Strategy

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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What Call Center Metrics mean to Customers

Posted on May 18, 2018 in AHT • ASA • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call center Humor • Call Center Management • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • FCR • Forecasting- WFM • Opinion • Outsourced Quality Monitoring • Quality • retention • Strategy • Technology

Tags: 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 daily operation of our Call and Contact Centers we throw around metrics and performance measures like they were candy. It has been said that Call Centers produce more data and more measurement opportunities than is possible in almost any other communications channel. But while we know what each of these […]

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14 Questions you Need to ask when Considering Call Center Consolidation

Posted on May 11, 2018 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • Site Selection • Strategy

Tags: #callcenterDIY• #cctr• #custserv• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Customer Service Consulting• Operational Management• Taylor Reach Group

By: Colin Taylor Consolidating Contact Centers Organizations today look across their customer-facing organization and see a cluster of Call Center or Contact Center activities: sales, technical support, customer service, returns, billing, collections etc. These Call Centers can exist in a company’s divisions or operating companies. Even small and medium-sized businesses can find that they have […]

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Root Cause Analysis in the Contact Center

Posted on April 09, 2018 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Case Study • Customer Experience • Customer Reach • Root Cause Analysis • Strategy

Tags: Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Customer Service Consulting• Root Cause Analysis• Strategy

By: Colin Taylor It always amazes me how Contact Center managers, their direct supports, and their superiors often fail to use one of the best tools at their disposal, Root Cause Analysis. Of course, if you are always fighting fires it is difficult to find the time and/or resources to research what is causing the […]

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Operational Indicators – Average Handle Time (AHT)

Posted on March 20, 2018 in AHT • Call Center Consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Satisfaction • Education • Forecasting- WFM • People management • Planning • Strategy

Tags: AHT• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Customer Service Consulting• Operational Management• WFM

By: Turaj Seyrafiaan Have you ever wondered what is behind any of the Contact Center operational indicators? Why do we measure what we measure and what do they mean? In this article, we tackle one of the most important indicators; Average Handle Time (AHT) AHT is defined as the total amount of time (on average) […]

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Operational Indicators – Service Levels, ASA & Occupancy Rate

Posted on March 19, 2018 in AHT • ASA • Call Center Consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Satisfaction • Forecasting- WFM • Occupancy • People management • Planning • Strategy

Tags: ASA• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Operational Management• service level• Strategy• Taylor Reach Group• WFM

By: Turaj Seyrafiaan In the last Indicators post, we discussed one of the most important operational indicators: Average Handle Time or AHT. In this issue, we continue with other operational indicators dealing with the efficiency of the center, i.e. “Service Level”, “Average Speed of Answer (ASA)” and “Occupancy Rate”. Although each indicator provides different information, […]

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Major Retailer Appoints Taylor Reach Group to Design Contact Center Operating Model

Posted on January 16, 2018 in Call Center Consulting • Contact center consulting • Press Release • Purchasing Decisions • Strategy

CX and Contact Center Consulting firm working with major retailer to establish the most cost-effective, customer experience focused operational model for the Contact Center.   TORONTO (PRWEB) January 16, 2018 The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. a globally recognized CX and Contact Center consulting firm, announced today that they are working with a major North American […]

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Taylor Reach Group to Co-Produce 15th Annual SCORE Customer Experience Conference

Posted on October 03, 2017 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Case Study • CEM • CES • Contact Center • CSAT • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Metrics • Customer service • CXi • Events • Strategy

Toronto, ON – Each year SCORE brings together hundreds of CX, CRM and customer care leaders for a conference and awards gala. SCORE 2017 will focus exclusively on how companies can develop a Customer Experience Management (CEM) strategy as part of their corporate DNA to lock in profitable, long-term customer loyalty. This year’s event will […]

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5 Ways to Engage Your Front-Line Staff

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 […]

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Auditing, Made Easy.

Posted on August 24, 2016 in Agent Experience • Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Tools • Customer Experience Management • Customer Experience Metrics • Facts and Figures • Metrics • Opportunity • People management • Service Level • Strategy • Technology • The Taylor Reach Group

Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custserv• #Cx• Call Center Audit• Call Center Consulting

Operational Efficiency, Excellence and Best Practice improvements can only be achieved once the opportunities have been identified. The reality is however, that due to the ever changing world of technology, communications and the customers themselves, the metrics that reveal the opportunities are constantly changing and adapting to new innovations, fads and management concepts. When in truth Operational […]

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