Hiring a call center consultant
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Managing potential problems in large-scale Contact Center projects
Posted on September 21, 2022 in Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Case Study • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Hiring a call center consultant • Quality • TRG
Tags: #callcenter• #contactcenter• Call Center Assessment• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Strategy• Taylor Reach Group
Not long ago, Taylor Reach was retained to design and creation of a single contact center for a large municipality that effectively combined three departments into one. Municipal governments operate complex, multi-tiered contact center operations supporting resident inquiries to many departments. As a result, customers—in this case, clients, taxpayers and residents—need to be assured of […]
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Multiple Workstyles May Signal the Need for New Compensation Plans at Many US Contact Centers
Posted on September 03, 2021 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Hiring a call center consultant • People management • Turnover • Virtual Call Center • Vrirtual Contact Center • WFH • WFM
Tags: #callcenter• #callcenterDIY• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• Attrition• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Operational Management• WFM
by JD Fairweather After several months of remote working – a workstyle many contact center leaders would have deemed impossible to implement a year and a half ago – employers are finding it difficult to lure staff back into the office. The Delta variant notwithstanding, it seems that employees are far too settled into the […]
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Finding Real Experts in the Age of LinkedIn
Posted on October 14, 2020 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Expert round-up • Hiring a call center consultant
Tags: #callcenter• #callcenterDIY• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• call center• Call Center Assessment• Call Center Audit• 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 age of Linked In, everyone claims to be an expert and the challenge for most people is how do you tell the real experts from the self-appointed? I would humbly suggest that there a few factors to consider; What have they done and where (locations and verticals)? In short, what […]
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Remember My Name!
Posted on June 12, 2020 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Hiring a call center consultant • Leadership • Occupancy • Positions • retention • Success • Training • Turnover • WFM
By Peg Ayers “A person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.” – Dale Carnegie Of the many skills required of me in more than 25 years of running large contact centers, one of the most critical has been the ability to remember employee names. When I left […]
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Millennial Myths & The Call Center
Posted on April 16, 2019 in Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Employee Engagement • Hiring a call center consultant • People management • Positions • retention
Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #cctrmyths• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• #HR• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Management• Customer Experience• Leadership• millennials• Myths• Operational Management• Social Media• staffing• Taylor Reach Group• Training
By Colin Taylor I read an interesting article by Jennifer J Deal at strategy+business looking at five myths we hold about Millennials. For the past number of years we have all heard horror stories about organizations that gave away iPads, spot bonuses, socially conscious and social responsible activities, but still had staff leave for greener pastures. […]
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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 […]
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Five Reasons New Call/Contact Centers Fail
Posted on July 13, 2017 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Performance • Call Center Technology • Call centre consulting • Contact Center • Contact center consulting • Contact Center Technology • Hiring a call center consultant • New Call Center • Success
By: Colin Taylor There can be many reasons for an organization to decide it is time to create a Call Center or Contact Center. Perhaps organic growth, a new product, service or acquisition is resulting in calls swamping the switchboard, or customers are tracking down the administrative offices to trace an order, or email volumes […]
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Great Call Center OR Great Call?
Posted on January 24, 2017 in Agent Experience • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact Center • Customer Experience • Employee Experience • Hiring a call center consultant • People management
Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #contactcenter• #custexp• Call Center Consulting• Customer Experience
By: Bruce Lebowitz Executives often judge a contact center by traditional metrics. These might include low abandonment rates, an extremely quick speed to answer and meeting handling time goals. When proud of a contact center, executives often point to its technology too. The fact that the contact center never goes down, has instant screen pops […]
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Extending Their Call Center Consulting Services Further, Growing The Taylor Reach Group
Posted on August 24, 2016 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Reach • Hiring a call center consultant • News • Strategy • Technology • The Taylor Reach Group
Toronto, ON.Mr. Colin Taylor, The CEO and Chief Chaos Officer of The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. announced today that Alton Harewood has joined the customer experience and contact center consulting firm effective immediately. The Taylor Reach Group expands to Quebec, Canada with the addition of Mr. Harewood to their team. Alton is a business and […]
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The Taylor Reach Group Reaches Out Further
Posted on May 16, 2016 in Call Center Consulting • Contact Center • Contact center consulting • Hiring a call center consultant • News • The Taylor Reach Group • TRG
Professional Customer Consultant and Guitarist. His passion for performing is what drives Garry to seek out the highest satisfaction in every project he is involved with. With 25+ years of global managerial experience in B2C and B2B, high-technology focused environments, Garry is dedicated to implementing strategic solutions for customer success / customer care initiatives. His […]
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