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On Being an Accountable Customer Service Leader

Customer Service Life

Properly authenticating the account. Leaving complete account notes for the next person who interacts with the customer. This exercise reminded me of the time when we started this blog back in 2012. Starting a blog about customer service became instant accountability for me. Quality as accountability.

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How to Take Your Employees from Competent to Elite with Art Turock

ShepHyken

Extreme accountability is seeing beyond the current circumstances and committing no matter what. Accountability isn’t about assigning blame. Instead of holding others accountable with blaming questions, invite accountability by asking employees questions to reveal the choices that were made and their consequences.

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Account Segmentation Strategies during Covid-19

CSM Practice

How this works: If you haven’t changed how you segment your existing customer-base, continue reading this article to better understand how this works: First, you’ll need to make sure each account is assigned with the correct industry on your CRM system. That’s a basic step without which, this whole exercise is doomed.

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5 rules for building an incredible brand relationship with your customers!

Beyond Philosophy

Forming an attachment is vital, here, establishing an Emotional Bank account. You might remember Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, first proposed the concept of the Emotional Bank Account. You have these accounts with people in your lives, and they make deposits and withdrawals in them all the time.

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Critical Steps To Ensure Your Program Is Not Seen as Something Soft and Fluffy

Beyond Philosophy

On a recent podcast, Anna called into the I’m In a Pickle feature to use their journey mapping exercise findings effectively. In Anna’s case, I would start with a simple exercise to get the journey map off to a good and practical start. Have you ever tried to change a habit, maybe about diet and exercise?

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5 Rules for Managing Your Customer Experience in Business-to-Business

Beyond Philosophy

The senior account manager handled the most critical accounts. Then it cascaded down from there in account management seniority to the smaller accounts, which a telephone account manager managed. So they focused on that 20 percent, which left the other ones without an account manager, effectively.

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This is how you get your case for change accepted by your organization

Beyond Philosophy

I have plenty of experience with this inefficient exercise in my career, and I thought I might have some things to share with all of you to get those necessary approvals. This exercise is an excellent example of these concepts. It’s a marketing exercise. In our recent podcast, Context is King!,

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