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Customer Expectations and Staff Retention Are Biggest Challenges to Outstanding Service

CSM Magazine

Training and staff retention was cited as the top challenge by 33 percent of respondents, a big shift from ASQ’s last customer service survey in 2012, when it was rated as the least significant challenge. Twenty-nine percent surveyed this year said managing customer expectations was their No.

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10 Contact Center Management Mistakes & Best Practice Tips to Fix Them!

Comm100

A 2012 study by Beyond Philosophy, called out “silo mentality” as the biggest organizational hurdle in improving the customer experience. The focus here needs to be not only in offering an 800# with an integrated and useful IVR (make sure that you are NOT putting your customers into IVR Hell!), Let us know in the comments below.

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Guest Post: Ritz-Carlton Customer Service Secrets

Service Untitled

Q: What metrics or qualitative data does Ritz-Carlton use to measure customer service training success (How do you know it’s working)? Diana has more than 30 years experience in hospitality and customer service expertise. Before joining Software Advice in 2012, she worked in sales management and advertising.

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Top 150 Global Customer Experience Thought Leaders and Influencers of 2020

SurveySensum

He is an author of Moments of Magic®, The Loyal Customer, The Cult of the Customer, The Amazement Revolution, Amaze Every Customer Every Time, Be Amazing or Go Home, and The Convenience Revolution and a creator of a customer service training program, Customer Focus , aiming to help clients build a customer service culture and loyalty mindset.