Contact Center Consulting

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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14 Questions you Need to ask when Considering Call Center Consolidation

Posted on May 11, 2018 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • Site Selection • Strategy

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By: Colin Taylor Consolidating Contact Centers Organizations today look across their customer-facing organization and see a cluster of Call Center or Contact Center activities: sales, technical support, customer service, returns, billing, collections etc. These Call Centers can exist in a company’s divisions or operating companies. Even small and medium-sized businesses can find that they have […]

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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

Tags: Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Customer Service Consulting• Root Cause Analysis• Strategy

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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Operational Indicators – Average Handle Time (AHT)

Posted on March 20, 2018 in AHT • Call Center Consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Satisfaction • Education • Forecasting- WFM • People management • Planning • Strategy

Tags: AHT• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Customer Service Consulting• Operational Management• WFM

By: Turaj Seyrafiaan Have you ever wondered what is behind any of the Contact Center operational indicators? Why do we measure what we measure and what do they mean? In this article, we tackle one of the most important indicators; Average Handle Time (AHT) AHT is defined as the total amount of time (on average) […]

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Operational Indicators – Sevice Levels, ASA & Occupancy Rate

Posted on March 19, 2018 in AHT • ASA • Call Center Consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Satisfaction • Forecasting- WFM • Occupancy • People management • Planning • Strategy

Tags: ASA• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Operational Management• service level• Strategy• Taylor Reach Group• WFM

By: Turaj Seyrafiaan In the last Indicators post, we discussed one of the most important operational indicators: Average Handle Time or AHT. In this issue, we continue with other operational indicators dealing with the efficiency of the center, i.e. “Service Level”, “Average Speed of Answer (ASA)” and “Occupancy Rate”. Although each indicator provides different information, […]

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Leading Contact Center Consulting Firm, Expands Customer Experience Services

Posted on March 16, 2017 in Blog • Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call centre consulting • Contact Center • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Metrics • Customer Satisfaction • News • Snapshotz • TRG

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The Taylor Reach Group, Inc., allows brands to see behind the customer experience curtain – announcing 3 services, each with a different focus for optimizing CX delivered in the contact/call center. Toronto-ON- Colin Taylor, the CEO and Chief Chaos Officer of Taylor Reach Group, Inc., announced today that the company has expanded their customer experience consulting […]

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Contact center as a ‘Strategic Asset’? – There is more to contact center processes than you think!

Posted on January 10, 2017 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Performance • The Taylor Reach Group

Tags: #callcenter• #custexp• #custserv• Contact Center Consulting

By Turaj Seyrafiaan Contact centers have been in operations for many years.  One of the key aspects (pillars) of contact center operation is ‘Process’.  Processes are the backbone of any contact center – every contact center has them. Some of these are directly related to how we handle customer contacts. Some are focused on back-office […]

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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

Tags: #callcenter• #contactcenter• #custexp• #custserv• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Customer Experience• Operational Management

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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Customer Satisfaction as a Primary KPI?

Posted on August 10, 2016 in Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Employee Engagement • Metrics • Net Promoter • The Taylor Reach Group

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By: Turaj Seyrafiaan There have always been a number of contact center efficiency and effectiveness indicators. While each has a certain and important role, it should always be emphasized that we cannot analyze these indicators in solitude and need to view them as part of a larger holistic picture. From time to time, however, I […]

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