It’s a new year and a great time to reflect on challenges in your contact center. Chances are that if you’ve managed a contact center...
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Adherence to Schedule Tips
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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Offer More Consistent Customer Service with Accurate Workload Forecasts
Everything to do with getting resources right in a contact center begins with predicting what...
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The Best-Managed Contact Centers: #5 – They Have an Established, Collaborative Planning Process
Effective planning is a central theme in the best contact centers. A major objective of...
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Forecasting the Customer Contact Workload
Everything to do with getting resources right in a contact center begins with predicting what the workload will be. Workload is what leads to how...
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Caution: Don’t View Contact Center Performance Measures in Isolation
Consider a few examples that illustrate the interrelated nature of contact center performance measures: Cost...
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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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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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