Posted in Customer Service, Hot Topics and New Bits
From the customer’s perspective, exceptional customer experience comes from exceptions to you standard procedures. Here are 3 questions to determine how agile your teams are.
Posted in Customer Service, Hot Topics and New Bits
From the customer’s perspective, exceptional customer experience comes from exceptions to you standard procedures. Here are 3 questions to determine how agile your teams are.
Posted in Customer Service, Hot Topics and New Bits
In the battle for customers, do your company’s pre-designed customer experience metrics close the door to the customers’ true opinions & repeat business?
Posted in Customer Service, Hot Topics and New Bits, IT
There is one customer service recovery moment where many leaders, teams, and reps. falter. Here’s the trap, the reasons, the risks & a winning path to success for customer service, customer care, and technical support organizations.
Posted in Customer Service, Hot Topics and New Bits
Every service function has certain structure & limits. Yet when customers experience useless hoops to jump through they jump ship. Here’s how to keep ’em.
Posted in Customer Service, Hot Topics and New Bits, IT
Customer facing employees, service reps, and technical support reps often feel torn when customers’ criticize and complain about their service teammates. There is no need to be stuck in the middle. Here are 3 key reminders to generate a winning response and re-secure loyal customer connections.
Posted in Customer Service, Hot Topics and New Bits
If you have been working in government and now in the business world, shift your lens to what for-profit companies expect and do a new take on customer service. Here are the 5 essentials of customer experience from The People-Skills Coach™.
Posted in Customer Service, Hot Topics and New Bits, IT
Leaders and experienced reps all know that speaking jargon can kill a customer experience. Moreover, listening w/ jargon can kill the relationship! Two short stories from The People-Skills Coach™ illustrate the true impact and how to avoid the blunders of jargon Jabberwocky.
Posted in Customer Service, Employee Engagement, inspiration
CSRs and TSRs get tunnel vision in stress or the daily grind. Yet our future is behind every customer. Our vision must see it. Here is a 9 point call to greatness for leaders to inspire the best customer service. Posters and cards of this will be available in a few weeks.
Posted in Customer Service, Hot Topics and New Bits, IT
A 2012 American Express customer service barometer shows how important civility is to modern day customer experience. If you doubt it like some, you may be betting against the success of your business. 3 key points to consider …
Posted in Customer Service, Hot Topics and New Bits
Leaders, do customers experience superior customer service you promise? To say yes, you must be sure that every team member is attitude ready! Here’s a checklist.
Posted in Customer Service, Hot Topics and New Bits
Reps, agents, & managers bad behavior choices w/ customers are often rooted in psychological issues. The damage to the customer relationship is dramatic and thus worthy of your time and attention. Here are 4 commons ones & how to overcome for super customer experience.
Posted in Customer Service, Hot Topics and New Bits, Leadership
A recent expose on CBS Sunday Morning highlighted the derogatory names that companies use about their customers. As I watched with sadness and wonderment, I began to write this post about THE threat to superior customer experience. I welcome your insights as well as shout outs about companies that do deliver!
Posted in Customer Service, Hot Topics and New Bits, IT
When you get frustrated with customer behavior, are you tempted to respond badly? Call centers, contact centers, customer care teams, technical support departments — here is the antidote to your frustration! Here are 7 common situations and simply great choices.
Posted in Customer Service, Hot Topics and New Bits, Listening Power, Sales
Leaders: What does your customer experience survey tell your customers about your philosophy? Consider this super opportunity to improve it with these 6 changes.
Posted in Customer Service, Hot Topics and New Bits, Humorous Insights, People Skills
10 lessons learned from customer sevice and care gone wrong with a toxic perfectionist eye doctor. Wait until you read this. I couldn’t make this stuff up. Add your healthcare customer experience insights!