About this product: Here are over two dozen ready-to-use innovative activities that help trainers and managers teach the basics of providing great customer service. Each fun, engaging training game takes just 15-30 minutes to implement. With step-by-step instructions for facilitators and reproducible participant handouts, these activities provide concrete techniques for: maintaining a positive service attitude; speaking and communicating clearly; honing superior telephone skills; learning the best approaches to dealing with difficult customers; and, other essentials to successfully provide great front line customer service.
Tools for pleasing even the most demanding customers
A satisfied customer is a loyal customer, and in today's supercompetitive business economy few things are as crucial to a company's bottom line as the quality of its customer service. This latest title in the popular Perfect Phrases series is just the thing for customer service employees and those who train and manage them. Perfect Phrases for Customer Service gets you quickly up and running with everything you need to keep customers happy and loyal, including:
Clear explanations of the reasons for difficult customer behaviors
Proven tools and techniques for successfully handling even the most cantankerous customers
101 dialogues and scripts organized according to types of difficult behaviors, usable as is or as part of a training program, and easily tailored to any industry and company culture
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About this product: If the true face of any organization is its customer service people, then nothing is more important than the training of these crucial employees. Customer Service Training 101 offers an easy-to-implement approach for busy managers and trainers seeking to motivate their people and equip them with the tools they need to excel in this essential role. Featuring interactive lessons that can be adapted for any type of business and for any type of trainee, this ready-to-use guide addresses important customer service areas including: * making a good first impression * projecting a positive attitude * communicating effectively through verbal, nonverbal, and listening skills * developing trust, establishing rapport, and making customers feel valued * confidently handling "difficult" customers and situations * interacting effectively face-to-face, and via telephone and e-mail The professionalism and enthusiasm of frontline employees reflect directly on the company they represent. Packed with powerful, proven ideas, this inspiring, comprehensive training manual will pave the way to superior customer service.
About this product: Delivering top-of-the-line customer service is Job #1 for most companies, an important factor in keeping profits high and customers coming back. Customer service problems can damage not just a company’s reputation but its bottom line, so for busy managers -- and business owners with little time to search for solutions -- some fast help is needed.
Award-Winning Customer Service offers scores of quick tips for readers looking to improve and then maintain their company’s level of customer service. The book is chock full of practical advice on important topics such as:
* planning and goal setting * effective communication * leadership * preparing for change * continual learning * coaching and development * effective feedback * motivational and problem-solving meetings * conflict resolution * follow-up and staying on top of the game * and more.
Containing 101 effective tips in all, unique "When this happens, try this" sections, and encouraging quotes, this is an essential reference for anyone who needs guidance or just a refresher on making customers feel truly valued.
About this product: The market-leader, Customer Service: A Practical Approach, goes beyond providing reasons why customer service is important to defining proven methods for creating customer service excellence. Using an organized and concise layout, it covers a wide range of knowledge and skills and offers an extensive collection of activities to enliven and invigorate any lecture. This edition features a revised chapter on technology, new quick quizzes, job link activities, team building exercises, and expanded challenge projects. Focusing on problem solving, communication strategies and self-assessment, it transcends superficial elements and pinpoints the skills needed to improve and sustain customer satisfaction and business relationships. Anyone involved in customer service from representatives to managers.
About this product: The market-leader, Customer Service: A Practical Approach, goes beyond providing reasons why customer service is important to defining proven methods for creating customer service excellence. Using an organized and concise layout, it covers a wide range of knowledge and skills and offers an extensive collection of activities to enliven and invigorate any lecture. This edition features a revised chapter on technology, new quick quizzes, job link activities, team building exercises, and expanded challenge projects. Focusing on problem solving, communication strategies and self-assessment, it transcends superficial elements and pinpoints the skills needed to improve and sustain customer satisfaction and business relationships.
About this product: Customer Service, 4/e by Lucas features how-to topics for the customer service professional. It covers the concepts and skills needed for success in business careers, including listening techniques, verbal and nonverbal communication, and use of technology. Emphasis is given to dealing with customer service problems and how to handle conflicts and stress. Insights and tips are also provided for customer service supervisory personnel.
About this product: First impressions are often lasting impressions. How customers are treated on the phone can quickly turn them into either an ex-customer or a customer for life. This thorough, quick-reading guide shows anyone who uses the phone--from salesperson to manager to secretary--how to treat it as a service tool that directly impacts on company profits.
About this product: This new book details how to care for customers and how to make superior service happen, and keep customers coming back to your store or Web site. You will learn practical and innovative tips and tricks that are easy to implement. These concepts and skills can be applied immediately. This book is a ready- made, in-house training workshop and step-by-step manual for creating superior customer service in an ever-competitive business environment. Learn from successful companies what works and what doesn’t to help keep customers racing back to your business.
About this product: The success of any organization depends on high-quality customer service. But for companies that strategically align customer service with their overall corporate strategy, it can transcend typical good business to become a profitable word-of-mouth machine that will transform the bottom line. The author draws on over thirty years of research for companies such as 3M, American Express, Chik-Fil-A, USAA, Coca-Cola, FedEx, GE, Cisco Systems, Neiman Marcus, and Toyota. Filled with proven strategies and eye-opening case studies, this book challenges many aspects of conventional wisdom using hard data and reveals how any organization can earn more loyalty, win more customers...and improve their financial bottom line.