Category: Call Center Training

Difficult Customers by myragolden

7 Things You Can Say to Gain Control with Challenging Customers

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If you find it difficult to get your customer to stop telling you the story of just how inconvenienced they were, or are, and to stop rambling on about the problem, it’s likely because the customer is stuck in the past.

You’re going to have to reframe the issue in the customer’s mind. That is, you must strategically move your customer out of a past problem to a focus on the present so that you can offer a solution. Your job, in essence, is to get the customer to move on.

Reframing statements are fantastic in getting the customer to move forward. Reframing does two things for you. First, it acknowledges your customer’s biggest concern. You empathize. Secondly, it ushers in the solution phase of problem resolution.

Here are seven reframing statements that recognize customer concern and help customers move on.

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Customer Experience Design by myragolden

2-Pronged Approach to Your Best Customer Experience Yet

The Best Customer Experience Your Brand Has Ever Seen!

This New Year my goal is to help you get to the best customer experience your brand has ever seen. We’ll do that by fiercely focusing on 2 areas:

1. Coaching, Feedback, and Accountability. In this area I want to give you the tools and plans that will build your confidence and skill in coaching your team to optimal performance, by addressing unacceptable performance and by holding employees accountable.

2. Friendliness, Empathy and Connection. I want to give you the tools and methods to position your employees to deliver a welcoming, warm and refreshing customer experience.

So, how exactly will these goals be met?

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Customer Experience Design by myragolden

2 Reasons Your Employees Are Failing at the Customer Experience

 

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You know your customer service is not where it needs to be. You know your employees aren’t delivering the level of service your customers expect and deserve. And this is keeping you up at night.

There are 2 reasons why your people are failing at the customer experience.

They aren’t establishing rapport with customers. And this is a big one. And, they aren’t in harmony with what your customers need and expect. Let’s take a look at the reasons agents fail at the customer experience and explore what you can do about it. 

  1. They aren’t establishing rapport with customers

This morning I was monitoring calls for a contact center client; something I often do. Here’s how the Agent opened the call.

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Difficult Customers by myragolden

What Aikido Masters Know About Handling Difficult People That You Don’t

I’m sitting at my desk reading feedback from my recent Verbal Aikido workshop. The workshop was: “What Aikido Master Know About Handling Difficult People That You Don’t” As you know, much of what I teach is focused […]