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Culture is Contagious

ShepHyken

We were discussing how important it is to “bake” customer service into the culture. It’s leadership’s job to define the customer service vision, ensure it’s communicated, and be the role models demonstrating how customers and employees are to be treated. Yes, their culture is contagious!

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The Culture Challenge

ShepHyken

Culture is one of the most important parts of customer service and customer experience. I’ve written numerous articles about this and have included a chapter on this topic in my latest book, I’ll Be Back: How to Get Customers to Come Back Again and Again , which by the way, is finally out.

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Bad Customer Service Isn’t the Problem. A Bad Culture Is the Problem

ShepHyken

Even several years before the pandemic began, The American Customer Satisfaction Index found the overall ratings slipping, even with brands most recognized for high levels of customer service. . It’s not like companies purposely provide poor customer service. The company can’t keep up.

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15 Top Customer Service Training Courses for Your Agents (Half Are Free)

Comm100

According to research conducted in 2015 by Aspect Cloud Solutions , 76% of respondents see “customer service as a ‘true test’ of how much a company values them.” ” And customer service training is vital to maintaining excellent customer relations. Image source: ALISON.

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Customer Service Training: When you’re done… you’re not done!

ShepHyken

So, I took a few minutes to talk to several people about how they were trained. I asked them what kind of customer service training they received from the companies they worked for. She delivered great service, however, her fellow employees didn’t seem to operate at her level. She was amazing.

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The need for excellent customer service training

Peter Lavers

Amongst all the hype of customer experience, AI, chatbots and real-time personalisation, don’t forget that staff still need excellent customer service training – no matter how successful your company is right now! Teach them hard skills. That’s where hard skills come in.

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3 Ways to Add Magic to your Customer Service Training

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

What do customers talk about after interacting with your company? Or…they tell their friends how happy they were with the service of such an exceptionally helpful, friendly representative for your company. The post 3 Ways to Add Magic to your Customer Service Training appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.