Too often, I’ll see a vision or mission statement on an entry wall, but then observe very different priorities in day-to-day operations. We put our customers first, but keep the time you spend with them to three minutes. Or we deliver world class service, but we sure don’t have the resources we need on Mondays. In the most successful organizations, …
    
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On a recent trip to the Bahamas, I was reminded of the importance of an effective service strategy. As a customer service professional, it’s easy to get caught up in the daily details and lose sight of what ties it all together. There are many ways to approach strategy, but there are some common characteristics among organizations that have the …
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Contact centers that consistently get the best results view the operation as a total process. This viewpoint takes many forms: Ensure that everyone in the contact center, and those with key supporting roles outside the center, have a basic understanding of how contact centers operate. Recognize the process to be where most quality problems occur — and also where the opportunities …
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Ensuring that your organization is making required investments is an essential step in developing your customer service strategy. You will need to define, at a high level, the investments and funding necessary to support your vision. In my recent LinkedIn Learning course “Customer Service Strategy,” I explore four key principles that can help with this step. Make the required investments …
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Looking to generate substantive conversation at your next team meeting? Try one of these worksheets on customer expectations, metrics and customer access strategy. It can be helpful to take a step back from the day-to-day, urgent issues to think about the bigger picture. Discussions on these bigger pictures can help keep everyone on the same page and generate ideas for …
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Have you ever heard that you have to sacrifice quality to improve customer accessibility to services? Or the other way around? That’s one of the most common myths in customer service. Accessibility and quality are closely related and complementary. Learn more about each aspect of customer service and how they support one another in this video from my Lynda.com course …
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