The Ascent Group, Inc.

Service Delivery Advantage

Improving Front-line People Processes

List of Report Analysis & Graph Exhibits
  • Improving People Processes — Findings & Trends
  • Recommendations for Improvement
  • Innovative or Winning Strategies
  • Front-line Employees
  • New Hires per year
  • Countries Represented
  • Industries Represented
  • Union Representation
  • Average Tenure (by Industry)
  • Annual Average Turnover (by industry)
  • Days-to-Hire (by Industry)
  • Cost-per-Hire (by Industry)
  • Percent Interviewed (by Industry)
  • Percent Hired (by Industry)
  • Candidate Acceptance Rate (by Industry)
  • Front-line Starting Wages (by Industry)
  • Starting Wages-Market Comparison
  • Starting Wages-Market Comparison — Union
  • Use Outside Firm?
  • Most Successful Recruitment Channels
  • Pre-hire Screening & Testing?
  • Top Pre-hire Testing & Assessment Approaches
  • Identifying Customer Service Personality & Skills
  • Conveying Job Expectations to Candidates
  • Key Attributes of Customer Facing Employees
  • Recent Improvements to the Recruitment Process
  • Recent Changes to Screening Requirements
  • Top 5 New Recruitment & Hiring Technologies
  • Measuring Quality of Hire
  • Improving Be-lingual Recruitment
  • Temporary to Permanent Hiring Strategy?
  • Budgeted Training Dollars per Employee
  • New Hire Training Cost per Employee
  • New Hire Probation Period
  • Average Time-to-Standard (by Industry)
  • # New Hire Training Sessions per year
  • Average New Hire Class Size
  • New Hire Total Training Days (by Industry)
  • New Hire Training Composition
  • New Hire CBT (by Industry)
  • % Customer Service Training
  • Training Tests?
  • Flunk Out of New Hire Training?
  • New Hire Training Program Failure
  • Refresher Training Cost per Employee
  • Refresher Training Days (per year)
  • Refresher Training Sessions per year
  • Refresher Training Class Size
  • Refresher Training Composition
  • Required Training for Transferred Employees
  • Certification Program?
  • Progression-based Pay?
  • Job Rotation Program?
  • Supervisory Training Program?
  • Most Effective Soft Skills Training
  • Difficult Customer Training
  • Most Effective Job Aids & Training Tools
  • Top New Technologies
  • Measuring Training Success
  • Customer Service Entry Level Job?
  • Establishing Standards of Customer Service Performance
  • Key Attributes of Customer-facing Employees
  • Key Customer Service Metrics
  • Frequency of Performance Reviews
  • Offer Incentives & Rewards?
  • Incentives & Rewards
  • Incentives & Rewards Participation
  • Disciplinary Actions
  • Disciplinary Triggers
  • Determining Customer Satisfaction
  • Track Customer Satisfaction with Front-line Employees?
  • Determining Employee Satisfaction
  • Employee Satisfaction Survey Frequency
  • Approaches to Determining Employee Satisfaction
  • Helping Employees Deal with Stress
  • Top Front-line Employee Retention Tecniques
  • Employee Involvement Opportunities
  • Recent Improvements to the Performance Management Process
  • Top 5 New Technologies to Improve Performance Process
  • Top Plans for Improvement

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Improving Front-line People Processes

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