Taking Care of the People Who Matter Most
Author: Sybil Stershic
Publisher: WME Books
Published: 2007-10-01
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781934229040
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Effective Customer Care
Author: Pat Wellington
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Published: 2010-06-03
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0749459980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEffective Customer Care is an essential guide to creating excellent customer service that will not only satisfy your customers and prompt orders, but also cement customer relationships and develop loyalty... and thus increase profits. You will find out what really goes through a customer's mind when they look to purchase a product or service, and what might turn them away without you even realising it. If you have to handle complaints or problem solve you will be shown a robust and systematic approach to reduce these occurrences. In servicing your customer you will often need to get cooperation from others within your organisation, be it members of your team or those in other departments. Effective Customer Care will show you how to do this. And finally, you will learn how to ensure that you keep your customers loyal, and build an ongoing business relationship with them. Pat Wellington includes every aspect of the customer care process including how to: understand what the customer wants, not what you think they want; stop losing business and gain market share; motivate team members to offer a value added service to customers; improve the level of service offered; get a better level of service from internal customers and build long term relationships with customers and suppliers. It is written without jargon and includes international case studies from UK, Scandinavia, USA the Gulf and Singapore.
Customer Care Excellence
Author: Sarah Cook
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Published: 2010-11-03
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0749462574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCustomer loyalty is essential to the long term financial success of your business, but with more choice then ever before, customers today have high expectations of the products and services they use. To continue to meet - and even to exceed - these high expectations, you need a top notch customer services system in place, and Customer Care Excellence will enable you to achieve just that. In clear, practical language, this book takes you through how you can develop and sustain a customer-service focus within your company. Emphasizing both strategic and practical aspects of customer care, Customer Care Excellence explains how gaining customer commitment and motivating employees to deliver an excellent service at all your company's touch points can ensure successful results and satisfied customers. This fully revised and updated edition includes new material examining the impact of social networking on customer behaviour and the emotional connection customers have with the brand, explaining how you can create a memorable customer experience. Author Sarah Cook takes you through the practical steps necessary to create a culture of customer focus and, crucially, shows how employee engagement leads to customer engagement.
Caring for the Customer
Author:
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 0750632984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis workbook will enable managers to: · explain the meaning and significance of customer care; · identify their internal and external customers; · identify their customers' expectations and any areas in which they are failing to meet them; · provide an effective lead for their team in raising the standard of customer care; · ensure that they and theirr team members perform to a high standard in customer-contact situations.
Caring for the Customer
Author: Institute of Leadership & Management
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-06-07
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 1136422781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith forty well structured and easy to follow topics to choose from, each workbook has a wide range of case studies, questions and activities to meet both an individual or organization's training needs. Whether studying for an ILM qualification or looking to enhance the skills of your employees, Super Series provides essential solutions, frameworks and techniques to support management and leadership development.
Customer Service in Health Care
Author: Kristin Baird
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2014-07-25
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 111902031X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch confirms that it is six times more costly to attract anew customer than it is to retain an existing one. Creating a culture of service excellence requires planning,preparation, and persistence. Customer Service in HealthCare is designed to provide readers with the fundamentalinformation and skills to start or strengthen a customer serviceinitiative within a health care organization. This bookconcentrates on action as opposed to theory. It offers a practical,step-by-step process for creating a culture shift toward customerservice excellence at all levels of an organization, and presentsthe essentials to improving performance that will bring theindividuals closer to the mission, values, and standards. Chapters focus on: Tools for establishing and measuring customer service teamgoals Creating customer service standards unique to yourorganization Tips on training sessions Strategies for maintaining top-of-mind awareness of customerservice among employees Customer service techniques for physicians and nurses An overview of customer service as an essential component ofbusiness development and marketing
Amaze Every Customer Every Time
Author: Shep Hyken
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
Published: 2013-09-03
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1626340102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou must deliver an amazing customer experience. Why? It is the competitive edge of new-era business—in any market and any economy. Renowned customer experience expert Shep Hyken explains how consistently amazing customers through stellar service can elevate your company from good to great. All transformations require a role model, and Shep has found the perfect role model to inspire your team: Ace Hardware. Ace was named as one of the top ten customer service brands in America by Businessweek and ranked highest in its industry for customer satisfaction. Through revealing stories from Ace’s over-the-top work with customers, Shep explores the five tactical areas of customer amazement: leadership, culture, one-on-one, competitive edge, and community. Delivering amazing service requires everyone in your organization to step up and be a leader. It doesn’t take a title. It takes the right set of tools and principles. To help you empower employees at all levels, Shep brings the content to a deeply practical level. His 52 Amazement Tools—like “Ask the extra question” and “Focus on the customer, not the money”—are simple, clear, useful for almost anybody, and supported with compelling research and stories. Between these covers, you will find the tools and tactics you need to transform your company into a seriously customer-focused operation that will amaze every customer every time.
Excellence Wins
Author: Horst Schulze
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2019-03-05
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 031035210X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHorst Schulze knows what it takes to win. In Excellence Wins, the cofounder and former president of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company lays out a blueprint for becoming the very best in a world of compromise. In his characteristic no-nonsense approach, Schulze shares the visionary and disruptive principles that have led to immense global success over the course of his still-prolific fifty-year career in the hospitality industry. For over twenty years, Schulze fearlessly led the company to unprecedented multibillion dollar growth, setting the business vision and people-focused standards that made the Ritz-Carlton brand world renowned. In Excellence Wins, Schulze shares his approach to everything from providing the best customer service to creating a culture of excellence within your organization. With his tried-and-true methods and inspiring, hard-earned wisdom, Schulze teaches you everything you need to know about: Why leading well is an acquired skill Serving your customers Engaging your employees Creating a culture of customer service Why vision statements make a difference What it really means to practice servant leadership Schulze's principles are designed to be versatile and practical no matter where you are in your career. He'll remind you that you don't need a powerful title or dozens of direct reports to benefit from the advice he shares in Excellence Wins--you have everything you need to apply it to your life and career right now. Let Schulze's incredible story help you unleash the disruptive power of your true potential, beat the competition, own your career trajectory, and experience the game-changing power of what happens when Excellence Wins.
Strategic Customer Service
Author: John A. GOODMAN
Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
Published: 2009-05-13
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 081441334X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe success of any organization depends on high-quality customer service. But for companies that strategically align customer service with their overall corporate strategy, it can transcend typical good business to become a profitable word-of-mouth machine that will transform the bottom line. Drawing on over thirty years of research for companies such as 3M, American Express, Chik-Fil-A, USAA, Coca-Cola, FedEx, GE, Cisco Systems, Neiman Marcus, and Toyota, author Goodman uses formal research, case studies, and patented practices to show readers how they can: • calculate the financial impact of good and bad customer service • make the financial case for customer service improvements • systematically identify the causes of problems • align customer service with their brand • harness customer service strategy into their organization's culture and behavior Filled with proven strategies and eye-opening case studies, this book challenges many aspects of conventional wisdom—using hard data—and reveals how any organization can earn more loyalty, win more customers...and improve their financial bottom line.
Customer Astonishment
Author: Darby Checketts
Publisher: Author's Choice Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781931741682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreat customer relationships make the world go around. Customers give us the opportunity to apply our talents to serve them. Then, they transfer money from their bank accounts to ours so that we have the financial leverage to meet our goals. This simple, everyday economic interdependence is what business success, professional accountability, and personal prosperity are all about. In today's competitive world, a satisfied customer is no longer enough. A satisfied customer is still shopping around until you provide that WOW experience and make that WOW connection that creates customer loyalty. To do so, you must move beyond mere customer service to the new world of Customer Astonishment. To astonish is to strike with awe and wonder. Author Darby Checketts has spent the past 14 years preparing to show you how. You will learn the principles and methods to make these secrets work for you and your team. Discover the Power of WOW, which is necessary to positively astonish those who depend on you. Set your own mark for world-class customer care.
