Attrition
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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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Trusting those you trust with your most valuable asset
Posted on April 27, 2020 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • People management • retention • rewards/recognition • WFM
Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• Attrition• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Customer Experience• Leadership• Taylor Reach Group• WFM
By Colin Taylor The agents on the frontline want to help customers. They want to resolve issues, and to deliver the desired customer experience and the brand promise. Doing these things results in happier customers and happier agents (as they were dealing with happy customers). Not providing the tools to enable the agents to serve […]
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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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Are Your Employees Brave?
Posted on January 15, 2020 in Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience
Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• Attrition• Call Center Consulting• WFM
By Peg Ayers Not everyone wants brave employees in their contact center. Subservient employees are less trouble to manage. The status quo works for them. They never argue with management decisions. They keep their suggestions to themselves. In short, an unmotivated manager wants employees who don’t rock the boat. But what is the customer experience […]
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Combating the High Agent Turnover Crippling US Contact Centers
Posted on November 26, 2019 in agent attrition • Agent Experience • Business continuity • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience
Tags: #callcenter• #contactcenter• Attrition• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• WFM
by JD Fairweather The revolving door of employee turnover is a source of frustration for any organization. For contact centers, an industry known for its high attrition rate, high employee turnover can impact not just team morale and productivity, but customer acquisition and retention as well. According to research conducted by The Quality Assurance & […]
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Contact Center Retention: Get Ahead of Trouble by Pinpointing Front-Line Staff Concerns
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 […]
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Are Your Hours of Operation Appropriate?
Posted on May 07, 2019 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Assessment • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • Contact Center • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Employee Engagement • People management • retention • Turnover
Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #Cx• AHT• Attrition• Call Center Assessment• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• hours of operation• human resources• Leadership• Operational Management• work hours
By Colin Taylor I asked a client recently how they had determined their contact center hours of operation. After a long pause they replied “I don’t know.” Many organizations don’t think too much about their hours of operations, or HOOPs; they are just a fact of life. The contact center is staffed during this window […]
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Changing the Social Dynamic in your Contact Center
Posted on August 05, 2015 in Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • retention • Technology
Tags: #callcenter• #contactcenter• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• Attrition• CSAT• NPS
In this guest post Tenacity CEO Ron Davis outlines Tenacity, sets out how Social Physics can change the dynamics in your contact center resulting in healthier, happier and more connected agents. What is more it can reduce attrition, and increase Customer Satisfaction and NPS scores. Introduction: Tenacity is an employee engagement application for contact centers, […]
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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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