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17 Must-Read Books for Support Managers

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The Service Culture Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Your Employees Obsessed with Customer Service By Jeff Toister Published: 2017 Length: 190 pages If your company or team culture sucks, your customers will be negatively impacted. No amount of coaching, training, or quarterly feedback surveys will prevent it.

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Stop asking your customers about effort and start listening for it instead

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In 2008 when we first reported on our findings, we recommended companies use a new metric—the Customer Effort Score—to gauge the level of effort in their customer experience. When we released the book, The Effortless Experience, in 2013, we unveiled a new version of the score which we called “CES 2.0.”

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