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A Customer Loyalty Exercise – An Excerpt from Our NEW Customer Service Book Taming Gladys!

Who's Your Gladys?

This simple exercise creates lasting changes in the way your team thinks and acts with customers. The post A Customer Loyalty Exercise – An Excerpt from Our NEW Customer Service Book Taming Gladys! They get to hear how their peers handle tough situations.

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How to Avoid Roadblocks to Great Customer Service

ShepHyken

What gets in the way of creating a great customer service experience for you and/or your organization? Is it a process that is clunky, inconvenient and difficult for the customer? Is it people who aren’t properly trained or don’t have the right people skills? Some answers will be major “aha!” Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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20 Customer Service Training Ideas and Activities for Busy Teams

Comm100

Take a load off and use the following activities when planning your next training day or session. This activity is adapted from 10 Customer Service Activities To Supercharge Your Team. Step into the Difficult Customer’s Shoes. With this exercise, break your team up into smaller groups of 3 or 4.

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Small Improvements in Customer Service Create Big Wins

ShepHyken

Identify: If you haven’t already done a journey map of what your customers experience as they do business with you, it’s time to do it. The good news is that if you haven’t done it yet, you don’t need to get to the level of detail you normally would for this exercise. This is the type of exercise that is not a “one and done.”

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The Customer Service Ritual that Takes Place at Every Meeting

ShepHyken

It helps us keep customer service “front-of-mind” and is a positive way to start a meeting. By the way, this is the same exercise we teach in our customer service training programs. We have clients that have been doing this exercise for years. As mentioned, for us it’s customer service.

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Bring the Skills of the Theatre to Your Face-to-face Customer Service Training

CSM Magazine

Hendrix Training runs an innovative, fun but also technical customer service workshop for a range of clients, including in retail, hospitality and the public sector, to boost employee confidence and lift the spirits of staff and customers. The importance of body language.

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8 Ways to Refresh Your Support Teams’ Customer Service Training – Part 1

Peter Lavers

They continuously invest a large amount in improving customer service by training employees. It’s not always about the knowledge and education – sometimes, it’s more about team building and motivation training. 2 Role Play Exercise. There is no better way to understanding a customer than being one.