For service level to have meaning, you must view it over an appropriate time frame. Daily service level reports often conceal important information. Service level...
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Service Metrics for Accessibility and Quality
Accessibility and quality are closely related. Quality can’t happen unless our services are accessible, but quality also impacts accessibility. If you don’t handle interactions with...
Read More >>>Three Immutable Laws of Contact Centers
There are three immutable laws at work in contact centers that you must keep in mind. They’re always present. Understanding them will help you establish...
Read More >>>Being available for customers
One of the biggest challenges in many organizations is that the work arrives randomly from moment to moment. That’s true in a restaurant, a retail...
Read More >>>Ensuring service metrics are SMART
Have you ever had a metric that drives the wrong behavior? A bus company in a city with a well established international and cosmopolitan flair,...
Read More >>>The Pros and Cons of Virtual Queues
Many contact centers are grappling with labor shortages, surging workloads, or a brutal combination of both. The resource mismatches have resulted in long wait times...
Read More >>>Root Cause Analysis in Customer Service
When you encounter a problematic aspect of service or customer experience, the first step is to identify root causes. Typically, several possibilities surface and they...
Read More >>>Empower Your Workforce to Fix Things for Customers
Real-time management is often viewed as a matter of responding to workload quantities. What’s often missed in these discussions is how to respond to the...
Read More >>>In Customer Service Timing Is Critical
The right place at the right time. It’s a common phrase, but in customer service, it matters more than ever. Timing is critical. In customer...
Read More >>>Does Your Executive Team Understand Staffing Tradeoffs?
Are you working through difficult discussions related to resources and budget? Just remember, contact centers must handle most customer-related work as it happens, so resource...
Read More >>>How Long Are Customers Willing to Wait?
With much of the world on lockdown due to the current COVID-19 crisis, contact centers are grappling with both increased workloads and staffing challenges. One...
Read More >>>Real-time Management: Level 2 and Beyond
These extraordinary times have impacted our lives in unimaginable ways. They have also impacted customer service in ways we might have never thought possible. For...
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