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Understanding your Contact Center Costs – FCR (First Contact Resolution)
Posted on July 15, 2022 in Uncategorized
Tags: #callcenter• #cctr• #contactcenter• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• call center• Customer Experience• FCR• First Contact Resolution• Leadership• Strategy• Taylor Reach Group
By Colin Taylor Contact centers are always striving to improve efficiency, increase customer satisfaction and deliver a superior customer experience. Technology is frequently the strategy employed to achieve this goal. While technology can certainly support improvement in all three areas, improvement can also be realized through increasing First Contact Resolution or FCR. FCR is a […]
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Finding Real Experts in the Age of LinkedIn
Posted on October 14, 2020 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Expert round-up • Hiring a call center consultant
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By Colin Taylor In the age of Linked In, everyone claims to be an expert and the challenge for most people is how do you tell the real experts from the self-appointed? I would humbly suggest that there a few factors to consider; What have they done and where (locations and verticals)? In short, what […]
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Where are My Friends? Adjusting to Life as a Leader
Posted on September 01, 2020 in Agent Experience • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Leadership • WFM
Tags: #callcenter• #callcenterDIY• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• call center• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Leadership
By Peg Ayers A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. John C. Maxwell In my years in contact center leadership, my team and I debated many topics and searched for answers to such burning questions […]
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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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Looking at the Post-COVID-19 Contact Center
Posted on June 05, 2020 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Management • Contact Center • Contact Centre Ops • Forecasting- WFM • Outsourcing • People management • Research • WFH • WFM
Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #Cx• call center• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Management• COVID-19• Operational Management• WFH• WFM• work from home
By Colin Taylor Roughly three months into the COVID-19 shutdown, there has been a lot of discussion around what COVID-19 has done to our society, our economy, our elderly and; if you live in my little corner of the world; our customer experiences and contact centers. Contact centers for many organizations could not stop operating, […]
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Think You Can’t Afford to Improve CX? Think Again!
Posted on April 09, 2020 in Call Center DIY • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Customer Experience Metrics • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service • CXi
Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #Cx• call center• Contact Center Management• Customer Experience
By Peg Ayers Everybody wants to improve the Customer Experience (CX) they provide, right? But maybe you believe it’s just too expensive to even think about it. Your organization is doing its best with the resources it has. What else can you do? Plenty! Providing poor CX is incredibly expensive! A 2019 survey, which interviewed […]
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Keeping Workers Safe and Productive (When the Contact Center Can’t Close)
Posted on April 01, 2020 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Disaster Recovery • Emergency • Employee Experience • People management • WFM
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by JD Fairweather If you asked any contact center manager two months ago about their business continuity plan, they’d likely opine on their facility’s readiness to address just about any emergency scenario. These same managers have seen their expertise and resolve put to the test in recent weeks due to COVID-19. And with effects of […]
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Is your Quality Assurance Arrogant?
Posted on November 29, 2019 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service • Customer Support • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • People management • Quality • Quality assurance • Quality Assurance
Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• call center• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Customer Experience• Customer Service Consulting• Taylor Reach Group
By Colin Taylor I was reading a recent post by Helen Dewdney regarding playing Christmas music in stores to early in the season, and the fact that many retailers plan music even though it is not well received by their customers. The question Helen poses at the end of the post is “Do you think […]
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Global contractor network enlists Taylor Reach in new telephony acquisition
Posted on October 18, 2018 in Call Center Technology • Contact Center Technology • Press Release • Technology • Telecommunications
Tags: #cctr• #custserv• #Cx• #telecom• #telephony• call center• communications• construction• contact center• contractors• Customer Experience• customer service• infrastructure• suppliers• Taylor Reach• Taylor Reach Group• TRG
A global leader in contract resource management has enlisted the aid of The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. (Taylor Reach) in acquiring a new telephony platform for their offices and contact centers around the world. Headquartered in the USA, the client is a global resource for connecting qualified contractors and suppliers with hiring clients. Working on […]
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Taylor Reach to assist global currency leader in acquiring new telephony for contact centers
Posted on October 11, 2018 in Press Release • Technology
Tags: #Cx• #telecom• #telephony• call center• communications• contact center• currency• currency investment• Customer Experience• customer service• foreign exchange• Forex• investing• Taylor Reach• Taylor Reach Group• trade• TRG
The Taylor Reach Group, Inc., announces a new telephony project for a world leader in international currency exchange. Working with individual and corporate investors, as well as handling foreign exchange transactions for businesses, creates a highly demanding customer experience environment. With the assistance of Taylor Reach’s team of contact center and CX experts, those demands […]
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