Training

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

Tags: #callcenter• #callcenterDIY• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #Cx• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Customer Experience• Leadership• Operational Management

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 October 29, 2021 in Customer Experience Management • Leadership • Training

The ongoing pandemic continues to impact on individuals, business and government. Many people have begun to work from home and many businesses and government agencies have been working to determine how they can best meet the needs of their customers and citizens through their now remote contact centers. The shift to remote teams, especially for […]

Posted on August 20, 2020 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Business continuity • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience Management • Emergency • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Leadership • Outsourcing • People management • Training • Virtual Call Center • Vrirtual Contact Center • WFH • WFM

Tags: #callcenter• #callcenterDIY• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• Attrition• call center• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Operational Management• Outsourcing• remote work• remote worker• WFH• WFM• work from home

by Patricia Ballantyne When we packed up our offices to work from home in March, many thought it would only last a few months until it was safe to return to an office space. Today, it seems pretty clear that many companies have adopted this new working model for the foreseeable future. Some will allow […]

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 January 17, 2020 in agent attrition • Agent Experience • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • People management • Training • WFM

Tags: Attrition• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Leadership• Training• WFM

by JD Fairweather For many contact centers, the road to 2020 is strewn with unfulfilled New Year resolutions from the previous decade, abandoned optimization projects and discarded digital transformations pave the way. The good news is it’s not too late to course correct. So, looking ahead to a simpler, resolute future, here are three areas […]

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 June 28, 2018 in Agent Experience • Call Center Consulting • Employee Experience • News • People management • Press Release • Training

The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. (Taylor Reach) announced today, the launch of their Leadership Training Program for Contact Center Team Leads, Supervisors, Analysts, and Managers. A staggering statistic points out that 84% of organizations anticipate a shortfall of leaders in the next 5 years. While 83% of organizations say it is important to develop leaders […]

Posted on January 14, 2015 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Tools • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Offshoring-Outsourcing • Site Selection • Strategy • Technology • Telecommunications • The Taylor Reach Group • Training • TRG • Turnover

Tags: #BPO• #callcenter• #cctr• #consulting• #contactcenter• #custexp• #telephony• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Strategy• CSAT• NPS

Well another year is behind and a new fresh unblemished year stands before us. I hope that you had a good year in 2014 and that 2015 brings you all the joy and happiness you wish for. At the intersection of the years it is common for us to both look back on what we […]

Posted on January 17, 2013 in Call Center Management • Contact Centre Ops • Training • Turnover

Tags: #callcenter• #cctr• #custserv• Attrition• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Operational Management• Training

By: John Cockerill Everyone talks about training, the need for it, and the value of it: for you personally, professionally and for the corporation or organization. From the line staff, agents, supervisors, and managers all say they want and need more training. However, almost without exception, there is a limited understanding about what should be […]