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Customer Journey Mapping in the Contact Center

BlueOcean

As a contact center, we might be checking all the boxes in our call flow process, but that doesn’t mean the customer necessarily had a great experience. It should also uncover any gaps in procedure that restrict an agent from delivering first call resolution. Measuring, Training, and Coaching. Driving Process Improvement.

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The Not-So-Secret Ingredient for Achieving 97% IVA Intent Accuracy

Interactions

We understand intent with much higher accuracy and can boost containment because our technology enables humans to step in and be the ears without disrupting the call flow. How Humans Keep Calls Moving and Build Smarter IVAs For every utterance on a call, the IVA classifies the intent and provides a real-time confidence score.

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How To Avoid Dead Airtime in your Contact Center

NobelBiz

Measure current dead airtime: To reduce dead air time effectively, you first need to know how much disquiet time is occurring in your current interactions.Through call recording and analysis tools. Set a goal for dead airtime reduction: Set a realistic and achievable goal for reducing dead air time based on your current measurements.

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Call Center optimization: Tools and best practices to increase performance

NobelBiz

Monitoring key metrics such as First Call Resolution (FCR), Net Promoter Score (NPS), and Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) offers invaluable insights into how well agents are meeting customer needs. First Call Resolution (FCR) : This metric measures the ability of agents to resolve customer queries or issues on the first call.

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Four Key Considerations for Adopting AI for Debt Collection

Interactions

A well-designed virtual assistant can help agencies automate call flow and reduce errors made by collection agents. As the main measure of operational success, virtual assistants eliminate caller wait and hold time by servicing the majority of inbound requests. 4) Productivity.

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Can You Train Contact Center Agents in Empathy?

BlueOcean

When you create a customer experience strategy, it needs to embody the understanding that scripting or strict call flow processes rarely leave room for true empathy. So how do you measure the immeasurable in order to continue to develop contact center agents’ empathy skills? Instead, you must empower your agents to empathize.

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Do More With Less: 3 Effective Strategies to Maximize Your Contact Center’s Potential

Myra Golden

Balto reminds agents of your call flow so they stay on track and effectively carry out conversations — in English or Spanish. One way to implement a data-driven approach is by measuring and tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) such as average handle time, first call resolution, and customer satisfaction.