Our customer support team consistently hits their weekly Scorecard target for tickets resolved within twenty-four hours, but our client satisfaction is dropping and reopened tickets are climbing. How do we reconfigure this Scorecard metric so technicians cannot game resolution speed?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

People game numbers whenever a measurable rewards isolated volume or speed without measuring the required quality of the output. When customer service technicians are evaluated solely on tickets closed within twenty-four hours, they naturally cherry-pick simple password resets, rush complex troubleshooting, and close tickets before verifying that the underlying problem is actually fixed. The Scorecard turns green, but customer frustration boils over.

To prevent gaming, pair activity metrics with a friction or quality counterweight on your weekly Scorecard:
- Pair tickets resolved within 24 hours with reopened ticket rate inside seven days.
- Pair total tickets closed with first-contact resolution percentage.
- Pair support volume with a weekly client satisfaction pulse or post-resolution survey score.

If technicians close eighty tickets a week but fifteen percent of those tickets are reopened within five business days, the quality metric turns red. That instantly triggers your Level 10 Meeting™ Issues List.

You must also inspect what your team believes the metric means. If leadership uses red numbers to punish team members, employees will inevitably game the data to survive. Make it explicitly clear that a red number is merely an objective signal that the process needs attention. When your team sees that pairing volume with quality leads to healthy problem-solving during IDS® rather than blame, the incentive to manipulate operational metrics disappears.