Measuring Contact Center Effectiveness

Measuring Contact Center Effectiveness

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Course Description

Identify what should be measured, why it should be measured, and how to collect the data that counts!

This one-day course will teach you to track metrics that support your contact center strategy, the relationship between those metrics, and how to analysis the accrued data. You’ll gain practical, proven techniques to leverage key findings to identify root causes of inefficiencies and successes within your contact center. Plus, assess the effectiveness of your service delivery across all contact channels.

Learn critical key performance indicators in the following categories; quality, accessibility, efficiency, cost performance, and strategic impact.

You will leave this course with a clear understanding of call center metrics and which measures you should be tracking for your center. Move beyond simple benchmarks to understand how you can set the right goals for your unique contact center.

Course Topics Include:

  • Setting Key Performance Indicators
  • First Contact Resolution
  • Measuring Agent Performance
  • Contact Center Return on Investment
  • Application of Metrics

Course Materials:

  • Printable Slide Presentation
  • Industry Articles
  • A Five-Step Performance Development Plan for Revving Up Call Quality
  • Are Agents Delivering on the Promise Your Company Makes to Customers?
  • Avoiding Conflicting Objectives
  • Call Center Budgets: Volume Related vs. Fixed
  • Communicating Call Center Dynamics to Senior Management
  • Establishing and Meeting Call Center Performance Objectives: Part 1-3
  • Focusing on First-Call Resolution
  • Forecast Accuracy: The Most Important Metric You're Not Measuring
  • How Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are Evolving
  • Maximizing the Value of Your Call Monitoring Program
  • Measuring the Customer Experience
  • The Employee-Customer Satisfaction Link
  • Understand the Employee-Customer Satisfaction Link for Positive Impact
  • Understanding How Queues Behave
  • Validating Performance Measurements
  • Handouts

Who should attend?

Directors, managers, analysts, and supervisors tasked with measuring and reporting on contact center operations up through the organization.

Course Length:

This course is delivered over one-day in a classroom setting.

"Measuring Contact Center Effectiveness was excellent. Learning more about the drivers that should be key vs. secondary in the contact center and why was extremely useful. The content we learned will help to further strengthen our program."

Karen Greco
Sr. Manager, Service Quality
Albridge Solutions




Cancellation Policy

Full payment is required prior to attendance. In rare instances, a course will be rescheduled or postponed. ICMI will provide at least 5 days’ notice. You may receive a full refund, or take a credit toward another ICMI course. ICMI cannot be held responsible for penalties resulting from travel arrangements. Participants cancelling their registration with less than 5 days notice will pay the full course rate. No shows will also pay full course rates.

If weather conditions dictate that we have to cancel a training course with short notice, we will immediately release an email letting the participants know. An announcement will also be made available by clicking on the course details available on ICMI’s course schedule http://www.icmi.com/Training/calendar.aspx. Generally the decision will be made the day prior to the start of the course. Under certain circumstances we may have to withhold the decision to cancel a course until the last minute, due to the instructor’s ability to make it to the training facility. For courses starting on a Monday, please make sure to check your email and the ICMI website on Sunday evening.

In the event that we do have to cancel a training course at the last minute, your ICMI account manager will contact you via phone call to either reschedule you in to an alternate course or provide you with a full refund of the course price.