Tag: Customer Service

Core Competencies for Customer Service in Complex Times

Even with the best organizational strategy, customer service always involves people. Whether you provide services online or face-to-face, there is another human being at the end of the interaction.  This article helps us understand people better.

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Customer Service: A Strategic Approach

Most organizations confirm that customer service is one of their highest values. Without customers, there would be no organization!  This is true. AND it is also true that the term customers covers pretty much everybody. In our lives, we are all customers served by multiple businesses and all workers who earn a paycheck serve customers of some sort.

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Customer Service Tips for Customers: Helping the Helpers Help You

In this article, we change the perspective, as many of our readers are also Black Friday shoppers and gift givers. This article provides some tips for enjoying the day and helping customer service specialists help you most effectively.

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Customer Service Tips: Keeping Your Cool on Black Friday

Love them or dread them, the holidays are upon us and Black Friday seems to be the day that kicks it all off.  Here are some factors that may make this year more difficult than some other years for customer service specialists:

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Simple and Foolproof Customer Service Employee Engagement Analysis

Employee engagement is a big-time buzzword right now.  Statistics show how important it is for employees to be engaged. They also show how much productivity, profitability and customer satisfaction boom when engagement is high and bust when it’s low. Experts, surveys, calculators and apps in hand, are ready to tell…
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Six Steps to Pumping Up Your Customer Service Team

Customers. Depending on the kind of day you’re having, that word can either bring a smile to your face and a song to your lips or send you scuttling under your desk to whimper and rock back and forth muttering incoherently about someone named “Angry Edith” and her profane cockatoo,…
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