Contact Center Strategy

Metrics That Matter: Service Level

Posted on March 22, 2019 in ASA • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • FCR • Metrics • Service Level

Tags: #callcenter• #cctr• #contactcenter• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• ASA• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Consulting Contact• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Customer Service Consulting• Operational Management• service level• Strategy• Taylor Reach Group

By Colin Taylor Service level is one of the most common metrics employed at call and contact centers to define how the center is performing. Senior management becomes acclimatized to looking for that service level number and reacting to it as a gauge of how well they’re performing against targets and in meeting their customer […]

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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

Tags: #cctr• #custserv• call center location• call center site• Colin Taylor• contact center location• contact center site• Contact Center Strategy• Costs• Grants• Job creation• Research• site selection• Taylor Reach Group

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

Tags: Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Customer Service Consulting• Operational Management• Taylor Reach Group

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

Tags: #callcenterDIY• #cctr• #custserv• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Customer Service Consulting• Operational Management• Taylor Reach Group

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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The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. Launches Partner Referral Program

Posted on January 23, 2017 in Call Center Consulting • Contact center consulting • Customer Satisfaction • The Taylor Reach Group • TRG

Tags: #contactcentre• #custexp• #customerexperience• #customerservice• #referralprogram• Contact Center Strategy• customer journey

Taylor Reach thanks partners by announcing their Referral Program The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. (Taylor Reach), the leader contact center and customer experience consulting services, today announced the creation of an enhanced incentive program for its partner community. The Taylor Reach Referral Program allows partners to provide consulting referrals, receive upfront compensation and share in […]

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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 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 […]

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UK Launch – Taylor Reach

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 […]

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Brexit – Good for the Irish Tech and Call Center Industry?

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

Tags: #brexit• #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• #siteselection• Contact Center Strategy• Taylor Reach Group

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 […]

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