Monthly Archives: September 2021

Why Clear Communication in Customer Service is Essential to Business

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Communication is essential for most human-to-human interactions, and customer service is a key example of these interactions.  Effective customer service involves “reading” the other person, gathering information, and responding to those needs. Here are examples of how great communication supports customer service: Suspend judgement. Serving customers requires an open mind, so you are gathering information…
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Learn from Customers in Challenging Times

Learn from Customers in Challenging Times

The pandemic has fundamentally changed many businesses, and the expectations and needs of many customers. How can a business learn from and use these changes to improve customer service? First, it is important to evaluate how customers and their habits have changed over the past several months. How have their goals changed? How do they…
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Customer Service: Managing Bad Customers

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Recent news stories have described the challenges that many customer service professionals face in today’s environment.  These stories capture customer impatience with understaffed businesses, objections to public health guidance and irritation about missing items due to supply chain shortages. Many customer service representatives are taught that the customer is always right. And it’s true, your…
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