Calabrio

APRIL 11, 2025

The Foundation: Building Your Strategic Call Center Training Program Moving beyond acknowledging the need for training, building an impactful call center training program requires a deliberate and strategic approach. Simply running generic sessions won’t cut it. Ask: Where are the gaps in performance?

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NICE inContact

MARCH 29, 2018

Disconnected platforms and systems, an inability to get the metrics it needed and few customer insights were all obstacles to the excellent experiences the company wanted—and needed—to provide its customers. The post Young Energy Improves Average Handle Time (AHT) and Motivates Contact Center Agents appeared first on NICE inContact Blog.

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NobelBiz

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Forecasting in call centers helps today’s contact centers achieve high efficiency and customer satisfaction while keeping running costs low. Call centers predict future call volumes and other metrics so demand can be better met and good service levels can be maintained with optimized resources.

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TechSee

AUGUST 26, 2024

Call centers are the frontline of customer service for many businesses. Providing excellent service in call centers is crucial for maintaining customer satisfaction and loyalty. However, call centers face a variety of challenges that can prevent them from delivering the best possible service.

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TechSee

MARCH 5, 2020

Every customer service professional knows that running a successful call center is a constant balancing act. Overworking employees can actually drive up call center costs by causing burnout and leading to high agent turnover. Call Center Agent Utilization vs. Occupancy. The Visual Impact on Training.

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rethinkCX

MARCH 4, 2025

Call center agents are the heartbeat of customer experience (CX)fielding queries, soothing frustrations, and turning chaos into calm. Its not about replacing agents; its about guiding themsuggesting answers, flagging hot-button moments, and making every call sharper, faster, better. Agents flying solo? Enter the AI co-pilot.

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Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

Uncover Process Inefficiencies: Analyzing calls, particularly in tandem with desktop and process analytics , can reveal bottlenecks, outdated scripts, or confusing IVR systems that frustrate customers and hinder agent productivity. Embracing AI in quality assurance unlocks a smarter, data-driven approach for both CX and EX.

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Uniphore

JUNE 7, 2021

Nearly half of the respondents (46%) reported most often using the software to automate tasks and reduce average handle time. According to Forrester, 8 out of 10 tasks in the contact center can be automated. Copy-paste info into systems and eliminate manual tasks. Definitive Guide for Agent Assist. Download Now.

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Calabrio

MARCH 22, 2025

At the same time, contact center operations have also taken on a new level complexity. Aspects of Oversight and Optimization Contact center management, or call center management, is the strategic orchestration of all elements within a customer interaction hub to ensure optimal efficiency, customer satisfaction, and business outcomes.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Let’s meet these malevolent monsters and get to grips with the thorny issue of call center attrition. The Frankenstein system. Cobbled together from countless pieces of archaic software, the Frankenstein contact center system is the bane of the agent’s life. Demon KPIs. The zombie script. Happy Halloween.

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TechSee

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Call volumes in many contact centers are down along with the cost to serve. However, that means successful call center agents must now deal with a far greater proportion of complex issues. Helping customers resolve tricky issues puts pressure on the contact center in several ways.

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 8, 2019

Call Center Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) is, together with other customer related measurements like Net Promoter Score (NPS) and Customer Effort Score (CES), among the most widely recognized and frequently used KPIs in the call center. Let’s investigate. . Offer Self-Service and Automation – Correctly.

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Calabrio

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Analytics Voice Analytics: Unlock Insights in Your Contact Center Conversations Share In the data-driven contact center of today, understanding the nuances of customer conversations is paramount. Modern systems handle both high-quality digital recordings and lower-quality audio inputs. What is voice analytics?

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TechSee

JUNE 4, 2019

Everyone knows that time equals money, right? Nowhere is that truer than in call center training – bringing new agents up to speed on products, processes and the productivity expected of them. Call center training priorities. Virtual private tutors. One size doesn’t fit all. Get in the game. On-the-job learning.

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NobelBiz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Productivity in a call center refers to the extent of how well your call center is in meeting the customer’s needs effectively. It might be expressed in many ways, including speed and efficiency of the agents, quality of calls taken, and how well the technology and processes in the call center function.

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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? In this article, we’ll explore how technology can be a game-changer in managing call escalations, ensuring swift and satisfactory resolutions.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Call center optimization is a strategic approach that focuses on enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of call center operations. This article delves into the essential aspects of call center optimization, including the tools and best practices that can drive performance improvements.

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 28, 2025

How to Benchmark Your Call Center Benchmarking is all about measuring your performance against clear, actionable goals and comparing them to industry standards. Here’s how to do it effectively: Identify Relevant Call Center KPIs To get started, focus on the metrics that reveal how well your contact center is operating.

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Call Experts

APRIL 14, 2022

In a perfect world, customers would only call your call center if everything was going smoothly. But that’s not how the world works, and there is always a reason why people call in the first place. First Call Resolution. This is sometimes referred to as call duration. Quality Assurance.

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Talkdesk

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Call centers are often high-stress environments, especially when customer demands relate to urgent issues such as health or financial well-being. For contact centers, the competitive advantage lies with being customer-centric and providing the best customer experience (CX) possible.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 31, 2018

of telecoms are investing in AI systems to improve their infrastructure. Dutch telecom KPN analyzes the notes generated by its call center agents, and uses the insights generated to make changes to the interactive voice response (IVR) system. IDC indicates that 63.5%

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BlueOcean

MARCH 20, 2017

They had been outsourcing their customer service to a call center with a predominantly “work-at-home” (WAH) model and one of the first questions they asked us was about work-at-home agents. We won the business with a solution that was based entirely on using agents located in our center. Managing Work-at-Home Call Center Agents.

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Uniphore

JUNE 16, 2021

You probably already think enough about Average Handle Time, or AHT for short. AHT is the average length of time it takes an agent to complete a call. Many contact centers, therefore, have opted to favor outcome metrics such as First Contact Resolution or Net Promoter Score, with secondary emphasis on AHT.

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Pointillist

JANUARY 25, 2019

By Swati Sahai Call centers are an operationally-complex element of your business, but they play a big role in your customers’ experience with your company. It’s no easy task, but the right mix of call center metrics and KPIs can help you stay the course.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

If your efforts aren’t optimally performing, it may be time to jumpstart a self-service transformation project in your contact center. Contact centers collect, store, and manage vast amounts of fundamental data to measure things like average handle time, number of calls, agent engagement, and other key-performance indicators.

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TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2018

Decision Support Systems (DSS) drive faster, smarter decisions based on objective data, rather than on subjective criteria or personal instinct. These systems are relevant for many verticals including healthcare, finance, weather prediction, call and chat centers, desktop apps, info kiosks and more. .

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

If your efforts aren’t optimally performing, it may be time to jumpstart a self-service transformation project in your contact center. Contact centers collect, store, and manage vast amounts of fundamental data to measure things like average handle time, number of calls, agent engagement, and other key-performance indicators.

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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Intact faced a challenge in managing its vast network of customer support call centers and required a workable solution within 6 months and long-term solution within 1 year. Call Quality Trend Dashboard The following figure is an example of the Call Quality Trend Dashboard, showing the information available to agents.

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NICE inContact

JULY 12, 2019

Even when you’re already convinced of the advantages of digital customer service, there’s a series of steps to take before actually integrating a new system into your call center software. Time is money, right? No one wants to spend too long integrating digital customer service into your call center software.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

This happens on virtually every call, as agents generally perform customer identification duties whether or not the system has already done so (more on that later). But there are dozens of other processes in which agents collect information from a customer over the phone, and these calls aren’t just long, they’re expensive.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Reaching the right agent at the first attempt is a prerequisite for an effortless, fast customer experience, but touch-tone systems and single word command menus are somewhat limited in their capabilities and options to precisely determine a customer’s needs. fewer calls being transferred to live agents.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Spend any time around a contact center and you’ll likely hear the acronym FCR. The definition has changed a bit over time as call centers transformed into contact centers that handle more than just calls. Back in the call center days, FCR stood for First Call Resolution.

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InMoment XI

JANUARY 10, 2024

Contact centers are not new by any means. As a matter of fact, the first employed call center agents date back to the 1950s. But, these agents only made and received phone calls. It wasn’t until the turn of the century that these call centers evolved into multichannel contact centers.

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NobelBiz

JUNE 4, 2024

Customer service is the backbone of any successful call center. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll dive into the nuances of customer service in call centers, exploring everything from the evolution of call centers to the latest trends and best practices. What is a Customer Service Call Center?

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InMoment XI

APRIL 9, 2025

The agent-specific insights help call center managers to motivate top performers and identify agents who require additional training. Managers can respond with effective scripts and training to improve call center metrics like first call resolution and average handle time.

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Talkdesk

MAY 14, 2019

But just what is Average Wait Time, and what are some of the ways you can reduce it to help ensure that customer calls are being answered quickly and effectively? What is Call Center Average Wait Time? AWT can be measured globally across the contact center, by ring group, agent or phone number.

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