Empowering Employees as Customer Advocates: Overcoming Barriers
The idea of empowering employees to be customer advocates sounds great to many leaders—in concept. But doing so is easier said than done if barriers are in place. These can include lack of training, misguided performance targets, limited decision-making authority and...
The Enablers: 3 Essentials for High-Quality Customer Service
Some managers assume that quality standards are primarily for individuals, those actually delivering the service. But don’t miss half the fun and half the value. Establish the right quality standards for your organization, and you’ll see great things...
Transform Service Efficiency with Forecast Accuracy and Schedule Adherence
An important part of delivering effective and efficient service is anticipating customer demand, or put another way, forecasting the workload. The beautiful thing about forecasting customer workload is that it encourages you – actually requires you – to...
The Psychology of Queues
From a customer’s perspective, there are two basic types of queues. (And I don’t mean long ones and short ones.) Queues are either visible or invisible. Visible queues refer to any situation where customers know where they are in line. With invisible...