Contact Center Management
Real-Time Contact Center Management
Evaluate Performance and Mitigate Challenges in Real-Time
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Part II of The Northridge Group’s State of CX 2023 report reveals 93% of business leaders believe their companies make it easy for customers to resolve issues. Only 66% of customers agree.
Our Approach
Keep an eye on your Contact Center operations in real-time.
Real-time management is an essential Contact Center function. Best practice is to have a real-time management/command center team that keeps an eye on Contact Center operations and is empowered to make adjustments to support the operation while achieving service level objectives.
Our Approach
Northridge can help you establish a real-time management/command center team or help your current team operate more efficiently.
We will enable your real-time management team to compare assigned schedule coverage and anticipated contact volumes to actuals and monitor the health of the routing and technical solutions. The team will be able to make routing or resource management decisions to address unexpected surges in contact volume and determine when to offer overtime, coaching time or voluntary time off to align with the actual trends as they happen. They will also be able to determine the best way to move resources around to hit optimal service levels throughout the day and maximize associates’ development, coaching and training time.
Our Solutions
The Northridge Group drives business results with real-time management solutions for Contact Centers.
Contact Centers that utilize real-time management can strategically overcome scheduling and coverage challenges and achieve their service level objectives. The Northridge Group offers solutions to the following real-time management needs and challenges:
Best practices for process and metrics for defining WFM success
Assessment
Missing business results
Schedule adherence and monitoring
Performance gaps impacting business results
Root cause analysis
Command center strategy and design
Design and implementation support of intraday monitoring tools
Business resiliency and contingency planning
Northridge Success
Contact Center Supervisor Coaching Program Resulted in Transformational Customer Experience Improvement
Northridge provided a coaching development program for supervisors in a Fortune 100 Contact Center. The goal of the program was to drive transformational results in an accelerated time frame. Northridge partnered with the supervisors of five teams over a six-week period to enhance their coaching skills and focus to drive results.
Northridge Perspectives
The Importance of Quality Monitoring for Government Agency Contact Centers
Quality Monitoring is an essential tool used by many businesses to improve customer experience in their contact centers. Quality Monitoring programs leverage call listening, screen monitoring, and advanced data analytics to identify issues faced by individual associates as well as overall operational issues. When Quality Monitoring processes identify specific behavioral issues in individual associates, the behaviors can usually be quickly corrected with monitoring, agent and call level reporting, insights, recommendations, training programs, and/or customized coaching.
The Crucial Connection Between CX Tech & Training
Customer Experience (CX) technology is evolving rapidly, leaving many businesses struggling to keep pace. Companies that focus on people, process, and technology have not only adapted but thrived.
Understanding the connection between technology and training is important for a successful contact center. This includes AI, cloud, and other technologies. It also involves investing in training, change management, and clear processes to support the technology.
Proper Contact Center Training Benefits Employee Experience
In the post-pandemic world, contact center leaders are prioritizing three interconnected objectives: employee productivity, retention, and satisfaction. By cultivating a positive working environment, leaders can optimize the employee experience to mitigate absenteeism...
Additional Contact Center Management Services
Let’s Talk About Your Organization
The Northridge Group’s real-time management services and support help our clients ensure that their Contact Center operations run smoothly and that they have the right number of associates available to handle customer contacts while also fostering an environment of customer-centricity, collaboration and development.
