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Customer Reach – April Newsletter

Posted on March 27, 2018 in Uncategorized

Newsletter Contact centers, customer service and customer experience: news, views and how to’s Inside this issue: Call Center, Contact Center and Customer Experience Events – April 2018 3 Key Factors for Successful Quality Assurance Customer Experience is Driving the Need for Ethnographic Research to Understand Why Customers Do What They Do Leading by Example: What […]

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Call Center, Contact Center and Customer Experience Events – April 2018

Posted on March 26, 2018 in Customer Experience • Events • Uncategorized

  At Taylor Reach Group, we have compiled a list with hundreds of expos, conferences and summits focused on the Call Center, Contact Center and/or Customer Experience. Whether you’re interested in speaking, exhibiting or simply attending these events, we wanted to keep everybody informed on the upcoming Contact Center and CX Events. With that, here […]

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Calculating Schedule Adherence in the Contact Center

Posted on March 21, 2018 in Adherence • Call Center Performance • Metrics • People management

By: Peg Ayers & Turaj Seyrafiaan Definition: The percentage of time your agent was exactly where they were scheduled to be. Calculation: Agent’s scheduled log in time – total amount of minutes out of schedule adherence          X 100 Agent’s scheduled log in time   Example: An agent is scheduled to work […]

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Operational Indicators – Average Handle Time (AHT)

Posted on March 20, 2018 in AHT • Call Center Consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Satisfaction • Education • Forecasting- WFM • People management • Planning • Strategy

Tags: AHT• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Customer Service Consulting• Operational Management• WFM

By: Turaj Seyrafiaan Have you ever wondered what is behind any of the Contact Center operational indicators? Why do we measure what we measure and what do they mean? In this article, we tackle one of the most important indicators; Average Handle Time (AHT) AHT is defined as the total amount of time (on average) […]

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Operational Indicators – Service Levels, ASA & Occupancy Rate

Posted on March 19, 2018 in AHT • ASA • Call Center Consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Satisfaction • Forecasting- WFM • Occupancy • People management • Planning • Strategy

Tags: ASA• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Operational Management• service level• Strategy• Taylor Reach Group• WFM

By: Turaj Seyrafiaan In the last Indicators post, we discussed one of the most important operational indicators: Average Handle Time or AHT. In this issue, we continue with other operational indicators dealing with the efficiency of the center, i.e. “Service Level”, “Average Speed of Answer (ASA)” and “Occupancy Rate”. Although each indicator provides different information, […]

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Medical Marijuana Company Appoints Contact Center Consultancy to Develop Agent Training Program

Posted on March 13, 2018 in Agent Experience • AHT • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • Education • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Press Release

  Customer Experience and Contact Center consulting firm, The Taylor Reach Group, Inc., is designing an Agent On-Boarding Training Curriculum. TORONTO (PRWEB)March 13, 2018 The Taylor Reach Group, Inc., a globally acknowledged and leading Contact Center and Customer Engagement consulting agency, announced today that they have secured a Contact Center Agent Training Re-Design agreement with […]

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Calculating Occupancy in the Contact Center

Posted on March 08, 2018 in Call Center Performance • Contact Center • Contact center consulting • Metrics • Occupancy

By: Peg Ayers & Turaj Seyrafiaan Occupancy Definition: The percentage of your agent’s logged-in time spent in direct contact with a customer or in activities directly following and related to that contact (e.g. After Call Work). Calculation: Total Contact Time (Talk Time + After Call Work) /Total Logged-in Time The equation can be applied for […]

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Financial Institution Appoints Contact Center Consultancy

Posted on March 07, 2018 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Technology • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Contact Center • Contact center consulting • Contact Center Technology • Press Release

Major Financial Institution Upgrading CX and Contact Center Technology with Consultancy Advice via The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. TORONTO (PRWEB) March 07, 2018 Vendor agnostic, Customer Experience (CX) and Contact Center consulting firm, The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. (TRG), today announced they will be assisting one of the largest financial institutions in Western Canada with […]

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Leading by Example: What our Supervisors Need to Know

Posted on February 21, 2018 in Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Occupancy • People management • Supervisor

By: Peg Ayers, MBA, CCXP “What you are speaks so loudly, I can’t hear what you are saying.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “Do as I say, not as I do.” Nobody says it aloud. But it’s illustrated every day when people give rules and advice to others that they don’t follow themselves. New supervisors can […]

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3 Key Factors for Successful Quality Assurance

Posted on January 23, 2018 in Call Center Performance • Metrics • Quality Assurance • Quality assurance

  By: Peg Ayers & Turaj Seryafiaan   Quality Assurance (QA) is a metric with nearly as many variations as there are companies in the world.  Every company has an idea of what they want quality to look like, and each creates a system they believe will bring them to that standard of quality.  It’s […]

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