Leadership

Posted on February 11, 2022 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Contact Centre Ops • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • People management • Training • WFM

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By Colin Taylor A lack of agent training is a sure-fire way of ensuring customers are disappointed. Learning a new skill or capability provide both enjoyment and a break from the mundane, and brings with it the opportunity to increase earnings. But to be effective, organizations need to ensure that they take a measured and […]

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 […]

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 […]

Posted on December 21, 2020 in Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Incentives • Leadership • People management • retention • Turnover • WFM

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By Peg Ayers With the holiday season upon us and New Year’s Day coming up, it’s easy to say, “Let’s just get out of this ridiculous year!  I don’t want to give 2020 another thought!  I’m looking to the future.” Focus on the future is great, but let’s not forget the lessons we’ve learned this […]

Posted on September 01, 2020 in Agent Experience • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Leadership • WFM

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By Peg Ayers A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. John C. Maxwell In my years in contact center leadership, my team and I debated many topics and searched for answers to such burning questions […]

Posted on August 13, 2020 in Agent Experience • Call Center Management • Employee Experience • WFM

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By Turaj Seyrafiaan In the past 25 years I have visited hundreds of contact centers and have spoken to many contact center directors.  Beside all the typical operational issues, one subject comes up frequently; contact center management feeling that the rest of the organization does not appreciate what the contact center does.  In fact, one […]

Posted on May 14, 2020 in Agent Experience • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact center consulting • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Forecasting- WFM • WFM

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‘ By Peg Ayers If you had a way to increase sales by 20%, be 21% more profitable and increase your customer satisfaction scores by 10%, would you do it?  How about improving employee retention by 24-59%, lowering absenteeism by 41% and increasing productivity by 17%?  According to the Gallup Organization, you could do all […]

Posted on April 27, 2020 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • People management • retention • rewards/recognition • WFM

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By Colin Taylor The agents on the frontline want to help customers. They want to resolve issues, and to deliver the desired customer experience and the brand promise. Doing these things results in happier customers and happier agents (as they were dealing with happy customers). Not providing the tools to enable the agents to serve […]

Posted on April 01, 2020 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Disaster Recovery • Emergency • Employee Experience • People management • WFM

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by JD Fairweather If you asked any contact center manager two months ago about their business continuity plan, they’d likely opine on their facility’s readiness to address just about any emergency scenario. These same managers have seen their expertise and resolve put to the test in recent weeks due to COVID-19. And with effects of […]

Posted on March 20, 2020 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Business continuity • Employee Experience • WFM

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By Colin Taylor One priority each of us should have on our “to do” for 2020 is mental health. Mental health disorders are pervasive, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), with nearly 1 in 5 Americans aged 18 or older reporting mental illness and more than 70% reporting at least one symptom of […]