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How to measure customer service training

Inside Customer Service

You've sent your team through customer service training. I've repeatedly used them to demonstrate the impact of customer service training to executives. Why evaluate customer service training? Step 1: Identify expectations Start by meeting with the person who asked for the customer service training.

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How to write customer service procedures your employees will love

Inside Customer Service

Customer service managers write a lot of procedures. Customer experience becomes inconsistent. Service quality erodes. Here's a five step process for writing customer service procedures your employees will love. Next, the manager started sharing each mystery shopper report with the team.

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Friendliness is more important than speed for fast food chains

Inside Customer Service

Friendly employees can even help offset the impact of slower service or a higher error rate. How friendliness connects to customer satisfaction The Intouch Insight study used mystery shoppers to evaluate the drive-thru experience at ten fast food brands. Let's look at the data. More than 1,500 visits were completed.

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The Magic of the Customer Experience

Service Quality Institute

There are so many elements that make up the customer experience. To some, it is knowing about your products and services. The obstacle many of us face is we think we’re awesome at customer service. When I released Feelings in January 1980, it was the world’s first customer service training program.

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Monthly Mash and The Sympathetic Holiday Shopper

Customers That Stick

Welcome to the Monthly Mash, a mashup of tools, tales and tips on customer service and the customer experience from around the blogosphere. Thoughts on the Customer: The Sympathetic Holiday Shopper. The Month in Customer Service Blogging. VOLUME 37: November 2014. Is this an oxymoron?

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Customer Experience Management: An Exclusive Interview with Micah Solomon

SugarCRM

So, when SugarCRM sat down to learn about customer experience management from Micah Solomon, renowned customer service and CX expert, author, keynote speaker, and webinar host to delve into his customer-centric brain ahead of his upcoming webinar series with Sugar. . Here’s what he had to say. .

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How to Establish a Strong Service Culture Fast

CX Journey

Instead, many companies would benefit from a more dramatic service revolution that quickly rebuilds their culture around the vision of taking action to create new or greater value for others. Four Common Mistakes and How to Do it Better There is a better way to build a culture that quickly and dramatically improves customer service.