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Don’t Throw Fellow Employees Under the Bus

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Teach Accountability: It may not be an employee’s fault, but it is now their opportunity to fix the problem. Learn more about Shep’s customer service and customer experience keynote speeches and his customer service training workshops at www.Hyken.com. Connect with Shep on LinkedIn.

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Do More In ‘24: Ten Customer Service and CX Tips for the New Year

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A speedy response creates confidence. Be more accountable – Don’t make excuses or blame others. Learn more about Shep’s customer service and customer experience keynote speeches and his customer service training workshops at www.Hyken.com. I often joke about a company that took four days to get back to me with an answer.

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It’s all about context stupid! Why most businesses fail to take this into account

Beyond Philosophy

They were asking for the account number right off the bat. The senior managers thought customers would be ready to present their account numbers upon getting through the call center queue. The quicker the call center employee had the account number, the faster they could resolve the issue and have their employee process another call.

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Guest Post: How to Create Massive Customer Surplus through Memorable Onboarding & Obsessive Service

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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. Step 7: You plan a trip to visit the client in person for a two-day workshop to ensure success and implementation. Conclusion.

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Governing the ML lifecycle at scale, Part 3: Setting up data governance at scale

AWS Machine Learning

The diagram shows several accounts and personas as part of the overall infrastructure. Challenges in data management Traditionally, managing and governing data across multiple systems involved tedious manual processes, custom scripts, and disconnected tools. The following diagram gives a high-level illustration of the use case.

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Guest Post: How to Design a Customer Success Program That Works

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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. Provide them with checklists, guides, and best practices.

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5 Rules for Driving Down Costs in a Customer-Focused Way

Beyond Philosophy

For example, I was running a workshop for a client in the mobile communications market. The VP of customer service was late and came into the workshop after about an hour looking fraught. However, it is equally critical to cut costs without driving away customers, which is by all accounts trickier.