Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 23, 2019

Figure out what the Reference Points may be that the customer is bringing into the experience so you can manage your experience appropriately. #2: One way you can manage replacement in your customers’ decision-making is to build a strong brand reputation. 2: Reasons. When people make choices, they need reasons.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I mention it here, not to rub it in your face (much), but because in the booking of this cruise, I saw an excellent example of how my wife and I leverage mental accounting regarding our splurges. It was our version of Mental Accounting. Mental Accounting ruins all that. People have various rules regarding found money.

Accountability 195

Accountability Finance Banking Management 195

Steve DiGioia

JANUARY 4, 2021

But what does management want from you? What Do Managers Want From Their Employees? Most managers want their team members to continue doing their job without incident, especially if the team works well. It creates safety, security, and peace of mind for the manager. Managers Love Employees Like This.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 15, 2021

5 Rules for Managing Your Customer Experience in Business to Business. In this episode, we share the 5 rules for managing your Customer Experience in business-to-business relationships, including: B2B is complicated, so you need to simplify it. Manage different customers differently. Manage different customers differently.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 1, 2023

They were asking for the account number right off the bat. Management may not be able to understand your context. What’s more, the senior management had one, too. The senior managers thought customers would be ready to present their account numbers upon getting through the call center queue. Click here !

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Q: What has two Million phony accounts, 5,300 fired employees, a fine of $185 million and a retiring leader enjoying $124 million in stock and options after retirement? I have to ask What were the managers doing? However, getting to your goal by opening a fake account in one of your customer’s names is deplorable.

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Banking Construction Accountability Sales 416

Callminer

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Further, malicious callers can manipulate customer service agents and automated systems to change account information, transfer money and more. Some fraudsters build a rapport with a particular agent or retail associate over time before requesting that they send a financial sum to their bank account.

Call Center 345

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ShepHyken

JULY 2, 2021

You can use a variety of project management tools for keeping this workflow organized in a single space. . It’s one thing to not interact with spammy accounts, it’s another thing to completely avoid confrontation on social media. Don’t engage with spam accounts . Layout a customer service workflow before implementing it.

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CCNG

JULY 5, 2023

Throughout my career I’ve had the opportunity to lead and network with some amazing individuals and from time to time they have asked what it takes to move from Manager to Director. I’ve seen plenty of individual contributors get promoted to managers, not because they are solid leaders but because they are great contributors.

Management 195

Management CCNG Contact Center Accountability 195

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The management at Wells Fargo put so much pressure on their team to get their customers to sign up for additional services at the bank that the attitude became “do whatever you have to” to get that new product or service signup. An Emotional Bank Account is a place where you deposit good feelings with customers.

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CCNG

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Many Contact Centers use metrics of averages to base decisions, i.e.: Average handle time (AHT) Average cost-per-contact (ACC) Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) Averages have their place in management decision-making, but they cannot be overly relied upon. Think about what can happen when you manage your agents to AHT.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A customer success platform for managing interactions in a single space. Account management Offer workshops on relationship-building, active listening, and consultative selling for identifying upsell or cross-sell opportunities. Encourage shadowing experienced account managers who can disseminate their best tips and tricks.

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B2C Customer centricity Feedback Upselling 356

Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Signing the Emotional Bank Account with the Emotional Signature . In Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People , Covey introduces the idea of the emotional bank account. In relationships, when you are doing something positive, you pay into that emotional bank account. One of mine is with Apple.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Like millions of Wells Fargo customers, Lorraine and I have checked to see if we had any accounts opened with the bank without our consent. Like millions of Wells Fargo customers, we don’t trust them because they lied. The BBB rating is not the worst of their problems. There is a cultural problem. Wells Fargo knows it.

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ShepHyken

JULY 8, 2024

Teach Accountability: It may not be an employee’s fault, but it is now their opportunity to fix the problem. When mistakes occur in the workplace, especially in customer-facing roles, the manner in which employees manage these situations can impact a customer’s perception of the business.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

There are numerous issues for which call center managers and leaders must account in running a successful customer support operation. Although most of a call center’s challenges tie into employee management indirectly, a few center entirely on these areas of operations. Economic Challenges. Human Resources Challenges.

Call Center 287

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Steve DiGioia

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

They can be guidelines that describe quality, performance, safety, terminology, testing, or management systems, to name a few. ” I’ve worked with so many managers who turned a “blind-eye” to “little things” like name tags. Many just want a paycheck. They feel untouchable. But where does this end?

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Enterprise Management Accountability Customer Service 345

ShepHyken

AUGUST 31, 2023

This week, we feature an article by Sage , an international company that helps organizations of all sizes with accounting, payroll, and payment solutions. Enterprise resource management (ERP) systems centralize, automate, and manage core business data and processes, from inventory management to real-time sales information.

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Journey mapping Upselling CRM Feedback 339

AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

For a multi-account environment, you can track costs at an AWS account level to associate expenses. A combination of an AWS account and tags provides the best results. Implementing a cost allocation strategy early is critical for managing your expenses and future optimization activities that will reduce your spend.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 12, 2020

It gives you a rational customer process, meaning an account of how they move through your experience from point A to point B, but no insight into how people behave as customers and why they do what they do. . We discussed the problems with journey mapping in a recent podcast. Memories have similar webs built into them.

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Journey mapping Consulting Consulting Marketing 468

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

When you’re having your regular management meetings, where are the Customer Experience and the customer stats listed on the schedule? Ensure that you take that into account when you make these decisions. How much time do senior and middle managers spend talking to customers? Is it in there at all?

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Customer centricity Airlines Consulting Consulting 427

Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 11, 2021

We also discovered that when they were squeaking, we would add resources to manage their accounts. We ended up where we had customers generating decent revenue, but nowhere near the revenue they should to warrant the resources that we had devoted to the management of the account. Holding Customers Accountable.

Airlines 248

Airlines Accountability Banking Telecommunications 248

Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As Stephen Covey says in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People , you build up an emotional bank account with customers, and when you make a mistake with them, you make a withdrawal from it. However, if your emotional bank account is in good standing with customers, the error you made won’t ruin the relationship.

Banking 390

Banking Consulting Consulting Accountability 390

AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

We recently announced the general availability of cross-account sharing of Amazon SageMaker Model Registry using AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) , making it easier to securely share and discover machine learning (ML) models across your AWS accounts.

Government 78

Government Management APIs Accountability 78

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Manage the first impression. Manage last impressions. Customers are not a sale, an account number, a prospect, etc. Here are 23 ways to help you and your teams provide an amazing customer experience in 2023. . It sets the tone for what’s to follow. . They create lasting impressions. . Make the customer feel like a person.

Customer Service 349

Customer Service Personalization Accountability Sales 349

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

British Anthropologist Robin Dunbar suggests the number of connections most humans find manageable, is 150. He concluded that the size of the neocortex in the brain, which handles language and cognition, dictates the amount of complexity we can manage. Although, it feels less like a tribe now than it did 10 or 15 years ago. . .

Banking 64

Banking Consulting Consulting Accountability 64

Myra Golden Media

APRIL 28, 2021

Being outside of the office does not mean effective contact center management should be compromised. Here are some ways management can lead by example and maintain accountability during and after formal customer service training: Foster a friendly environment by greeting remote agents through email or chat each morning.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 15, 2024

Extreme accountability is seeing beyond the current circumstances and committing no matter what. Accountability isn’t about assigning blame. Instead of holding others accountable with blaming questions, invite accountability by asking employees questions to reveal the choices that were made and their consequences.

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ShepHyken

JULY 25, 2023

They should make it easy for the family or whoever is managing the affairs. And, help them easily and empathetically close an account. Unfortunately, that is not always the case.

Customer Service 59

Customer Service Accountability Management Customer Experience 59

ShepHyken

JULY 15, 2022

Step 4: You assign your best client success manager on their account and ensure they’re scheduled for your monthly training workshops as a non-negotiable. You email them the welcome video and a link to get scheduled with you for an in-depth call where you’ll outline a specific game plan with them. Conclusion.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 23, 2021

What they did right: With more than 1,2000 stores worldwide and an e-commerce site with millions of monthly visitors, it made sense that Best Buy created a separate account solely for customer support. If you have a wide-reaching brand, it could help to create a separate account to hone in on those customer inquiries. .

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Customer Service Advertising B2B Chatbots 341