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Happy New Year and Welcome to 2023!

Taylor Reach Group

They will rationalize and rebalance their staffing and service levels for all contact channels. These investments will improve efficiency and improve the service that the centers deliver and that we, as customers, consume. We have seen more than 20 months of long wait times due to “higher than normal contact volumes”. .

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Customer Reach – April Newsletter

Taylor Reach Group

Financial Institution Appoints Contact Center Consultancy. Customer Service and the Golden Rule . Medical Marijuana Company Appoints Contact Center Consultancy to Develop Agent Training Program . Are You Making the Most of Every Service Opportunity? Operational Indicators - Service Level, ASA & Occupancy Rate.

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Removing Dissatisfiers from the Customer Journey

HGS

One-dimensional Quality: These are attributes that are spoken about and ones that companies typically address in their service level requirements. Hire a consultant, a partner, or do it yourself but test your current customer touch points be it by phone, web site, email, chat, video, text, etc.

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Effectiveness Indicators: First Call Resolution, Calls/Resolved

Taylor Reach Group

There is no question that customers are the best source in providing such measurement but surveying customers could become a costly exercise. s issue is dealt with in a timely manner (very similar to the longest wait time in a queue versus service level and ASA). Definition and Measurement. FCR Ceiling (Upper Limit).

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3 Steps to Sustainable Customer Service Performance

CSM Magazine

However, it can also be applied to various activities of business including customer service. Clearly most businesses desire to and usually plan to provide great customer service on a long-term basis. In other words, their customer service is not sustainable. So, how can customer service be made sustainable in your business?

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Leadership Strategies for a High-Performance Contact Center

Taylor Reach Group

We know that when staff calls in sick, our Service Level may suffer. In my experience, ensuring that teams are effective is a far more challenging exercise than “buying in” to teams and teamwork. Any contact center is collection of thousands of moving parts that are connected in obvious and hidden ways.

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Neglecting Your Contact Centre

Clarabridge

I wouldn’t go as far as calling it fake news, but some consultancies and technology providers are seriously neglecting the holistic perspective in favour of pushing their particular slant on the CX revolution. It is at best a box-ticking exercise, and at worst, an energy-sapping environment for the poor agents who work there.