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The Core of Customer Service – It May Not Be What You Think…

July 17, 2012 – 12:34 pm

Everyone has their own take on what makes a top-notch customer service experience and most companies have teams dedicated to ensuring that their beliefs, value systems, and service delivery expectations are properly baked into training, marketing, and recruiting materials.   We want to be viewed as the best, we look to hire the best, and we […]

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Training the Next Generation

June 19, 2012 – 10:45 am

My son is graduating from high school this Saturday and I swear I don’t know how we ended up here, with him all grown up and me wondering where the years went.  Yes, it’s clichéd, but boy, is it a huge dose of reality for me. You’d think that I wouldn’t be surprised when all […]

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The Art of Listening and Its Impact on the Customer Experience

May 30, 2012 – 9:33 am

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”  ~ Henry David Thoreau I try to be a good listener.  I really do.  But I am totally guilty of violating (at least) one cardinal rule of good listening.  I start mentally formulating my […]

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The Language of Social Media

May 15, 2012 – 11:45 am

“Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”  ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne Social Media, as the name implies, involves person-to-person or group-to-group communications that use a wide variety of technological mediums.  […]

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The Power Behind Random Acts of Kindness: How Paying it Forward with Team Members Can Benefit Your Relationships, Your Customers, and Your Business

April 23, 2012 – 11:10 pm

By nature, people want to help others.  Doing something meaningful for someone else is an endorphin-releaser that makes us feel good.  It also starts a chain reaction.  When someone does something nice for us, we want to perpetuate that good deed and do something nice for others. One of my favorite commercials that so beautifully […]

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