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Call Center optimization: Tools and best practices to increase performance

NobelBiz

It represents a holistic approach that is aimed at transforming call center functions into a streamlined, customer-focused powerhouse. The ultimate objectives are crystal clear: Boost Customer Satisfaction : Happy customers are loyal customers. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) provide valuable insights.

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Omnipresent Contact Center Agents in the Age of Instant Gratification

NICE inContact

At the same time, we see a trend away from traditional contact center metrics like average handle time, and towards newer, customer-focused metrics like customer satisfaction, or CSAT. Taken together, these two movements are bringing about real change in the contact center.

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Amazing Business Radio: Scott Walker

ShepHyken

Shep Hyken sits down with Scott Walker, the CEO of ethosIQ ,and discuss three levels of customer optimization, finding the correct customer service metrics to focus on, and why companies should give back to their communities. ? ?. This means that metrics like “average handle time” or “time to resolution” can be misleading.

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Amazing Business Radio: Scott Walker

ShepHyken

Shep Hyken sits down with Scott Walker, the CEO of ethosIQ ,and discuss three levels of customer optimization, finding the correct customer service metrics to focus on, and why companies should give back to their communities. ? ?. This means that metrics like “average handle time” or “time to resolution” can be misleading.

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Call center cost reduction strategies

TechSee

This is especially relevant in today’s customer-focused marketplace, where expectations are high, and customer service excellence has become a competitive advantage. In addition, failure to provide a timely resolution to a customer’s issue is an important contributor to customer dissatisfaction.

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Connect Dashboard Dots for a Better Customer Experience

Innovative CX

While average handle time was a frequently used performance indicator for agents, it can be better used as a health metric. Longer handle times perhaps indicate an agent needs more training, shorter ones may indicate an agent’s accuracy level (a performance measurement) is at risk.

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Contact Center Metrics Tracking Toward Customer Centricity

Think Customers

Metrics such as average handle time (AHT), number of contacts handled, average wait time, and average speed of answer have all been heavily used and tracked.