I am a frequent visitor to Singapore but for this time around, it was just a 45 minutes transit at the Singapore Changi airport and I was NOT looking forward to it. Especially after missing my flight from Seoul to Kuala Lumpur (my final destination) because of the flight delays at Detroit (my origin) and then staying…
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Recession 2016?? So, customer service??
The global financial situation has been fluctuating since the dawn of the 1st day in the new year (2016). And the analysts predict a far more tougher recession in 2016 than the one we had in 2008. I am not a financial expert to validate the recession forecast nor I want a recession in 2016. BUT…if we…
How customer centric is your customer service? Are you ready for a reality check?
There are hundreds of books and thousands of articles written on customer service culture and customer centricity. Leaders spend tens and thousands of hours debating what customer centricity means in contact centers and how to drive a culture of customer centricity in an organization’s customer service department . I think it’s pretty simple and straight forward and not…
Building your customer service brand. It’s time!
It’s competitive out there! VERY. Having a great product is SUPER important but having a marketing strategy and building a brand around the product is a SUPER- DUPER important aspect of remaining competitive in the market. Along the lines of the same fact; having a great customer service department centered around a best in class customer experience…
4 Strategic customer service pillars you can’t ignore
Gone are the days when customer service was viewed as an overhead and a non-value add cost center. We have come a long way from there. In today’s prevailing dynamics, an organization’s customer service capabilities can be the competitive advantage in the market place and organizations have started to build their entire brand around their customer service capabilities….
Your name is Jane? Yeah, right! What’s your real name?
Let’s start with this 30 second video that will explain the context behind the title of the post before we start talking about the details of it. Offshoring Vs. on-shoring customer service has been a decade long debate (if not longer) and there are very strong opinions on the both the camps (i.e. offshore and onshore)…
Outsourced vendor journey mapping. Do you have one?,
Customer experience mapping and customer service employee lifecycle mapping are two areas organizations have gained a thorough understanding through dedicated sources of intelligence internally as well as externally. The journey mapping for both customers as well as employees have helped organizations understand the key focus and failure points for these two most critical success drivers…
Driving your employee engagement. What do you think?
A decade after the dot com bubble burst and just a little while after the announcement of Lehman Brother’s collapse, the employee behavior research groups started getting traction and recognition from corporate America on the impact the dis-engaged workforce had on the overall organization and the industry as a whole. The mood was to move away from the…
Your vendor’s coaching capabilities, why you need to care?
In this post, I chose to talk about the most important piece that will determine the success of your outsourced contact center engagement. Your outsourced partner’s employee coaching framework and capabilities Often times in the outsourcing world, the business reviews are filled with strategies, roadmap and other higher level discussions leaving the actual agent performance…
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