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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. The original CES was a survey question that asked customers how much effort they had to put forth to get their issue resolved.

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Looking to reduce customer effort? Do these three things first

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Reducing customer effort can feel like a monumental task, especially for big companies with legacy business processes, policies, systems, or companies in regulated industries. But these first three steps will get CX and customer care leaders started quickly and effectively. Understand where your customers’ effort is coming from.