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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...
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The Measures Every Contact Center Should Have
Establishing the right measures and objectives is one of the most important responsibilities in leading and managing a contact center successfully. But there’s a significant...
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10 Things Senior Leaders Should Know About Contact Centers
A prerequisite to getting good support from senior management is that they have at least a basic understanding of what contact centers do. To fulfill...
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For contact centers to deliver great service they need to get the right resources in the right places at the right times. This is no...
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Adherence to schedule is an important performance objective for agents. It is within their control (when implemented appropriately) and measures if agents are available to...
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Revisiting Your Service Level Objectives
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Accurate workload forecasting is critical to contact center success. Recruiting, hiring, staffing and scheduling—virtually everything that goes into optimizing resources depends on having a good...
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The very forces that are making scheduling difficult — more complex products and services, additional contact channels, faster pace of change, and the need for...
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