Calabrio

MARCH 25, 2025

Workforce Management How to Measure, Evaluate, and Improve Call Center Agent Performance Share In today’s competitive business landscape, call center agents serve as the critical frontline, directly shaping customer perceptions and driving brand loyalty. This means, first, they must be able to track the right agent performance metrics.

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Call Center Measurement Self Service How To 130

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It’s 2019, which means contact center metrics from 1999 are almost old enough for their first legal beer (and already knocking them back in Canada.) Those metrics were born in an era when customer service was a race, where whoever got to the finish line first (i.e. How do we use that data to improve the customer experience?

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Metrics Customer Care Measurement Contact Center 219

InMoment XI

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Did you know that one negative experience is enough for 50% of customers to switch to a competitor? This is especially true in insurance, where customers have diverse preferences and a growing demand for personalized services. What is Customer Experience in Insurance? What is Customer Experience in Insurance?

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Insurance Customer Satisfaction Customer Experience Strategy 195

NICE inContact

MARCH 29, 2018

For Young Energy, a family-owned retail electric provider in Forth Worth, Texas, serving its 25,000 customers had become increasingly difficult. Our goal was to serve our customers better,” says Young Energy’s Chief Technology Officer Bruce Gilbert. “We Working with NICE inContact has accomplished all that and more.

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Average Handle Time Contact Center Gamification Retail 120

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Every team at an organization must prove how their work contributes to the bottom line — and customer experience is no exception. We know CX teams can deliver significant business advantages: Satisfied customers are much more likely to purchase more Revenue grows 40% faster by providing personalized experiences Businesses achieve a 2.3x

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Metrics Effort Score Net Promoter Score Data 270

BlueOcean

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The insight about exceptional customer service and the customer experience is still rock solid, and so we decided to revisit the article entering 2025. When it comes to customer experience , there’s a lot of cross-over between the hospitality industry and the contact center industry. We work hard to set expectations up front.

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

They handled FAQs and quick questions, giving us a taste of automated CX and support. But in today’s world, your customers expect more. This is where AI-driven customer service experiences truly stand out. Fewer repeat calls means lower support costs and happier customers. Enter AI agents.

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Customer Service ROI Average Handle Time Multi-Channel 124

InMoment XI

JANUARY 27, 2025

Part of that is just the nature of the business, with primary use cases revolving around KPIs weighed down by negative connotationsmetrics like problem resolution rates, customer effort scores, and churn. In that light, goal-setting often becomes an exercise in mitigation: reducing call volumes, minimizing customer effort, and curbing churn.

Call Center 195

Call Center Contact Center Effort Score Social Media 195

BlueOcean

AUGUST 13, 2024

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? How does their attrition rate compare to the industry average?

Call Center 156

Call Center Metrics Measurement Average Handle Time 156

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Average talk time (ATT) is often a neglected little contact center metric. Overshadowed by its bigger, louder counterpart, Average handle time (AHT), it often stays in the background, waiting for someone to notice it and realize its potential. Two words: customer experience.

Metrics 161

Metrics Average Handle Time Contact Center Guidelines 161

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. We’re both in the business of earning a customer’s repeat business through the quality of the experience we deliver. How do metrics and standards play a role in customer service?

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Customer Service Hospitality Contact Center Hotels 353

Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

Analytics Customer Experience (CX) Analytics: A Complete Guide for 2025 Share Today, the experiences businesses offer their customers before, during, and after purchase are every bit as important as the products and services they sell. What is Customer Experience Analytics? Some might even say that CX is more important.

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Analytics Customer Experience Contact Center Effort Score 130

Calabrio

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Analytics Are You Measuring These Critical Customer Experience Metrics? Share Customer experience may be all about customers, but its backed up by numbers. Tracking experience metrics helps companies better understand customers and their needs, as well as the progress and ROI of their initiatives.

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Metrics Measurement Average Handle Time Customer Experience 130

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Average talk time (ATT) is often a neglected little contact center metric. Overshadowed by its bigger, louder counterpart, Average handle time (AHT), it often stays in the background, waiting for someone to notice it and realize its potential. Two words: customer experience.

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Metrics Average Handle Time Contact Center Guidelines 146

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). In this blog, we help narrow down this long list to help you focus on the metrics that, when improved upon, will really help your contact center thrive. So, what are the top metrics you should be looking at?

Call Center 120

Call Center Metrics Average Handle Time Self Service 120

Kayako

MARCH 3, 2016

When it comes to customer support, the ability to experiment, tweak, and improve your service is a huge part of making your customers’ experience great. We have put together a list of key customer service metrics, so you can be sure that your support team is doing the best it can to help your customers.

Metrics 120

Metrics Net Promoter Score Self Service Abandon Rate 120

Calabrio

MARCH 11, 2025

Workforce Management 9 Contact Center Quality Assurance Best Practices: Modernize Your Approach, Optimize Your Performance Share Even as AI enters the picture, the human interaction between agent and customer is, and will remain, at the core of customer service operations. Struggling to understand your customers most common concerns?

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Contact Center Call Center Effort Score Chatbots 130

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When one in five of your customers speak something other than English as their first language, providing bilingual customer support is critical. The impact of bilingual support on the customer experience cannot be understated. The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times.

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Contact Center Customer Care Average Handle Time Consumers 310

Calabrio

APRIL 11, 2025

trillion in global sales are at risk in 2025 due to one thing: bad customer experiences. To drive customer loyalty and sustain success, contact centers must keep up with customers consistently rising expectations. The stakes have never been higher. Recent estimates suggest that a staggering $3.8 What is Contact Center Training?

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Contact Center Training Call Center Average Handle Time 130

Comm100

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Looking to improve your customer service? KPIs can measure the success of a company’s customer service strategy, the quality and effectiveness of its support, how well its agents are performing, and more. If you want more customer engagement, consider switching to a proactive live chat strategy. Live Chat Benchmark Report 2022.

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Measurement Average Handle Time Wait Times Effort Score 246

Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

A McKinsey survey revealed customer care leaders top growth priorities included customer experience improvement, technology implementation, and identifying revenue growth opportunities. A survey by HubSpot reports that 63% of companies are spending more time prioritizing CX. What is call quality monitoring?

Contact Center 130

Contact Center Call Center Average Handle Time Customer Satisfaction 130

TechSee

MARCH 19, 2019

Once upon a time, measuring customer service success was straightforward. Modern contact centers are made up of a complex combination of humans and virtual assistants – using both natural and artificial intelligence – operating over multiple channels and using a wide range of tools to solve customers’ issues.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Below is a list of call center metrics you should look at to improve not only your efficiency, but also your quality and outcomes. Quality scores indicate the level of performance your agents display in their interactions with a customer. Keep track of how many calls it takes a customer to get a problem resolved. Quality Scores.

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Metrics Net Promoter Score Average Handle Time First Call Resolution 120

NICE inContact

JANUARY 11, 2019

The current decade has brought many changes to quality management, including the increase of treating customer interactions using omnichannel – the ability to handle queries flexibly across self-service and agent-assisted media channels with full context.

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Omni-Channel Management Contact Center Self Service 45

NICE inContact

MARCH 28, 2018

In part one of the blog series, we looked at a framework for building a strong business case to invest in customer experience technologies. In this blog, we will take a deeper look at some of the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that drive enhanced customer experience and true financial benefits.

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Self Service Metrics Customer Experience Contact Center 120

InMoment XI

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

With 87% of consumers actively avoiding buying from brands they don’t trust, understanding and improving the customer experience has never been more critical. Customer experience analytics is the practice that empowers businesses to do just that. What is Customer Experience Analytics?

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Analytics Customer Experience e-support Net Promoter Score 243

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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Average Handle Time Contact Center Management Call Center 52

Comm100

AUGUST 21, 2018

The decision to take on chatbot customer service is an exciting one for companies. One of those considerations is metrics. As Forrester notes in their 2016 report, How Analytics Drives Customer Life-Cycle Management , “Every customer interaction leaves a trail of customer data waiting to be analyzed.”

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Metrics Chatbots Average Handle Time Effort Score 113

Kayako

MARCH 29, 2019

Customer service and experience have taken on a growing urgency for businesses large and small. Offering customers out-of-this-world customer experience is one of the most effective ways today’s businesses can set themselves apart and inspire loyalty and brand love from their customers. Set the Right Expectations.

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Customer Service Self Service Average Handle Time Metrics 194

InMoment XI

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Modern customers interact with many touchpoints before making a purchase. In fact, 89% of customers say that a quick response to an initial inquiry is important when deciding where to take their business. The dashboard visualizes these metrics on a unified platform to provide insight into agent and call center performance.

Call Center 195

Call Center Contact Center Social Media Effort Score 195

Comm100

APRIL 28, 2021

As easy as it is to support customers with live chat, live chat customer support operations should never be run blindly. Knowing how your team is performing is the key to delivering great customer service. It also helps to develop stronger ties with your customers, as well as more effective communication with your employees.

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Measurement Abandon Rate Net Promoter Score Wait Times 173

Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

First call resolution (FCR) defined First call resolution (FCR) , or first contact resolution, is a customer service KPI that measures the percentage of customer issues resolved during the customer’s initial contact. To calculate FCR: Track all interactions initiated by customers within a given period, such as one month.

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First Call Resolution Examples Contact Center How To 100

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. To address this, Intact turned to AI and speech-to-text technology to unlock insights from calls and improve customer service.

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Customer Service Contact Center Insurance Financial 86

Comm100

MAY 31, 2021

The higher the figure, the happier the customer, and the less work for your agents. Customer satisfaction (CSAT): Track a combination of satisfaction metrics to get the full picture, including customer effort, loyalty, and net promoter score. You can also track CSAT on an individual, as well as team, level. Sign Up Free.

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Net Promoter Score Average Handle Time Effort Score Customer Satisfaction 246

Uniphore

JUNE 16, 2017

It is well known that metrics have an important role in the success of any call center. 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. Read More.

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Customer Satisfaction Average Handle Time Call Center Metrics 124

NobelBiz

JANUARY 28, 2025

With the advancement of the contact center industry, benchmarks continue to shift and challenge businesses to meet higher customer expectations while maintaining efficiency. Whether you’re measuring agent performance or overall customer satisfaction, staying aligned with modern standards is key to success.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Abandon Rate Self Service Average Handle Time 52

Call Experts

APRIL 14, 2022

The goal of ASA is to answer calls quickly and efficiently while meeting customer expectations. Unfortunately, it is often more complicated than measuring how long it takes for customers to wait for someone to pick up the phone. In a perfect world, customers would only call your call center if everything was going smoothly.

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Call Center Metrics First Call Resolution Average Handle Time 98