Attrition

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 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 […]

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

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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 & […]

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 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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]