Training
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Contact Center Training Isn’t Buddy-Buddy
Posted on February 11, 2022 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Contact Centre Ops • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • People management • Training • WFM
Tags: #callcenter• #callcenterDIY• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Management• Leadership• Training• WFM
By Colin Taylor A lack of agent training is a sure-fire way of ensuring customers are disappointed. Learning a new skill or capability provide both enjoyment and a break from the mundane, and brings with it the opportunity to increase earnings. But to be effective, organizations need to ensure that they take a measured and […]
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Make 2022 the Best Year Ever for Your Contact Center!
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 […]
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Taylor Reach to train county government contact center supervisors lead and effectively manage a remote workforce
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 […]
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The Importance of Human Connection in a Remote Workplace
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 […]
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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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3 things your contact center should be doing in 2020
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 […]
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Setting SMARTER Goals—Improving the Evaluation Process
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 […]
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When it Comes to Contact Center Management, Keep Your Best Leaders Motivated
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 […]
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Taylor Reach Unveils Leadership Training Program for Transforming Contact Center Leaders for the Digital Age
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 […]
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Eliminating Poor Customer Service
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 […]
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