Tuesday, October 24, 2017

How Call Scoring and Monitoring Helps Contact Center Agents



How Call Scoring and Monitoring Helps Contact Center Agents

Call monitoring and scoring in contact center plays a crucial role in providing valuable insight on customer’s needs for making more informed business decisions. Contact center managers are gradually using monitoring and scoring keeping in mind the to improves the agent’s performance for enhanced levels of client benefit, thus increasing the overall proficiency and gainfulness of the contact center.

They are considered among the best methods to ensure that your call center workforce is effective and providing excellent service.

Here are few ways in which call scoring and monitoring can help contact center agent’s:

1. Identifying agent’s strength and weakness: Call recordings and Scoring can prove to be useful when assessing call center agent’s performance. With these dual approach contact center managers have the power to access qualitative data from customer interactions as well as quantitative performance measures from scoring. The call center manager can listen to the interaction of the agent with the customer on the live call and can analyze the pain points of the agent’s or where is he/she lacking while conversing with the customer. 

2. Interactive training sessions: After identifying the strengths and weaknesses of agent’s performance during the call, contact center managers can use this information for providing valuable feedback to the agent’s. Providing the agent, the points of interest from the call recording which demonstrates where they disastrous to meet the desires of the clients and additionally the information extricated from call scoring structures will make the criticism more itemized and broad.

This will enhance agent’s motivation to improve their skills and will also create more accountability for agent’s performance leading to interactive coaching sessions.

3. Goals alignment: After providing feedback fortified with details from call monitoring and scoring, contact center managers can collaborate with the agents to develop an action plan.
The activity design may comprise of more point by point instructing session for agent's, experiencing e-learning modules and preparing materials.

Agents can also sit with their peer mentors to see the way in which they handle customer calls and can take useful insights from them. Over here contact center managers can ensure that the agents have a clear understanding of the areas in which they need to improve.

4. Maintaining performance report of the agent’s: Contact center managers, must use both call monitoring and call scoring to track the progress of the agent. They can refer to the action plan and can accordingly target and listen to live or recorded calls. During this process, they have the ability to assess the changes and adjustments made by the agent’s according to the action plan. If the interaction is not up to mark, then it becomes the responsibility of contact center managers to address the problem and to provide a quick feedback to the agent’s. This will help the agent’s in adjusting their process accordingly.

5. Formulating redressal plan for agent’s: Contact center managers can formulate a redressal plan for agent’s if even after the feedback and coaching session they are not making changes in the customer call. Providing the agents with a solid information from call recordings and scoring to support the choice will help the operator in understanding why the redressal design was defined for them and in which way it can be useful for them.

6. Creating learning environment: To make a competitive environment call scoring and monitoring agent’s execution turns into a vital viewpoint in a contact center. When agents believe that their calls are being monitored and they will be given a detailed assessment, they will understand that it is an exercise to boost their productivity and would not be weighed as a mode to defame or criticize them.

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