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Guest Blog: Improve Company Culture By Listening to Your Employees

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This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Brooke Cade writes about how important communicating with your employees and listening to their insight is for improving company culture. Some ideas for fostering the line of communication for your employees are: Focus on personal awareness and understanding.

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Guest Blog: A Hidden Service Blocker – Unconscious Bias

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This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, George Aveling, shares an experience he had demonstrating unconscious bias during the customer experience. I sat next to a person of African descent who, from a young age, had been living in Sweden. I was running a customer service workshop in Australia some years ago.

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Guest Blog: Customer Service Role … Avoid these Myths on Customer Service

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From clients and customers commenting on our blog. So, here is my top 20 list of myths on customer experience not to tell yourself or things you should never say to a customer that we often use in client workshops: Following a script. When I hear a script, I wonder if the person can help me. No personalized engagement.

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Guest Blog: What Improvisation Teaches Us About Customer Service

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This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Adam Toporek, writes about how important improvisation is in frontline customer service. It is also important to hire customer service reps that care, and who already have the personality to succeed in a customer service position. Shep Hyken.

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The Light At The End of The Tunnel: Reimagine Your Customer Experience

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Usually, when people talk about that, it’s in the third person, meaning that someone will impose the new normal upon us. I would encourage us to put that in the first person. As I mentioned before, your customers have changed through their personal experiences. We hear the phrase ‘the new normal’ a lot.

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Crafting Compelling Stories: The Key to Unlocking True Customer Engagement

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If you like the idea of the founder coming from humble beginnings or the tale of a successful person being self-made, it might be because you can relate to them. This exercise allowed my potential clients to understand the concept personally. That’s a part of the storytelling that creates emotional connections with a brand.

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Guest Blog: How to Make your Survey Better than Nordstrom, Lowe’s, and Wal-Mart

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Martha Brooke , Founder of Interaction Metrics, leads sessions and workshops on how to improve the customer experience. Read Shep’s latest Forbes Article: Verizon Unveils Personalized Rewards Program With Lady Gaga. For more articles from Shep Hyken and his guest contributors go to customerserviceblog.com.

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