Myra Golden

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This is the 7-point call strategy I use when my work is to improve the telephone customer experience in a call center. For more help in how to talk to customers, check out: Customer Service Onsite Training Workshops – Fully Customized, Engaging, Fun Customer Service Training for your team.

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Myra Golden

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

I facilitated five live digital De-escalation workshops last week. If you need help de-escalating customers in the new era of customer service, check out my De-escalation Academy. A student in one of my sessions spoke up during Q & A: “I have a question for Ms. Myra Golden. The New York Times said that.

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Myra Golden

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

This week has been dedicated to customized customer service eLearning for some of my favorite clients. Read on to see how we create custom video training. Online workshops are usually 10-14 short video modules. Well, all of my clients are my “favorite.” So, I decided to take you behind the scenes.

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Myra Golden

MARCH 6, 2017

The night before a workshop I delivered last week in Charleston, SC I called the Mellow Mushroom for delivery. Are your people adding value to your company through their interactions with customers? In my workshops I tell people to look for something they can comment on, something perhaps that they have in common with the customer.

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Myra Golden

DECEMBER 10, 2018

That’s the goal, too, for your customer experience. I’m in the business of helping companies improve employees’ soft skills to deliver better customer interactions. Your employees leave our workshops fully prepared and inspired to express the soul of your brand with every customer. See how we do it.

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Myra Golden

MARCH 22, 2023

And now, I, the Customer Service & De-escalation Expert, had to own my mistake and put my 3R De-escalation Method into practice. I wrote my client an official apology letter using the frameworks I teach in my workshops. Actually, I initially thought it was a system glitch. What I FELT: Stunned, then confused.

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Myra Golden

JULY 10, 2019

All of my customer service workshops begin with what I call a Discovery Discussion – a video conference where I discover the problem my client needs me to solve. Now you can give your representatives even more great skills for delivering the best customer experience and for handling difficult customer situations.

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Myra Golden

JANUARY 10, 2017

Learning Designer, Customer Care, Walmart eCommerce. Watch this short overview video to learn more Myra’s customer service eLearning. .” . Betty Doyle, Sr. Learn more or try for free.

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Myra Golden

APRIL 13, 2020

We’ve suspended our onsite workshops, but if you have a LinkedIn Learning subscription, you can take Myra’s most popular customer service classes online. Head on over to LinkedIn Learning and start training with Myra now!

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Myra Golden

MAY 7, 2019

In my customer service workshops, I improve the customer experience by challenging employees to consider, “ What else does my customer need to know? ” And then meeting that need without the customer having to wonder, fret, or even ask.

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Myra Golden

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

You know the feeling – you probably get nervous, or you have to transfer a call to your supervisor because the customer won’t accept your word as final. So let’s figure out how to fix that!

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Myra Golden

JANUARY 10, 2017

Learning Designer, Customer Care, Walmart eCommerce. Watch this short overview video to learn more about Myra’s customer service eLearning. .” . Betty Doyle, Sr. Learn more or try for free.

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Myra Golden

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Last week I delivered a customer service training session where part of our focus was moving employees out of an attitude of personalization to an emphasis on finding a win-win solutions for problems. I have attended many customer service trainings and I have worked in customer relations for many years.

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Myra Golden

AUGUST 27, 2018

For all of my customer service workshops, I like to arrive at least 45 minutes before we start so I can meet and talk to the people who’ll be spending several hours with me. But I’ve found that talking to workshop participants before the training starts helps me to connect with my audience before I speak my first word.

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Michelli Experience

JUNE 13, 2017

Customer Experience Speaker, Consultant, Author VS. CASHIERS. As a customer experience speaker who delivers keynotes and workshops, I’ve had to adapt to be the “master” over mobile technology. is a professional speaker and chief experience officer at The Michelli Experience. Master the Machines.

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Myra Golden

JULY 2, 2019

For all of my onsite customer service workshops and keynotes, I arrive at least 45 minutes before we start so I can meet and talk to the people who’ll be spending several hours with me. And, it’s the same with customers. Now I didn’t always do this.

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Myra Golden

APRIL 15, 2019

I end all of my customer service workshops by asking participants to write down three words. By reflecting on the day and successes, and setting goals, my workshop attendees are more likely to adopt and apply their insights, and this makes my training more effective. Start, Stop, and Continue.

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Myra Golden

MARCH 19, 2017

Every interaction your employees have with customers is an opportunity to make the customer experience easy, helpful and friendly. The wrong words can cause dis-ease in customers, or leave customers thinking you don’t care. On one call a customer said, “Hi Paul! The lady at American used the right words.

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Myra Golden

JUNE 2, 2016

Myra Golden Customer Service Training Highlight. Verbal Aikido: A non-agressive, highly effective strategy for handling difficult customers. Thanks to the Internet and social media, customers are more savvy now than ever before. This means the customer service professional must develop a response plan.

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Myra Golden

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

His assumption led to me having a very poor customer experience. In my customer service workshops, I teach your employees how not to make assumptions, and I explain this concept in an unforgettable way. He assumed he knew what I needed without asking me any follow-up questions. And it’s easy using this short video.

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Myra Golden

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Convey Empathy to Customers. One of the skills we practice in my onsite customer service workshops is Empathy. Watch this 60-minute video now or share it with your employees.

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Myra Golden

JUNE 13, 2017

Have you ever checked out my onsite training workshops? Workshop attendees have said, “ Myra’s positive attitude really makes me feel that one person can completely change another’s state of being ” and “ Each one of us walked away with something new, and all of us feel we could have sat and listened to her for days!

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Myra Golden

JUNE 2, 2016

Myra Golden Customer Service Training Highlight. Verbal Aikido: A non-agressive, highly effective strategy for handling difficult customers. Thanks to the Internet and social media, customers are more savvy now than ever before. This means the customer service professional must develop a response plan.

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CSM Magazine

APRIL 23, 2021

Accelerated by the pressures of Covid-19 and enabled by digital, brands are trying to respond to the ongoing challenge of commoditisation by moving from transactional to long-term value driven relationships with customers. Co-create to ensure the experience delivers on core-customer needs.

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Myra Golden

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

One of the goals for my customer service training in Cerritos, California yesterday was to help employees follow-up with colleagues, to close the loop so that everybody was up to date on what’s being done to fix issues for customers. I designed a short lecture and a small group discussion to address this.

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Myra Golden

MARCH 18, 2019

While sipping a Bloody Mary, I reviewed a random sample of phone calls ahead of a workshop I’m delivering for a medical clinic in Los Angeles in a couple of weeks. I want to talk to you about your tone of voice with customers because this is the biggest problem I picked up on the recordings today. Get More Ideas Like This.

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Wootric

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

These authors, speakers, thought-leaders and dedicated customer experience professionals have all helped contribute to the widespread adoption of CX, not just as a strategy, but as a higher goal. She was tapped to look after the customer experience as a whole as company growth accelerated. Angus Yang. Blake Morgan.

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Myra Golden

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I do an exercise in my workshops using a 12-foot pole. That’s the essence of good internal customer service. The result is better internal relations and the big finish is a great experience for your external customers. It’s Bigger Than You. I instruct attendees to lower the pole to the ground.

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Myra Golden

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

One of the skills we practice in my onsite customer service workshops is Empathy. Here are some of the exact phrases that I share in my training sessions for use in our role-plays – and in real life with customers. Learn more or try for free.

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Myra Golden

DECEMBER 17, 2018

You know the feeling – you probably get nervous, or you have to transfer a call to your supervisor because the customer won’t accept your word as final. Here are Three Simple (But Important) Things To Remember About Giving Bad News To Customers. More than anything else, customers want help. Don’t belabor the point.

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Myra Golden

APRIL 15, 2017

I went and delivered that training and a few days after that work, my client sent me the following reaction via email: Myra delivered two full-day workshops for us, and we could not be more pleased. Her personal stories and experiences were insightful and valuable. • Myra is a wonderful and engaging speaker.

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Myra Golden

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Using the “because” tactic, you can increase the chances of a customer accepting your word as final. I teach and role-play this strategy in my de-escalation workshops. Join me and I’ll give your customer service employees the power to get any customer to back down.

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Myra Golden

OCTOBER 27, 2018

A bright young Generation Z professional approached me after a customer service workshop last week in Atlanta and asked me for advice. Here’s one of the smart questions she asked me, “What books would you recommend that my younger self, say my senior year in college, should read?

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Myra Golden

JULY 1, 2019

When you use these keys, you’ll find that you are clear, helpful, and persuasive in your training, and this approach will get more customers to use self-service. Now you can give your representatives even more great skills for delivering the best customer experience and for handling difficult customer situations.

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Myra Golden

MAY 1, 2018

I’ll spend this afternoon, and much of this week developing a fully customized training class for this company. In two months, I’ll fly out to Montreal to facilitate the workshop. When I sit down to create a custom course for my clients, the first question I ask is, “What’s your biggest problem with customer interactions?”

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Myra Golden

JULY 16, 2019

After I deliver a customized, engaging customer service workshop, I help my clients reinforce the main ideas. We’re just trying to measure the customer experience. I remember sitting down with Ava, a customer service supervisor, to discuss her Quality Form. Yes, I’m serious.

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Myra Golden

JULY 11, 2019

When you do these things, your customers will come to appreciate self-service, and use it more often. Now you can give your representatives even more great skills for delivering the best customer experience and for handling difficult customer situations. She’s also an Author at LinkedIn Learning.

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