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Happy New Year and Welcome to 2023!
Posted on January 06, 2023 in Agent Experience • AI • Best Practices • Blog • Call Center Management • Contact Center • Contact center consulting • Contact Center Industry Statistics • Customer Experience • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • FCR • Forecasting- WFM • Opinion • Planning • Quality Assurance • Virtual Call Center • Vrirtual Contact Center • WFM
By Colin Taylor As I look at the new and shiny year ahead, I wonder what delights and innovations and opportunities may lie ahead for Contact Center operations. I think in many ways we will finally shake the post-pandemic hangover; we just need to take two aspirin and realize that what we have been dealing […]
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Coaching Through Questions
Posted on October 20, 2022 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Education • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • People management • Quality • Training • WFH • WFM
Tags: #callcenter• #contactcenter• Attrition• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Leadership• Taylor Reach Group• WFM
By Peg Ayers As Supervisors and Managers, we often feel we must have all the answers. We need to share our great experience and knowledge with those on our teams. We’ve been promoted for our skills, and we need to make sure everybody understands that. This can lead to coaching conversations where we spend more […]
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The Great Resignation, The Great Re-Think, or The Great Retirement?
Posted on October 14, 2022 in Agent Experience • AI • Call Center Consulting • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Leadership • WFH • WFM
Tags: #callcenter• #contactcenter• #custserv• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Operational Management• WFM
By Colin Taylor We are now into the fourth quarter of the year. Retail and ecommerce firms are gearing up for the holiday season, which means more staff. But where are they going to find more staff? It is hard to find new staff. We can blame the Great Resignation if we like, but where […]
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Evolution of Contact Center Scripts
Posted on September 28, 2022 in AHT • Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact Center Technology • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Mirrors • Help Desk • Quality • Quality Assurance • Training
Tags: #callcenter• #contactcenter• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• scripting
By Colin Taylor [This post was adapted from a webinar that Colin Taylor delivered for Customer Contact Central on September 8, 2022. You can see the replay here while available: https://www.customercontactcentral.com/frs/22041151/top-industry-secrets-for-successful-contact-center-scripting/email] There has been a continuous evolution in scripting since we were taping printed copies onto cubicle walls. There are primarily 4 different types of […]
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Top Industry Secrets for Successful Contact Center Scripting
Posted on September 26, 2022 in Agent Experience • Best Practices
Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• Call Center Assessment• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Customer Experience• scripting• service level
By Colin Taylor [This post was adapted from a webinar that Colin Taylor delivered for Customer Contact Central on September 8, 2022. You can see the replay here while available: https://www.customercontactcentral.com/frs/22041151/top-industry-secrets-for-successful-contact-center-scripting/email] When we think of a script a number of things can come to mind: The Cambridge English Dictionary defines it as both ”the words […]
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Managing potential problems in large-scale Contact Center projects
Posted on September 21, 2022 in Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Case Study • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Hiring a call center consultant • Quality • TRG
Tags: #callcenter• #contactcenter• Call Center Assessment• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Strategy• Taylor Reach Group
Not long ago, Taylor Reach was retained to design and creation of a single contact center for a large municipality that effectively combined three departments into one. Municipal governments operate complex, multi-tiered contact center operations supporting resident inquiries to many departments. As a result, customers—in this case, clients, taxpayers and residents—need to be assured of […]
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Visionary PC Gaming and Peripherals developer calls in Taylor Reach for Contact Center Support
Posted on August 26, 2022 in Uncategorized
Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #Cx• Call Center Audit• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Snapshotz
A visionary leader in PC gaming and peripherals development and manufacturing has called in The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. (TRG) to provide an assessment of its critical Customer Service and Technical Support Contact Center Operations. The company’s global and online presence, with a highly demanding audience, means it needs to be able to create a […]
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Major sports league implements Taylor Reach contact center recommendations
Posted on July 21, 2022 in Uncategorized
Tags: news• press release
A major professional North American sports league has begun implementing changes to its contact center operations, based on recommendations by Taylor Reach. The organization, which initially contracted The Taylor Reach Group to assess its global contact center operations in 2021, has now started to put the recommendations into practice. “With millions of fans — not […]
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Understanding your Contact Center Costs – FCR (First Contact Resolution)
Posted on July 15, 2022 in Uncategorized
Tags: #callcenter• #cctr• #contactcenter• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• call center• Customer Experience• FCR• First Contact Resolution• Leadership• Strategy• Taylor Reach Group
By Colin Taylor Contact centers are always striving to improve efficiency, increase customer satisfaction and deliver a superior customer experience. Technology is frequently the strategy employed to achieve this goal. While technology can certainly support improvement in all three areas, improvement can also be realized through increasing First Contact Resolution or FCR. FCR is a […]
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Advanced Contact Center Metrics – Speed to Competency
Posted on July 01, 2022 in Uncategorized
By Colin Taylor Having their best agents poached by other departments is a common refrain from contact center operators. These center leaders do not have any issue with upward mobility of their staff, in fact they likely support it as it offers the opportunity for advancement within the organization which can be a motivating factor. […]
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