Contact Center Consulting
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15 steps to Improve your Contact Center
Posted on May 11, 2023 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Technology • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Leadership • People management • Planning • Quality • Quality Assurance • retention • Strategy • WFM
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by Colin Taylor I was in Las Vegas last week attending and speaking at Call & Contact Center Expo US and it was a great time. I got to see a number of familiar faces and meet a bunch of new friends. I also saw a lot of very interesting technologies. I was particularly impressed […]
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Coaching Through Questions
Posted on October 20, 2022 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Education • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • People management • Quality • Training • WFH • WFM
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By Peg Ayers As Supervisors and Managers, we often feel we must have all the answers. We need to share our great experience and knowledge with those on our teams. We’ve been promoted for our skills, and we need to make sure everybody understands that. This can lead to coaching conversations where we spend more […]
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Evolution of Contact Center Scripts
Posted on September 28, 2022 in AHT • Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact Center Technology • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Mirrors • Help Desk • Quality • Quality Assurance • Training
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By Colin Taylor [This post was adapted from a webinar that Colin Taylor delivered for Customer Contact Central on September 8, 2022. You can see the replay here while available: https://www.customercontactcentral.com/frs/22041151/top-industry-secrets-for-successful-contact-center-scripting/email] There has been a continuous evolution in scripting since we were taping printed copies onto cubicle walls. There are primarily 4 different types of […]
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Managing potential problems in large-scale Contact Center projects
Posted on September 21, 2022 in Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Case Study • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Hiring a call center consultant • Quality • TRG
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Not long ago, Taylor Reach was retained to design and creation of a single contact center for a large municipality that effectively combined three departments into one. Municipal governments operate complex, multi-tiered contact center operations supporting resident inquiries to many departments. As a result, customers—in this case, clients, taxpayers and residents—need to be assured of […]
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Make 2022 the Best Year Ever for Your Contact Center!
Posted on January 07, 2022 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Blog • Business continuity • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call center Humor • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Center Industry Statistics • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Forecasting- WFM • Incentives • Leadership • Opinion • People management • Success • Supervisor • Training • WFH • WFM
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By Peg Ayers As the New Year begins, many of us turn to thoughts of self-improvement, swearing off sweets, resolving to run three miles a day or promising not to spend hours in front of the television every weekend. But how many of us look at our contact centers and think about making this New […]
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Get Used To It
Posted on October 29, 2021 in Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Employee Experience • Leadership • Outsourced Quality Monitoring • Outsourcing • Quality Assurance • WFH • WFM
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By Colin Taylor We won’t go back to the “before times.” It is a simple as that. Wanting the world to be as you think it should be, rather than as it is, is the textbook definition of neurotic. So buckle up and get ready for the new world. “Hybrid work” is a new and […]
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Multiple Workstyles May Signal the Need for New Compensation Plans at Many US Contact Centers
Posted on September 03, 2021 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Hiring a call center consultant • People management • Turnover • Virtual Call Center • Vrirtual Contact Center • WFH • WFM
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by JD Fairweather After several months of remote working – a workstyle many contact center leaders would have deemed impossible to implement a year and a half ago – employers are finding it difficult to lure staff back into the office. The Delta variant notwithstanding, it seems that employees are far too settled into the […]
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After the Consultants Leave
Posted on March 08, 2021 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Strategy
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By Peg Ayers The decision to engage a contact center consultant is not made lightly. Discussions may take place over weeks, months or even years, identifying problems in need of solutions, perhaps trying ideas that don’t solve those problems, and eventually deciding experts are needed. Here at The Taylor Reach Group, for example, we are […]
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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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The Contact Center Stack – Here’s what you need to build a modern contact center
Posted on September 29, 2020 in Artificial Intelligence • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call Center Technology • Call Center Tools • Contact Centre Ops • Forecasting- WFM • Quality Assurance • Quality assurance • Technology • WFM
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by JD Fairweather The path to contact center modernization has never been straightforward when it comes to its navigating technology infrastructure. “Costly,” “crowded,” and “confusing” are how business owners typically describe the process of selecting the right platforms to power their center. Besides the alphabet soup of acronyms – WFM, CRM, LMS, to name a […]
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