Stella Connect

JANUARY 4, 2022

Customer service coaching refers to the practice of ongoing communication between the agent and their manager to hone in on how to improve on specific skills, achieve specific goals, and develop their craft so they can handle even the most difficult customer interactions. Coaching Customer Service Agents for Individual Growth.

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Myra Golden

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

I’m giving you the actual exercise I gave to the employees in the customer service training I delivered this morning, along with the discussion questions I used. If you’d like an excellent training activity that helps employees convey empathy , print off this exercise and facilitate a short discussion with your team.

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Myra Golden

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This is the 7-point call strategy I use when my work is to improve the telephone customer experience in a call center. Customer Care. Short video on how to acknowledge a customer’s emotion: 3. Yield to Callers (Don’t interrupt or over talk customers). Open with a lead-in. Good morning. This is Penny.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In the past few months leading up to my new book, The Convenience Revolution , I’ve focused on ways to be more convenient for your customers. These are the “convenience infractions” that potentially drive away customers. Cumbersome technology: Hard-to-navigate websites drive away customers. The goal is to eliminate friction.

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Myra Golden

JUNE 2, 2016

Three Unique Professional Development Events for Customer Service Professionals. How to Handle Difficult Customers Using Verbal Aikido. 5 Aikido Principles for Creating Calm, Defusing Anger and Moving to Closure with Difficult Customers. Creating calm with difficult customers is not a matter of using aggressive tactics.

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Myra Golden

JUNE 2, 2016

Three Unique Professional Development Events for Customer Service Professionals. How to Handle Difficult Customers Using Verbal Aikido. 5 Aikido Principles for Creating Calm, Defusing Anger and Moving to Closure with Difficult Customers. Creating calm with difficult customers is not a matter of using aggressive tactics.

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Myra Golden

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Making customers jump through hoops to get problems resolved ruins the customer experience. Here’s what my red bottom stilettos, now on a UPS truck back to New York, have to do with your customer experience: What good is it to have delightful employees, if customers have to work too hard to get help?

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Myra Golden

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Making customers jump through hoops to get problems resolved ruins the customer experience. Here’s what my red bottom stilettos, now on a UPS truck back to New York, have to do with your customer experience: What good is it to have delightful employees, if customers have to work too hard to get help?

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Myra Golden

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

It’s part of a full 16-module customer service training. This video is about giving customers an experience that makes them feel good and maintains their esteem. As a special treat for you, I’m sharing one module from my client’s course.

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Stella Connect

APRIL 17, 2018

If you’re in a call center performance management role, you’ve probably invested a lot of time and energy in your customer service training and coaching programs. You’re determined to build a team of brand experts who can connect with customers, resolve issues, and drive sales with ease. So we need to coach them daily”.

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Myra Golden

JUNE 2, 2016

Myra Golden Customer Service Training Highlight. Verbal Aikido: A non-agressive, highly effective strategy for handling difficult customers. Thanks to the Internet and social media, customers are more savvy now than ever before. This means the customer service professional must develop a response plan.

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Myra Golden

JUNE 2, 2016

Myra Golden Customer Service Training Highlight. Verbal Aikido: A non-agressive, highly effective strategy for handling difficult customers. Thanks to the Internet and social media, customers are more savvy now than ever before. This means the customer service professional must develop a response plan.

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ShepHyken

JULY 6, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. The most important customer service qualities in the next normal: Expertise, empathy, and speed by Vala Afshar. Expertise, empathy, and speed are the top three most important customer service qualities.

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Myra Golden

DECEMBER 9, 2016

A free module from my customer service online training. I began thinking about and conceptualizing this training during a drive home from Arkansas where I had just delivered a presentation to a group of 60 new managers in a corporate mentoring program for the world headquarters of Sam’s Club.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 4, 2019

The latest developments in this field are changing the way we can measure authentic customer emotions in real time. We discussed how technology and facial recognition are changing how to measure authentic customer emotions in real time on our latest podcast. Customer emotions drive customer behavior.

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Stella Connect

APRIL 17, 2018

If you’re in a contact center performance management role, you’ve probably invested a lot of time and energy in your customer service training and customer service coaching programs. You’re determined to build a team of brand experts who can connect with customers, resolve issues, and drive sales with ease.

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Myra Golden

MARCH 18, 2020

If you and your customer service employees are stuck at home like most of us, it can be a fantastic time to jump into the professional development training you’ve been putting off. We have some free and low-cost ways to improve the sound, flow, and feel of your customer interactions. Customer Service, SCORM 1.2-Compliant

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Myra Golden

JUNE 1, 2018

In this video, taken from my online customer service training suite, I answer the questions I’m asked most often about what’s appropriate for business texting. Watch the short video, and use it in your own customer service training. Was This Helpful?

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Myra Golden

DECEMBER 9, 2016

A free module from my customer service online training. I began thinking about and conceptualizing this training during a drive home from Arkansas where I had just delivered a presentation to a group of 60 new managers in a corporate mentoring program for the world headquarters of Sam’s Club.

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Myra Golden

MARCH 27, 2018

I just finished recording a fully customized 14-module video course for a new client. My client’s biggest challenge was how to navigate through complex calls, like situations with ramblers and challenging customers. Online Training Customized For Your Company! Online Training Customized For Your Company!

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Myra Golden

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Questions are a double-edged sword for customer service professionals. You have to ask questions to get to the root of the problem, log issues, and in general, to help customers. Years ago, when I managed a small call center, I realized that my team had to ask our customers seven questions. Our customers liked them too.

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Myra Golden

DECEMBER 17, 2015

You know your customer service is not where it needs to be. You know your agents aren’t delivering the level of service your customers expect and deserve. There are 2 reasons why your agents are failing at the customer experience. They aren’t establishing rapport with customers. Customer: “Hi Bill.

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Myra Golden

AUGUST 26, 2016

I joined YouTube in 2007 and one of the first videos I published was “The Psychology of Customer Anger.”. I’m taking a risk and posting this Flashback Friday video because one, some or all of these tips just may help you get an angry customer to back down. That cheesy video has gotten over 60,000 views. Try not to laugh too hard.

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Myra Golden

AUGUST 26, 2016

I joined YouTube in 2007 and one of the first videos I published was “The Psychology of Customer Anger.”. I’m taking a risk and posting this Flashback Friday video because one, some or all of these tips just may help you get an angry customer to back down. That cheesy video has gotten over 60,000 views. Try not to laugh too hard.

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Myra Golden

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The employee I spoke with made the two biggest mistakes customer service employees can make in the beginning of a call with a patient – or “would-be” patient. You can use this train your staff on speaking in complete sentences. Your videos and training materials have helped me tremendously.

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Myra Golden

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A corporate trainer in one of my client organizations is gung-ho on the Zappos culture and she is convinced that what her contact center needs is agents trained to make small talk with customers and empowerment so agents can consistently deliver wow experiences – “Just like Zappos does,” she says.

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Myra Golden

MARCH 19, 2017

Every interaction your employees have with customers is an opportunity to make the customer experience easy, helpful and friendly. The wrong words can cause dis-ease in customers, or leave customers thinking you don’t care. Customers, especially if they happen to be angry, need options. I’m fine.”.

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SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

The Super-Heroes of Customer Experience are here! Customer Experience – The new focus of 2020! Customer Experience has become a top priority for businesses in 2020. They have not only brought new perspectives on the table but have redefined the customer experience exceptionally!

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Myra Golden

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

I wanted to treat my small team today for working so hard over the weekend and yesterday into the evening on the big project of moving our entire eLearning roster and training modules to a new hosting site. One had a friendly person serving customers. Imagine your newest and most timid agent is on the phone with an irate customer.

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Myra Golden

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The employee I spoke with made the two biggest mistakes customer service employees can make in the beginning of a call with a patient – or “would-be” patient. In my customer service training workshops, when we focus on telephone soft skills, I tell my clients to always use a lead-in.

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Myra Golden

JANUARY 1, 2019

When I facilitate customer service training, I’ve been working on content and exercises for a least 60 days. I’ve held discovery discussions, mystery shopped or listened to a random sample of calls between employees and customers, and I’ve prayed over the event. Prepare for Coaching Conversations.

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Myra Golden

JANUARY 30, 2018

Today I’m going to show you how to use the Feel, Felt, Found method to express empathy to your customers. What’s great about the Feel, Felt, Found Method, is, it gives you the perfect response when you can’t give the customer exactly what they want. It helps you to be more relatable, and to foster a sense of connection with customers.

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Myra Golden

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A corporate trainer in one of my client organizations is gung-ho on the Zappos culture and she is convinced that what her contact center needs is agents trained to make small talk with customers and empowerment so agents can consistently deliver wow experiences – “Just like Zappos does,” she says.

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Myra Golden

AUGUST 25, 2016

Two years ago I was working with a company to help their customer service representatives convey empathy to customers. The intended outcome of the training was for employees to speak to customers with care, concern and compassion. Achieving empathy in the customer experience is a bit like walking a tightrope.

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Myra Golden

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

I wanted to treat my small team today for working so hard over the weekend and yesterday into the evening on the big project of moving our entire eLearning roster and training modules to a new hosting site. One had a friendly person serving customers. Imagine your newest and most timid agent is on the phone with an irate customer.

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Myra Golden

DECEMBER 19, 2017

I’ll never forget the day I saw a fight, literally a fist-fight, between a customer and an employee. My 17-year old co-worker and good friend, Beverly, said to a customer who wanted to return some worn out clothing, “We’re not taking that junk back!”. the customers said. I was glad Beverly got this customer and not me.

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Myra Golden

JULY 25, 2017

If your customer is raising his voice, cutting you off, or is clearly upset, he is stuck in the right side of the brain. To help this customer calm down, you’re going to have to move him to the left side of the brain. What you want is for your customer to operate in the left side of their brain, or their logical side.

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