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Validating Your Outsourced Customer Care Partnership: Is Your Incumbent “Still the One”?

BlueOcean

Let’s face it: Contact center metrics that measure customer service as if it’s some kind of race (think Average Handle Time) are frankly table stakes. Those data points still play a role in measuring performance, but your partner should have their eyes set on the bigger picture of customer success.

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Call Quality Monitoring: Best Practices and Tech for More Effective QA in 2025

Calabrio

A McKinsey survey revealed customer care leaders top growth priorities included customer experience improvement, technology implementation, and identifying revenue growth opportunities. The kicker: theyll have to achieve these goals even while a sizeable majority of them also expect to see a significant rise in call volume.

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Beyond KPIs and Metrics: How to Measure Outsourced Call Center Performance

BlueOcean

The math provides us with insights on how to improve the customer experience and gain greater value for the client. We’re constantly asking questions like, how fast are agents answering calls (Average Speed to Answer)? What is the Average Handle Time? Is the Service Level Agreement being met?

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Guest Blog: Key KPIs You Must Monitor for an Optimal Customer Experience

ShepHyken

Depending on whether your Customer Care department is an extension of your marketing or your customer service strategy, the KPIs you give yourself may be different. Type: Customer Centric. Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) is the most common KPI companies track when it comes to Customer Care.

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New KPI Metrics in the Era of Self Service

TechSee

When a virtual agent fields a customer’s enquiry, collects all relevant details and passes it to a human agent for final approval, how should average handling time ( AHT ) be measured? Customer care center metrics in the era of self-service clearly require a different approach.

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Artificial Intelligence and the Customer Journey

Horizon CX

Granted we live in a fast-paced age where average handling time is typically imposed upon an agent as one of their performance metrics and I get that, but some people tend to have this communication problem. But what about those initial journey steps that took 15 minutes plus of my time and that upset me so?

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Customer Experience Measurement: Which Metrics Should You Focus On?

Chattermill

CSAT targets a ‘here and now’ reaction to a specific interaction, product or event, but it is limited when it comes to measuring a customer’s ongoing relationship with a company. Customer retention rate refers to the percentage of customers that the company retains over a specific period. First Response Time. Unsatisfied.

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