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SQM is dedicated to helping call centers improve their First Call Resolution, customer and employee experience, and lower their operating cost. To help you with that, we have developed blog posts based on research and best practices for people, processes, and technology to improve customer’s experiences doing business with your call center and employees working in your call center.

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First Call Resolution (FCR): A Comprehensive Guide
First Call Resolution (FCR): A Comprehensive Guide
Uncover the definition, benefits, measurement, and tips for improving one of the most crucial call center metrics – first call resolution. FCR is a metric that measures a contact center's ability for its agents to resolve a customer's inquiry or problem on the first call or contact.
15 min read
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Five Empathy Statements for Achieving Great Csat
Five Empathy Statements for Achieving Great Csat
To ensure agents deliver customer empathy consistently, they need to be trained, coached, and monitored through their QA program and post-call…
12 min read
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Customer Rapport – the Key Ingredient for Agents Providing Great Csat
Customer Rapport – the Key Ingredient for Agents Providing Great Csat
Learn why building customer rapport is one of an agent's most essential skills to delivering great customer service.
10 min read
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Top 25 Call Handling Word Choices and Phrases Agents Need to Use to Deliver Great Csat
Top 25 Call Handling Word Choices and Phrases Agents Need to Use to Deliver Great Csat
Not only do customer service scripts provide your agents with real-time support if they need it, but they are also excellent tools for training new…
5 min read
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5 Steps for Improving Call Center Supervisor Effectiveness
5 Steps for Improving Call Center Supervisor Effectiveness
The success of your call center customer service depends on your supervisor's agent coaching effectiveness for improving and sustaining high FCR and…
12 min read
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Customer Survey Agent Coaching
Customer Survey Agent Coaching
Using post-call customer survey data and feedback is a best practice for coaching agents to improve or provide great customer service.
2 min read
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VoC Agent STAR Coaching
VoC Agent STAR Coaching
SQM has developed a post-call surveying Voice of Customer feedback approach for agent STAR coaching that can be used for a single call or a monthly…
8 min read
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Callers Put on Hold are an Indicator for Lower Csat
Callers Put on Hold are an Indicator for Lower Csat
Putting callers on hold and the hold time is necessary to monitor because putting callers on hold frequently or for a long time creates poor customer…
3 min read
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Agent Call Handling Training Guide
Agent Call Handling Training Guide
We have developed a guide that will answer the top five agent call handling training and related questions. Discover this guide now.
12 min read
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VoC Agent Coaching Model that has a Proven Track Record for Improving Customer Satisfaction
VoC Agent Coaching Model that has a Proven Track Record for Improving Customer Satisfaction
Given that most call center Csat improvement comes from agents with high Csat performance versus agents with average or below Csat performance level,…
2 min read
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Improving Csat Using Supervisor Coaching Time Allocation
Improving Csat Using Supervisor Coaching Time Allocation
Deciding which agents a supervisor spends most of their time coaching will play a significant role in the call center’s overall Csat. Discover the…
3 min read
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Top 6 Call Handling Best Practices
Top 6 Call Handling Best Practices
One of the quickest ways to improve FCR is to improve Agent call handling practices. We have developed the Top 6 Call Handling Best Practices that…
11 min read
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6 of the Best Agent Customer Service Coaching Stories
6 of the Best Agent Customer Service Coaching Stories
Customer service storytelling is a communication and supervisor coaching practice used with all agents to improve customer service performance.
2 min read