Anticipating customer expectations is essential to developing effective customer service. In fact, customer expectations ultimately define what good service means. Truly understanding your customers can...
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Your Organization’s Personality
Motorcycle company Harley Davidson has incredibly loyal customers. Riders join clubs and wear Harley clothes, and some even have Harley tattoos. Many CEOs and chief...
Read More >>>Customer Advocacy: Harnessing Service and Operations
It’s a smart move and highly recommended for any organization to instill the principles of customer advocacy in the customer service and operations functions. Unfortunately...
Read More >>>Empowering Your Customer Service Team
Many organizations want to do the right thing for customers, but too often put a multi-layered, time-eroding approval process in place to get there. By...
Read More >>>Boosting the Value of Customer Service
Ensuring that your organization is getting maximum benefit from the effort and investments you’re putting into customer service is an important leadership opportunity. In this...
Read More >>>The Stay Interview: A Powerful Retention Tool
The best contact centers continually work on the root causes of turnover. There are many common causes of turnover, such as insufficient development opportunities, pace...
Read More >>>Understanding What Motivates Your Team
I’m going to say something that may be a surprise. You will not, now or ever, be able to motivate your team. It’s not going...
Read More >>>Improving Performance: Two Types of Standards
The cornerstone of an effective quality observation process is documenting specific, observable behaviors and tailoring coaching accordingly. An effective way to consider performance (quality) standards...
Read More >>>Using Strategy to Guide Decisions and Direction
Organizations that consistently use their strategies to help guide decisions tend to go from strength to strength. They make better decisions and then have a...
Read More >>>Make Your Customer Access Strategy Uniquely Yours
What access channels should be opened up? What’s the nature of service you intend to provide? Beyond applying sound management principles, these decisions are yours...
Read More >>>The Seven Essential Metrics in Times of Crisis
In May, I wrote an article for Smart Customer Service. The article describes seven metrics that every contact center should have. It also provides suggestions...
Read More >>>Empower Your Workforce to Fix Things for Customers
Real-time management is often viewed as a matter of responding to workload quantities. What’s often missed in these discussions is how to respond to the...
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