Three Negative Nonverbal Messages To Avoid When Serving Customers Some customer service representatives develop unproductive nonverbal behaviors without even realizing it. These may be nervous habits or mannerisms carried to excess (scratching, pulling an ear, or playing with hair). In a customer service environment, you should try to minimize such actions because they might send … Read more
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 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
Brand and Customer Loyalty Is Earned Not Given Freely Consumer behavior and spending habits, customer needs, wants and expectations and customer satisfaction levels change constantly. There can be wide differences in the way that customers perceive an item or event when seeking services and products depending on diversity factors, such as, age, gender, race, ethnic … Read more
Appropriate Service Recovery Strategies Can Lead To Customer Satisfaction and Retention Delivering excellent customer service should be the goal of every customer service representative and organization. Unfortunately, when things do not go as planned and customer service breakdowns occur, customer needs wants and expectations are often not met. Obviously, this is when customer satisfaction and … Read more
Interpersonal Communication – Your Key to Customer Service Success To be successful in your interactions with customers whose values, beliefs and experiences differ from your own, you will need to broaden your scope of knowledge related to interpersonal; communication, especially nonverbal signals (cues). Because nonverbal communication styles and interpretations often differ from person-to-person and from one culture to another, … Read more
Target Unauthorized Access to Credit Card Data Will Impact Customer Trust While no one died (as when someone tampered with Tylenol tablets in the 80s) and the environment was not destroyed (as with the Exxon Valez in the 80s or BP oil spill in 2010), millions of loyal customers and potential Target customers have been … Read more
What is a Service Breakdown? Service breakdowns occur daily in all types of organizations. They happen whenever the product or service delivered fails to meet customer needs, wants and expectations. In some cases the product or service delivered may function exactly as it was designed or promised, still, if the customer perceived that it should … Read more
U.S. House passes federal ‘customer service’ bill The House approved legislation that aims to improve “customer service” across federal agencies. The House passed the bill, the Government Customer Service Improvement Act (H.R. 1660), by unanimous consent on July 31. According to the bill’s sponsors, the legislation will build on existing performance management frameworks to track service … Read more
Customer Service Quote – The Value of Dissatisfied Customers Customers who are unhappy or dissatisfied can be a real challenge for many customer service representatives. They require additional time and effort to appease, they can create a public display, and they can also affect organizational and service provider satisfaction ratings by sharing their story with … Read more
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