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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

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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 April 16, 2019 in Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Employee Engagement • Hiring a call center consultant • People management • Positions • retention

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By Colin Taylor I read an interesting article by Jennifer J Deal at strategy+business looking at five myths we hold about Millennials. For the past number of years we have all heard horror stories about organizations that gave away iPads, spot bonuses, socially conscious and social responsible activities, but still had staff leave for greener pastures. […]

Posted on April 05, 2019 in AHT • Average handle time • Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • Customer Experience Management • Customer Experience Metrics • Customer Satisfaction • Metrics • TRG

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AHT: the Most Misunderstood Metric in Call or Contact Centers By John Cockerill Average handle time is a wonderful tool. Everybody uses it and they believe they use it correctly. It’s a good measure particularly when you’re looking in a specific channel as to what is the midpoint of all of the call (contact) lengths that […]

Posted on February 19, 2019 in Call Center Management • Case Study • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Uncategorized

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Are You Listening to the Canaries in Your Customer Experience Coal Mine? By: Colin Taylor The call center or customer service department has long been call the ‘canary in the coalmine’ for its ability to provide early identification and diagnosis of problems and issues impacting the satisfaction of customers. Despite numerous warnings most organizations don’t change, […]

Posted on January 24, 2017 in Agent Experience • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact Center • Customer Experience • Employee Experience • Hiring a call center consultant • People management

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By: Bruce Lebowitz Executives often judge a contact center by traditional metrics.  These might include low abandonment rates, an extremely quick speed to answer and meeting handling time goals.  When proud of a contact center, executives often point to its technology too.  The fact that the contact center never goes down, has instant screen pops […]

Posted on October 07, 2016 in Customer Experience • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Net Promoter • The Taylor Reach Group

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By: Colin TaylorCustomer Satisfaction is critical for the success of any organization, and Taylor Reach is no different. Each member of the team strives to delight our customers and exceed their expectations.To gauge the satisfaction of our clients we employ a customer satisfaction survey and all of our clients are asked to participate and complete […]

Posted on October 06, 2016 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Customer Experience Metrics

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By: Colin Taylor Well it has been a busy month for Taylor Reach and for our Senior Consultant, Peter Elliot leading our UK team. Not only have we launched our Contact Centre, Call Centre and Customer Experience consulting services, but Peter is also relocating and changing his home address. Should you wish to reach Peter […]

Posted on August 24, 2016 in Agent Experience • Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Tools • Customer Experience Management • Customer Experience Metrics • Facts and Figures • Metrics • Opportunity • People management • Service Level • Strategy • Technology • The Taylor Reach Group

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Operational Efficiency, Excellence and Best Practice improvements can only be achieved once the opportunities have been identified. The reality is however, that due to the ever changing world of technology, communications and the customers themselves, the metrics that reveal the opportunities are constantly changing and adapting to new innovations, fads and management concepts. When in truth Operational […]

Posted on August 06, 2016 in Brexit • Call Center Consulting

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By Peter Elliot As an avid participant in the tech industry for the last quarter-century, I have seen a lot of change. Let me start by saying I do hope that Brexit won’t be of much note as we look back on the UK tech scene in five years’ time. That said, I have not […]

Posted on July 11, 2016 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • New Call Center • Site Selection • Technology • Turnover

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5 Reasons New Call Centers FailBy: Colin TaylorThere can be many reasons for an organization to decide it is time to create a call center or contact center. Perhaps organic growth, a new product, service or acquisition is resulting in calls swamping the switchboard, or customers are tracking down the administrative offices to trace an […]