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Posted on February 19, 2019 in Call Center Management • Case Study • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Uncategorized

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Are You Listening to the Canaries in Your Customer Experience Coal Mine? By: Colin Taylor The call center or customer service department has long been call the ‘canary in the coalmine’ for its ability to provide early identification and diagnosis of problems and issues impacting the satisfaction of customers. Despite numerous warnings most organizations don’t change, […]

Posted on February 15, 2019 in Call Center Consulting • Call centre consulting • Contact Center • Contact center consulting • Financial Services • Site Selection

  Leading contact center and customer experience consultancy, The Taylor Reach Group, Inc., has announced that it has been contracted to perform site selection services for a new contact center for a world-leading financial management firm. The client, serving millions of customers internationally with services ranging from personal and business insurance to asset management is […]

Posted on February 12, 2019 in agent attrition • Contact Center • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Occupancy • retention • Turnover

By John Cockerill In Colin Taylor’s recent article, “Resolving The Riddle Of Retention,” he speaks about the cost of attrition and the many factors that affect it. This article outlines how to do both a simple estimate of that cost and more complex calculations to undertake for a center. First, let’s outline a simple estimate […]

Posted on February 08, 2019 in Contact center consulting • Services • Strategy

  The Taylor Reach Group, Inc., a globally-recognized call and contact center consulting and managed services firm focused on optimizing customer engagement, has announced that it is working with a worldwide leader in personal vision care. Taylor Reach is performing a strategic assessment that will include detailed analysis of the inner workings of the contact […]

Posted on February 05, 2019 in Uncategorized

Lean Management is a customer-centric methodology used to improve the current business process by using the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) technique. Following the DMAIC blueprint will provide organizations insight into what the actual root cause problem is by measuring and analyzing various data sets, and developing process flow maps to understand the […]

Posted on January 21, 2019 in Uncategorized

While The Taylor Reach Group, Inc., has been an industry leader in call and contact center consulting for more than 15 years, the main area of focus has been on establishing great customer care in the business sector, especially in retail and service industries. Although the company has worked with municipal and federal government agencies […]

Posted on January 18, 2019 in Uncategorized

The Taylor Reach Group, Inc., an industry-leading Customer Experience (CX) and Contact Center consulting firm, is starting 2019 on a continued upward trajectory, adding Senior Consultant Patricia Ballantyne to its team of contact center operational experts. Ballantyne noted, “the Taylor Reach Group is a highly respected consulting firm, and I am excited to work with […]

Posted on December 07, 2018 in Uncategorized

By: Colin Taylor The downside of a strong economy is low unemployment and job shortages. A strong economy doesn’t directly cause contact center attrition, but it does provide employees and agents options that may not exist in a weaker economy. This element of choice, though, will magnify any internal issues and challenges that may exist […]

Posted on December 03, 2018 in Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Leadership • retention • Success • Training

By: Peg Ayers Are all the leaders on your team equally skilled? Who do you think of first when you have something critical that must be handled brilliantly and immediately? We all have our preferences as to who we trust when the pressure is on. This makes it even more important to keep those leaders on […]

Posted on November 30, 2018 in Agent Experience • Blog • Call center Humor • Call Center Management • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Opinion • Technology

There are a lot of smart — very smart — individuals managing and directing Call and Contact Centers today. Yet these bright, bright people still manage from time to time to do things that defy understanding. This is my top ten list of really dumb things that smart call and contact center executives do. If […]