Brad Cleveland Blog

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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NICE inContact

MAY 14, 2019

As I slogged along the 101 here in Southern California recently, I realized that my navigation is a lot like the intraday management and reforecasting capabilities available within workforce management platforms. First, What Is Intraday Management? That’s where intraday management and reforecasting comes into play!

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NobelBiz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Have you ever wondered how call centers manage the overwhelming number of customer calls, especially those tricky situations that require immediate attention? The secret lies in effective escalation management, a crucial aspect often overlooked. This is where escalation management comes into play.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 13, 2019

Forecasting is a critical component of a call center’s workforce management program. A bad forecast can directly lead to under- or overstaffing, which then has cascade effects on average handle time, CSAT, labor waste… the list goes on and on! So feed your forecast well!

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 13, 2019

Forecasting is a critical component of a call center’s workforce management program. A bad forecast can directly lead to under- or overstaffing, which then has cascade effects on average handle time, CSAT, labor waste… the list goes on and on! So feed your forecast well!

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 22, 2019

In Part One of this two-part series, we sought to demystify the forecasting and scheduling components of contact center workforce management. In Part Two, we will seek to address intraday management and employee engagement as components of a WFM program. Intraday management. Intraday reforecasting. Schedule changes.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 22, 2019

In Part One of this two-part series, we sought to demystify the forecasting and scheduling components of contact center workforce management. In Part Two, we will seek to address intraday management and employee engagement as components of a WFM program. Intraday management. Intraday reforecasting. Schedule changes.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 13, 2019

Why would I get a performance management tool as well?” This experience might sound crazy, but there many contact center managers reading this and nodding their heads because they’ve been there! Looking back now, I laugh, because all these problems could have been avoided with a performance management platform.

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InMoment XI

JANUARY 10, 2024

An omnichannel contact center is a customer service model that integrates and manages various communication channels in a unified and seamless manner. While both models involve managing customer interactions across various channels, there are distinct differences in their approaches. What is an Omnichannel Contact Center?

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

When tracked over time, this metric also allows organizations to understand how AI chatbots are developing. Average Handle Time (AHT). Average Handle Time is a measure of the duration chatbots spend in each interaction. Thompson Rivers University’s chatbot handles 83% chats. Learn more.

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Uniphore

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Our Playbook for the Transformational BPO details how conversational AI and automation can optimize customer interactions and deliver: Better average handle times (AHT) and first call resolution (FCR) rates. Fewer time-consuming manual tasks and less after-call work (ACW).

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eGain Blogs

APRIL 10, 2023

According to them, knowledge management (KM) is the #1 technology that simultaneously improves operational performance, customer experience, and employee experience, and we agree. When it is time to cut costs, it is time to deploy a modern, AI-infused knowledge hub! How do you go about doing it?

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Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

Managing forecasting, scheduling, and agent productivity in a call center is a lot like searching for the fountain of youth. While we don’t have a roadmap to the proverbial fountain, we can help steer you in the right direction for better call center workforce management (WFM). What is Workforce Management for Call Centers?

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NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Are you a call center operations manager striving to enhance your team’s productivity and deliver hyper efficiency in your daily operations? The Need for Hyper Efficiency in Call Centers As a call center operations manager, you need to stay on top of the latest trends in hyper efficiency to ensure that your organization is successful.

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COPC

OCTOBER 28, 2022

This report has clear messages regarding the importance of maintaining the fundamentals of good management to keep your teams as engaged as possible. Unfortunately, not all knowledge management systems are suitable for contact centres and often aggravate agents. Contact Centre Knowledge Management Software.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 5, 2019

However, every day in the contact center, supervisors and managers send incomplete messages to their agents, failing to prescribe what “medicine” is needed to correct their performance problems. In the contact center, we might tell an agent “your average handle time is too high.” Select the Right QM Platform.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

To properly manage your teams and fulfill your customers and business objectives, you must monitor many KPIs. However, with the volume of calls and data generated on a daily basis in contact centers, managers and supervisors frequently feel overwhelmed. The metrics that are appropriate for your organization will serve as your compass.

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COPC

JUNE 9, 2023

If you’ve been following along, you already know the incredible value that a balanced scorecard brings to performance management. The post Using a Balanced Scorecard for Performance Management appeared first on COPC Inc. For further information or inquiries, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Work with your outsourcer to identify and measure CSS-specific metrics (this isn’t an average handle time kind of situation) and give their team a transparent view of your data to be able to measure their own performance effectively. Work with your outsourcer to build the CSS profile, then trust them to hire the right people.

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Playvox

AUGUST 25, 2022

As workforce management professionals, we are faced with the daunting task of figuring out the ideal forecast, matching that forecast with a schedule and then making sure that our “master plan” works in the real world – meaning all the people that we are counting on for their shifts work their shifts as planned. Balloon Game.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 10, 2016

As a contact center manager, you’ve got a lot of metrics to choose from as your key performance indicators (KPIs). Average Handle Time : Similar to average wait time, average handle time is the total time that a customer spends from initial call/chat/email/social message until their issue is resolved.

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 17, 2022

However, it is obvious that insufficient training, incompatible interfaces and other factors might result in an increase of Average Handling Time. But, how is the Average Handling Time (AHT) calculated? What is the Average Handling Time (AHT) for Contact Centers?

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Average handle time is an important contact centre metric but it can be a double-edged sword that creates customer dissatisfaction. So, is Average Handle Time (AHT) still a relevant metric and what does it mean for contact centres today? Calabrio is a trusted ally to leading brands.

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Playvox

APRIL 6, 2023

Maximizing workforce management efficiency through real-time data is an often-overlooked advantage for contact centers. With real-time information, you can make crucial intraday adjustments that improve your efficiency and your customer experience. What Is Real-Time Data Monitoring In Workforce Management?

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

If you’ve manage an aging contact center, then you’ve probably identified several inefficiencies which limit your success. Whatever the reason, when troubles reduce the contact center to nothing more than a tightly managed expense, it becomes very difficult to ask for improvements. This is not some get rich quick scheme.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This is often because there is a lack of resources — managing one or two metrics is all one person or team can handle. Other times, it’s simply a symptom of the embarrassment of riches; too many choices can be overwhelming, and we end up not making any moves.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times. Your outsourced contact center partner will be responsible for QA on the agent side, and the OPI partner is responsible for performance managing interpreters. Quality Assurance: With any of the leading OPI providers, QA and reporting are built in.

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Uniphore

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.

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Uniphore

JANUARY 21, 2022

Before looking at technological capabilities, consider these top five evaluation criteria for conversational automation: Call flow management Long call times and complex processes have long plagued healthcare CX journeys, dragging down consumer and employee experiences alike.

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Playvox

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Managers who want to meet customer demands will typically ask their agents to work more hours. Train employees from other business groups to handle simpler interactions, and adjust your routing platform to direct these easier transactions to them. Then pilot your solutions and add more capabilities over time.

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Kayako

JANUARY 19, 2017

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. 86:15:28.

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Talkdesk

JULY 16, 2019

What is Performance Management? Call Center Performance Management is a program, generally led by a contact center operations manager, dedicated to calculating and improving the performance of contact center agents. That’s where leveraging contact center performance management software can help. The answer is both.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Contact center managers know that quality monitoring and management is necessary to maintain or improve Customer Satisfaction (CSAT). It can be difficult, however, to tie contact center contributions to CSAT and then to resulting dollars, making it even more difficult to justify needed quality management investments.

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TechSee

JANUARY 24, 2023

The earlier that your call center staff can see the problem, the faster they can resolve it.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 19, 2024

Multi-conditional alerts further enhance the capability to identify and address complex scenarios promptly, ensuring agility and responsiveness in managing customer interactions. Historical Dashboards: Preserving the Journey Historical dashboards act as time capsules, preserving the rich context of the customer journey across time.

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Uniphore

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

More people now use technology to manage their finances than use video streaming services (78%) or social media (72%). Poor promises management directly affects your call handling times, wait times, customer satisfaction, and loyalty as measured by your Net Promoter Score (NPS). And shift we did.

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