Strategy

Posted on November 10, 2011 in Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Facts and Figures • Planning • Research • Self Service • Strategy • Technology • The Taylor Reach Group

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Self Service – Of Cents & Sensibility Part 1 By: Colin Taylor A 1% improvement in customer satisfaction in utilities is worth 4.6% in market value growth so says Claes Fornell of the University of Michigan, producers of the American Customer Satisfaction Index. So if good service pays such high dividends: why is there so […]

Posted on October 17, 2011 in Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Certification • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Forecasting • Quality • Turnover

Tags: #5Ideas• #callcenterDIY• #cctr• #custserv• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Customer Service Consulting• Strategy

By Colin Taylor I have often heard that just one good idea can change everything. It can make a conference worth attending, change the course of history or even make a meeting worth attending. Now I can’t guarantee that we can change the course of human history or even make a meeting productive, but hopefully […]

Posted on September 14, 2011 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Research • Strategy

Tags: Call Center Assessment• Call Center Audit• Call Center Consulting• CEM• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Leadership• Root Cause Analysis• Snapshotz• Strategy• Taylor Reach Group

Snapshotz Download The Snapshotz Online Update August 2011 A Snapshotz of August: Conversations and contributions from International contact centre figures A Snapshotz of August: Technology trends in a nutshell, knowledge and skills for the modern contact centre manager, Industry voices and positive health in the contact centre, why customer service is viewed in parts and […]

Posted on September 01, 2011 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call Center Tools • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Planning • Research • Strategy • Technology

Tags: Alignment• Call Center Assessment• Call Center Audit• Call Center Consulting• Case Study• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Costs• FCR• Leadership• Operational Management• Research• Snapshotz• Strategy• Taylor Reach Group

Can Snapshotz deliver $ savings in the public sector? This public sector organization employing 55 agents conducted a review of their centre using the Snapshotz Online tool and support from Customer Services Audit. Initially not expecting to find anything new as multiple databases and an archaic CRM tool were big bugbears. However it was decided […]

Posted on July 26, 2011 in AHT • ASA • Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Education • FCR • Forecasting- WFM • Newsletters • Occupancy • People management • Quality • Research • Strategy • Technology • Telecommunications • The Taylor Reach Group • Turnover

Tags: AHT• ASA• Attrition• Call Center Assessment• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Strategy• Costs• Customer Service Consulting• FCR• Leadership• Operational Management• service level• Snapshotz• Strategy• Taylor Reach Group• Telefloral

Floral distributor executive wins Snapshotz call centre audit draw The winner of a draw held in Toronto for free usage of the Snapshotz call centre audit tool is Amas Tenumah, Vice-President, Operations for Teleflora, a floral distribution network. Tenrmah receives a single-user license for Snapshotz that will be applied in the Teleflora Oklahoma City call […]

Posted on July 22, 2011 in AHT • ASA • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Case Study • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Reach • Customer Satisfaction • FCR • Forecasting- WFM • Newsletters • People management • The Taylor Reach Group

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If you are not already a subscriber, please subscribe to our Customer Reach Newsletter! CUSTOMER REACH® VOLUME 8, ISSUE 6 JUNE 2011 ISSN 1718-8938 Inside this Issue Workforce Management Demystified Floral distributor executive wins Snapshotz call centre audit draw What Call Center Metrics mean to Customers Upcoming Events Why does ‘Tunnel Vision exist among clever […]

Posted on June 29, 2011 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Customer Satisfaction • Sales • The Taylor Reach Group

Tags: Colin Taylor• Contact Center Strategy• Service to Sales• Strategy

Sales is Good Service All companies exist because they have a product or service that their customers like, use and/or enjoy. Our company is no different. Our customers like and enjoy our products, services and capabilities. Of course not every customer will be happy every moment of the day, but then neither will we. We […]

Posted on May 05, 2011 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Outbound • Sales • Technology

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

Outbound Calling, the ugly duckling of call centers or the key to goose your center revenues? By John Cockerill and Colin Taylor We all know the pressures these days to add revenue, become a profit center versus a cost center in the world of call and contact centers. While there is much talk, noise and […]

Posted on May 05, 2011 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call centre consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction

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

Managing the Desired Customer Experience in Your Call CenterColin Taylor Like culture, all companies deliver a Customer Experience. Also like culture, it isn’t always what the company intended. It is often a poor customer experience. This is not a situation that can be easily corrected. Drafting a memo that states that “effective immediately we will […]

Posted on April 28, 2011 in Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Strategy

Tags: #callcenterDIY• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Customer Service Consulting• Leadership• Strategy

Colin Taylor In the world of call centers, contact centers and customer service centers we are all servants to our customers. We exist to serve their needs and requirements. It is sad that some many centers do poorly at this. The attitude of the call center existing to serve our customers is foreign to some. […]