Contact Center

Posted on September 29, 2020 in Artificial Intelligence • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call Center Technology • Call Center Tools • Contact Centre Ops • Forecasting- WFM • Quality Assurance • Quality assurance • Technology • WFM

Tags: #callcenter• #callcenterDIY• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• Call Center Assessment• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Strategy• CRM• QA• software• technology• WFM

by JD Fairweather The path to contact center modernization has never been straightforward when it comes to its navigating technology infrastructure. “Costly,” “crowded,” and “confusing” are how business owners typically describe the process of selecting the right platforms to power their center. Besides the alphabet soup of acronyms – WFM, CRM, LMS, to name a […]

Posted on June 09, 2020 in Agent Experience • AI • Artificial Intelligence • Best Practices • Business continuity • Contact Center • Contact Center Technology • Contact Centre Ops • Virtual Call Center • Vrirtual Contact Center

Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• AI• COVID-19• Customer Experience• virtual agents

by JD Fairweather COVID-19 is making clear to US companies and other firms around the world the need for better cost management in the midst of uncertainty. These past few months, we’ve watched contact centers turn to backup plans C and D as work schedules were impacted by stay-at-home orders or their agents’ refusal to […]

Posted on June 05, 2020 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Management • Contact Center • Contact Centre Ops • Forecasting- WFM • Outsourcing • People management • Research • WFH • WFM

Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #Cx• call center• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Management• COVID-19• Operational Management• WFH• WFM• work from home

By Colin Taylor Roughly three months into the COVID-19 shutdown, there has been a lot of discussion around what COVID-19 has done to our society, our economy, our elderly and; if you live in my little corner of the world; our customer experiences and contact centers. Contact centers for many organizations could not stop operating, […]

Posted on February 12, 2020 in AI • Artificial Intelligence • Call Center Tools • Chat • Contact Center • Contact Center Technology • Customer Experience • Help Desk • IVR

Tags: #artificialintelligence• #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• AI• artificial intelligence• Colin Taylor• Customer Experience• Customer Service Consulting• Self Service• WFM

By Colin Taylor Self-service has been employed for more than 30 years to allow customers to serve themselves. This has been a mixed blessing, while many of us value the time savings versus waiting endlessly in a queue for the answer to a simple question and to gain a single piece of information, we all […]

Posted on October 28, 2019 in Call Center Consulting • Contact Center • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Financial Services

Tags: #callcenter• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custserv• Call Center Consulting• Customer Experience• Taylor Reach Group

  Today, CX and Contact Center consultancy, The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. (TRG), announced they are administering a Strategic Assessment for a leading stock transfer organization. The consultancy will conduct an essential health check of the firm’s customer experiences and Contact Center operations. “We use a hands-on, holistic approach to assess the interaction experience and […]

Posted on June 26, 2019 in AI • Artificial Intelligence • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Technology • Call Center Tools • Contact Center • Contact center consulting • Contact Center Technology • Self Service

Tags: #artificialintelligence• #callcenter• #callcenterDIY• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #selfservice• AI• artificial intelligence• Colin Taylor• Self Service• webinars

  By Colin Taylor Recently, Taylor Reach CEO and Chief Chaos Officer gave a live webinar for Call Centre Helper on Contact Center AI and Self-Service. Check out the recorded webinar HERE.     Follow Taylor Reach and Colin Taylor on Twitter at @Taylor_Reach and @colinsataylor. To find out more about how Taylor Reach can […]

Posted on May 22, 2019 in Best Practices • Contact Center • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Quality

Tags: #callcenter• #contactcenter• #custexp• #Cx• Alignment• Call Center Assessment• Contact Center Consulting• Customer Experience• design• Rosetta Lue• Taylor Reach Group

By Rosetta Lue The government will better serve all stakeholders by establishing a focus to oversee the design and implementation of a human-centered design strategy that: identifies and responds to key touch points in a stakeholder’s journey streamlines, integrates, and scales websites and call centers consistently over time takes a holistic, iterative approach to prioritizing […]

Posted on May 07, 2019 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Assessment • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • Contact Center • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Employee Engagement • People management • retention • Turnover

Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #Cx• AHT• Attrition• Call Center Assessment• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• hours of operation• human resources• Leadership• Operational Management• work hours

By Colin Taylor I asked a client recently how they had determined their contact center hours of operation. After a long pause they replied “I don’t know.” Many organizations don’t think too much about their hours of operations, or HOOPs; they are just a fact of life. The contact center is staffed during this window […]

Posted on March 12, 2019 in Artificial Intelligence • Call Center Consulting • Call centre consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Metrics • Customer service

  By Colin Taylor The month of March is now upon us and the predictions and prognostications for the new year are pretty well behind us. But before we bid adieux to the pundits’ predictions and Top 10 lists, I will add my voice to the collective noise. Predictions are challenging and dangerous; people remember and […]

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 […]