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. In order to improve it, contact centers must be able to measure it.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of customer experience (CX), businesses are constantly seeking innovative ways to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and foster customer loyalty. Common CX Pain Points  Across various industries, businesses encounter recurring challenges in their customer experience operations.

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ShepHyken

JULY 29, 2022

This week we feature an article by Jason Grills, Customer Support Expert at ProProfs , a company that provides software that empowers organizations to deliver happiness to their customers and employees. He shares the best practices for improvement can make a huge difference to your first call resolution rate. .

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Pointillist

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

By Stephanie Ventura Metrics tracking is a vital element of every call center. However, aiming to track all possible call center metrics can lead to information overload. Instead, organizations must focus on metrics that yield the greatest insight. What is First Call Resolution? The reason?

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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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Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

Workforce Management 9 Top Voice of the Customer Best Practices for 2025 Share Top 9 Voice of the Customer Best Practices for 2025 What is the Voice of the Customer (VoC)? On its face, Voice of the Customer (VoC) refers to just what it sounds like: what your customers have to say.

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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?

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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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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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Calabrio

MARCH 4, 2025

Analytics Top 6 CX Myths & Misconceptions Debunked Share In recent years, the customer experience (CX) has come to dominate business strategy, growth, and outcomes. How your customers perceive, interact with, and stay loyal to your brand goes hand in hand with how well your business performs. CSAT and CX are the same thing.

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Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

Analytics Call Quality Monitoring: Best Practices and Tech for More Effective QA in 2025 Share Call Quality Monitoring: Best Practices and Tech for More Effective QA in 2025 What area do you see as the biggest opportunity for growth in your contact center? What is call quality monitoring?

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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. First Call Resolution. Customer Satisfaction (CSAT).

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 12, 2021

Voice of the Customer: An Overview. Businesses who do well with customer experience initiatives do so because they know exactly what their customers are feeling and experiencing. . It’s a Voice of the Customer program (VoC). Why Implement a Voice of the Customer Program? So why do so many VoC strategies fail?

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2025

Delivering exceptional customer service is crucial for businesses aiming to retain customers and enhance satisfaction. A key performance indicator in this realm is the First Call Resolution (FCR) rate, which measures the percentage of customer issues resolved during the initial contact.

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InMoment XI

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This will improve your business by enhancing operational efficiency, elevating customer satisfaction, and fostering a more agile and responsive customer service environment. The goal is to enhance the customer experience, streamline operations, and achieve cost savings. What is Contact Center Optimization?

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ViiBE Blog

MAY 4, 2021

Customer support has taken on new importance as customer interactions have moved away from physical stores to a digital marketplace. Customers expect the same level of service as in person, so it is crucial to measure your call center’s overall performance as well as your individual agents. What is the meaning of FCR?

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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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CX Journey

MARCH 28, 2018

Image courtesy of Unsplash How do you measure success of your customer experience initiatives? In order to do that, you must first outline what success looks like and what metrics you'll use to measure that. For any type of project or initiative that you undertake, it's important to be able to track progress and measure success.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 21, 2020

How do you make your Voice of the Customer plan more meaningful? Four words: More customer, more voice. Quick Voice of the Customer Overview. You are probably familiar with the term Voice of the Customer, often referred to with the shorthand “VoC.” How Voice of the Customer Usually Goes Down.

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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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GetFeedback

JULY 19, 2019

We used to get so excited to talk about the Voice of the Customer (VoC). It sounds so appealing to really hear the customer in their own voice, to understand their intentions and understandings. How to set up your Voice of the Customer (VoC) program for success. Can you start a VoC program without a customer journey map?

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Uniphore

JUNE 17, 2021

3 Ways to Boost FCR and Reduce Customer Churn With AI & RPA. Get It Right The First Time - Every Time. Few KPIs have a bigger influence on the customer experience than First Call Resolution (FCR). When customers call in with an issue, they expect it to be solved then and there.

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Selmo

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

First call resolution is one of the most important call center metrics you can measure. Calculating First Contact Resolution (FCR) can be straightforward, but only when you have collected the data.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 21, 2023

The First Contact Resolution Rate (FCR) is a crucial KPI for measuring the effectiveness and quality of your customer service. This indicator is regarded as one of the most influential metrics for measuring customer service effectiveness. When a problem arises, the customer expects a quick and efficient resolution.

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Playvox

MAY 17, 2018

First call resolution is such an important metric when it comes to measuring customer service satisfaction.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 6, 2020

For clients with complex care scenarios – whether that is enterprise customer success management or providing critical support direct to consumers – change is never taken lightly. Are you still in regular contact with your partner’s leadership team and do you still trust them to deliver excellence for your customers?

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Think Customers

JANUARY 31, 2022

Digital-first: it’s top of mind for many brands that want to meet modern customers’ demands and keep up with (and surpass) competitors. One of the biggest obstacles to becoming digital-first is that, at many companies, it necessitates a very different way of thinking. Stop relying on outdated metrics.

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First Call Resolution Omni-Channel Chatbots Metrics 52

CX Accelerator

JULY 22, 2019

The main reason companies measure things like their call-handle time, first-call resolution, and internal quality management (QM) scores are to improve customer satisfaction. Although these metrics are valuable, they are internal to the organization, and they may or may not affect satisfaction.

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Contact Center Analytics Net Promoter Score Effort Score 182

InMoment XI

APRIL 9, 2025

Therefore, businesses must look beyond historical sales data and integrate customer experience insights with their forecasting models for accurate results. The Benefits of an Accurate Sales Forecast Accurate sales forecasting empowers businesses to make informed decisions that drive customer satisfaction and sales.

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Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Boost CX and operational efficiency with the right set of metrics and smart additions to your contact center tech stack. With these trends in mind, customer support/service must continue to focus on optimizing their agents’ work-from-home (WFH) environment and operational processes. First call resolution.

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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.

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InMoment XI

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In the fast-paced world of customer service, call center management plays a pivotal role in ensuring efficient operations, customer satisfaction, and improving the customer experience. Understanding the ins and outs of call center management is crucial for both seasoned professionals and newcomers to the field.

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Stella Connect

JUNE 25, 2018

First Call Resolution (FCR) is the most important metric your contact center can measure. It captures the efficiency of your team, tells you how well you’re serving customers, and highlights what needs work. When it’s high, operating costs are minimized and customers are happier. Low FCR drives costs.

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Stella Connect

JUNE 25, 2018

First Call Resolution (FCR) is the most important metric your contact center can measure. It captures the efficiency of your team, tells you how well you’re serving customers, and highlights what needs work. When it’s high, operating costs are minimized and customers are happier. Low FCR drives costs.

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Calabrio

MARCH 4, 2025

Thats why, to offer customer experience excellence across all these touchpoints, the key word is not multichannel but omnichannel. And why is it so critical to customer service and the all-important hub that is the omnichannel contact center? Failing to do so risks losing customers. As businesses, we need to deliver.

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CX Accelerator

JULY 22, 2019

The main reason companies measure things like their call-handle time, first-call resolution, and internal quality management (QM) scores are to improve customer satisfaction. Although these metrics are valuable, they are internal to the organization, and they may or may not affect satisfaction.

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CX Journey

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Not just for customers but also for your business? I wrote about technology and the customer experience a couple times last year; after all, that''s what self-service is all about: technology. These should translate to good news for the customer, too. Image courtesy of Unsplash Does self-service reduce or increase effort?

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