Managing knock your socks off service
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
AMACOM,
c2007.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. / |
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| Online Access: | Click to View |
Table of Contents:
- Find and retain quality people
- Recruit creatively and hire carefully
- Paying attention to employee retention
- Keeping your best and brightest
- Know your customers intimately
- "Emotionalizing" the yardstick : why customer satisfaction isn't enough
- Listening is a contact sport
- A complaining customer is your best friend
- The binding power of customer trust
- Little things mean a lot
- Build a service vision
- The power of purpose
- Getting your vision down on paper
- A service vision statement sampler
- Standards and norms : delivering on the service promise
- Make your service delivery system ETDBW (easy to do business with)
- Bad systems undermine good people
- Fix the system, not the people
- Measure and manage from the customer's point of view
- Add magic : creating the unpredictable and unique
- Make recovery a point of pride ... and a focal part of your system
- Reinventing your service system
- Train and coach
- Start on day one (when their hearts and minds are malleable)
- Training creates competence, confidence, and commitment to customers
- Making training stick
- Thinking and acting like a coach
- Involve and empower
- Fostering "responsible freedom" on the front lines
- Removing the barriers to empowerment
- Recognize, reward, and celebrate
- Recognition and reward : fueling the fires of service success
- Feedback : breakfast, lunch, and dinner of champions
- The art of interpersonal feedback
- Celebrate success
- Your most important management mission : set the tone and lead the way
- Manager-employee trust : ground zero for service quality
- Observation is more powerful than conversation
- Great service leadership in action.