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Posted on March 22, 2019 in ASA • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • FCR • Metrics • Service Level

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By Colin Taylor Service level is one of the most common metrics employed at call and contact centers to define how the center is performing. Senior management becomes acclimatized to looking for that service level number and reacting to it as a gauge of how well they’re performing against targets and in meeting their customer […]

Posted on March 19, 2018 in AHT • ASA • Call Center Consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Satisfaction • Forecasting- WFM • Occupancy • People management • Planning • Strategy

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By: Turaj Seyrafiaan In the last Indicators post, we discussed one of the most important operational indicators: Average Handle Time or AHT. In this issue, we continue with other operational indicators dealing with the efficiency of the center, i.e. “Service Level”, “Average Speed of Answer (ASA)” and “Occupancy Rate”. Although each indicator provides different information, […]

Posted on February 25, 2016 in ASA • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • FCR • Metrics • Service Level

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Hello, my name’s Colin Taylor and I’m the CEO and Chief Chaos Officer for the Taylor Reach Group. We are a call and contact center consulting firm based in the Toronto area. We assist our client organizations in improving the customer experience, operational effectiveness and efficiency of their call or contact center. Today in this […]

Posted on July 26, 2011 in AHT • ASA • Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Education • FCR • Forecasting- WFM • Newsletters • Occupancy • People management • Quality • Research • Strategy • Technology • Telecommunications • The Taylor Reach Group • Turnover

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Floral distributor executive wins Snapshotz call centre audit draw The winner of a draw held in Toronto for free usage of the Snapshotz call centre audit tool is Amas Tenumah, Vice-President, Operations for Teleflora, a floral distribution network. Tenrmah receives a single-user license for Snapshotz that will be applied in the Teleflora Oklahoma City call […]

Posted on January 17, 2011 in AHT • ASA • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Education • Facts and Figures • FCR • Forecasting- WFM • News • Occupancy • Outbound • People management • Planning • Quality • Research

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“The US Contact Center Decision-Makers’ Guide, 2011”, the major annual report studying the performance, operations, technology and HR aspects of US contact center operations, is now available for download, free of charge. A detailed structured questionnaire was asked to hundreds of contact center managers and directors, and the result is the 4th edition of the […]

Posted on October 29, 2010 in Call Center Consulting • Call centre consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Education • Financial Services • Planning • Purchasing Decisions

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Operational Indicators: Financial MetricsCost per Call / Cost perMinute Operating & Capital Expenditure / FTE – In the last three posts we discussed various operating indicators. Those indicators were measuring and representing the efficiency of the operation. In this post, we step beyond the pure operation point of view and will look at some of […]

Posted on September 16, 2010 in AHT • ASA • Call Center Consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Reach • Customer Satisfaction • FCR • Forecasting- WFM • Lists • Networking • Occupancy • Offshoring-Outsourcing • Opinion • People management • Planning • Purchasing Decisions • Quality • retention • Root Cause Analysis • Sales • Technology • Telecommunications • The Taylor Reach Group • Turnover

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We recently were asked this question by Call Center Life, a magazine serving the Turkish call center industry and wanted to share this content here… Question: Can you briefly describe the “to do’s” and “not to do’s” when managing a contact center as a part of the customer satisfaction? Answers: One of my matras has […]