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It’s all about context stupid! Why most businesses fail to take this into account

Beyond Philosophy

They were asking for the account number right off the bat. The senior managers thought customers would be ready to present their account numbers upon getting through the call center queue. The quicker the call center employee had the account number, the faster they could resolve the issue and have their employee process another call.

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5 Rules for Driving Down Costs in a Customer-Focused Way

Beyond Philosophy

For example, I was running a workshop for a client in the mobile communications market. The VP of customer service was late and came into the workshop after about an hour looking fraught. In another client situation, I spoke with a senior manager at a water utility we were consulting. Second, there is a lost opportunity cost.

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Introducing MapTrack.One: Adding accountability & predictability to the organisational approach to CX

ijgolding

Like me, Stefan leverages decades of practitioner experience to support businesses and customer experience professionals in a consulting capacity, all around the world. One of the things we speak about regularly is the accountability, predictability and sustainability of the organisational approach to customer experience.

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Why Customers Make Strange Decisions

Beyond Philosophy

These results, however, are the basis for an economic principle called Mental Accounting. Mental Accounting describes the situations where fungibility breaks down. Simply put, mental accounting works with emotions also. I was running a workshop in the states for a mobile company when the sales manager came in late.

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Building a Great CX Team

CX Accelerator

Then there’s the organizational skills required to get the right people in the room, the communication and presentation skills needed when standing out the front of workshops, and the analytical skills required to develop personas and the accompanying service design blueprints.

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Customer Success for Service Companies

CSM Practice

For a service company, the operations could be focusing more on renewals and upsells, keeping the communication lines open and responsive, enlightening the client about new solutions you can offer, or checking up on dormant accounts that are likely to churn. 3) Workshops. Value Creation for Service Companies.

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Developing Mission, Vision and Guiding Principles in Call Centre Operations Will Improve Customer Service experience

Taylor Reach Group

Since Guiding Principles empower call centre staff to make decisions, take accountability, and resolve customer issues, authority levels may need to be reviewed and additional ways to resolve certain situations developed. Encourages employees to take accountability for issues where there may be exceptions to the usual policy.