While any new technology, such as a predictive dialer, makes it easier than ever for agents to route calls and assist customers, there is ultimately a reason why every rep needs a manager: there needs to be certain guiding principles that direct agents and shape call center policy. One way to ensure that both tasks are carried through as effectively as possible is by optimally tracking agent performance.
Accountability is Key
It’s important for call centers to keep track of sales calls, as well as support agents by unobtrusively listening in on how agents are selling products and services. Your agents may be making minor mistakes in their calls that can end up hurting your company financially. Let’s not forget that a call center manager may also discover ways in which their directives have been unhelpful or mistakenly misguided.
Meeting Call Objectives
At the end of the day, selling products and assisting customers with their concerns are not objectives that are accomplished by accident. Having specific goals and methods for obtaining said goals for each call is ultimately what elevates the performance of a call center’s workforce. By keeping track of what agents have said or not said during the last call to a particular customer, managers are able to help them work toward better closing a deal or locking in a lead; it’s all about having a game plan for what each step of that process should contain.
Measure Key Components
By utilizing a CRM dialer, agents will not only be able to improve the effectiveness of their current calls, but of all calls moving forward, too. By analyzing call patterns, managers will be able to measure an agent’s effectiveness and help the quality of future calls increase exponentially.
