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When the Customer Service person says “I Can’t Help”

We’ve all experienced it. You need to get something done and the customer service person you are relying on says, “I can’t help”. The solution requires a little bit of empathy, perhaps some creativity and a lot of common sense. Although the clerk may be smart, efficient and good at their job, they fail to show any of the three requirements. There is no empathy, little creatively and certainly no evidence of common sense.

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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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