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Customer Reach January 2010

In the January 2010 issue:

EQ drives Agent-level Performance
Is Social Media A Fundamental Shift for Customer Service?
IQPC Call Center Summit- Review
Inside TRG
Case Study
Classifieds
Testimonials

Read our Customer Reach Newsletter – January 2010 (pdf-1.2mb)

Customer Reach provides news and views of the contact center industry. It is sent to more than 11,000 senior contact center executives, like yourself [...]

Customer Reach December 2009

In the December 2009 issue:

Beware my Son, the Consultant–Part 2-Why would you hire a Consultant? – By Colin Taylor
Workforce Management Manifesto: Using WFM to deliver on Three Customer Expectations- By George Xourafas
Inside TRG – Free Research Offer Extended
Case Study – In this regular column we review the successes that TRG is part of – Improved [...]

Beware (my son) the Consultant – Part 2

So why do companies and organizations hire consultants? While intended as a rhetorical question, I can hear some readers repeat the question out loud and in earnest…”Really, why would you!”

Let’s deal with some of the well known tactical reasons for a engaging a consultant. In our experience the most common reason for hiring a call/contact [...]

Customer Reach November 2009

In the November 2009 issue:

Beware my Son the Consultant– Is everyone a Consultant? – By Colin Taylor
Tribal Engagement: Redefining Customer Engagement – By Joe Tawfik
Inside TRG – TRG adds ContactCenterWorld.com news feed to website
Case Study – In this regular column we review the successes that TRG is part of – Assisted a Major bank to review its’ [...]

Beware my son the Consultant

Beware my son the Consultant
By Colin Taylor
Founder & CEO
With my Apologies to Lewis Carol, but most of the poem Jabberwocky does sound like some meetings with consultants I have sat in on “Twas brillig, and the slithy toves, Did gyre and gimble in the wabe”. Maybe it’s the recession or just the stage of life [...]

Call & Contact Center Industry Veteran, Deborah MacAskill joins The Taylor Reach Group, Inc.

Call Center and Customer Service consultancy Grows Again- Industry Veteran – Deborah MacAskill Joins Taylor Reach

Toronto- Mr. Colin Taylor, The Chairman and CEO of The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. today announced that the Toronto based Call/Contact and Customer Service Consultancy has added Ms Deborah MacAskill to its’ team of consultants. “Deb adds more [...]

A Thousand Points of Light, Knowledgebase, a Path to Call Center Salvation?

By Colin Taylor

When George H W Bush used this phrase he was referring to diversity. I think that this phase aptly characterizes the plight of many organizations that struggle with managing their knowledge and information.
Knowledge management was fairly straightforward for many years. There was a binder or a manual that was written and developed to [...]

Inside the Mind of the Outsource Agency

By Colin Taylor, Founder & CEO
Anything you are doing today could be outsourced. This article is not about whether you should or shouldn’t outsource: that is a business decision only you can make. Rather this article strives to provide some insight into the outsource agency’s mind and what lies behind their contact delivery and rate [...]

ICCM Canada Cancelled

Questex Media Group has made the decision not to hold ICCM Canada in 2009. This decision was based not only on current marketplace conditions, but also on the changing needs of our exhibitor and audience base. As always, Questex strives to meet the education, training and networking needs of our event attendees, and to maximize [...]

September Newsletter is now available

The September issue of Customer Reach, is now available under the Nesletters tab.
In this issue we look at how to deliver both Strategy and Leadership through your contact center:
“The lack of attention or understanding, lack of a plan and therefore the lack of a well thought-out and reasonable budget is the situation that many [...]