Employee Experience

Posted on March 08, 2019 in Call Center Performance • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Leadership • People management • Success

By Colin Taylor What is a high performance contact center? High performance is generally accepted to mean performing at the top of any possible performance range. So a High performance contact center is one that meets or exceeds the performance parameters or metrics expected of it. In contact center these parameters will include quantitative: grade […]

Posted on March 05, 2019 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Education • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Leadership • People management • Quality Assurance • Quality assurance • Success • Training

By Peg Ayers Congratulations!  You’ve made it through year end performance evaluations, survived the challenges of January, and 2019 is starting off well for you!  You may be pleased that you don’t have to think about employee reviews again for many months.  But spending some time now could simplify the end of the year a […]

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 […]

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 […]

Posted on June 28, 2018 in Agent Experience • Call Center Consulting • Employee Experience • News • People management • Press Release • Training

The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. (Taylor Reach) announced today, the launch of their Leadership Training Program for Contact Center Team Leads, Supervisors, Analysts, and Managers. A staggering statistic points out that 84% of organizations anticipate a shortfall of leaders in the next 5 years. While 83% of organizations say it is important to develop leaders […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Posted on June 06, 2017 in Agent Experience • AHT • Call Center Consulting • Chat • Customer Satisfaction • Employee Experience • FCR • Opportunity • Purchasing Decisions

You may or may not have reviewed Comm100’s 2016 Livechat Benchmark Report. Recently, our expert panel of Contact Center Consultants had a discussion on the role of chat in the Call Center. This discussion examines chat in the Contact Center, highlights the many advantages of Live Chat, presents some caveats and looks to the future […]