For customer support teams, real time data can be a total game changer, as our recent post outlined. Unlike periodic reports Zendesk Explore, or business intelligence tools, real time dashboards have the power to let your team take meaningful, timely action on data that’s seconds or minutes old, rather than days or even weeks old. This can be transformative, speeding up response times, motivating your agents, improving service levels, and reducing day-to-day workload for managers.

Are there times when you feel like your Customer Service team is under appreciated for the work you do? Perhaps your team members have spoken openly about not getting the credit they deserve. Sadly, it’s not uncommon for Customer Service teams to feel like they’re working extremely hard without getting the same recognition that others parts of the business do. *Cough cough* Sales. *Cough cough* Marketing. *Cough*. On one level, you could write it off as paranoia.

As a Customer Support leader you know that reporting on your team's KPIs is a crucial part of maintaining excellent standards in customer service. For many Support teams, reporting usually takes the form of a weekly or monthly update, which helps you reflect on what is and isn't working, so you can focus your efforts in the future. But should your reporting go one step further? Should you also be utilizing the power of real-time data?

Having spoken one-to-one with what must be hundreds of Geckoboard customers over the years, it's safe to say; when it comes to aligning a team around KPIs - especially when it’s their first time doing this - building dashboards is often the easy part. How you and your team use them day-to-day; that’s often where things can become unstuck.

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