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.


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.


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.


Tales of Knock Your Socks Off Service

Tales of Knock Your Socks Off Service

Author: Kristin Anderson

Publisher: Amacom

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780814479711

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The 10th book in the "Knock Your Socks Off Service" series tells tales (101 of them) of memorable customer service, customer service heroes, and service providers who have gone "above and beyond" for their customers. With its humor, pragmatic observations, and stories, anyone at any service level will get a kick out this book.


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.


Knock Your Socks Off Prospecting

Knock Your Socks Off Prospecting

Author: William Miller

Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 0814428711

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Another knockout in the grand tradition of "Knock Your Socks Off Service"!


Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service

Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service

Author: Chip R. BELL

Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

Published: 2007-05-17

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0814400515

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Today’s customers demand service that isn’t just beyond the norm, but makes its mark in their minds and in their hearts. This updated edition of Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service provides readers with up-to-the-minute advice on how they can create world-class service both in their operations and through their people, whether they work with customers face-to-face, on the phone, or in e-space. Revamped with new examples, stories, and research, and featuring cartoons by John Bush, the book gives readers practical, proven ways to: * find and retain service-oriented people * get to know customers intimately * build a service vision * train and coach * create and maintain a service management process that aligns people, systems, and customers * involve and empower employees * recognize and reward good performance. Filled with examples from service standard-setters such as Fed-Ex, QVC, and others, Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service shows how to create great service on a day-to-day, real-time, every-time basis.


Knock Your Socks Off Answers

Knock Your Socks Off Answers

Author: Kristin Anderson

Publisher: Amacom Books

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780814478844

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Pat answers to peevish questions and provocative customer comments, smart answers to even tougher questions, questions with no easy answers, and customers say the darnedest things.


Coaching Knock Your Socks Off Service

Coaching Knock Your Socks Off Service

Author: Ron Zemke

Publisher: Amacom Books

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780814479353

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Describes the basics of managing like a coach, and presents ideas for coaching in particular situations, including training and motivating new employees