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July 8, 2020 — At CSWeek.com, you’ll find everything you need to celebrate your Dream Team™ during Customer Service Week — Whether they are working in the office (and practicing social distancing), working remotely, or a combination. At the website you’ll find: Home Delivery. It’s easy to include remote staff with our brand new kits. Celebration kits…Continue reading
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June 30, 2020 — A remote Customer Service Week celebration takes shape. The team at a large electric utility in upstate New York (we can’t use their name because it’s a secret) has been celebrating Customer Service Week for many years. In March, they sent all 2,000 frontline reps home. But nothing is going to…Continue reading
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How many times have you heard about the value of empathy in customer interactions? Probably a lot. And it’s good advice. Empathy is the ability to sense other people’s emotions and to imagine what they may be thinking and feeling. Some people are naturally more empathetic than others, but researchers at Greater Good Science Center…Continue reading
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When you email a customer or coworker you want that email to be read and acted on. But with the volume of email flowing across the web it can be hard to get a customer’s attention. Ben Decker, CEO of Decker Communications, offers four no-nonsense steps to ensure that customers read your email: 1. BLUF. This…Continue reading
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Developing empathy — Reading a great work of literature — or watching a film or play — allows us to temporarily step out of our own lives and fully immerse ourselves in another person’s experience. The team at the Morristown Festival of Books has prepared a comprehensive document with everything you need to start and lead a book group.
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When customers experience a problem they want to be heard. So keep in mind the Disney Institute’s five-step process for service recovery. They call this the H.E.A.R.D technique. Hear: Let the customer tell their entire story without interruption. Empathize: Show that you understand how the customer feels. Use phrases like "I’d be frustrated, too." Apologize: Even if you…Continue reading
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Whether you’re using a makeshift workspace at home or you’re in the office, it’s time for some spring cleaning. According to Jeffrey Meyer, an efficiency expert and author of Time Management for Dummies, people should focus on clearing the clutter even if they don’t enjoy it. "Nobody wants to clean their desk, and nobody wants to…Continue reading
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If you are trying to incorporate a new service technique into your daily interactions with customers (personalizing the call, expressing empathy, or allowing customers to finish before you speak) a visual reminder is a simple and easy way to keep your intentions focused and to give priority to the changes you want to make. One…Continue reading
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Knowledgeable. Confident. Friendly. Empathetic. There’s a lot that frontline reps need to convey in a single customer contact. And sometimes only a few brief moments to do it all. One speech pattern that can be a confidence killer is upspeak. Upspeak or uptalk is a pattern most commonly seen in women. Although many men use…Continue reading
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