or social media is both time consuming and potentially inconsistent.

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Upstream Works

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

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.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 10, 2016

Tracking first call resolution ensures that you are satisfying customers in the shortest amount of time, without the need for any follow-up. Average Wait Time : Average wait time tracks how long it takes for customers to connect with an agent who can address their needs. Self-Service Usage : Often times, customers can resolve their own issues without needing to get in touch with an agent. This includes any wait time, as well as time spent with an agent.

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OCTOBER 8, 2015

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LiveChat

APRIL 25, 2016

This is the second time I am calling you people for the same problem. On the other side, the agent invested her time with nothing productive in it. The key point that plays a significant role in this is ‘Average Handling Time’. Definition wise, it is just the total time invested divided by the total number of calls. Repeated questions from the agent kill a lot of time. This will prove to be very productive in very short period of time.

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Verint

MAY 16, 2017

Contact Centers Customer Satisfaction key performance indicators Customer Service Customer Experience Scorecards Loyalty customer engagement optimization employee engagement Knowledge Management Call Centers Engagement Management customer loyalty employee performance customer engagement average handle time customer focus performance scorecards user experience workflow

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Natalie Petouhof

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Once everyone is on board, it’s time to create some baseline metrics and goals and then determine what the ROI needs to be based on the program qualifications being set in place. Constellation often hears comments such as “the ROI of social media can’t be calculated because there are too many unknowns” or “don’t worry about the ROI – social media is very tactical – just start doing it – get a Twitter handle, a Facebook page, a Pinterest account.”

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Verint

APRIL 12, 2018

These calls had the highest average handle time (AHT)—more than 19 minutes per call. The primary KPIs on the agent scorecard include available time , time in adherence to schedule , revenue per hour and total average quality score. What happens when a premier cruise line makes business outcomes a top priority?

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Verint

JUNE 6, 2017

As discussed in a recent blog post by Laurie Wickham, the 2017 Verint Engage Global Customer Conference took place recently in Orlando, Florida with attendees from 17 countries and a variety of industries. Attendees hosted sessions and exchanged best practices on topics including voice of the customer, desktop and process analytics, automation/robotics, employee engagement, quality management, back-office and branch operations, compliance recording and workforce management.

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Verint

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

This week as we celebrate Valentine’s Day, it’s a good time to remember the role that emotion plays in customer service. Have you thought about that before? If you haven’t, consider how your positive feelings about a brand partly arise from the good feelings you had about a customer service experience—or several of them. In a new article for Contact Center Pipeline , I discuss some simple, practical ways that organizations can demonstrate to their customers that they matter.

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Verint

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The benefits could include improved average handle time, first call resolution, reduced after-call work time, etc., These software robots can also automatically complete portions of the work for them, reducing the time spent to get that work done. Enhancing what you have to deliver better experiences. A question being asked within many organizations is—how can we deliver better customer experiences?

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Verint

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

You may know from personal experience that low-performing, partially effective contact center technologies and overwhelmed customer service employees are not a winning combination. Being mindful with your contact center IVR and WFO strategies can help you get better at the things you care about for your business.

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Brad Cleveland

APRIL 4, 2018

Average handling time, like the volume of contacts, must be incorporated into planning by the half hour. Assuming the same average handling time all day for forecasting purposes will not reflect the environment accurately. Some relatively simple analysis can go a long way toward tightening up your projections.

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Brad Cleveland

APRIL 4, 2018

Average handling time, like the volume of contacts, must be incorporated into planning by the half hour. Assuming the same average handling time all day for forecasting purposes will not reflect the environment accurately. Some relatively simple analysis can go a long way toward tightening up your projections.

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Brad Cleveland

JUNE 29, 2016

Average handling time, like the volume of contacts, must be incorporated into planning by the half hour. Assuming the same average handling time all day for forecasting purposes will not reflect the environment accurately. Some relatively simple analysis can go a long way toward tightening up your projections.

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Brad Cleveland

JUNE 29, 2016

Average handling time, like the volume of contacts, must be incorporated into planning by the half hour. Assuming the same average handling time all day for forecasting purposes will not reflect the environment accurately. Some relatively simple analysis can go a long way toward tightening up your projections.

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Playvox

JULY 6, 2020

When scaling and streamlining your customer service teams, most companies first look at how to reduce areas such as First Response Time (FRT), First Contact Resolution (FCR) or Average Handle Time (AHT) among others. Customer Experience Tips CX Quality Assurance

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NICE inContact

MARCH 23, 2020

They also want to achieve the center’s targets for Service Level (SL), Average Handle Time (AHT), and First Contact Resolution (FCR), among others. Here’s a dirty little secret. Despite the industry’s focus on the customer experience (CX), contacts still take too long and don’t reach closure often enough. Generally speaking, it’s not the agents’ fault. They really want to help customers.

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Jacada

JUNE 16, 2017

Perhaps none more so, regardless of the communication channel, than the Average Handle Time (AHT), which is essentially a management tool to assess how quickly employees are assisting customers. It is well known that metrics have an important role in the success of any call center. Read More. Jacada Blog

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Average Handle Time. An effective agent screen pop can have a dramatic positive impact on average handle time (AHT). On average, screen pops shave off 15-20 seconds per call, because rather than the agent having to search for the customer’s information manually in the database, that process is automated. And while average handle time is important within the contact center, it also indirectly impacts your customer experience as well.

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Comm100

MAY 28, 2020

Sometimes you do it to diagnose a specific problem, while other times you do it to make sure that everything is running smoothly and see what could be improved. If it’s high, you may need to add staff during peak busy times. Alternatively, you may need to check average handle time as it could indicate that your agents are spending too much time on each chat. It can be measured as follows: Amount of live chats per month x Average Handle Time.

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BlueOcean

DECEMBER 5, 2017

These steps and manual entry resulted in longer Average Handle Times, lower quality customer experience, and, sometimes, inaccuracies or errors in customer information. Instead of spending valuable call time on verification and manual entry processes, agents are able to jump immediately in to resolving the customer’s issue. The Client.

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

From extreme weather to product recalls, there’s an infinite number of scenarios that will flood your contact center in an instant, resulting in increased average handle times, wait times, and customer frustration. As experts in forecasting, we know call volume spikes are inevitable and not always predictable.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Average talk time (ATT) is often a neglected little contact center metric. Overshadowed by its bigger, louder counterpart, Average handle time (AHT), it often stays in the background, waiting for someone to notice it and realize its potential. Based on the data, they finish each interaction in a timely manner and aren’t wasting time on the phone. The post Average Talk Time: The Little Metric with Big Insights appeared first on inContact Blog.

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Myra Golden

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Twice in the last week, Contact Center Agents have reached out to me for help on reducing Average Handle Time (AHT). I’m listening, and I have an answer. I say “an answer” because I’ll be sharing more solutions in the coming weeks.

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Talkdesk

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

For agents Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is a great way to reduce the time that agents spend on repetitive, manual tasks.

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Advantage Communications

JULY 10, 2019

These metrics - as discussed in our blog titled ‘ 7 Key Metrics to Look out for When Outsourcing Your Customer Service to a Call Center ’ - include First-Call Resolution (FCR), Net Promoter Score (NPS), Customer Satisfaction (CSAT), Call Abandonment Rates (CAR), Customer Effort Score (CES), Average Handle Time (AHT) and Service Level (SLA).

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Average handle time (AHT) , a key CX metric, has fallen by two minutes! We love our shoes! Designer Shoe Warehouse, better known as DSW, continues to find innovative ways to capitalize on that universal truth and keep customers coming back for more. From a single store just 25 years ago, DSW has become a footwear and accessories powerhouse with 500 stores and a wildly successful digital business. Today, DSW leads the industry it has so effectively disrupted.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Average talk time (ATT) is often a neglected little contact center metric. Overshadowed by its bigger, louder counterpart, Average handle time (AHT), it often stays in the background, waiting for someone to notice it and realize its potential. Based on the data, they finish each interaction in a timely manner and aren’t wasting time on the phone. The post Average Talk Time: The Little Metric with Big Insights appeared first on inContact Blog.

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