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People Skills Tips for Technical Professionals

It is a myth that technical professionals are incapable of good to great people skills. Anyone can learn people skills and the value to the individual and the organization is immense. Here are tangible people skills tips for intelligent dedicated technical professionals including doctors, lawyers, IT, finance …

Customer Service Mindset: Key Link in the Chain not Life in Chains | #custserv #LeadMorale

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Customer Service Mindset: Be a key link in the chain of success. It’s service not servitude. Best in service insights fr Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™.

People Skills Gifts: Bluntness is Not Included | #PeopleSkills #LeadMorale

People Skills Gifts: Image is quote "Bluntness is not a gift you give others. It's a privilege others may grant you when they trust you."

People skills gifts do not include bluntness. Honesty works, bluntness insults. Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™, Author Leading Morale.

Reach Out to Transform Customer Experience in IT | #CIOs #CFOs #CX

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Information technology (IT) teams can transform customer experience w/ these steps even w/ high demand. Insights from IT customer service coach Kate Nasser.

CIOs Checklist: Are Your IT Teams Truly Customer Focused? | #CX #CustServ

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CIOS, IT Directors, Managers – If your customers still say you lack customer focus, use these 12 insights to reshape your information technology culture and deliver the ultimate IT customer service.

Super Customer Experience: Feelings Aren’t Random

See behind the emotion.

Super customer service experience is about positive feelings but leaders grouse that they can’t build a business on the randomness of feelings. Well customer feelings are NOT random. Look behind the impact of the customer’s request and you’ll find the pain and then deliver the gain — for them and for you.

Customer Experience: Loyalty Through Narcissism?

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Super customer experience is achieved when you think from the customer perspective not from yours. Involve them & win their loyalty. 4 ways to win big.

Conquer Listening Barriers: Unstick from Keywords | #peopleskills

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Conquer listening barriers, esp, the hidden barrier of getting stuck on keywords. 3 steps fr The People Skills Coach™. | Leadership, Customer Service, Teamwork.

Leadership Emotion Radar: 12 Employee Emotional Needs to Honor

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Leadership Emotion Radar: Leaders especially analytic & technical ones must remember to honor these employee emotional needs. Fr The People Skills Coach™.

Does Knowledge & Experience Dull Our Empathy? |#leadership #custserv

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Empathy is so important for business relationships and often missing. Does knowledge & experience dull empathy? Insights fr , The People Skills Coach™.

11 Surefire Beliefs for Superior Customer Experience #custserv #cx

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Our customer experience beliefs guide our actions. Here are 11 to deliver superior customer experience. Tips fr The People Skills Coach™.

Superior Customer Service: Sorry Doesn’t Mean Guilty! #NCSW14

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Superior customer service doesn’t have debates on whether to say ‘we’re sorry’ to upset customers. It has loads of care. Insights fr The People Skills Coach™.

Being Process Driven Squeezes People Out #management #peopleskills

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Leaders/managers: The downside to being process driven may be the downfall of your business. Prevent this threat w/ simple steps fr The People Skills Coach™.

IT Customer Service Training: Logic to Empathy #CIO #ITIL

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IT Customer Service training teaches empathy to logic based teams. From this you get org. collaboration & cross teamwork between technical and non-technical teams. After 25 years of teaching IT Customer Service to programmers, operations staff and tech support reps, I share in this post some of the keys to doing it. They are very capable of developing great people skills.

Customer Support: Is It Actually Everyone’s Job? #Custserv

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Leaders, in your company is customer support everyone’s job? Is everyone doing customer service? I am doing several posts on customer centricity. In this post I interview Vikram Bhaskaran to learn Freshdesk’s vision & lessons learned from flattening the traditional (hierarchical) customer support model.

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