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Posted on January 07, 2022 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Blog • Business continuity • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call center Humor • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Center Industry Statistics • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Forecasting- WFM • Incentives • Leadership • Opinion • People management • Success • Supervisor • Training • WFH • WFM

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By Peg Ayers As the New Year begins, many of us turn to thoughts of self-improvement, swearing off sweets, resolving to run three miles a day or promising not to spend hours in front of the television every weekend. But how many of us look at our contact centers and think about making this New […]

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 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 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 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 […]

Posted on April 17, 2017 in Call Center Performance • Contact Center • Customer Experience Management • Success

Customer Success Defined – 6 Areas of Customer Success Planning By: Garry Schultz                        Accelerated Customer Value Confusion in the pre-post sales services world. A new label appeared a couple years back and a host of pointy haired managers have flocked to the new, improved, model. […]

Posted on June 13, 2016 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Performance • Call Center Tools • Customer Experience Management • Customer Experience Metrics • Forecasting • Metrics • Social Media • Strategy • Success

Written by: Peter Elliot             Well, it all depends what you mean by ‘read’. Such a small word that implies so much based upon context. If you told me you read this article, it means you understood it. When a machine ‘reads’ a file, it typically means load and scan. […]

Posted on October 12, 2012 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Net Promoter • Quality • Strategy • Success • The Taylor Reach Group

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Hear Bruce Lebowitz our newest team member speak out the Gap between Brand Promises and the Customer Experience on the next VOC Radio Show- Friday (10/19) – Branded Dialogues Please check out this upcoming episode of Voice of the Customer Radio – Friday October 19th (12-1pm EDT). Where the topic will be discussing Customer Experience […]