Refocusing Your Customer-Facing Associates

Refocusing Your Customer-Facing Associates

It all started when we drove up to the speaker menu at a quick-service restaurant. “Can I take your order?” the attendant coldly barked. When my wife, on hearing the deep voice of the attendant, politely said, “Thank you, sir,” she got back a...
Encourage Your Associates to “Show Off”

Encourage Your Associates to “Show Off”

She had the entire line of the check-out counter completely mesmerized. It was as if she was using us as her test audience for a comedy try-out. And she was funny and entirely unleashed. Yet, she never slowed her rhythmic action on the grocery story register and...
Leading Amazing Harpers

Leading Amazing Harpers

As my niece, Julie was preparing her three-year-old, Harper, for bed, it came time for bedtime prayers. “What are you thankful for, Harper?” Julie asked her. Assertively and without a moment’s hesitation, Harper replied, “I’m thankful for...
Customer Service as Community

Customer Service as Community

Before my grandfather passed away at age eighty-six, I asked him how his era was different from mine. “Our day was harder,” he said, “but happier.” The “harder” part I had expected; the “happier” part surprised me. I asked him for his reason. Looking out across a...
What Are You Wearing for Halloween?

What Are You Wearing for Halloween?

It is a question I have asked my three granddaughters for years. Their imaginative answers often amuse me. But their responses gave me a peephole into their interests at the time. It is the type of question your customers ask every time they encounter you or your...