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15 steps to Improve your Contact Center
Posted on May 11, 2023 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Technology • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Leadership • People management • Planning • Quality • Quality Assurance • retention • Strategy • WFM
Tags: #callcenter• #callcenterDIY• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• Call Center Audit• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Leadership• Operational Management• Taylor Reach Group• WFM
by Colin Taylor I was in Las Vegas last week attending and speaking at Call & Contact Center Expo US and it was a great time. I got to see a number of familiar faces and meet a bunch of new friends. I also saw a lot of very interesting technologies. I was particularly impressed […]
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Gratitude: Now’s the Time to Show It!
Posted on December 21, 2020 in Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Incentives • Leadership • People management • retention • Turnover • WFM
Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• Contact Center Management• Leadership• Operational Management• WFM
By Peg Ayers With the holiday season upon us and New Year’s Day coming up, it’s easy to say, “Let’s just get out of this ridiculous year! I don’t want to give 2020 another thought! I’m looking to the future.” Focus on the future is great, but let’s not forget the lessons we’ve learned this […]
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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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Trusting those you trust with your most valuable asset
Posted on April 27, 2020 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • People management • retention • rewards/recognition • WFM
Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• Attrition• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Customer Experience• Leadership• Taylor Reach Group• WFM
By Colin Taylor The agents on the frontline want to help customers. They want to resolve issues, and to deliver the desired customer experience and the brand promise. Doing these things results in happier customers and happier agents (as they were dealing with happy customers). Not providing the tools to enable the agents to serve […]
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Incentives and your Customer Experience
Posted on December 11, 2019 in Agent Experience • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Incentives • People management • retention • rewards/recognition • WFM
Tags: #callcenter• #cctr• #contactcenter• #custexp• #Cx• #retention• call center consultants• call centre consultants• Colin Taylor• contact center consultants• contact centre consultants• Customer Experience• customer experience consulting• Customer Service Consulting• CX consulting• incentive programs• incentives• Training• WFM
By Colin Taylor “Make your employees happy and they will make your customers happy.” This simple maxim has been echoed by business leaders from Richard Branson to Herb Kelleher, and it is true. The challenge lies in how you make you employees or in the case of a contact center, your agents happy. It is […]
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Contact Center Retention: Get Ahead of Trouble by Pinpointing Front-Line Staff Concerns
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
Tags: #callcenter• #contactcenter• #retention• Attrition• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• WFM
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 […]
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Press Release: Leading BPO reaches out to CX and Contact Center consulting firm for assistance in improving agent retention
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 […]
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Are Your Hours of Operation Appropriate?
Posted on May 07, 2019 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Assessment • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • Contact Center • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Employee Engagement • People management • retention • Turnover
Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #Cx• AHT• Attrition• Call Center Assessment• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• hours of operation• human resources• Leadership• Operational Management• work hours
By Colin Taylor I asked a client recently how they had determined their contact center hours of operation. After a long pause they replied “I don’t know.” Many organizations don’t think too much about their hours of operations, or HOOPs; they are just a fact of life. The contact center is staffed during this window […]
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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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Most Challenging Callers
Posted on April 12, 2019 in Call Center Consulting • Call centre consulting • Case Study • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Opinion • Quality • retention • Strategy • The Taylor Reach Group
Tags: #custserv• #Cx• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Customer Service Consulting• Leadership• Outsourced Quality Listening• poor service• Root Cause Analysis• Taylor Reach Group
By Colin Taylor While working on a call center consulting engagement with one of the largest garbage companies in the country we encountered what was likely the most difficult customer I have ever experienced. We were working in a mid- sized call center and discussing their customers. The company serviced urban, suburban and rural customers […]
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