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Looking at the Post-COVID-19 Contact Center
Posted on June 05, 2020 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Management • Contact Center • Contact Centre Ops • Forecasting- WFM • Outsourcing • People management • Research • WFH • WFM
Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #Cx• call center• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Management• COVID-19• Operational Management• WFH• WFM• work from home
By Colin Taylor Roughly three months into the COVID-19 shutdown, there has been a lot of discussion around what COVID-19 has done to our society, our economy, our elderly and; if you live in my little corner of the world; our customer experiences and contact centers. Contact centers for many organizations could not stop operating, […]
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Engaging Employees at Any Distance
Posted on May 14, 2020 in Agent Experience • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact center consulting • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Forecasting- WFM • WFM
Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• employee engagement• employee experience• Leadership• Operational Management• WFM
‘ By Peg Ayers If you had a way to increase sales by 20%, be 21% more profitable and increase your customer satisfaction scores by 10%, would you do it? How about improving employee retention by 24-59%, lowering absenteeism by 41% and increasing productivity by 17%? According to the Gallup Organization, you could do all […]
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Improving CX on a Budget
Posted on May 01, 2020 in Call Center Consulting • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management
Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #Cx• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Consulting• Customer Experience• Strategy
By Peg Ayers In a recent post, we looked at the cost of providing a poor Customer Experience (CX). A 2019 survey, which interviewed more than 6,000 consumers in Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States says 72% of respondents said, “I am loyal to a certain brand, but as soon as I […]
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Trusting those you trust with your most valuable asset
Posted on April 27, 2020 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • People management • retention • rewards/recognition • WFM
Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• Attrition• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Customer Experience• Leadership• Taylor Reach Group• WFM
By Colin Taylor The agents on the frontline want to help customers. They want to resolve issues, and to deliver the desired customer experience and the brand promise. Doing these things results in happier customers and happier agents (as they were dealing with happy customers). Not providing the tools to enable the agents to serve […]
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Think You Can’t Afford to Improve CX? Think Again!
Posted on April 09, 2020 in Call Center DIY • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Customer Experience Metrics • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service • CXi
Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #Cx• call center• Contact Center Management• Customer Experience
By Peg Ayers Everybody wants to improve the Customer Experience (CX) they provide, right? But maybe you believe it’s just too expensive to even think about it. Your organization is doing its best with the resources it has. What else can you do? Plenty! Providing poor CX is incredibly expensive! A 2019 survey, which interviewed […]
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Keeping Workers Safe and Productive (When the Contact Center Can’t Close)
Posted on April 01, 2020 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Disaster Recovery • Emergency • Employee Experience • People management • WFM
Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• call center• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Leadership• Operational Management• WFM
by JD Fairweather If you asked any contact center manager two months ago about their business continuity plan, they’d likely opine on their facility’s readiness to address just about any emergency scenario. These same managers have seen their expertise and resolve put to the test in recent weeks due to COVID-19. And with effects of […]
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One more priority for 2020…
Posted on March 20, 2020 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Business continuity • Employee Experience • WFM
Tags: #callcenter• #cctr• #contactcenter• burnout• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Management• employee benefits• health• Leadership• mental health• wellness• WFM
By Colin Taylor One priority each of us should have on our “to do” for 2020 is mental health. Mental health disorders are pervasive, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), with nearly 1 in 5 Americans aged 18 or older reporting mental illness and more than 70% reporting at least one symptom of […]
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Who owns the customer experience anyway?
Posted on March 10, 2020 in Customer Experience • Customer Experience Metrics • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service audit • Customer Support • CXi • Help Desk • Sales • Service Level
Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #Cx• Contact Center Strategy
By Patricia Ballantyne Over the past number of years, the customer experience (otherwise known as “CX”) has become a profession unto itself. Roles like Chief Customer Officer, Customer Experience Director, Manager, Customer Success have been popping up. You can also obtain a CCXP (Certified Customer Experience Professional) certification, which recognizes professional credentials and expertise in […]
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Pandemic Preparation Can Be Contagious
Posted on March 06, 2020 in Business continuity • Call Center Management • Disaster Recovery • People management • WFM
Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custserv• Contact Center Management• WFM
By Colin Taylor We certainly are living in interesting times. This is unquestionably the best time to ever have lived as a human being; not so good for other species perhaps. Yet we are regularly faced with new issues and challenges that can impact both our personal and business lives. The current challenge is how […]
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Self-Service in the age of AI
Posted on February 12, 2020 in AI • Artificial Intelligence • Call Center Tools • Chat • Contact Center • Contact Center Technology • Customer Experience • Help Desk • IVR
Tags: #artificialintelligence• #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• AI• artificial intelligence• Colin Taylor• Customer Experience• Customer Service Consulting• Self Service• WFM
By Colin Taylor Self-service has been employed for more than 30 years to allow customers to serve themselves. This has been a mixed blessing, while many of us value the time savings versus waiting endlessly in a queue for the answer to a simple question and to gain a single piece of information, we all […]
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