Have you handed over your customer service to Google?
A colleague recently shared his customer service experience of contacting his business email hosting service after having no access for more than 16 hours. Real World Story: “The customer service experience I’m about to share with you is a true story. I’m not crafty...
Are your employee incentive programs too outdated to elevate your customer service delivery?
A colleague recently shared his thoughts on old-school employee incentive programs, like Employee of the Month, as an organization’s internal booster of customer service delivery. Real World Story: “Recently, I’ve been thinking about how employers incentivize...
Can great customer service be better than medicine?
I recently had a medical emergency in which dealing with medical staff was more painful than my physical ailment. Through this experience, I discovered that I felt much better in the rare instances when I dealt with kind and caring medical staff. Their approach to...
Shouldering the Pain of BAD Customer Service
My friend Joe had shoulder replacement surgery in mid-January. Boy, talk about having to shoulder a painfully BAD customer experience! Following is his story. Real World Story: Based on the paperwork we had received, it wasn’t clear where we needed to go exactly—which...