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. So how can you effectively “treat” your contact center with invaluable coaching medicine? Select the Right QM Platform.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Exercises Video 136

BlueOcean

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Customer care QA processes are moving from limited sampling to real-time, holistic analysis thanks to emerging conversation intelligence technologies that impact every corner of the contact center for the better. The rate at which contact center technology has evolved accelerated during the pandemic years.

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Contact Center Industry Average Handle Time First Call Resolution 177

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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Contact Center Average Handle Time First Call Resolution Measurement 154

TechSee

APRIL 2, 2019

Today’s contact centers face a daunting challenge. From small helpdesks operated by specialist manufacturers to vast contact centers run by leading telecoms and consumer electronics providers, end users can now receive faster, more effective service and support from both live human agents and virtual assistants.

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Contact Center Self Service Video Average Handle Time 174

BlueOcean

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Are you in the middle of “contact center RFP season”? We segmented the questions into six key sections: Company Overview Agent Workforce Contact Center Reporting Project Management Technology Pricing Company Overview Get to know the history and organization of the vendor. Be realistic about your risk tolerance.

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Contact Center Employee Engagement Average Handle Time Culture 156

BlueOcean

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Are you in the middle of “contact center RFP season”? We segmented the questions into six key sections: Company Overview Agent Workforce Contact Center Reporting Project Management Technology Pricing Company Overview Get to know the history and organization of the vendor. Be realistic about your risk tolerance.

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Contact Center Employee Engagement Average Handle Time Culture 156

BlueOcean

JUNE 26, 2018

When it comes to customer experience, there’s a lot of cross-over between the hospitality industry and the contact center industry. What does a “rooms per shift ratio” have to do with contact center operations, you might ask? What are you looking for in a contact center partner? We want to hear from you.

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Customer Service Hospitality Contact Center Hotels 353

BlueOcean

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

By developing a custom Zendesk IVR integration for a global communications leader, Blue Ocean eliminated manual data entry, reducing average handle time by 53 seconds and boosting customer satisfaction ratings by 34%. Streamlining this process would improve all of these areas. as part of our QA process.

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Case Study Study Communication Average Handle Time 156

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

If you’ve manage an aging contact center, then you’ve probably identified several inefficiencies which limit your success. Maybe its call volumes that exceed contact center capacity. When you transform contact center inefficiencies into proficiencies you are transforming money “wasted” into money saved.

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Contact Center Self Service Average Handle Time First Call Resolution 121

NICE inContact

MAY 14, 2019

Intraday reforecasting allows for the contact center to reevaluate needs based on the day-of trending of volume, average handle time, and service levels. For more ways on how to elevate your contact center, check out these resources. That’s where intraday management and reforecasting comes into play!

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Contact Center Management Average Handle Time Course 136

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

We’re making it easier than ever for contact center managers to bring together the most powerful solution to operate your contact center, to drive efficiency and productivity, and to give your agent a streamlined desktop with everything they need in one place. Easy-to-use, integrated agent desktop delivers productivity.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Self Service CRM 27

BlueOcean

MARCH 13, 2023

Like most people in the customer care sector, we are diving deep into where ChatGPT fits, or might fit, into the contact center world. We’ve long been proponents of making transactional customer service low effort, for both customer and contact center. So let’s get into it. Those first three are what we’d expect.

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Contact Center Customer Experience Self Service Chatbots 156

BlueOcean

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

When you think of a call center, the last thing you’d associate it with is baseball. But for those of us who work in contact center workforce management (WFM), the connections are obvious. When you partner with an outsourced contact center, you play a key role in getting your team in the best position for a championship win.

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Contact Center Management How To Call Center 74

NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

With good cloud-based contact center solutions, implementing agent screen pops have never been easier. However, benefits extend to other contact center metrics as well. Average Handle Time. An effective agent screen pop can have a dramatic positive impact on average handle time (AHT).

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Engagement Wait Times 122

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. Once those areas are identified, you can adjust agents’ shifts, moving around shift times, breaks, lunches, etc. Real-time adherence. Intraday management. Schedule changes.

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Contact Center Management Employee Engagement Average Handle Time 136

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. Once those areas are identified, you can adjust agents’ shifts, moving around shift times, breaks, lunches, etc. Real-time adherence. Intraday management. Schedule changes.

Contact Center 136

Contact Center Management Employee Engagement Average Handle Time 136

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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Contact Center Average Handle Time Competitive Advantage Call Center 136

NICE inContact

AUGUST 13, 2019

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! The post Workforce Management (WFM) – Using Historical Data for Contact Center Forecasting appeared first on NICE inContact Blog.

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Contact Center Data Management Average Handle Time 136

NICE inContact

AUGUST 13, 2019

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! The post Workforce Management (WFM) – Using Historical Data for Contact Center Forecasting appeared first on NICE inContact Blog.

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Contact Center Data Management Average Handle Time 136

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

When it comes to reducing expenses within contact center operations, one of the best ways to do so is to reduce the amount of time that live agents spend on the phone. With that being said, one of the biggest time-consumers of live agent minutes comes from repetitive and tedious data gathering.

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Virtual Agent Contact Center Data Average Handle Time 122

BlueOcean

AUGUST 15, 2016

One that integrates clear directions with real-time data about road construction, traffic jams, tolls, and alternative route options. It’s the same for contact center reporting. Reporting on Average Handle Times and Average Speed of Answer, as well as other key metrics, is standard in contact center reporting.

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Contact Center Report Average Handle Time First Call Resolution 120

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In our last post we talked about how using a “Contact Center as a Service” (CCaaS) may be a better use of resources as opposed to purchasing and maintaining contact center technology in your own data center. Explain how a contact center upgrade will improve KPI’s. Here is a quick example.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Financial CRM 120

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 15, 2019

But if you are a contact center manager, you aren’t measured solely on your own personal performance. One powerful way is to integrate your customer relationship management (CRM) system and your contact center software. Average Handle Time: Integrating your contact center and CRM enable you to shorten call length.

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Contact Center CRM Contact Center Software Self Service 24

TechSee

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The traditional contact center – with agents in cubicles following scripts and rushing to meet individual KPIs – will soon be a thing of the past. Agent collaboration also enables a higher First Contact Resolution (FCR) rate by eliminating time-consuming escalations. What’s the climate of your contact center?

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Contact Center Culture Self Service Wireless 117

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This is the first of four ways that virtual agents are automating the contact center. Navigating poorly designed DTMF touch-tone systems and single word command menus can cause issues with proper routing and ultimately result in internal transfers, which is a large expense for contact centers.

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Virtual Agent Contact Center Self Service Average Handle Time 120

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

As cloud communications companies like RingCentral and inContact have matured, the contact center world has been seeing an increasingly rapid move to the cloud. Taken together, these two movements are bringing about real change in the contact center. Here at RingCentral , many of our customers fall into that category.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Insurance Conference 120

NICE inContact

JANUARY 11, 2019

More recently, the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) and its role in customer care has been one that contact center managers have wanted to learn more about. It often seems that AI is becoming the answer for EVERYTHING but contact center leaders can struggle to understand how it can help specific employees with specific roles.

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Omni-Channel Management Contact Center Self Service 45

TechSee

AUGUST 10, 2023

TechSee’s visual automation platform uses computer artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) to enhance customer and contact center engagements. TechSee’s Computer Vision AI and AR can improve issues facing customer contact centers around first-call resolution, average handling times, and truck roll avoidance.

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Connections Contact Center Average Handle Time First Call Resolution 206

InMoment XI

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Here are 30 important metrics you can track to ensure your call center achieves its goals. Average Handle Time (AHT) Average Handle Time (AHT) measures the average time taken by an agent to complete a single call. Lower AHT reflects efficient service.

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Call Center Metrics Self Service Effort Score 195

InMoment XI

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Call Center Dashboard vs Contact Center Dashboard A call center dashboard tracks performance by focusing on phone-based interactions. On the other hand, a contact center dashboard covers multiple communication channels, including phone, SMS, email, chat, and social media.

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Call Center Contact Center Social Media Effort Score 195

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Today, contact center leaders who embrace the cloud are quick to see its benefits – powering engaging customer experiences while positively impacting business outcomes. As contact centers continue to become drivers of business growth, there are significant quantitative and qualitative results to consider.

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Contact Center Virtual Agent Net Promoter Score Self Service 120

Advantage Communications

MARCH 9, 2021

Successful customer service programs rely on highly-skilled customer service agents and innovative technologies to achieve world-class customer experiences. On top of that, however, they also need to focus on analytics.

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Average Handle Time Analytics Innovation Technology 98

BlueOcean

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Outsourcing Content and Ad Review to Your Contact Center. In customer service, that looks like average handle times, first call resolution rates, and customer satisfaction scores. In the next few paragraphs, we will make the case for content review having a natural home with your outsourced customer care provider.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Policies First Call Resolution 120

BlueOcean

AUGUST 13, 2024

Measuring deep into the trenches of the contact center is an absolute must. We’re constantly asking questions like, how fast are agents answering calls (Average Speed to Answer)? What is the Average Handle Time? All these contact center metrics and more add up to give us a picture of call center performance.

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Call Center Metrics Measurement Average Handle Time 156

BlueOcean

JUNE 14, 2016

In the contact center business, empathy is our bread and butter. With individual and team targets that can range from Average Handle Time to CSat scores to Grade of Service, the daily and weekly pressures to perform are intense. Check out our Canadian call center jobs to find a great career path ahead of you.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Call Center Sports 120

TechSee

MAY 14, 2019

Analysis of Average Handling Time is deeply entrenched in the customer service field and almost every contact center manager wants to improve AHT. AHT = Total Talk Time + Total Hold Time + Total Post-Call Work/Number of Calls Handled. Improve AHT with a customized blend of KPIs.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Self Service Net Promoter Score 95