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Top Call Center Management Challenges for 2006

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Online survey results revealed

2006 is rapidly approaching, and as 2005 comes to a close, call centers are faced with many challenges in their management and operations to prepare for a successful new year.  Nearly 400 participants in the Call Center Learning Center online poll identified their top three management challenges for 2006.  Over 1150 votes were cast in the recent online poll conducted by the Call Center Learning Center to reveal the top management challenges for call centers in preparing for 2006.  The top challenge, "measuring customer satisfaction", received 14% of all votes.  The main call center challenges identified, in rank order, include:
 

  1. Measuring customer satisfaction
     
  2. Understanding what motivates your agents
     
  3. Successfully managing change in your call center
     
  4. Reducing call center costs
     
  5. Best practices in call center recruitment and hiring
     
  6. Benchmarking your call center's performance
     
  7. Best practices in agent training
     
  8. Battling agent perception of quality monitoring
     
  9. Improving agent feedback
     
  10. Understanding service level
     
  11. Other

 

 


Figure 1 - Top challenges facing call center management for 2006


Still to come

To help prepare you to face these challenges for 2006, Prosci and the Call Center Learning Center will be providing you with guidelines and tips for the top five challenges identified in our online poll. 

Stay tuned to gain valuable knowledge from Prosci's best practices research on these challenging call center management topics as 2005 comes to a close:

To begin tackling these challenges now, take a look at the recommended resources below or email one of our analysts at callcenters@prosci.com.


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Recommended Resources:

NEW! Succeeding in 2006 Package
We asked hundreds of call center managers to identify their top challenges for preparing for 2006, and have packaged the resources you need to tackle the top five challenges they identified and have a successful new year.  The package includes:

Call Center Learning Center Resource To tackle the challenge of....
Call Center Measurement Toolkit 1.  Measuring customer satisfaction
Motivating Call Center Agents Toolkit 2.  Understanding what motivates your agents
Best Practices in Change Management Report
Change Management: the people-side of change book
3.  Successfully managing change in your call center
Controlling the Cost of Call Center Operations Toolkit 4.  Reducing call center costs
Call Center Best Practices Report - Operations Edition 5.  Best practices in call center recruitment and hiring

Order the Succeeding in 2006 Package today and save 30% off the list price!
 


Call Center Business Performance Packages
Find a call center package to meet your needs and save 20-25% off the list price!

Call Center Best Practices - Operations Edition
Benchmarking report - Over 240 call centers from around the world share how they have improved service quality, productivity and customer satisfaction. This report shares lessons learned by call center managers regarding their most effective management practices. It includes industry benchmarking data for 10 key performance measures.

Call Center Best Practices Report - Technology Edition
The technology edition of the benchmarking report on Call Center Best Practices reveals the impact that different technologies are having on call center performance, including cost, customer satisfaction and employee retention. For each technology area, benefits and issues are discussed as well as implementation considerations.

Call Center Measurement Toolkit
How to measure and improve call center performance; an excellent guide to developing a performance measurement system with concrete recommendations for improving call center performance.  After you determine what to measure in your call center, this toolkit will help you accurately capture those measurements.

Call Center Planning and Design Toolkit
A comprehensive guide to call center strategy, planning and design; an excellent resource for new contact center start-ups, existing call center improvement and future planning with detailed templates and planning roadmaps.

Complete Call Center Series
Save 30% off the list price when you purchase the complete call center business performance series!

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