Posted in Customer Service, Hot Topics and New Bits, IT, People Skills, Soft Skills
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.
Posted in Customer Service, Employee Engagement, Hot Topics and New Bits, Leadership
Customer service managers, supervisors, team leads: you often get stuck in the weeds of daily management. Lead & inspire to breed success! Here’s a guide.
Posted in Customer Service, Hot Topics and New Bits, IT
Once again, from my work with information technology (IT) teams, I am compelled to write about leaders risking quality service with the risky thought of delivering support via email only. Some claim it increases quality by avoiding tone of voice and increasing audit capability. Yikes! U-turn from this thinking. There are at least 3 damaging effects.
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, Hot Topics and New Bits, IT
CIOs, IT directors, and technical support managers of many companies face one universal challenge — cross teamwork between the front line service desk and onsite support. Here are 4 critical steps to meeting this challenge with great success!