Forecasting- WFM

Happy New Year and Welcome to 2023!

Posted on January 06, 2023 in Agent Experience • AI • Best Practices • Blog • Call Center Management • Contact Center • Contact center consulting • Contact Center Industry Statistics • Customer Experience • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • FCR • Forecasting- WFM • Opinion • Planning • Quality Assurance • Virtual Call Center • Vrirtual Contact Center • WFM

By Colin Taylor As I look at the new and shiny year ahead, I wonder what delights and innovations and opportunities may lie ahead for Contact Center operations.  I think in many ways we will finally shake the post-pandemic hangover; we just need to take two aspirin and realize that what we have been dealing […]

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Make 2022 the Best Year Ever for Your Contact Center!

Posted on January 07, 2022 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Blog • Business continuity • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call center Humor • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Center Industry Statistics • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Forecasting- WFM • Incentives • Leadership • Opinion • People management • Success • Supervisor • Training • WFH • WFM

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By Peg Ayers As the New Year begins, many of us turn to thoughts of self-improvement, swearing off sweets, resolving to run three miles a day or promising not to spend hours in front of the television every weekend. But how many of us look at our contact centers and think about making this New […]

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The Contact Center Stack – Here’s what you need to build a modern contact center

Posted on September 29, 2020 in Artificial Intelligence • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call Center Technology • Call Center Tools • Contact Centre Ops • Forecasting- WFM • Quality assurance • Quality Assurance • Technology • WFM

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by JD Fairweather The path to contact center modernization has never been straightforward when it comes to its navigating technology infrastructure. “Costly,” “crowded,” and “confusing” are how business owners typically describe the process of selecting the right platforms to power their center. Besides the alphabet soup of acronyms – WFM, CRM, LMS, to name a […]

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Looking at the Post-COVID-19 Contact Center

Posted on June 05, 2020 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Management • Contact Center • Contact Centre Ops • Forecasting- WFM • Outsourcing • People management • Research • WFH • WFM

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By Colin Taylor Roughly three months into the COVID-19 shutdown, there has been a lot of discussion around what COVID-19 has done to our society, our economy, our elderly and; if you live in my little corner of the world; our customer experiences and contact centers. Contact centers for many organizations could not stop operating, […]

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Engaging Employees at Any Distance

Posted on May 14, 2020 in Agent Experience • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact center consulting • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Forecasting- WFM • WFM

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‘ By Peg Ayers If you had a way to increase sales by 20%, be 21% more profitable and increase your customer satisfaction scores by 10%, would you do it?  How about improving employee retention by 24-59%, lowering absenteeism by 41% and increasing productivity by 17%?  According to the Gallup Organization, you could do all […]

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What Call Center Metrics mean to Customers

Posted on May 18, 2018 in AHT • ASA • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call center Humor • Call Center Management • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • FCR • Forecasting- WFM • Opinion • Outsourced Quality Monitoring • Quality • retention • Strategy • Technology

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By Colin Taylor In the daily operation of our Call and Contact Centers we throw around metrics and performance measures like they were candy. It has been said that Call Centers produce more data and more measurement opportunities than is possible in almost any other communications channel. But while we know what each of these […]

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Operational Indicators – Average Handle Time (AHT)

Posted on March 20, 2018 in AHT • Call Center Consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Satisfaction • Education • Forecasting- WFM • People management • Planning • Strategy

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By: Turaj Seyrafiaan Have you ever wondered what is behind any of the Contact Center operational indicators? Why do we measure what we measure and what do they mean? In this article, we tackle one of the most important indicators; Average Handle Time (AHT) AHT is defined as the total amount of time (on average) […]

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Operational Indicators – Service Levels, ASA & Occupancy Rate

Posted on March 19, 2018 in AHT • ASA • Call Center Consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Satisfaction • Forecasting- WFM • Occupancy • People management • Planning • Strategy

Tags: ASA• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Operational Management• service level• Strategy• Taylor Reach Group• WFM

By: Turaj Seyrafiaan In the last Indicators post, we discussed one of the most important operational indicators: Average Handle Time or AHT. In this issue, we continue with other operational indicators dealing with the efficiency of the center, i.e. “Service Level”, “Average Speed of Answer (ASA)” and “Occupancy Rate”. Although each indicator provides different information, […]

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The Coming Disruption of the Contact Center Outsourcing Industry

Posted on January 11, 2018 in abandon rate • Abandon rate • AHT • Average handle time • Call Center KPIs • Call Center Metrics • Contact Center KPIs • Contact Center metrics • Forecasting • Forecasting- WFM • KPIs • Outsourcing • Outsourcing • Service Level • Sourcing

By: Colin Taylor The Contact Center outsourcing industry is a significant piece of the customer service and support landscape. The US market size was estimated by the Everest Group at between $78 and $81 billion dollars annually. Each day millions of calls, emails, chats, SMS messages and social media interactions are handled by Contact Center […]

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Increasing Costs in the Contact Center Due to Increased Efficiency

Posted on September 12, 2017 in AHT • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Performance • Contact Center • Contact center consulting • Forecasting • Forecasting- WFM

By: Turaj Seyrafiaan A few years back, I meet with a potential client. During these meetings, I routinely asked about the current operation of the Contact Center, what changes they had initiated (along with the results) and what pain points they were currently facing. In this meeting, she walked me through all the recent efforts […]

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