Real World Story: On the news recently, the media reported an incident in which a United Airlines flight made an unscheduled, early landing in Salt Lake City in order to kick off a family with an autistic child who was being disruptive. You can pick up the story on...
No organization can thrive if it doesn’t communicate effectively with its employees or with its customers. Internally, without communication, staff members make up stuff, which feeds into gossip, which turns into negative rumors. This in turn, creates bad morale,...
Am I alone in thinking that technology is slowly taking over human interaction? We are perfecting computer code that can anticipate and target our likes and dislikes, software that emulates and extrapolates from the work of master painters, and apps that use...
Remember the last telephone conversation you had with a customer service rep in which the rep sounded like a robot because he or she simply recited a script? When you asked a question, did the rep ignore it and go back to reading the script? Did not getting an answer...
Real World Story: A customer is eating alone at a restaurant’s counter. The wait staff are talking loudly all around her, complaining about roommates. “She’s moving out. It’s a pain in the butt to find a new roommate. Oh yeah, I had to go through that last month.” On...
It’s interesting. But if a willing and able customer wants to give you money, take it! Since my last blog post about not getting service providers to return email requests, I’ve had THREE people from three different parts of the US tell me of similar situations. Real...
