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How to Create a Customer Service Culture in Your Biz

In today's competitive business landscape, exceptional customer service is vital. This article explores the importance of creating a customer service culture, from defining your values to empowering employees and embracing continuous improvement. Prioritise customer service, invest in your team, and reap the rewards of delighted customers and a remarkable reputation.

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Dealing with Difficult Customers: Tips for Success

Dealing with Difficult Customers: Tips for Success is a comprehensive guide for customer service professionals. Learn how to handle demanding, aggressive, indecisive, and know-it-all customers with effective strategies. Master communication, problem-solving, and emotional management for positive outcomes. Discover preventative measures to minimise challenges and prioritise a customer-focused culture. Elevate your customer service skills and ensure customer success.

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Why some customer service staff act like brats

Sometimes customer service staff sulk, huff, puff, moan and pout. It’s the adult version of a child wanting attention or feeling feelings that they don’t know how to communicate with words. We all feel like that some days but when it happens in the workplace, as a leader you need to address the problem fast or you risk damaging your reputation.

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What frontline customer service staff fear most about 2022

It’s a new year but is anything different for our frontline customer service staff and what can you do to make 2022 better for you and your team? Read on for the 1 thing you can do that costs nothing and will help you sleep at night…or during the day, no judgement.

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3 things to do before engaging a customer service training provider

Finding an external training provider is not always easy. Infact, it can be time wasting, budget draining and soul destroying! Read on to find out the 3 things you can do to make the search for an external training provider be time, budget and soul friendly.

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The #1 problem when seeking new frontline customer service staff

As the old quote goes, we hire for skills and we fire for behaviours so if that is the case, wouldn’t it be more useful to know about the behaviours side of things before we hire? Read on to save time and money when seeking to hire frontline customer service staff.

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The essential book for fatigued, anxious and angry frontline customer service staff

If you identify with the heading of this blog, then read on. If you want to do something to support and to thank frontline customer service staff then this is for you too.

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How to eliminate complacency from customer service teams

Ever thought this about customer service staff…“Why do I have to remind staff to arrive early enough to have a chat, grab a coffee and be ready to start on time and not rush in the door and still be fumbling around 15 mins into their shift?” OR ““My frontline team are split - some are great, some do only the bare minimum and some seem determined to undermine me at every step” Read on if this is you….

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How to indentify excellent customer service staff during interviews

I you’re having trouble identifying frontline customer service candidates who have excellent people skills, this blog is for you. Read on so you can save time by sorting out the good from the great and you can build a team of Customer Service Professionals - anything less means more work later.

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The vaccine customer service staff must use now

Face to face interactions with customers during COVID19 is causing both staff and customers high levels of anxiety. The good news is that although we are having to wait for a vaccine for COVID19, there is a vaccine that has positive impact on staff and customers.

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