Onyx Data Shows That Coaching Improves Agent Conversion

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We looked across agencies that lean hard on live call monitoring. Two patterns showed up. Some managers go wide — a few minutes spread across many agents. Others go deep — long, focused listening sessions with a smaller group. Wide-and-shallow barely moved the numbers. The deep sessions are where conversion actually climbed, and it scaled with intensity: the most-coached agents in those agencies improved conversion by 3.5 percentage points (see the chart at the top for details).

The play the strongest agencies run is to concentrate their coaching firepower — fewer agents, longer sessions, aimed at the people most likely to improve. Onyx Listen & Whisper is what makes those deep sessions practical: managers monitor live calls and coach in-ear in real time, without breaking the call.