Coaching Knock Your Socks Off Service
Coaching Knock Your Socks Off Service

Author: Ron Zemke

Publisher: AMACOM

Published: 1996-10-21

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 0814415814

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Authors Kristin Anderson and Ron Zemke provide a practical guide to the day-to-day challenges that arise in training superior customer service people. Knock your socks off service doesn't just happen. It requires coaching on an ongoing basis. As part of the Knock Your Socks Off series, Coaching Knock Your Socks Off Service explains how to: help frontline employees hone their skills, maintain the motivation to perform, and meet new situations head-on. The authors present a model for successfully coaching anyone, anywhere, and they show you how to apply it in familiar coaching situations. Everyone can appreciate Zemke and Anderson's strategies for handling the toughest coaching problems. You will learn the most important new skill? teaching employees to be peer coaches, a growing need in the current era of teams and of doing more with less.

Knock Your Socks Off Service Recovery
Knock Your Socks Off Service Recovery

Author: Ron Zemke

Publisher: Amacom Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780814470848

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Based on the popular, breezy approach of the Knock Your Socks Off Service series, the authors provide managers with an upbeat primer on creating a first-class recovery system--showing what it costs to lose customers and how little it can cost to win them back.

101 Activities for Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service
101 Activities for Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service

Author: Performance Research Associates

Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

Published: 2009-06-17

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 0814414451

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Today’s customers are demanding service that is faster, better, and more personalized than ever before. How can organizations ensure that they are prepared to meet that challenge? The latest addition to the best-selling Knock Your Socks Off Service® series, 101 Activities for Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service provides readers with the practical tools and cost-effective training required to help meet their customers’ needs. Taking the unique position of seeing things from the customer’s perspective, this collection of fun and enlightening exercises teaches customer service managers and employees valuable ways to help their organizations provide world-class service, and helps them create an action plan for improvement. Written in the same accessible and humorous style that made Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service so popular, this companion guide covers such topics as: • how to say no • empathy vs. sympathy • service recovery • listening • email • telephone skills • customers from hell • winning words and soothing phrases • anticipting customer needs • building reliability • customer feedback • keeping a stress log • and more These simple but effective activities take only minutes, but deliver truly powerful, lasting results.

Knock Your Socks Off Selling
Knock Your Socks Off Selling

Author: Jeffrey H. Gitomer

Publisher: Amacom Books

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780814470305

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The successful "Knock Your Socks Off" (KYSO) formula for wowing customers is back, adapted into a surefire strategy for winning sales by the illustrious consulting team of Gitomer and Zemke. The book will help salespeople succeed in today's complex and stiffly competitive sales environment.

Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service
Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service

Author: Performance Associates, Inc

Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0814417558

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In this trusted customer service classic, the renowned business training and consulting services practice Performance Research Associates, Inc. lays bare the truth all companies have come to accept but few know what to do with: companies that emphasize customer service make more money and keep customers longer than those that don't. For over two decades, Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service has combined this timeless wisdom with powerful tools, real-world examples, and the latest methods to provide customer service professionals an indispensable guide. With lighthearted examples and to-the-point solutions, the book provides readers with proven tips and strategies for exceeding customer needs and expectations, determining the right times to bend or break the rules, becoming fantastic fixers and powerful problem-solvers, using the RATER factors to wow your customers, understanding cultural and generational differences, and coping effectively with your most challenging customers. Plus, the revised fifth edition delivers new information on using social media for communication and service recovery, owning service encounters, responding positively to negative feedback, and more.What is quality customer service--and how do you consistently deliver it for your customers? Discover the answers in this go-to guide for helping customer service professionals deliver outstanding service that keeps customers coming back.

Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service
Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service

Author: PERFORMANCE RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

Published: 2011-10-29

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0814417566

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Who would’ve thought that a practical, fun, easy-to-read customer service book would capture the hearts of hundreds of thousands of readers? Now, celebrating its 20th anniversary, Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service has been completely revised and is better than ever! Still the go-to guide on providing the kind of outstanding service that keeps customers coming back, the fifth edition combines powerful tools and techniques with real-world examples and all-new chapters on using social media for communication and service recovery, owning service encounters, responding positively to negative feedback, and more. The book provides readers with proven tips and strategies for: • Exceeding customer needs and expectations • Determining the right times to bend or break the rules • Becoming fantastic fixers and powerful problem-solvers • Using the RATER factors to wow your customers • Understanding cultural and generational differences • Becoming a listening post • Coping effectively with “customers from hell” With people surrounded by more choices and information than ever before, true customer loyalty has become increasingly difficult to attain. Combining timeless wisdom and up-to-the-minute methods, Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service is the book no customer service professional can afford to be without.

Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service
Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service

Author: Ron Zemke

Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0761213392

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Create a service advantage with the help of customer service guru Ron Zemke. In practical, easy-to-follow steps, learn trusted techniques and positive approaches that will inspire you to believe in the value of customer care and give you the skills and style to deliver it. This book takes these winning concepts to a new level with interactive features that enable you to turn the Knock Your Socks Off Service advantage to a competitive advantage in your own workplace. You will learn how to: ¿ See things from the customer¿s point of view ¿ Meet customer expectations and satisfy their needs ¿ Create a memorable experience for the customer ¿ Become easy to do business with ¿ Determine the right time to bend or break the rules ¿ Become a fantastic fixer and powerful problem-solver ¿ Cope effectively with "customers from hell" ¿ Avoid the ten deadly sins of customer service ¿ Formulate smart answers to tough customer questions

Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service
Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service

Author: Chip Bell

Publisher: AMACOM

Published: 2013-05-01

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0814432050

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You may have your industry’s most prolific product or service in the marketplace, but your customers’ loyalty and checkbooks will only go as far as your customer service will allow. In the end, customers will not recognize the minor advantages of your superior product, but poor customer service will stand out like the Vegas strip on a moonless night. So the most vital question any manager or business owner can ask themselves today is, how well are you training, coaching, and supporting your company’s frontline employees?The invaluable, must-have Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service shows managers and supervisors how to: • Find and retain service-oriented people • Understand customer needs, expectations, and desires • Build a service vision • Design a user-friendly service delivery process • Involve and inspire employees • Recognize and reward good performance Fully updated with new chapters on: learning from lost customers; inciting passion and incentivizing service; fostering trust; and delivering great customer experiences online, this indispensable resource provides absolutely everything managers need to ensure their frontline employees become their company's biggest asset.

Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service
Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service

Author: Chip R. Bell

Publisher: Amacom Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780814473689

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The bestselling customer service management book is back and better than ever, with new tips, strategies, and examples from how to find and retain service-oriented people to recognizing and rewarding good performance.