Colin Taylor

7 Reasons You Need a Consultant when Looking for a New Contact Center Site

Posted on July 04, 2018 in Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Hiring a call center consultant • Insourcing • Offshoring-Outsourcing • Opinion • Site Selection • Strategy • Success • Tax Refund • Taxes

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By: Colin Taylor  Why would you want to retain a consultant? Common wisdom would have it that all they do is “borrow your watch and tell you the time”. What can a consultant really bring to the table that can assist your center and your organization when you a looking at moving or establishing a […]

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What Call Center Metrics mean to Customers

Posted on May 18, 2018 in AHT • ASA • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call center Humor • Call Center Management • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • FCR • Forecasting- WFM • Opinion • Outsourced Quality Monitoring • Quality • retention • Strategy • Technology

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By Colin Taylor In the daily operation of our Call and Contact Centers we throw around metrics and performance measures like they were candy. It has been said that Call Centers produce more data and more measurement opportunities than is possible in almost any other communications channel. But while we know what each of these […]

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Root Cause Analysis in the Contact Center

Posted on April 09, 2018 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Case Study • Customer Experience • Customer Reach • Root Cause Analysis • Strategy

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By: Colin Taylor It always amazes me how Contact Center managers, their direct supports, and their superiors often fail to use one of the best tools at their disposal, Root Cause Analysis. Of course, if you are always fighting fires it is difficult to find the time and/or resources to research what is causing the […]

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Please Stop Using Voice Mail In Your Contact Center

Posted on December 12, 2016 in Call Center Management • Contact Center • Customer Experience

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By: Colin Taylor There are a few that really grate on me, fingernails scraping a blackboard, chewing on tin foil and voice mail in a contact center. There is little I can do about the first two on my list other than avoiding blackboards and tin foil, but I can make an impassioned plea to […]

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Taylor Reach NPS Score +100

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 Taylor Customer 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 […]

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The Customer Experience: What Makes the Best the Best – Part 1

Posted on April 19, 2016 in CSAT • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Metrics • Customer Satisfaction

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Good day. My name is Colin Taylor, and in this discussion, we’re going to be discussing the customer experience and what makes the best organizations the best. First, a little bit about myself and the organization. As I said, my name is Colin Taylor, and I’m the Chairman and Chief Chaos Officer for The Taylor […]

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Quality Assurance in Your Contact Center

Posted on March 23, 2016 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Metrics • Outsourced Quality Monitoring • Quality

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Quality is a critical support function in call and contact centers. In this interview, Colin Taylor and John Cockerill discuss Quality Assurance, Compliance, outsourcing and the risks and opportunities that can be found by a closer look at your contact centers’ quality program. Colin: Hello and welcome to Talking Contact Centers. My name is Colin […]

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Metrics that Matter – Service Level

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 […]

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Colin Taylor on Why to Select Taylor Reach

Posted on February 18, 2016 in Agent Experience • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • The Taylor Reach Group • TRG

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Check out this video where Colin Taylor the CEO and Chief Chaos Officer of the Taylor Reach Group, shares the reasons why he feels organizations should choose Taylor Reach

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‘Data is a king, at the end of the day the person with the best data wins’ – an interview with Colin Taylor

Posted on February 17, 2016 in Agent Experience • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Customer Experience

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Colin Taylor was recently interviewed and featured on Data2CRM website. The website can be found here Thank you to Nataliia and the folks at Data2CRM for the chance to chat. Editor’s note: Nowadays, as the customer experience has an extensive impact on the metrics of a business ranging from consumer loyalty and brand equities to […]

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