My Boss Needs Skills

MY BOSS NEEDS SKILLS

Toxicity is Viral Too

Toxic bosses or behavior seeps into your customer service. The #1 reason people leave their jobs is not the work but the boss! Are you crafting positions that employees enjoy and leverage their strengths? Joy is contagious and will infect your customer experience positively. Good bosses influence behavior and draw the best out of one allowing one to give. Toxic work environments inhibit happiness hindering the release of Positively Outrageous Service!

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Tacit Approval

TACIT APPROVAL Nip it in Bud! Championing Positively Outrageous Service is both explicit and implicit. Tacit approval is the message that is being communicated when one doesn’t speak out. The unspoken implicit sets a precedent every bit as much as explicit championing. Actions of management speak as loud as the words communicated. Tacit approval of […]

We Are The Champions

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS Create on Purpose … Stay on Course A culture is created and characterized by what you consent to, champion and celebrate. Who you are, is reflected by what you do. What you do reflects who you are. What is a champion? What we stand up for … the flag bearer who […]

Show and Tell

SHOW & TELL The Internet is Loud … Communicate Louder Repetition reinforces Reputation. Cut through the clutter of marketing messages with testimonials that build “social proof”. Don’t just create Positively Outrageous Service – capture the POS testimonial! The power in video testimonials? The viewer sees, hears and connects emotionally. Video has also become the preferred […]

Review Me!

REVIEW ME! What are your Positively Outrageous Service Stories? Before the advent of Social Media, one would on average share a positive experience with nine people and a negative experience with sixteen people. Now we share customer experiences with hundreds, if not thousands of people with a potential rippling effect many times more. Encourage your […]

My Boss Needs Skills

MY BOSS NEEDS SKILLS Toxicity is Viral Too Toxic bosses or behavior seeps into your customer service. The #1 reason people leave their jobs is not the work but the boss! Are you crafting positions that employees enjoy and leverage their strengths? Joy is contagious and will infect your customer experience positively. Good bosses influence […]

Two Face

TWO FACE Is Your Internal and External Face Congruent? You can’t behave one way with a customer and another internally. Negative humor and sarcasm WILL spill into other areas of your life. Two faces lead to silos, communication breakdowns between departments and defensive postures. Consistency is key. Create WOW internally; it’s infectious creating WOW customer […]

Super Hearing

SUPER HEARING “I am for you” What Are You Hearing? Hearing Past the Situation. When we get emotional we push out the logic in a service situation. Diffuse negative emotional situations through “super hearing” creating the bridge from where a customer is emotionally to redeem the solution faster. Start with open-ended powerful questions. “Tell me […]

Bullet Proof

BULLET PROOF Inoculate Yourself Against the Tornado Develop your super-hero powers in toxic environments and situations. “I’m so glad you got me!” “You’re not yelling at me … you’re angry about the situation.” Diffuse the initial confrontations by not taking it personally and being “unoffendable”.

Alignment is a Beautiful Thing

ALIGNMENT IS A BEAUTIFUL THING Begin by Defining POS for YOUR Organization “The fish stinks from the head” First, leadership must define and align an organization’s service expectations. Second, align your departments, (in a larger organization). Third, create alignment in your hiring practices to the organization’s service expectations.

Engagement: Get the Customer to Play or Get Involved!

Positively Outrageous Service – Principle #3 “Unless you love everybody, you can’t sell anybody.” – Dicky Fox (Jerry Maguire) The third fundamental principle of Positively Outrageous Service: Create engagement by either getting the customer to play or get them involved in other ways. A service experience that is fun makes it highly memorable and lends […]

Out of Proportion to the Circumstances

Positively Outrageous Service – Principle #2 “I’m in the service business. I mean, our sandwiches are pretty good; I don’t know if they’re extraordinary. But our service is.” “Jimmy John” Liautaud The second key principle of Positively Outrageous Service is creating a service experience that is “out of proportion to the circumstances.” It heightens the […]

Having Fun Yet?

Rarely do we wake up in the morning thinking today I’m going to fail miserably and I’m going to bring everyone down with me. I say rarely because they do happen and there are a lot people out there that like that. However most of us want to be part of something fun and we […]

MY BOSS NEEDS SKILLS

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