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New Service From Taylor Reach Equips Call Centers to Measure Customer Satisfaction, First Contact Resolution and Net Promoter Score

New tool from Leading Call center consulting firm allows call centers to listen to their customers tell them how they are performing and measures true Customer Satisfaction, FCR and Net Promoter score.

Toronto, ON (PRWEB) December 21, 2011

Colin Taylor, The Chairman and CEO of The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. today announced [...]

#fiveideas The Results are In- Read the Post and Vote on this Weeks Topics

By: Colin Taylor Last week I asked for your help – I wanted to find out the topics that resonate with you the call or contact center operator. I promised that once you voted for your favorite I would write the article post. Well you did your part and I did mine, you can read [...]

Why the Quality Listening program Should Not be a Performance Review

Why the Quality Listening program Should Not be a Performance Review By: Colin Taylor

Let’s look at the numbers. In a customer service call center where the quality assurance program requires the evaluation of 4 calls per month. The average agent will handle approximately 1,600 calls in the month. This means that the 4 calls [...]

5 Good Call Center Ideas – #5ideas

By Colin Taylor

I have often heard that just one good idea can change everything. It can make a conference worth attending, change the course of history or even make a meeting worth attending. Now I can’t guarantee that we can change the course of human history or even make a meeting productive, but hopefully [...]

What Call Center Metrics mean to Customers

What Call Center Metrics mean to Customers By Colin Taylor In the daily operation of our call and contact centers we throw around metrics and performance measures like they were candy. It has been said that call centers produce more data and more measurement opportunities than is possible in almost any other communications channel. But [...]

Floral distributor executive wins Snapshotz Call Centre Audit Draw

Floral distributor executive wins Snapshotz call centre audit draw

The winner of a draw held in Toronto for free usage of the Snapshotz call centre audit tool is Amas Tenumah, Vice-President, Operations for Teleflora, a floral distribution network. Tenrmah receives a single-user license for Snapshotz that will be applied in the Teleflora Oklahoma City call [...]

Most Challenging Callers

While working on a call center consulting engagement with one of the largest garbage companies in the country we encountered what was likely the most difficult customer I have ever experienced. We were working in a mid- sized call center and discussing their customers. The company serviced urban, suburban and rural customers in the city [...]

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 [...]

Toyota Just Doesn’t Get It- Poor Design = Poor Experience

I like to think of myself as having patience, though it has been said that I don’t always suffer fools well. I was having a happy retail experience, well at least as happy as one can have when you leave $1200 with the dealer. I did need new front brakes, so all in all I [...]

Effectiveness Indicators – Quality

In the past issues, several efficiency indicators (such as AHT, ASA, Call volume and cost per calls) were discussed. At the time it was noted that most of the current contact centre operational indicators are focused around efficiency measurement as traditionally cost reduction has been the number one objective! In the last 15 years, however, [...]