Increase the creativity and skill level of customer service representatives, demonstrate what excellent customer service is, provide insights and practice to improve customer service, develop your own organization's bank of customer service learning situations.

"From seasoned veterans to first-timers, any instructor, trainer, manager, consultant, or coach charged with improving customer service will find The Customer Service Activity Book a powerful resource. The activities can easily be used as a complete customer service training program or customized and used individually to address areas of concern. The Customer Service Activity Book presents an array of dynamic and engaging activities that: * Reinforce what good customer service is -- and is not * Demonstrate how to work together most constructively and efficiently * Prove the value and the importance of ""sharing the load"" * Show how to increase productivity and performance while enhancing relationships with customers Assembling 20 years of sales and customer service experiences in a wide variety of industries, The Customer Service Activity Book is a treasure trove of exercises for enhancing the quality of any customer service training program."

A complete selection of training activities for teaching others the process of accepting change, demonstrating the need for change, reducing conflict, improving communication skills and more.

Help your employees to excel in dealing with the public with this stimulating, fun-filled collection of customer service training games. Designed not only to teach important skills but also to spark enthusiasm and a high level of involvement in the participants, these games utilize entertaining and instructive techniques such as role-playing, charades, brainstorming, and debate. As a result of these exercises, employees will learn how to create a rapport with the customer, how to focus on the unique needs of individual customers, how to maintain a positive attitude, and more.

Today's customers are demanding service that is faster, better, and more personalized than ever before. How can organizations ensure that they are prepared to meet that challenge? The latest addition to the bestselling Knock Your Socks Off Service® series, 101 Activities for Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service provides readers with the practical tools and cost-effective training required to meet their customers' needs. Written in the same accessible and humorous style that made Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service so popular, this companion guide takes the unique position of seeing things from the customer's perspective--providing a collection of fun, fast, and enlightening exercises to teach customer service managers and employees valuable ways to help their organizations provide top-notch service. You'll discover how to create an action plan for improvement, reviewing topics such as: how to say no, empathy vs. sympathy, service recovery, listening, email and telephone skills, customers from hell, winning words and soothing phrases, anticipating customer needs, building reliability, customer feedback, keeping a stress log, and more. These simple but effective activities take only minutes, but deliver truly powerful, lasting results.

This is the first in a series focusing on women who want to develop their personal and professional lives. Written by everyday heroines, each chapter contains a true personal story of inspiration, of hope, of overcoming life's challenges, and the discovery that our greatest potential is within ourselves.

Describes how to create a service-oriented organization, including training customer service representatives, soothing angry customers, and understanding employee and customer motivation