
Unlock Your Potential: The Power of a Customer Service Audit
Exceptional customer service is key to loyalty and success. However, there are times when some organizations fail to see things from their customers’ perspective. One of the services that Improving Communications provides is a Customer Service Audit (CSA). This gives a clear and unbiased view of the customer experience. This helps businesses find areas to improve and take […]

The Customer Focused Mindset
What is a Mindset? A mindset is defined as the attitudes, inclinations, or beliefs of an individual. Those attitudes affect our actions. What is a Customer-Focused Mindset? A Customer-Focused Mindset is when attitudes and beliefs are aligned to help your customers in any way possible. Accordingly, you make sure they are confident that they are being treated with care and […]

Respect the customer – How do you communicate value?
Nothing says “We don’t care about you” more than a robo-call from one of the businesses that I use. Respect the customer.

More Essentials For Customer Service Skills
Last week we talked about 3 Essential Qualities for Customer Service – here are a few more to take under consideration.

3 Essential Customer Service Qualities for Business Growth
Pick me! Pick me! With so many choices out there for service providers, why should your company be ahead of the pack? Start with your customer service.

ONLINE: Improving Customer Service
Event Phone: 516-317-2900
This class is for service industry professionals who want to maximize their efficiency, develop better customer skills, and increase their value.
The focus of the Improving Customer Service class is to increase repeat business because of customer satisfaction and referral. Participants will find a greater level of productivity, job satisfaction and the potential for advancement. For client-facing service personnel, these areas of development will be very beneficial. Improved Customer Service means increased internal and external customer satisfaction.
Attendees will be able to:
- Focus on others to project a UB4me, customer-centered attitude;
- Empower people with respect (acknowledging) and control (offering choices);
- Understand customers better and develop emotionally-intelligent methods for managing their fears and reactions;
- Listen more intently to develop the best rapport;
- Communicate clearly with conviction, projecting greater credibility;
- Create positive, diplomatic messages even from negative, modeling a problem-solving, can-do attitude; and
- Create and refine phone-answering and email templates, to appropriately address customer concerns and increase the potential for repeat business.
Online Format—Improving Customer Service is a 4-hour interactive virtual class for up to 20 people.
Register for this class and you will be sent ONLINE login instructions prior to the class date.

Rich Atkins is the Managing Director of Improving Communications, a New York-based corporate training firm that, in addition to Speaker Services, offers Business Writing, Public Speaking & Presentation Skills, Sales and Negotiation, Customer Service, Leadership, Staff Development, and Human Resources training. He is also the Director of Improving Communications UK and Improving Communications IE.
Venue: Online
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Walk-In Customer Service
Has your business thought about its walk-in customer service? Clients walk into businesses. Whether it is in a store, a doctor’s office, an insurance company, or even a communications skills training company—customers enter, conduct business, and then leave. The real level of service is found, not in how the providing staff solves problems. Service, on […]

Customer Service 101 (Part 2)
Customer Service 101. Serving people is not always easy. In fact, it’s a great challenge. Yet, in the final analysis, the customer is the most important person to a business. Why? Because that customer, spending money, helps to ensure that each job at the business is kept (and perhaps more will be created). After all, when […]

Angry Customers: Steps Customer Service Can Take With Aggressive Calls
How to deal with Angry Customers: 3 steps Customer Service representatives can Take To Deal With aggressive calls. Frustration happens to everyone.