Select metrics to measure with Performance Management

On the Configuration page in Performance Management, you can select which measurements appear on your organization’s Performance Management dashboards.

Metrics are individual measurements that indicate agent performance. Examples of common metrics you might want to measure are evaluation scores, number of contacts handled, or adherence. For a list of all metrics you can choose from, see About the KPI metrics.

You organize and assign metrics with paths. A path is a collection of metrics that are relevant to a particular role, team, or other collection of agents. A path always contains at least one metric. You can add a metric to multiple paths. A team or group can be assigned multiple paths, and a path can be assigned to multiple teams or groups.

EXAMPLE   You want to measure one group of agents based on their handle time, but handle time is not as important a measurement for another group of agents. You create a path that includes the handle time metric for the first group of agents and create another path that does not include handle time for the second group of agents.

The desired score for each metric is the benchmark. A benchmark is a number that an agent must reach to meet your organization’s performance goals. You can create paths that use the same metric but have different benchmarks.

EXAMPLE   You want to measure two different teams based on handle time but have different desired handle times for each team. You create two paths that include the handle time metric but set different benchmark scores for each path.

The table below illustrates the relationship between metrics, paths, and teams.

Path 1 Path 2 Path 3

Contains these metrics:

  • Handle Time with a benchmark of 8 minutes

  • After-Call Work Time

  • Manual QM - Section Score

Assigned to the Red Team.

Contains these metrics:

  • Handle Time with a benchmark of 6 minutes

  • Manual QM - KPI Failures

  • Auto QM - Overall Score

Assigned to the Blue Team.

Contains these metrics:

  • Contacts Handled

  • After-Call Work Time

  • Talk Time

  • Hold Time

Assigned to the Green Team.

Prerequisites

Page location

Performance Management > Settings > Configuration

Procedures

Create a path

Step 1: Name the path

  1. Click Create path.
  2. Enter the path Name.
  3. (Optional) Enter a Description for the path. This description will appear on the Configuration page for anyone else who works with the metric. The description is not visible anywhere else.
  4. Click Save. The path appears in the list of Paths.

Step 2: Select metrics for the path

  1. Click the path in the list of Paths.
  2. Click Add Metric.
  3. Select a metric from the Metric drop-down list. For more information about the metrics, see About the KPI metrics below.
  4. If the Form/section/question drop-down list appears, select a form, section, or question for the metric.

    EXAMPLE   One metric you want to track is the overall evaluation score on a form titled Evaluation Form One. You select Overall Evaluation Score from the Metric drop-down list and select Evaluation Form One from the Form/section/question drop-down list.

  5. (Optional) To include information for this metric in the Summary section on the Performance Management homepage, select Summary. (See View performance information for yourself or your team in Performance Management for more information about the Summary section.)
  6. Select the color this metric will have on the KPI Dashboard page from the Color drop-down list.
  7. (Optional) Enter the goal number for this metric in the Benchmark field. This is usually a “meets expectations” score. The benchmark score will appear as a dotted line and as a target icon on KPI Dashboard charts. If you don’t add a benchmark score, the dotted line and target icon do not appear.

    EXAMPLE   The “meets expectations” score for Evaluation Form One is 75 points. You enter 75 in the Benchmark field.

  8. Click Save.

Step 3: Assign the path to agents

  1. In the Add Groups and/or Teams section, select the teams or groups who will be assigned this path. You can select more than one option.
  2. Click Save. The path appears in the drop-down list on the KPI Dashboard page.

Edit a path

  1. Click the three dots next to the path name, and select Edit.
  2. Make changes as needed.
  3. Click Save. Depending on how many changes you made, you might need to click multiple Save buttons. Your changes appear to everyone else immediately.

Delete a path

  1. Click the three dots next to the path name, and select Delete. The Confirm deletion window opens.
  2. Click Delete. The window closes. The path disappears from everyone else’s view immediately.

Edit a metric

You can add or remove a metric from the homepage summary, select a different color for the metric, or change the benchmark.

  1. Click the path in the list of Paths.
  2. Click the three dots in the Actions column, and select Edit.
  3. Make changes as needed.
  4. Click Save. Your changes appear to everyone else immediately.

Delete a metric

  1. Click the three dots in the Action column, and select Delete. The Confirm deletion window opens.
  2. Click Delete. The window closes. The metric disappears from everyone else’s view immediately.

About the KPI metrics

The table below defines the metrics you can choose from. These metrics appear even if you don’t have the license that is required for the metric. If you select a metric that your organization doesn’t have a license for, no information appears in Performance Management.

Metric License required Definition
Auto QM - KPI Failures Analytics Essentials, Analytics Enterprise, or Analytics Enterprise Plus On an AI evaluation form, the number times AI selected a KPI answer option for a specific question. The form must be published.
Auto QM - Overall Score Analytics Essentials, Analytics Enterprise, or Analytics Enterprise Plus The overall score for a contact from an AI evaluation. The form must be published.
Auto QM - Section Score Analytics Essentials, Analytics Enterprise, or Analytics Enterprise Plus The score for a section on an AI evaluation form. The form must be published.
Manual QM - KPI Failures QM On a manual evaluation form, the number times an evaluator selected a KPI answer option for a specific question. The form must be published.
Manual QM - Overall Score QM The overall score for a contact from a manual evaluation. The form must be published.
Manual QM - Section Score QM The score for a section on a manual evaluation form. The form must be published.
Adherence WFM The percentage of time agents were adhering to their scheduled activities.

After-Call Work Time

WFM

The number of seconds that the agent spent on after-call work, divided by the number of calls the agent answered.

Contacts Handled WFM The number of contacts that an agent handled in a day.

Handle Time

WFM

The agent’s talk time + hold time + after-call-work time, divided by the number of calls the agent answered.

Hold Time

WFM

The number of seconds that the agent placed calls on hold, divided by the number of calls the agent answered.

Talk Time

WFM

The number of seconds the agent spent actively handling calls, divided by the number of calls the agent answered.

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