Improving Customer Service With Active Listening Skills

Improving Customer Service With Active Listening Skills Delivering excellent customer service to your internal and external customers requires strong interpersonal communication skills, especially in the area of listening. Listening effectively is the primary means that many customer service representatives use during communication to determine the needs of their customers. Many times, these needs are not … Read more

Non-Verbal Communication Tips

Nonverbal Communication Tips – The Importance of Gestures in Customer Communication Never underestimate the power of nonverbal communication when interacting with your customers or others. The issue is so important that entire books have been written on the topic. This article provides some nonverbal communication tips related to gesturing that you may want to consider … Read more

Strengthening Communication with Customers – Tip#2

Strengthening Communication with Customers – Tip#2 Be Consistent Customers who feel that they have an active role in and control of a service-provider interaction often feel more important and valued. Improved interpersonal communication can lead to higher levels of customer satisfaction and retention and reduced stress for you and your co-workers. Take advantage of the … Read more

Strengthening Communication with Customers – Tip#1

Strengthening Communication with Customers – Tip#1 Gather Information Customers who feel that they have an active role in and control of a service-provider interaction often feel more important and valued. Improved interpersonal communication can lead to higher levels of customer satisfaction and retention and reduced stress for you and your co-workers. Take advantage of the … Read more

Nonverbal Differences in Cross-Cultural Communication

Nonverbal Differences in Cross-Cultural Communication Working in a diverse world can present interesting, yet sometimes challenging, opportunities for today’s customer service representatives. If you earn your living by providing products and services to others, you should invest time and effort to learn about nonverbal differences in cross-cultural communication. It is sometimes easy to forget that … Read more

Improving Verbal Communication with Customers

Improving Verbal Communication with Customers Many customer service representatives give little thought to the way that they sound to their customers. Typically, they have not received customer service skills training that addresses effective verbal communication. Similarly, they likely have not taken college or professional courses on effective interpersonal communication. The result is that they do not … Read more

4 Customer Service Skills That Can Help Enhance Customer Satisfaction

4 Customer Service Skills That Can Help Enhance Customer Satisfaction Effective customer service skills that can help enhance customer satisfaction are important for every employee in an organization. However, they are crucial for front-line customer service representatives who are the first contact point for customers. Today’s customer contacts come from many sources: Face-to-face. Over the telephone. Via … Read more

Use Positive Verbal Communication to Avoid Customer Relationship Breakdowns

Use Positive Verbal Communication to Avoid Customer Relationship Breakdowns Customer service representatives and their organizations spend a lot of time, effort and money creative a positive service culture designed to attract, nurture and retain customers. Because of this, it only makes sense that when you are interacting with your internal and external customers that you … Read more

Customer Service Skills for Success 6th by Robert W. Lucas Now Available

Customer Service Skills for Success 6th by Robert W. Lucas Now Available The top-selling customer service textbook in the United States, Customer Service Skills for Success by Robert W. Lucas, is now in print from McGraw-Hill. This 6th edition includes a four-color layout with more images to enhance the content and a completely changed graphic appearance. … Read more

Nonverbal Communication with Customers: Using Gestures to Build Strong Relationships

Nonverbal Communication with Customers: Using Gestures to Build Strong Relationships Using effective nonverbal communication with customers is a powerful way to send and receive messages that enhance your meaning and can lead to customer satisfaction. This is because many research studies have found that nonverbal cues often override verbal messages that you send. In these … Read more

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