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When Employees Misuse Their Authority Over Customers

When Employees Misuse Their Authority Over Customers

An interesting dynamic occurs with certain customer service roles. Those charged with providing service to customers also have responsibilities that require they control the customer. The customer-facing professional has authority and is expected to exercise it to maintain order, to maintain safety, and, in general, to maintain the smooth execution of operational processes. Sometimes, however, …

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How to Get Your Team to Deliver Consistent Customer Service

How to Get Your Team to Deliver Consistent Customer Service

In Be Your Customer’s Hero, I laid out the elements of Hero-Class® service: In the years that have followed, I’ve worked with many organizations and spoken with many more and have found that almost all of these organizations struggle with getting their teams to consistently deliver customer service to the standards they expect. A foolish consistency …

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5 Disastrous Mistakes when Dealing with Difficult Customers

5 Disastrous Mistakes when Dealing with Difficult Customers

Let’s just say it right here at the start — dealing with difficult customers stinks. Having provided customer service training to thousands upon thousands of people at all levels of organizations, I’ve learned that there is one thing every person who works with customers wants to know: how to successfully navigate difficult customer service situations …

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3 Psychological Triggers to Prevent in Telephone Customer Service

3 Psychological Triggers to Prevent in Telephone Customer Service

This blog post was sponsored by my friends at Customer Contact Week. If you’re a contact center leader, make sure to check out this incredible event happening in Las Vegas on June 18-22, 2018. Our customers have psychological triggers, hot buttons that set them off and that can instantly make good experiences go bad. And …

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Be Attentive But Don't Hover Over Customers | Real Estate Showing

Be Attentive, but Don’t Hover Over Customers

In the past decade or so, the term helicopter parent became popular as a description of a parent who constantly hovers over his or her children, overprotecting them and microparenting. Similarly, a helicopter rep is a customer-facing professional who hovers over the customer, creating a sense of pressure and overbearing attention. Often, helicopter reps mean …

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Remove the Weak Links from Your Customer Experience Part 1 | Employee passed out

Remove the Weak Links in Your Customer Experience: Part 1

As a customer, there are few things more disappointing than having a great customer experience and then having it undone later by a different part of the organization. As a leader, there are few things more frustrating than creating a team that delivers fantastic customer experiences only to see your good work undone by a …

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Why Customer Service Training Is Essential | Adam Toporek Credentialed Master Trainer Speaking

Why Customer Service Training Is Essential

Every organizational leader wants their teams to provide great customer experiences. They put “the customer comes first” on their company posters, they mention the phrase “customer-centric” in their annual reports, and they proudly announce the newest software update designed to improve the company’s customer experiences. Yet, these same leaders are often taken aback by the …

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Will You Compete on Customer Experience in 2018? | Hotel bell

Will You Compete on Customer Experience in 2018?

In 2015, Gartner released its report saying that 89% of organizations planned to compete on customer experience in 2016. But what does it mean to compete on experience? We know that customer experience matters. Studies have shown that customer experience impacts the bottom line and how customer experience leaders outperform CX laggards. One study by Temkin …

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