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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Posted on June 21, 2022 in Uncategorized

Taylor Reach CEO and Chief Chaos Officer, Colin Taylor, has been recognized as one of TechSee’s “22 Influential Leaders to Watch in 2022.” TechSee calls the list “an homage to the business leaders and influencers pushing the envelope when it comes to innovation in customer experience.” As the article points out, Colin is “an author […]

Posted on June 20, 2022 in Uncategorized

Awards represent an encouragement. They show us what the “best” have done and they can inspire all of us to do better. I have participated as a judge, and senior judge for contact center and customer experience awards in Canada, Asia, the UK, and the US. At the first-ever US CXA®, more than 50 organizations […]

Posted on June 10, 2022 in Uncategorized

By Colin Taylor Sometimes it seems inevitable that every time a budget is approved with funds allocated for new, additional, or improved training, something occurs and the training is the first thing removed from the budget. We have heard this refrain many times over the years. From the perspective of senior management, Training looks like […]