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You Readers Are So Pathetic

Beyond Philosophy

You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.”. Daniel Goleman, Author of Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More Than IQ. So Why is Rudeness Contagious? As many of you know, I’m British. Even when they aren’t.

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Creating Customer Heroes: How Your Agents Can Become Customer Storytellers

CX Accelerator

Stories are a great way to make communicating complex information simpler, they provoke thought and learning, and they can often guide our actions in a way that’s clearer than cold NPS or CSat figures. Given that storytelling can be such a powerful way to share learning, what does that mean for your contact center?

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Management coach Lara Hogan on perfecting the leadership craft

Intercom, Inc.

Each person on your team has different needs, responds to feedback in different ways and evolves in different trajectories – and management should always reflect that. In their workshops and trainings, she found herself giving the same advice over and over again, and so she decided to write it all down.

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5 Things You Should Do Today to Manage Uncertainty in Business

Beyond Philosophy

We want to make a good decision but worry about how terrible the consequences will be if we make a bad one. Luckily, there are a few ways to manage uncertainty—and its related risk. However, most of them are coaching sites, so I can see why he says it.). It’s called Risk Aversion, and we all have it to some degree.

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Employee Culture: Why Amazon is on Top and Bank of America Isn’t

Beyond Philosophy

While I believe there are several factors at work here that make the difference between the two organizations, employee engagement is a big part it. How employee engagement affects their rank: A recent article on BusinessInsider.com points out that Amazon’s cloud computing business earned $3.8 They communicate well. Billion last year.

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What is an Internal Assessment? Methods, Advantages and Tips

ProProfs

Assessments have always been considered a systematic way of collecting, reviewing, and using the information to identify existing knowledge gaps and provide a great learning experience. In fact, data from IBM suggests that companies that conduct regular assessments offer a much better employee experience.

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The Remarkable Power of Habit to Transform Customer Behavior

Beyond Philosophy

We discussed how one of the ways to view patterns is through this two-system lens, meaning the Intuitive and Rational Systems we use in our thinking. . You will recall that the Intuitive System is fast, automatic thinking associated with emotional reactions, and the Rational System is slow, deliberate thought related to logic.

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