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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

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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 […]

Posted on April 09, 2019 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Customer service audit • Strategy • The Taylor Reach Group

By Colin Taylor Clients frequently ask me what is the single most important activity they should undertake to ensure that their center is operating and performing at an optimal level. Like all of us they are looking for the magical, simple solution to their issues and challenges; just one thing; the magic pill, silver bullet, […]

Posted on March 26, 2019 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact Centre Ops • FCR • Opinion • Opportunity • Planning • Strategy

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By Turaj Seyrafiaan In the recent years, First Call Resolution (FCR) has become a buzz word in the contact center industry! Everyone is talking about it and it appears that everyone is working on improving the results in their center. Everyone agrees that this is an important aspect of a contact center, however, many organization […]

Posted on March 01, 2019 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Customer Satisfaction • FCR • Root Cause Analysis • Strategy

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  By Colin Taylor Research tells us that 85% of customer churn is due to poor service that was in fact preventable. 11% of customer churn could have be prevented by simple company outreach and 67% of customer churn is preventable if the customer issue had been resolved at the first engagement. This tells us something […]

Posted on February 08, 2019 in Contact center consulting • Services • Strategy

  The Taylor Reach Group, Inc., a globally-recognized call and contact center consulting and managed services firm focused on optimizing customer engagement, has announced that it is working with a worldwide leader in personal vision care. Taylor Reach is performing a strategic assessment that will include detailed analysis of the inner workings of the contact […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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) […]