Customer Experience

Posted on March 22, 2019 in ASA • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • FCR • Metrics • Service Level

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By Colin Taylor Service level is one of the most common metrics employed at call and contact centers to define how the center is performing. Senior management becomes acclimatized to looking for that service level number and reacting to it as a gauge of how well they’re performing against targets and in meeting their customer […]

Posted on March 19, 2019 in abandon rate • Best Practices • Call Center Performance • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service • Customer Support • IVR • IVR • Quality

By Peg Ayers When my father passed away, I spent hours in queue, waiting for help from a variety of companies and agencies that should be providing service to those who call. In fact, they did all eventually provide the required service (except for one government agency that proved so difficult to reach, I gave […]

Posted on March 01, 2019 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Customer Satisfaction • FCR • Root Cause Analysis • Strategy

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  By Colin Taylor Research tells us that 85% of customer churn is due to poor service that was in fact preventable. 11% of customer churn could have be prevented by simple company outreach and 67% of customer churn is preventable if the customer issue had been resolved at the first engagement. This tells us something […]

Posted on February 22, 2019 in CES • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service

  Written by Garry Schultz   Hafeez’s cartoon is fashioned on a Like all Goldberg machines, if you take the time to follow the flow, it does work. The question is, “But, is it worth the effort?”  The Goldberg machine suggested a complaint often heard in Contact Centers – “thanks for the fix but it’s too […]

Posted on February 19, 2019 in Call Center Management • Case Study • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Uncategorized

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Are You Listening to the Canaries in Your Customer Experience Coal Mine? By: Colin Taylor The call center or customer service department has long been call the ‘canary in the coalmine’ for its ability to provide early identification and diagnosis of problems and issues impacting the satisfaction of customers. Despite numerous warnings most organizations don’t change, […]

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 […]

Posted on May 15, 2018 in Call Center Performance • CSAT • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Metrics • FCR • FCR

By: Peg Ayers & Turaj Seryafiaan Definition: The percentage of customer contacts resolved during (or as a result of) the first contact, requiring no additional contacts. This is a key metric not only for customer satisfaction and retention but also in determining the overall work-load and operating expenses. In many Contact Centers, 75% First Contact […]

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 […]

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 […]

Posted on December 19, 2017 in Abandon rate • abandon rate • Call Center KPIs • Call Center Management • Call Center Metrics • Call Center Performance • Contact Center KPIs • Contact Center metrics • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Metrics • IVR • KPIs • Metrics

By: Peg Ayers and Turaj Seyrafiaan Definition of Abandon Rate: The percentage of calls ended by the caller before being answered by an agent. Calculation: Abandoned Calls/ (Abandoned Calls + Answered Calls) X 100 Example: 90 calls are answered; 10 calls are abandon before they’re answered. Abandon rate is 10/ (10+90) which is 10%. Alternate […]