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How do you fix a broken customer? Spend an hour with Ron Zemke's Service Recovery and discover the steps to take after a product or service breakdown to satisfy your customer. Zemke's guidelines are easy to implement at all levels of a company. You'll learn the economic rationale for service recovery and the recovery guidelines for strategic advantage.
Brings together thought-provoking articles on achieving and maintaining superior customer service in any organization.
This classic service primer shows how to make service quality an imperative in the organization and increase profits with customer loyalty.
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 custom...
Written for those struggling to manage a workforce with incompatible ethics, values, and working styles, this book looks at the root causes of professional conflict and offers practical guidelines for navigating multigenerational differences. By exploring the most common causes of conflict--including the Me Generation’s frustration with Gen Yers’ constant desire for feedback and the challenges facing Gen Xers sandwiched between these polarities--Generations at Work offers practical, spot-on guidance for managing the differences with consideration to each generation’s unique needs. Along with the authors’ insights for managing a workforce with different ways of working, communicating, and thinking, this invaluable resources offers: in-depth interviews with members of each generation, tips on best practices from companies successfully bridging the generation gap, and a mentorship field guide to help you support the youngest members of your team. Generations at Work has the tools that are key to helping your workforce interact more positively with one another and thrive in today’s wildly divergent workplace culture.
Outlines the skills and techniques of providing superior customer service.
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.
Leaders and supervisors do not grow on trees; they must be developed. 'Developing Supervisors and Team Leaders' is a practical, how-to guide for creating leaders and supervisors. Spanning topics from determining needs to evaluating performance, it covers all aspects of how to develop the skills, insights, and attitude to lead others. Kirkpatrick demonstrates how to get others to share the same focus, purpose, and efforts toward improving an organization's quality of product or service. From determining needs, planning programs and training to the final evaluation, this book provides knowledge and practical tools for developing successful leaders. Donald Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of the University of Wisconsin, is the author of numerous books and articles on the subject of management and performance.