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1st Step in Creating Proactive Service® – Focus on Service, Not Selling

Technicians who seem naturally gifted at selling their company’s products or services do not see their efforts as selling at all – they recognize their recommendations as the valuable service that they are. To them it is a service activity.

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Creating a Proactive Service Culture Throughout Your Service Team

In this series of blogs we are going to examine six steps that you implement to create a Proactive Service® focus from all of your service team members. This will greatly enhance your efforts of developing a distinctive and sustainable competitive advantage and result in higher revenues and delighted customers. I also contend that it will make your business a more desirable place to work.

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Are Your Employees Empowered to Deliver Exceptional Customer Service?

The bank employees were constrained by a bank policy that prevented them from delivering the quality of service they were capable of. Despite the fact that the bank staff was polite and professional, the experience was frustrating and time wasting and completely unnecessary. Now, there may be a good reason for this particular policy, but the branch employees were unable to explain it.

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Transform the Service Experience through Responsiveness

In this blog, we will consider what we can do to transform the service experience by demonstrating our responsiveness.  Responsiveness shows our competence and this creates Assurance. Responsiveness shows that we are Reliable and demonstrates that we have Empathy for

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Transform the Service Experience through Empathy

In my last post on the five key dimensions of service quality, we considered what we can do to transform the service experience through the tangible aspects of the service we provide. Here we consider what we can do to transform the service experience by clearly communicating to our customers that we care about them. Our customers will have little regard for us until they know that we have empathy.

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