Turnover

Calculating Agent Attrition in the Contact Center

Posted on May 02, 2018 in agent attrition • Metrics • Turnover • WFM

By: Peg Ayers & Turaj Seyrafiaan Definition: The percentage of staff who leave the Contact Center, voluntarily or involuntarily, over a period of time. Calculation: (Total number lost/Average total staff) X 100 Example: The total staff at the beginning of the month is 90 and at the end is 110, so the average staff for […]

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Bank Deploys Video in the Contact/Call Center

Posted on April 12, 2017 in Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Tools • CSAT • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Technology • TRG • Turnover

Tags: #cctr• #contactcenter• #custserv• #finserv

An interview by Colin Taylor with Eddie Woodruff I recently sat down with Eddie, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer at Forcht Group, of Kentucky Forcht Bank, in Lexington Kentucky. For the past six years,Eddie has been overseeing the development and direction of the bank’s Contact Center. Here is a transcript of that interview, with great […]

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5 Reasons New Call Centers Fail

Posted on July 11, 2016 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • New Call Center • Site Selection • Technology • Turnover

Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #custserv• #Cx• Building a call center• Building a contact center• Call Center Consulting• New call center• new contact center• Operational Management• starting a call center

5 Reasons New Call Centers FailBy: Colin TaylorThere 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 […]

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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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Training: Your First, Best & Last Chance to Develop and Retain Agents

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 […]

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Are Extroverts or Introverts better agents in your Call Center?

Posted on September 05, 2012 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • Customer Experience • Employee Engagement • Outbound • People management • Strategy • The Taylor Reach Group • Turnover

Tags: #cctr• #custserv• Agent• Attrition• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• extrovert• Introvert• Operational Management• Strategy• Training

By: Colin Taylor There has been a prevailing wisdom that extroverts make better call center agents for telemarketing or outbound calling. After all they have outgoing personalities, they are more easily motivated and get a rush from success. I have worked with many centers where despite this of the forgoing being true, extroverts don’t perform […]

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Training – ‘One of a Thousand Moving Parts’

Posted on August 13, 2012 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Employee Engagement • People management • Quality • retention • Strategy • The Taylor Reach Group • Training • Turnover

Tags: #cctr• #custserv• Alignment• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Customer Experience• Customer Service Consulting• Operational Management• performance management• Training

By Colin Taylor We often say that there are a ‘thousand moving parts’ in any call or contact center and we developed this phrase to illustrate the level of connectedness and inter-relationship that exists between multiple elements and activities in any center. Training, the training process and the training curriculum illustrates this point. Training is […]

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The True Costs of Turnover

Posted on April 04, 2012 in Call Center Management • Contact Centre Ops • Employee Engagement • Facts and Figures • People management • retention • Turnover

Tags: #custserv• Attrition• Contact Center Management• Operational Management

The following statistics are food for thought when we consider the real costs of turnover in our organization. Halogen Software shared the following information “The cost of losing good talent is particularly acute and one of the most direct calculations that demonstrates the impact of poor talent management. • HCI research shows that at a […]

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Closing the Revolving Door – Part 2

Posted on December 14, 2011 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Management • Contact Centre Ops • Employee Engagement • People management • retention • rewards/recognition • Turnover

Tags: Attrition• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• contest• incentive• Leadership• Operational Management• recognition• rewards• Taylor Reach Group

Closing the Revolving Door – Part 2 By: Colin Taylor So how do we build an enduring structure in our call center that will support engagement, motivation and allow us to deploy aligned reward/recognition programs that succeed in meeting the objectives of the center and the business? But what happens if we can design an […]

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Closing the Revolving Door – Part1

Posted on November 29, 2011 in Call Center Management • Call Center Tools • Employee Engagement • People management • rewards/recognition • Strategy • Success • The Taylor Reach Group • Training • Turnover

Tags: #cctr• #custserv• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Operational Management• Strategy• Taylor Reach Group• Training

Closing the Revolving Door – Part1 By: Colin Taylor Staff and Agent retention was a ‘hot’ button topic in the call center industry 20 years ago and still is one now. So how is it that the same issue that ‘dogged’ call centers two decades ago is still a ‘front burner’ issue today? I think […]

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