Call Center Management

Ten Dumb Things Smart Contact Center Executives Do

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 […]

Read more

7 Reasons You Need a Consultant when Looking for a New Contact Center Site

Posted on July 04, 2018 in Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Hiring a call center consultant • Insourcing • Offshoring-Outsourcing • Opinion • Site Selection • Strategy • Success • Tax Refund • Taxes

Tags: #cctr• #custserv• call center location• call center site• Colin Taylor• contact center location• contact center site• Contact Center Strategy• Costs• Grants• Job creation• Research• site selection• Taylor Reach Group

By: Colin Taylor  Why would you want to retain a consultant? Common wisdom would have it that all they do is “borrow your watch and tell you the time”. What can a consultant really bring to the table that can assist your center and your organization when you a looking at moving or establishing a […]

Read more

What Call Center Metrics mean to Customers

Posted on May 18, 2018 in AHT • ASA • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call center Humor • Call Center Management • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • FCR • Forecasting- WFM • Opinion • Outsourced Quality Monitoring • Quality • retention • Strategy • Technology

Tags: Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Customer Service Consulting• Operational Management• Taylor Reach Group

By Colin Taylor In the daily operation of our Call and Contact Centers we throw around metrics and performance measures like they were candy. It has been said that Call Centers produce more data and more measurement opportunities than is possible in almost any other communications channel. But while we know what each of these […]

Read more

14 Questions you Need to ask when Considering Call Center Consolidation

Posted on May 11, 2018 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • Site Selection • Strategy

Tags: #callcenterDIY• #cctr• #custserv• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Customer Service Consulting• Operational Management• Taylor Reach Group

By: Colin Taylor Consolidating Contact Centers Organizations today look across their customer-facing organization and see a cluster of Call Center or Contact Center activities: sales, technical support, customer service, returns, billing, collections etc. These Call Centers can exist in a company’s divisions or operating companies. Even small and medium-sized businesses can find that they have […]

Read more

Root Cause Analysis in the Contact Center

Posted on April 09, 2018 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Case Study • Customer Experience • Customer Reach • Root Cause Analysis • Strategy

Tags: Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Customer Service Consulting• Root Cause Analysis• Strategy

By: Colin Taylor It always amazes me how Contact Center managers, their direct supports, and their superiors often fail to use one of the best tools at their disposal, Root Cause Analysis. Of course, if you are always fighting fires it is difficult to find the time and/or resources to research what is causing the […]

Read more

Home Improvement Services Company Selects Taylor Reach to Design Virtual Contact Center

Posted on March 29, 2018 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact Center Technology • New Call Center • People management • Planning • Press Release • Virtual Call Center • Vrirtual Contact Center

  CX and Contact Center consulting firm, The Taylor Reach Group Inc.,  selected to design and develop a Virtual Contact Center for a Home Improvement Services organization   TORONTO (PRWEB)March 28, 2018 Customer Experience (CX) and Contact Center consulting firm, The Taylor Reach Group, Inc., announced today that they have been selected to design and […]

Read more

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 […]

Read more

Graffiti Feedback: Engaging your Employees by Listening

Posted on January 18, 2018 in Agent Experience • Call Center Management • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Supervisor

By: Peg Ayers  Peg’s Page You know how time moves faster when holidays are coming up, and you have a huge to-do list? It was that time for me about 15 years ago when I realized I hadn’t figured out the holiday parade theme for my Contact Center. In our small city in the hills […]

Read more

Calculating Average Handle Time in Light of Customer Experience and IVRs

Posted on January 03, 2018 in AHT • Average handle time • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Customer Experience • IVR • IVR • Metrics

By: Peg Ayers and Turaj Seyrafiaan Definition of Average Handle Time: The average time spent handling a contact with a customer, which may be a call, email, chat or any kind of request. The total handle time includes not only the time that an agent spends directly communicating with the customer but also time spend […]

Read more

Help Your Supervisors Start 2018 Out Right

Posted on December 21, 2017 in Business continuity • Call Center Management • Employee Experience • People management • Supervisor

By: Peg Ayers   A clean slate. A fresh start. As we remove the plastic wrappings from our new calendars and start neatly recording upcoming events and plans, we’re inspired to make 2018 the best year ever. Our New Year’s Resolutions show the way—if only we’d maintain them past mid-January. Supervisors and managers in your […]

Read more