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Bilingual Customer Support: Where Live Agents and AI Coincide

BlueOcean

The Impact of Bilingual Support on the Customer Experience When a bilingual solution is offered to the customer, companies quickly find that quality scores increase accordingly. The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times. So, of course, we’re biased. It’s our thing.

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What’s the State of Work-at-Home in Customer Care in 2017?

BlueOcean

Did WAH move from something to be avoided to something to be embraced over the course of just a few years? For non-tenured agents, the only negative we initially see is longer Average Handle Times. This difference becomes negligible over time as they are coached on a continuous basis. So what happened? Let’s chat.

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How to Measure Success in the Contact Center

Interactions

Contact centers are now tasked with engaging and delighting the customers, and not just containing and deflecting customer calls. With a new goal in mind, the contact centers have also shifted the way that we measure success. If they weren’t focused on customer experience, what were they focused on?

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Silencing the Noise: Unveiling the Impact on Contact Centre Agents and Brands

CSM Magazine

Yet, when compared to the time spent on drafting and updating website copy, agent training too often takes a backseat. There are of course some brands who have this as a priority – and proactively keep the energy and morale high and truly reward their agents.

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New KPI Metrics in the Era of Self Service

TechSee

Once upon a time, measuring customer service success was straightforward. Hire some agents, train them, and use standard contact center KPIs to measure how well they perform. Complex calls take longer, of course. Customer care center metrics in the era of self-service clearly require a different approach.

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How To Manage The Average Handling Time (AHT) For Contact Centers?

NobelBiz

However, it is obvious that insufficient training, incompatible interfaces and other factors might result in an increase of Average Handling Time. Of course, there are rational answers to this organizational challenge, including reducing call center AHT while also ensuring quality work and performances.

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Guest Blog: 4 Easy Ways to Achieve Difficult Customer Contact Goals

ShepHyken

Whether this involves altering the policy or empowering agents to ignore the terms in certain situations, the move will result in more harmonious interactions – and more loyal customers. Task: Measure Agent Effort. Actual customer contact agents, however, prioritize something else: the effort required to perform their work.