Agile Trumps Speed in Customer Service

Agile Trumps Speed in Customer Service

We hear a lot these days about customers’ need for speed.  They seem to want everything the day before yesterday.  Uber Eats is working on home delivery via drones rather than worry about traffic delays.  Amazon is putting distribution centers in...
Smile Study: Guest Post by David Nielson

Smile Study: Guest Post by David Nielson

Whether it is physically less exhausting to smile than to scowl, it is certainly beneficial, and thus there is something to this ancient exhortation to put aside negative emotions long enough to “turn a frown upside down.”   In a 2002 study performed in Sweden,...
Disrupt Your Competition with Convenience

Disrupt Your Competition with Convenience

The following is a guest post by customer service and customer experience expert, Shep Hyken.   I believe that that the next competitive differentiator will be convenience, and I’ve written an entire book on the subject, The Convenience Revolution. Offering...
Keeping the Wonderment of a Trainee

Keeping the Wonderment of a Trainee

Sarah was obviously brand new on the front desk of the upscale hotel in Las Vegas where I was staying. My first question at check-in yielded a zealous, “I am new and I do not know the answer, but please let me find out.” She sported a trainee designation under her...