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4 Key Personality Traits for A Perfect Customer Service Representative

Provide Support

Providing outstanding customer service naturally starts from finding and hiring the right employees for your customer support team. But beyond that, there are certain characteristics and qualities that set excellent customer service employees apart. (.). Published in Provide Support Blog , 2017. Read more.

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Guest Blog: The Power of Training in Customer Service

ShepHyken

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Ian Landsman writes about the importance of training and preparing customer service representatives to interact with customers. I agree that every employee should go through customer service training, and it should be ongoing.

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A knowledgeable, well-trained, professional customer service representative is worth their weight in CX gold!

Innovative CX

For four decades, I’ve been trying to improve the customer experience for organizations in a variety of industries and diverse geographic locations. Having a knowledgeable, well-trained professional customer service representative (CSR) is table stakes for any business, be it B2B, B2C or B2B2C. Quite the contrary.

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Guest blog: 5 Customer Experience Trends for Financial Institutions in 2023

Comm100

Enhance employee experience for greater customer experience Your employees play a vital role in connecting with your clients, whether through a phone call or a face to face communication. Your employees, especially your customer service representatives, are some of the closest people to your customers.

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How to Navigate (and Strengthen) Your Customer Experience Strategy in Turbulent Times

InMoment XI

Read a blog by Phil Sager, Expert Partner and Daniel Moellerhenn, Expert Partner, Bain & Company, speakers at the XI Forum in Cologne on June 13 & 14 Reports of record inflation, ongoing labor constraints, rising capital costs, and other macro trends are ongoing and have compounded in unique ways.

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Guest Blog: You Serve Customers? Is your light on?

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Marlene Caroseli who shares some great activities and questions to help customer service representatives improve their service and make the customers experience better. – Shep Hyken. Chip Bell is known for helping organizations create a customer-centric culture.

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Guest blog: The Future of Customer Service: Changes & Challenges in 2022

Comm100

Redefining the Customer Agent Experience. Customer service representatives were not immune to this either. For contact centers, and managers responsible for providing excellent customer service, this has exacerbated personnel problems. In short, retaining staff has never been harder.

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