What is calibration  in the quality monitoring process and what are the benefits?

What exactly is quality assurance calibration and why would a contact center need to do it.

Myra’s answer to What is calibration and what are the benefits?

The dictionary definition is…

1. To check, adjust, or determine by comparison with a standard (the graduations of a quantitative measuring instrument): calibrate a thermometer.
2. To make corrections in; adjust: calibrated the polling procedures to ensure objectivity.

To calibrate is to gain consensus, as a  team, on what a quality contact (phone call, email, chat, letter) sounds like, looks like, and “feels” like so that every evaluator is rating the calls the same way.

Evaluators meet on a regular basis to “check, adjust, or determine by comparison with each other the standards set forth by the call center.

Some of the benefits of calibration include:

• It improves the consistency among everyone who monitors.
• Helps protect evaluators against being accused of favoritism.
• It actually serves as a quality assurance mechanism for improving the quality monitoring process.

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