Employee Engagement

Costing Attrition

Posted on February 12, 2019 in agent attrition • Contact Center • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Occupancy • retention • Turnover

By John Cockerill In Colin Taylor’s recent article, “Resolving The Riddle Of Retention,” he speaks about the cost of attrition and the many factors that affect it. This article outlines how to do both a simple estimate of that cost and more complex calculations to undertake for a center. First, let’s outline a simple estimate […]

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When it Comes to Contact Center Management, Keep Your Best Leaders Motivated

Posted on December 03, 2018 in Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Leadership • retention • Success • Training

By: Peg Ayers Are all the leaders on your team equally skilled? Who do you think of first when you have something critical that must be handled brilliantly and immediately? We all have our preferences as to who we trust when the pressure is on. This makes it even more important to keep those leaders on […]

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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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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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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 […]

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Customer Satisfaction as a Primary KPI?

Posted on August 10, 2016 in Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Employee Engagement • Metrics • Net Promoter • The Taylor Reach Group

Tags: #callcenter• #cctr• #contactcenter• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Consulting• CSAT• Customer Experience• Customer Service Consulting• Operational Management• Taylor Reach Group

By: Turaj Seyrafiaan There have always been a number of contact center efficiency and effectiveness indicators. While each has a certain and important role, it should always be emphasized that we cannot analyze these indicators in solitude and need to view them as part of a larger holistic picture. From time to time, however, I […]

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Pokemon Go And Your Contact Center

Posted on July 26, 2016 in Agent Experience • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Employee Engagement • retention • WFM

Tags: #callcenter• #cctr• #contactcenter• #custexp• #custserv• #pokemon• #shrinkage• customer service• WFM

By Colin Taylor It has just been a few weeks since Pokemon Go has unleashed mobs of zombies walking in search of new Pokemon to capture, and other players to battle. The game quickly eclipsed Twitters total number of users and at more than 21 million players it shows no signs that the growth is […]

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Intent is Key When Designing an Employee Experience Plan

Posted on February 04, 2016 in Agent Experience • Customer Experience • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience

Tags: #agentexperience• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• #employeeexperience• #esat• Customer Experience

 By: JD Fairweather The key to a good employee engagement plan is the intent. If the intent is only to increase productivity, revenue, or customer growth—any gains achieved will likely not last long. Now that customer experience is recognized as the differential between competitors many organizations are planning to improve those experiences by deploying employee […]

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Agent Engagement is the Best Call Center Investment You Can Make- Part 1

Posted on January 23, 2014 in Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Employee Engagement

Tags: #callcenter• #custserv• #engagement• Leadership

By: Colin Taylor Labor is the single largest cost in any call or contact center operating budget. We know that in any group of agents there are those who are engaged and those whose lack of engagement becomes a burden to those around them. But what have you done to increase the engagement of your […]

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It’s Customer Service Week…So What About the Other 51 Weeks?

Posted on October 07, 2013 in Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Customer Satisfaction • Employee Engagement • Opinion • The Taylor Reach Group

Tags: #callcenter• #cctr• #custserv• #custservweek• #Cx• CEM

By Colin Taylor Its Customer Service Week. This is the time of year to recognize and appreciate the contributions of all of the people that deliver customer service. This week in call centers across the globe there will be pizza days, cakes, give aways of small dollar value goodies, staff dressed casually and visits by […]

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