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Best Metrics for Employee Performance?

"I took over a group of support agents who had been given bonuses and raises for reasons that seem to have no basis in their actual performance. I'd like to define one or two really good personal performance metrics, but I'm not sure what they should be. Any suggestions?"

—Mickey from Miami                           



Mickey:

Congratulations on your new role.

You certainly have a challenge ahead of you. I would suggest the following:

1)   Identify those areas which are most important to the success of the department. This may be one or two; however, upon further examination you may find there are several more. These can include:
   a.   Customer Sat metrics
   b.   First Call Resolution
   c.   Re-open of closed cases
   d.   Number of new cases received

2)   Once these are identified, then you will need to benchmark current metrics and compare them against the Bell Curve results.

3)   Third and most important step is to communicate the Metrics to the staff
   a.   How they will be measured
   b.   What level they need to reach in order to be considered for a bonus
   c.   What the standard or normative result is
   d.   What level is considered unacceptable
   e.   When the new scoring/metrics are in force

4)   You will receive a lot of derogatory feedback immediately from those that are not star performers, but still want their excellent performance review and bonuses. The Star performers will appreciate this new system in place as they will not feel their work is going unnoticed. It might also force some needed attrition.

5)   Review the standard results, first quarterly then annually to ensure the objectives are not set too high nor too low.

Rob

—Robert A. Druhot  rdruhot@advsol.com
    Manager of Technical Support
    Advanced Solutions International, Inc.
    512-491-0550 x3255





I like to use 1st Call Resolution and Busy Percentage to gauge how successful they are on the call and how much time they are on the phone or available to the customer.

Busy Percentage = (ACD Time + Available Time) / Total Logged Time

Example: 78.9% = (4.1 + 1.5) / 7.1

—Alan Kain  alan.kain@alldata.com
    Director, Customer Support
    ALLDATA
    916-478-3095





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