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Posted on March 20, 2020 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Business continuity • Employee Experience • WFM

Tags: #callcenter• #cctr• #contactcenter• burnout• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Management• employee benefits• health• Leadership• mental health• wellness• WFM

By Colin Taylor One priority each of us should have on our “to do” for 2020 is mental health. Mental health disorders are pervasive, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), with nearly 1 in 5 Americans aged 18 or older reporting mental illness and more than 70% reporting at least one symptom of […]

Posted on March 06, 2020 in Business continuity • Call Center Management • Disaster Recovery • People management • WFM

Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custserv• Contact Center Management• WFM

By Colin Taylor We certainly are living in interesting times. This is unquestionably the best time to ever have lived as a human being; not so good for other species perhaps. Yet we are regularly faced with new issues and challenges that can impact both our personal and business lives. The current challenge is how […]

Posted on January 22, 2020 in Agent Experience • AHT • Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Turnover • WFM

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By Colin Taylor When working to deliver good customer service, there are many tactics you shouldn’t employ even though on the surface they may look like they fit the bill of improving customer service and supporting your limited budgets. Here are two of those tactics you should avoid: Capping handle time for agents. Trying to […]

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 December 11, 2019 in Agent Experience • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Incentives • People management • retention • rewards/recognition • WFM

Tags: #callcenter• #cctr• #contactcenter• #custexp• #Cx• #retention• call center consultants• call centre consultants• Colin Taylor• contact center consultants• contact centre consultants• Customer Experience• customer experience consulting• Customer Service Consulting• CX consulting• incentive programs• incentives• Training• WFM

By Colin Taylor “Make your employees happy and they will make your customers happy.” This simple maxim has been echoed by business leaders from Richard Branson to Herb Kelleher, and it is true. The challenge lies in how you make you employees or in the case of a contact center, your agents happy. It is […]

Posted on November 21, 2019 in agent attrition • Agent Experience • Call Center Consulting • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Leadership • Occupancy • retention • Turnover • WFM

Tags: #callcenter• #contactcenter• #retention• Attrition• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• WFM

By Peg Ayers   Record low unemployment has created new emphasis on employee retention in contact center operations throughout Canada and the United States.  With payroll as their biggest expense, contact center operators are searching for ways to retain their good employees and save the thousands of dollars it costs them for each one they […]

Posted on November 01, 2019 in agent attrition • Agent Experience • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience Management • Incentives • Leadership • People management • retention • WFM

  Taylor Reach Group, Inc., an internationally acknowledged and leading CX and Contact Center consulting firm, announced today that they have been engaged to assess the BPO operational practices and policies with a view to improving agent retention. The US-based client provides customer care and account receivables management services to some of the most respected […]

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 […]

Posted on August 23, 2017 in Agent Experience • AHT • ASA • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Tools • CES • CSAT • Customer Experience Metrics • Customer Satisfaction • Facts and Figures • FCR • Forecasting • Forecasting- WFM • Metrics • Net Promoter • NPS • Service Level • WFM

By: Colin Taylor Metrics, Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s), Reports – we have a lot of names for the information and data we review to help keep our centers on track and performing as we want them to. Contact Centers can generate an immense amount of data and reporting on just about anything that we could […]

Posted on July 26, 2016 in Agent Experience • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Employee Engagement • retention • WFM

Tags: #callcenter• #cctr• #contactcenter• #custexp• #custserv• #pokemon• #shrinkage• customer service• WFM

By Colin Taylor It has just been a few weeks since Pokemon Go has unleashed mobs of zombies walking in search of new Pokemon to capture, and other players to battle. The game quickly eclipsed Twitters total number of users and at more than 21 million players it shows no signs that the growth is […]