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Customer Service Leaders: Remove These Common Morale Killers

Customer service is an emotionally demanding profession. It requires endless patience and caring. Employee morale is critical to sustaining customer service excellence and an outstanding attitude. Customer service leaders, start by removing the following morale killers!

Customer Service Leaders: Remove These Morale Killers

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Customer Service Leaders: Remove These 9 Morale Killers!

1. Metric only focus. Metrics are important yet they do not create great service. They measure great service that people create. Lead people not metrics.




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2. Disdainful remarks born of your frustration. As pressure mounts on you for better team performance, you may be tempted to slam your team members. This kills morale and performance. Customer service leaders: Inspire don’t inflame.




3. Not addressing poor performance and bad attitudes. When one team member is always late, takes long lunches, does the minimum required, it affects morale and performance of the whole team. When you as customer service leader, don’t address it, you kill morale.




4. Highlighting mistakes but not successes. When people work in a pressure cooker, they need uplift to stay enthused. If you say only the negatives, you kill morale. Celebrate their talents and help them grow from mistakes.




5. No empowerment. In many traditional call centers, employees were treated like rats in a maze that weren’t allowed to move around! Routine repetitive jobs where people can’t learn, grow, and contribute more of who they truly are kill morale. Customer service leaders, tap the talent you hired.




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6. Attila the Hun supervisors and team leaders. The direct leadership of customer service teams have a tremendous impact on morale. Higher level leaders and officious supervisors/team leaders they put in place crush morale. These supervisors and team leaders need training in how to lead customer service teams for great morale and performance. I can help you with that.




7. Bad mouthing customers. Leaders mistakenly think that bad mouthing customers to team members will make team members feel better. This temporary boost actually kills the morale needed to stay positive and sustain customer service excellence. Empathize with team member challenges don’t encourage a hate the customer mentality.




8. Assigning blame but taking credit. Customer service leaders who take credit for the success of the team yet blame the team when things go wrong kill morale. It’s that simple.




9. Ego driven leadership. If you make daily work all about what you need, what you want, and your talents, you kill morale. Customer service professionals are giving of themselves and caring about customers eight hours a day. If they have to stroke your ego for those same eight hours, their commitment and morale crumbles. Customer service leaders, leave your pet peeves at home and serve the staff who serve the customers.

Customer service leaders you must care about and lead morale if you want your employees to care about your customers. I am writing a book about leading morale with far more detail and helpful tips. Email me if you want to be on the advance notice list!

Related Posts:
Morale: 12 Employee Emotional Needs to Honor
7 Ego Actions That Stifle Leadership, Teamwork, & Service
Ego Craving Leadership Firsts Undercut Morale

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