Comm100

MAY 31, 2021

A decade-long study involving 100,000 teams found that increasing employee engagement can generate up to 18% more sales. Customer satisfaction (CSAT): Track a combination of satisfaction metrics to get the full picture, including customer effort, loyalty, and net promoter score. But it’s completely worth the effort.

Net Promoter Score 246

Net Promoter Score Average Handle Time Effort Score Customer Satisfaction 246

Kustomer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

As a personal project, I began studying the performance of our clients from March 2020 to August 2020. Many companies have been focused on this window of time as it relates to their performance in a post-COVID world. In my opinion, these metrics are some of the most impactful when it comes to judging your team’s performance.

Average Handle Time 52

Average Handle Time Exercises Retail Competitive Advantage 52

NobelBiz

JANUARY 28, 2025

In 2025, achieving the right benchmarks means understanding the metrics that matter, tracking them effectively, and striving for continuous improvement. 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.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Abandon Rate Self Service Average Handle Time 52

Calabrio

MARCH 7, 2025

Workforce Engagement How to Combat Call Center Agent Attrition Share You know the signs: increased average handle time (AHT), increased irritation, productivity decline. Contact center industry averages vary. However, one study found that, in 2022, the average turnover rate reached as high as 38%.

Call Center 130

Call Center How To Contact Center Gamification 130

Comm100

MAY 28, 2020

Here are a few things to look for when studying this metric: • How many chats are agents accepting as opposed to rejecting or passing to other agents? If it’s high, you may need to add staff during peak busy times. It can be measured as follows: Amount of live chats per month x Average Handle Time.

Average Handle Time 130

Average Handle Time Management eBook Effort Score 130

AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The application offers trend dashboards customized to deliver actionable business insights, aiding in identifying key areas where agents allocate their time. This includes the ability to filter on multiple criteria including Dates and Languages, Average Handle Time per Components and Unit Managers, and Speech time vs. Silence Time.

Customer Service 86

Customer Service Contact Center Insurance Financial 86

InMoment XI

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

We’ll explore what customer experience analytics is, where it comes from, important metrics to consider, its benefits, real-world examples, and how to drive value from this practice. It involves the use of various metrics and methods to gain valuable insights into how customers perceive and interact with a business.

Analytics 243

Analytics Customer Experience e-support Net Promoter Score 243

BlueOcean

AUGUST 19, 2024

For publicly traded companies, improving the customer experience also leads to an 7-10% average increase in shareholder returns. According to the study, businesses that prioritize client needs achieve “41% faster revenue growth, 49% faster profit growth, and 51% better customer retention” than their peers.

Self Service 156

Self Service Contact Center Average Handle Time Customer Satisfaction 156

BlueOcean

AUGUST 19, 2024

For publicly traded companies, improving the customer experience also leads to an 7-10% average increase in shareholder returns. According to the study, businesses that prioritize client needs achieve “41% faster revenue growth, 49% faster profit growth, and 51% better customer retention” than their peers.

Self Service 156

Self Service Contact Center Average Handle Time Customer Satisfaction 156

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 6, 2020

What Service Level Metrics Are Most Relevant to Your Business Now? 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. What should your outsourcer – and you – be measuring beyond those standard metrics?

Customer Care 156

Customer Care Contact Center Effort Score Net Promoter Score 156

Comm100

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Recommended for you: How to Reduce Your Average Handle Time Fast. Set clear time expectations. Study these elements to learn whether your proactive chat strategy is working the way you intend it to and make any necessary changes to optimize it. This can help make an issue clearer, which will help solve it faster.

Average Handle Time 246

Average Handle Time Software Exceptional Customer Service Video 246

NICE inContact

MARCH 13, 2019

According to a 2017 ICMI research study , 47% of surveyed organizations listed “consolidating reports” as one of the top challenges with performance management processes. This experience might sound crazy, but there many contact center managers reading this and nodding their heads because they’ve been there!

Report 136

Report Management Average Handle Time Gamification 136

TechSee

AUGUST 26, 2024

Studies have shown that customers are willing to wait a little longer than expected – but anything beyond that and they can become extremely dissatisfied. Similarly, call center agents are measured on their average handle times. Customers often experience frustration when they are put on hold for extended periods.

Call Center 124

Call Center Customer Service Chatbots Average Handle Time 124

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

NICE inContact recently commissioned a study by Forrester Consulting —the Total Economic Impact of NICE inContact CXone—to quantify the financial benefits and strategic value of migrating from on-premises contact center technology to its cloud customer experience platform, CXone. Use Next-Gen AI Reduce Handle Time and Service Cost.

Contact Center 120

Contact Center Virtual Agent Net Promoter Score Self Service 120

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The metrics that are appropriate for your organization will serve as your compass. Before defining your Agent performance metrics, define your contact center goals Analyzing a KPI only because the competition does it is pointless. What are the right call center agent performance metrics to monitor?

Metrics 52

Metrics Contact Center Management Call Center 52

BlueOcean

JUNE 14, 2016

Our own experience plus the myriad of sleep studies out there tell us some important things about the consequences of bad sleep habits. 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. So what gives?

Contact Center 120

Contact Center Average Handle Time Call Center Sports 120

TechSee

JUNE 11, 2019

Focusing on one metric would often harm others. Conversely, when trying to improve NPS, agents would often spend additional time building relationships with their customers, driving up call durations. KPI #4: Average Handling Time (AHT). Visual Assistance boosts NPS across industries by 45% after eighteen months.

Self Service 117

Self Service Technology Customer Service Contact Center 117

TechSee

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Complex cases increase average handling time (AHT), a key performance metric that is deeply entrenched in the customer service field. According to the study, empathetic agents were by far the most common type of rep within the contact center. The Innovator: Looks for new ideas to improve processes.

Call Center 124

Call Center Self Service Contact Center Effort Score 124

LiveChat

APRIL 25, 2016

On the other side, the agent invested her time with nothing productive in it. The key point that plays a significant role in this is ‘Average Handling Time’. Just another metric to measure the efficiency of a call center. Definition wise, it is just the total time invested divided by the total number of calls.

Average Handle Time 28

Average Handle Time Call Center First Call Resolution Analysis 28

Experience Matters

JANUARY 6, 2015

They will also replace efficiency metrics, such as average handle times, with more customer-oriented measures. In 2015, we expect many organizations to extract insights from their contact center interactions using text analytics and speech analytics. Human Resources Participation.

Customer Journeys 120

Customer Journeys Trends Contact Center Customer Connectedness 120

Playvox

JANUARY 24, 2022

What’s worse, without customer experience metrics in place, is that you won’t know until it’s too late. If you take the journey from providing good enough customer service to delivering great experiences, and measure your progress with actionable customer experience metrics, you’ll be able to stay ahead of the competition.

Contact Center 88

Contact Center Measurement Customer Experience Net Promoter Score 88

Playvox

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If your contact center is like most, you probably have a robust set of guidelines that document your procedures, detail your standards, and outline how employees should handle various situations. If you’re not offering remote work arrangements or are planning to bring agents back to an office this year, it might be time to reconsider.

Contact Center 74

Contact Center Policies Guidelines Average Handle Time 74

NobelBiz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

According to Forbes, call center metrics are the data harvested from all the solutions used to operate a call center, such as call center management (CCM) and customer relationship management (CRM) platforms. Metrics and KPIs in a call center can range from tracking the time agents spend on a task to the number of calls they take per hour.

Call Center 105

Call Center Management Contact Center Wait Times 105

Horizon CX

MARCH 19, 2022

A recent study from BCG Gamma got my attention. 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.

Customer Journeys 130

Customer Journeys Touchpoint Average Handle Time Survey 130

Uniphore

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Nearly half of brands fell below the industry average in this category, pinpointing an anchor that’s weighing down the industry as a whole.” A Forrester study found that video chat is the most emotionally successful communications channel for health plans, with. Impact: 20% reduction in agent training time.

Self Service 130

Self Service Healthcare Contact Center Effort Score 130

NobelBiz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

For call centers, metrics provide insights that shape strategies and determine operational efficiency. Among these metrics, the “Talk” metric stands out as a vital instrument. Understanding the Average Talk Time metric Average Talk Time represents the actual duration an agent spends conversing with a customer.

Call Center 52

Call Center Metrics Contact Center Customer Satisfaction 52

Innovative CX

AUGUST 10, 2021

In 2013, Oracle conducted a research study among executives regarding the state of their customer experience initiatives. The study found that while 91% of the respondents wished to be a CX leader in their industry, only 37% said they were just getting started with a formal CX initiative and 20% considered their CX initiative, “advanced”.

Connections 59

Connections Customer Experience Average Handle Time Contact Center 59

Comm100

JULY 29, 2020

Recommended for you: How to Reduce Your Average Handle Time Fast. Set clear time expectations. Study these elements to learn whether your proactive chat strategy is working the way you intend it to and make any necessary changes to optimize it. This can help make an issue clearer, which will help solve it faster.

Average Handle Time 130

Average Handle Time Video Exceptional Customer Service Software 130

Talkdesk

MAY 14, 2019

Definition: Average Wait Time (AWT), also known as Average Speed of Answer (ASA), is the average time an inbound call spends waiting in queue or waiting for a callback if that feature is active in your IVR system. This is also known as Abandonment Rate , another important call center metric.

Wait Times 61

Wait Times Call Center Abandon Rate Average Handle Time 61

TechSee

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Next Issue Avoidance (NIA) is a metric used by a growing number of customer service departments, one that encourages and enables agents to predict likely problems. NIA: The balancing metric. NIA is measured by tracking the number of repeat calls a contact center receives within a specific period of time. Next Issue Avoidance.

Contact Center 84

Contact Center Self Service Effort Score Average Handle Time 84

CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Average handle time is an important contact centre metric but it can be a double-edged sword that creates customer dissatisfaction. The experience a company provides is as important as its products or services, as confirmed in a study by Salesforce of nearly 17,000 consumers worldwide.

Average Handle Time 59

Average Handle Time Multi-Channel Contact Center Metrics 59

CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Insights from these analytics-driven contact centres have been captured in a free to download ebook to help other businesses support different ways of working in turbulent times. Case studies from Thomson Reuters and other Calabrio customers putting analytics to work are featured. These videos give further background and insights.

Analytics 59

Analytics Net Promoter Score eBook Case Study 59

Talkdesk

JUNE 21, 2019

Reducing average wait time and average handle time in your contact can yield huge customer satisfaction increases for your business. In this blog, we outline what call wrap up time is and actionable steps you can take to reduce it in your contact center.

Contact Center 50

Contact Center Average Handle Time Call Center Contact Center Software 50

Kustomer

AUGUST 24, 2022

According to a study conducted by The University of California at Irvine, people check their mobile devices once every 43 seconds — totaling 600 times over the typical eight-hour workday. As the data below shows, consumers are much more likely to respond to business messages via text than they are via email, multiple times per day.

Communication 78

Communication Data Self Service Average Handle Time 78

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Chatbots : AI-powered chatbots handle routine queries, providing quick and accurate responses. Performance Metrics and KPIs: Monitoring call center performance is essential. Metrics include First Call Resolution , Customer Satisfaction Score , and Call Handling Time 1.

Call Center 104

Call Center Tools Contact Center Net Promoter Score 104

NobelBiz

MARCH 19, 2024

Call center dashboards provide the kinds of insights and metrics that contribute to having improved agent performance and more successful campaigns. These digital command centers offer a comprehensive overview of operations, enabling supervisors to make informed decisions in real-time.

Call Center 59

Call Center Contact Center Average Handle Time Multi-Channel 59

Eptica

JUNE 13, 2018

But as analyst Ed Thompson said at the recent Gartner summit , there are over 100 commonly used metrics for measuring CX, ranging from the simple ( Average Handling Time ) to the more complex ( overall customer satisfaction or Net Promoter Score ). Again, many of the metrics are interrelated.

Measurement 49

Measurement Net Promoter Score Customer Experience Average Handle Time 49