Every company provides customer service, and good customer service just doesn’t cut it anymore. Your customers expect a lot out of your company. They want an experience, not an uneventful interaction.
Bill Hogg
6 Golden Rules for Handling Customer Complaints
Most employees hate complaints. They don’t like having to deal with customers who call or visit their store or office with a complaint. What they don’t understand is that a complaint is actually a positive thing. You can’t always meet every customer’s expectations.
10 Customer Service Principles Every Employee Must Know
Even employees who never deal with the public must exhibit good customer service skills. How employees treat each other is the harbinger of how the organization will treat the public.
Understanding Priorities to Improve Customer Service
Yesterday I experienced one of the most common missteps of good customer service—ignoring customers to attend to “organizational” priorities.
7 Ways to Build Collaboration and Trust into Your Culture
Do you want to build trust and cooperation in your organization? Then walk the talk. It may sound simple, but it’s one of the most effective ways to build trust internally and get people to support your vision.
Turning Adversity into Opportunity
In times of uncertainty, it is especially important to go above and beyond to strengthen employee engagement. Leaders may set the direction, but it is the people throughout the organization who make things happen.
Always Go the Extra Mile
Customers reward companies that are seen to go the extra mile—even if they don’t personally benefit from that effort. In fact, customers are willing to pay more for a product, frequent one store rather than another, and, in general, have a more positive impression of a company or brand that is perceived to put in more effort.
Building Emotional Capital: How to Maintain Enthusiastic, Engaged Employees
In our current economic climate, many companies are wondering how to maintain an enthusiastic, engaged employees. A recognition program that appreciates, thanks and rewards employees can lift staff out of the recessionary downer that many are falling into.
Have You Identified Your Employees as a Key Target Audience?
I would suggest that communicating usually means creating and delivering messages to an audience. Further, I would suggest that what you really want to do is facilitate a conversation or a dialogue with your employee community.
Satisfied Customers Are Killing Your Business
People talk about the importance of customer service all the time, yet few companies are recognized for doing it well and even fewer are willing to change their approach to get the desired result
