Leadership

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 […]

Posted on November 21, 2019 in agent attrition • Agent Experience • Call Center Consulting • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Leadership • Occupancy • retention • Turnover • WFM

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By Peg Ayers   Record low unemployment has created new emphasis on employee retention in contact center operations throughout Canada and the United States.  With payroll as their biggest expense, contact center operators are searching for ways to retain their good employees and save the thousands of dollars it costs them for each one they […]

Posted on November 01, 2019 in agent attrition • Agent Experience • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience Management • Incentives • Leadership • People management • retention • WFM

  Taylor Reach Group, Inc., an internationally acknowledged and leading CX and Contact Center consulting firm, announced today that they have been engaged to assess the BPO operational practices and policies with a view to improving agent retention. The US-based client provides customer care and account receivables management services to some of the most respected […]

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 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 August 29, 2017 in Incentives • Leadership • Strategy

By: Peg Ayers, MBA, CCXP The Front Line Customer Experience. Employee Engagement. Profitability. What’s the largest single influence on all of these things in your business? Chances are, it’s your frontline associates. The people who are dealing directly with your customers. The folks who are making decisions about how they do their work, what they […]