ShoreTel Abandoned Call Handling

тЂњWe are sorry, but all available agents are working with other clients.Т  Please hold the line and the next available agent will be right with you.Т Т Т Т  Unfortunately, callers might tire of the music on hold and predictable care messages, and ultimately give up and then hang up!Т Т  This is generally an тЂњabandoned callтЂќ in most contact center environments and reports.Т Т Т  The ShoreTel Contact Center has a facility for capturing this information and doing something productive with it.

Back to the concept ofТ  тЂќPeaks and ValleysтЂќ.Т  What if we could take the тЂњabandoned callsтЂќ, capture the caller id and feed them to our agents during valleys in the calling periods?Т  After all the staff is sitting theyтЂ™re, logged in and idle!Т  Lets just put them to work.Т Т  In a ShoreTel system this is very easy to setup and is a powerful productivity tool.Т  First, the system тЂњreserves and agentтЂќ.Т Т  The agent gets a little pop up window that informs them that they are being reserved for a call back.Т  They have to accept it, or they are put in тЂњreleaseтЂќ as if they turned down an incoming phone call (time for management tutoring).Т Т  When the agent accepts the reservation, the ShoreTel places the outbound phone call and then connects the call to the agent.Т Т  With the exception that they acknowledged the reservation request, the agent experiences the call as if it were any other in bound call to the contact center.

Optionally, you can play a file to the callED party before you send the call to the agent.Т  I have found however, that it is better to send the call to the agent immediately after it is dialed.Т  This is because the agent is better able to deal with тЂњpositive answer supervisionтЂќ using the human ear, and then the machine is able to tell the difference between a fax machine, answering machine or some other non-human answer.

Making use of the abandoned call feature is something that every Contact Center can do to increase agent productivity and customer satisfaction.Т Т  You can even setup a group that specializes in abandoned callbacks, and route all calls to that тЂњwin backтЂќ group.

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