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Why does ‘Tunnel Vision exist amongst clever Contact Center people

Why does ‘Tunnel Vision exist amongst clever Contact Center people? By Colin Taylor – Taylor Reach Consulting Why does ‘Tunnel Vision’ exist amongst clever contact center people? There can be many causes that can create situations of ‘tunnel vision’ here are 03 causes: Lack of time: The old saw that “meetings are a nice [...]

The US Contact Center Decision-Makers’ Guide, 2011 Now Available

“The US Contact Center Decision-Makers’ Guide, 2011″, the major annual report studying the performance, operations, technology and HR aspects of US contact center operations, is now available for download, free of charge. A detailed structured questionnaire was asked to hundreds of contact center managers and directors, and the result is the 4th edition of the [...]

10 Relatively Serious Predictions for 2011

John Cockerill 1. There will be a future however bleak or rosy, it will still be. Take off the rose colored glasses and stop forecasting historical plus 5%. That is what a demand forecast is for. Get one now. 2. Politicians will still get elected; and we all will complain regardless of who is elected [...]

New Video – Talking Call Centers- Rosetta Carrington Lue- City of Philadelphia

We have just posted a new Talking Call Centers video on our Call Center Channel on YouTube, featuring Rosetta Carrington Lue, the deputy managing director who oversaw the city of Philadephia`s launch of the 311 service. During the interview with [...]

How good is your Training: Take the Quiz

How good is your Training: Take the Quiz By: John Cockerill Understatement of the day -Training is important. Just about everyone says so. But like the weather everyone talks about but few do anything about it. Here is a quick test to gauge the health and effectiveness of the training in your center. 1. Is [...]

The Help or Helpless Desk?

A new study, “Help Desk Efficiency Report 2010,” from 1E, a software/services company found a remarkable number dysfunctions in the Help Desk of the 1,000 plus IT professionals who participated in the study. These challenges include: * 44% of users feel that ordering software from their Help Desk is inefficient and time consuming, * 2/3 [...]

Taylor Reach client Terasen Gas announces new Call Center

Terasen Gas has announced their new call center in Burnaby BC.

Taylor Reach executed a site selection project Terasen Gas and other projects including technology acquistion, and multi-channel strategy. Read the In-Sourcing Case Sudy here

The Do’s and Don’ts to Achieve Customer satisfaction in your contact center

We recently were asked this question by Call Center Life, a magazine serving the Turkish call center industry and wanted to share this content here…

Question: Can you briefly describe the “to do’s” and “not to do’s” when managing a contact center as a part of the customer satisfaction?

Answers: One of my matras [...]

What is the role of contact centers in customer satisfaction?

We recently were asked this question by Call Center Life, a magazine serving the Turkish call center industry and wanted to share this content here

Question – What is the role of contact centers in customer satisfaction? Colin Taylor – Contact and call centers are the primary conduit through which companies and increasingly everyone else [...]

New Case Study Posted- Outsourced Quality Monitoring

We have just published a new Case Study on Outsourced Quality Monitoring. This is a service we have been providing to a select number of clients for more than 5 years and now are rolling out.

Outsource your QA Monitoring The Taylor Reach Group Inc. (Taylor Reach) offers 3rd Party Quality Monitoring Service (3PQM) to [...]