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Posted on May 22, 2019 in Best Practices • Contact Center • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Quality

Tags: #callcenter• #contactcenter• #custexp• #Cx• Alignment• Call Center Assessment• Contact Center Consulting• Customer Experience• design• Rosetta Lue• Taylor Reach Group

By Rosetta Lue The government will better serve all stakeholders by establishing a focus to oversee the design and implementation of a human-centered design strategy that: identifies and responds to key touch points in a stakeholder’s journey streamlines, integrates, and scales websites and call centers consistently over time takes a holistic, iterative approach to prioritizing […]

Posted on May 14, 2019 in Blog • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Customer Reach • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service • Customer Support

Tags: #callcenter• #cctr• #contactcenter• #custexp• Alignment• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Strategy• Customer Experience• customer service• Customer Service Consulting• games• gaming• Strategy• Taylor Reach Group

by JD Fairweather There was a time where video games were purchased, played and completed with no reason to interact with their creators. The enjoyment to be had was contained within a small window of experience and replay-ability reserved for the most dedicated of fans. Post-purchase interaction with the game developers or publisher was limited to […]

Posted on April 16, 2019 in Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Employee Engagement • Hiring a call center consultant • People management • Positions • retention

Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #cctrmyths• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• #HR• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Management• Customer Experience• Leadership• millennials• Myths• Operational Management• Social Media• staffing• Taylor Reach Group• Training

By Colin Taylor I read an interesting article by Jennifer J Deal at strategy+business looking at five myths we hold about Millennials. For the past number of years we have all heard horror stories about organizations that gave away iPads, spot bonuses, socially conscious and social responsible activities, but still had staff leave for greener pastures. […]

Posted on April 12, 2019 in Call Center Consulting • Call centre consulting • Case Study • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Opinion • Quality • retention • Strategy • The Taylor Reach Group

Tags: #custserv• #Cx• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Customer Service Consulting• Leadership• Outsourced Quality Listening• poor service• Root Cause Analysis• Taylor Reach Group

By Colin Taylor While working on a call center consulting engagement with one of the largest garbage companies in the country we encountered what was likely the most difficult customer I have ever experienced. We were working in a mid- sized call center and discussing their customers. The company serviced urban, suburban and rural customers […]

Posted on April 05, 2019 in AHT • Average handle time • Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • Customer Experience Management • Customer Experience Metrics • Customer Satisfaction • Metrics • TRG

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AHT: the Most Misunderstood Metric in Call or Contact Centers By John Cockerill Average handle time is a wonderful tool. Everybody uses it and they believe they use it correctly. It’s a good measure particularly when you’re looking in a specific channel as to what is the midpoint of all of the call (contact) lengths that […]

Posted on April 02, 2019 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Metrics • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • CSAT • Customer Experience • IVR • Metrics • Quality • Quality Assurance • Quality assurance

Tags: #callcenter• #contactcenter• #Cx• Call Center Assessment• Call Center Audit• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• CSAT• Customer Experience• Customer Service Consulting• Operational Management• Outsourced Quality Listening• Quality Assurance• Quality Control• Taylor Reach Group

  Quality is a critical support function in call and contact centers. In this interview, Colin Taylor and John Cockerill discuss Quality Assurance, Compliance, outsourcing and the risks and opportunities that can be found by a closer look at your contact centers’ quality program. Colin: Hello and welcome to Talking Contact Centers. My name is […]

Posted on March 26, 2019 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact Centre Ops • FCR • Opinion • Opportunity • Planning • Strategy

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

By Turaj Seyrafiaan In the recent years, First Call Resolution (FCR) has become a buzz word in the contact center industry! Everyone is talking about it and it appears that everyone is working on improving the results in their center. Everyone agrees that this is an important aspect of a contact center, however, many organization […]

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 […]

Posted on March 01, 2019 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Customer Satisfaction • FCR • Root Cause Analysis • Strategy

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  By Colin Taylor Research tells us that 85% of customer churn is due to poor service that was in fact preventable. 11% of customer churn could have be prevented by simple company outreach and 67% of customer churn is preventable if the customer issue had been resolved at the first engagement. This tells us something […]

Posted on February 19, 2019 in Call Center Management • Case Study • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Uncategorized

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Are You Listening to the Canaries in Your Customer Experience Coal Mine? By: Colin Taylor The call center or customer service department has long been call the ‘canary in the coalmine’ for its ability to provide early identification and diagnosis of problems and issues impacting the satisfaction of customers. Despite numerous warnings most organizations don’t change, […]