Best Practices

Posted on January 06, 2023 in Agent Experience • AI • Best Practices • Blog • Call Center Management • Contact Center • Contact center consulting • Contact Center Industry Statistics • Customer Experience • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • FCR • Forecasting- WFM • Opinion • Planning • Quality Assurance • Virtual Call Center • Vrirtual Contact Center • WFM

By Colin Taylor As I look at the new and shiny year ahead, I wonder what delights and innovations and opportunities may lie ahead for Contact Center operations.  I think in many ways we will finally shake the post-pandemic hangover; we just need to take two aspirin and realize that what we have been dealing […]

Posted on October 20, 2022 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Education • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • People management • Quality • Training • WFH • WFM

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By Peg Ayers As Supervisors and Managers, we often feel we must have all the answers. We need to share our great experience and knowledge with those on our teams. We’ve been promoted for our skills, and we need to make sure everybody understands that. This can lead to coaching conversations where we spend more […]

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

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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

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

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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

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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 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

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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 March 06, 2021 in Best Practices • Customer Experience Management • Customer Experience Metrics • Customer service • Customer service audit

One of the world’s largest and fastest-growing premium spirits companies has enlisted the aid of The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. (TRG) to assess their current capabilities and support the design of a new Direct to Consumer (DTC) organizational vision. The DTC channel will support consumers across the globe. Consumer support and experience will be delivered […]

Posted on February 27, 2021 in Best Practices • Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit

The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. (TRG) has been retained by one a global retailer that designs, distributes and sells its branded product through worldwide retail locations and digital channels. TRG, an award-winning call and contact center customer experience and managed services consulting firm, will be providing a comprehensive assessment of the company’s current contact center […]