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

ShepHyken

More and more people are complaining about bad customer service. The demand for better service continues to grow, as evidenced in our customer experience research (2022 Achieving Customer Amazement study sponsored by Amazon Web Services). It’s not like companies purposely provide poor customer service.

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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. And don’t think customers won’t notice.

Culture 152
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How to Build a Strong Customer Service Culture

Help Scout

Your customer service culture is not what your fancy “Customer Guarantee” promises, and it’s not whatever you say it is in your new employee handbook. Your culture is the set of beliefs held by your employees about your company: who and what it is for, what it values, and how they act in response to those beliefs.

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Money Down the Drain: Is It Worth Training These Employees?

Steve DiGioia

Imagine this: you work tirelessly for weeks on end to train a new employee, pouring all your knowledge and expertise into them. Was it worth training these employees or was it money down the drain? Employers invest significant time, energy, and resources into training new hires, only to see them leave shortly after.

Training 130
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Customer-Centric Culture Barriers and Ways to Address Them

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

“We believe in a customer-centric culture!” “Our Our values include putting the customer in the center of everything we do.” “We We are committed to being customer-centric.” You or maybe your organization may have adopted similar mottos or share the term “customer-centric culture” as a guiding principle.

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Create a customer service culture to stand out in the crowd

Vonage

When a business clearly defines its customer service culture in its mission statement, values and goals, great things can happen. A great example of how a finely crafted mission statement can create a customer service culture comes out of Singapore. Key learning point to customer service culture.

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Do Customer Service Jobs Come With Training?

Customers That Stick

Customer service is not necessarily a natural skill set and there are a host of techniques that must be trained and then made into habit for people to succeed with customers. When you’re in your interview, it’s okay to ask what type of training the company provides.