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How to Avoid Roadblocks to Great Customer Service

ShepHyken

What gets in the way of creating a great customer service experience for you and/or your organization? Is it a process that is clunky, inconvenient and difficult for the customer? This exercise, as simple as it sounds, was her way of creating a process improvement initiative that has been wildly successful.

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Small Improvements in Customer Service Create Big Wins

ShepHyken

Identify: If you haven’t already done a journey map of what your customers experience as they do business with you, it’s time to do it. The good news is that if you haven’t done it yet, you don’t need to get to the level of detail you normally would for this exercise. This is the type of exercise that is not a “one and done.”

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Customer Service Foundations Training Plan

Toister Performance Solutions

This training plan is for customer service managers and trainers. It helps you use the Customer Service Foundations course on LinkedIn Learning with your team. It also helps experienced customer service pros refresh their skills. Access to Customer Service Foundations for all participants.

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The Customer Service Ritual that Takes Place at Every Meeting

ShepHyken

It helps us keep customer service “front-of-mind” and is a positive way to start a meeting. By the way, this is the same exercise we teach in our customer service training programs. We have clients that have been doing this exercise for years. As mentioned, for us it’s customer service.

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Developing Agent Empathy Through Emotional Intelligence

Speaker: Dave Seaton CCXP, Founder & Principal at Seaton CX

Practicing empathy is not only foundational to good customer service––it improves customer satisfaction. Take away valuable exercises and job aids to coach agents and improve empathy skills in your contact center. This webinar will cover: Why it’s important for contact centers to understand and practice customer empathy.

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Guest Post: Top Tips for Companies Providing Remote Customer Service

ShepHyken

She writes about how companies can adopt a remote workforce and enhance customer service delivery. There’s no doubt that there are challenges to providing remote customer services, but with careful planning, they’re easy to overcome.

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Guest Post: What it Takes to Be an Effective Customer Service Manager

ShepHyken

She writes about the five ways to become an effective and efficient customer service manager. Perhaps you’re thinking of trying to move up the ranks of your organization to become a customer service manager, or perhaps you already are one but want to hone your skills. Either way, this article is for you.