Category: Customer Service Culture

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.

Special Video Training for Customer Service Representatives – How to talk to customers: Empathy and Tone

How to Talk to Customers: Empathy, Tone and Making Personal Emotional Connections On Demand Webinar Training This new video contains a step-by-step approach to speaking with customers with a friendly tone, empathy and concern. Your people will lean […]

The Beyond WOW Customer Experience

The explosive ideas in this book will help you go beyond the WOW experience to build, repair, and grow customer relationships.  by Myra Golden and Dr. Jeffrey Magee “From the first page I was taken […]

Take a Peek Behind the Scenes of PaySimple’s Customer Service Department

I just love going inside Contact Centers and discovering how great companies manage processes to consistently deliver an outstanding customer experience. My customer service keynote presentations are made up entirely of benchmarks of real companies […]

The Top 3 Things Most Companies Miss When It Comes to Creating a Customer-Focused Culture

Many organizations talk about creating a customer-focused culture, but few companies actually set up and sustain an authentic customer-focused culture. Culture is about more than new customer service training, employee empowerment, buttons and mugs, and […]