Blog

Posted on February 14, 2022 in Press Release • Strategy

A major sporting goods retailer has invited The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. back to perform a strategic assessment on their internal contact center operation. This is a return engagement for TRG, who has performed similar assessments for this client in the past, and helped structure the current internal contact center, and advised them on outsource […]

Posted on February 11, 2022 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Contact Centre Ops • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • People management • Training • WFM

Tags: #callcenter• #callcenterDIY• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Management• Leadership• Training• WFM

By Colin Taylor A lack of agent training is a sure-fire way of ensuring customers are disappointed. Learning a new skill or capability provide both enjoyment and a break from the mundane, and brings with it the opportunity to increase earnings. But to be effective, organizations need to ensure that they take a measured and […]

Posted on January 07, 2022 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Blog • Business continuity • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call center Humor • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Center Industry Statistics • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Forecasting- WFM • Incentives • Leadership • Opinion • People management • Success • Supervisor • Training • WFH • WFM

Tags: #callcenter• #callcenterDIY• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #Cx• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Customer Experience• Leadership• Operational Management

By Peg Ayers As the New Year begins, many of us turn to thoughts of self-improvement, swearing off sweets, resolving to run three miles a day or promising not to spend hours in front of the television every weekend. But how many of us look at our contact centers and think about making this New […]

Posted on December 14, 2021 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact Center • Contact Center Industry Statistics • Contact Centre Ops

Tags: #callcenter• #callcenterDIY• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #custserv• Call Center Consulting• CCaaS• Operational Management

By Simon Elkin (Talkdesk) When I landed in the technology sector 25 years ago, I recall the light-speed innovation launch pace, the enthusiasm, the optimism and how every day seemed to be turning the page on one conventional notion or another. It was a time when Silicon Valley was getting its legs, new technology daily […]

Posted on October 31, 2021 in Agent Experience • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Employee Engagement • Virtual Call Center • Vrirtual Contact Center • WFH • WFM

By Colin Taylor Halloween, the night of the dead, the end of all things, whatever you call it, this time of year with the harvest behind us and the ghouls and goblins; not to mention Squid Game characters who have now darkened our door; can be a frightening time. It is more frightening perhaps as […]

Posted on October 29, 2021 in Customer Experience Management • Leadership • Training

The ongoing pandemic continues to impact on individuals, business and government. Many people have begun to work from home and many businesses and government agencies have been working to determine how they can best meet the needs of their customers and citizens through their now remote contact centers. The shift to remote teams, especially for […]

Posted on October 29, 2021 in Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Employee Experience • Leadership • Outsourced Quality Monitoring • Outsourcing • Quality Assurance • WFH • WFM

Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Customer Experience• WFH

By Colin Taylor We won’t go back to the “before times.” It is a simple as that. Wanting the world to be as you think it should be, rather than as it is, is the textbook definition of neurotic. So buckle up and get ready for the new world. “Hybrid work” is a new and […]

Posted on October 08, 2021 in Customer Experience • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service • Customer Support

Tags: #callcenter• #callcenterDIY• #callcentre• #cctr• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• Customer Experience• customer service• Customer Service Consulting• Taylor Reach Group

By John Cockerill Too often as professionals in Customer Service we report and write about lousy service, long wait times, poor follow through, weaseling phases in terms and conditions, too many steps to get satisfaction plus many, many more. Today I share two bright spots of a personal experience. First, Google and their Pixel phone. […]

Posted on September 03, 2021 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Hiring a call center consultant • People management • Turnover • Virtual Call Center • Vrirtual Contact Center • WFH • WFM

Tags: #callcenter• #callcenterDIY• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• Attrition• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Operational Management• WFM

by JD Fairweather After several months of remote working – a workstyle many contact center leaders would have deemed impossible to implement a year and a half ago – employers are finding it difficult to lure staff back into the office. The Delta variant notwithstanding, it seems that employees are far too settled into the […]

Posted on August 16, 2021 in Uncategorized

A major professional sports league with teams and venues in virtually every city in North America has selected The Taylor Reach Group to assess its contact center operations. Award-winning global contact center consultants and customer experience experts, The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. (TRG) have been enlisted to help the organization assess its customer experience operations. […]