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Commandment No. 3 – Thou Shalt Greet, Speak and Be Real

With this week’s look at Shep Hyken’s Forbes article, The Ten Commandments of Superior Customer Service, we arrive at the third commandment, “Thou Shalt Greet, Speak and Be Real”. As Shep explains, you shouldn’t “miss an opportunity to interact with your customers.” He goes on to promote how important simple…
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Commandment No. 2 – Thou Shalt Go the Extra Mile

Continuing with Shep Hyken’s Forbes article, The Ten Commandments of Superior Customer Service, Hyken next spotlights Dr. Willie Jolley’s second commandment, “Thou Shalt Go the Extra Mile”. Hyken first posts “going the ‘extra mile’” often doesn’t require that much additional effort. As he further explains, going the extra mile might just…
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Commandment No. 1 – Thou Shalt Serve with a Smile

Shep Hyken, contributing for Forbes, has a great article titled The Ten Commandments of Superior Customer Service. Hyken cites Dr. Willie Jolley as the developer of these commandments, which he summarizes in this piece. Let’s do a deeper dive on the first one: “Thou Shalt Serve with a Smile”. As Hyken…
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Tips for Avoiding Scams

Lauren Pack of Journal-News has an important article describing the experiences of a 28-year-old woman from Hamilton, OH, who fell for a secret shopping scam. Schemes like the one described in the article are an unfortunate reality in our industry, and one you should be always on the lookout for. Here are…
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A Passion for Customer Service

Success.com has an article titled 25 Successful People’s Thoughts on the Power of Passion that’s worth a look. The author takes quotes about passion (from people like Albert Einstein, Harriet Tubman, Bob Dylan, Benjamin Franklin, and many more) and groups them under several adages, like how you can’t fake it, you must…
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Know Your Audience

Most people hate giving speeches, let’s be honest. With rare exception, most school students are filled with dread before they have to deliver book reports aloud or explain what they did over their summer vacations. This discomfort barely wanes in adulthood, too. So how do the great speakers of the world—the…
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Delegate, Delegate, Delegate

In keeping with the theme of time management from last week’s blog about multitasking, let’s take a look at the importance of delegation—specifically at the idea of freeing yourself up to do the tasks you’re uniquely qualified to do. As ReadyTrainingOnline.com explains in an article from last month, you have to determine…
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Successful Leaders Don’t Multitask

The magic of always-connected era means that you can access your email, calendar, to-do list, text messages, and much more all at the same time. In theory, this tool should allow you to nimbly bounce between many different tasks, completing each as they arise. But we all know that it’s…
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The Importance of Connections

As far as buzzwords go, connection sounds like it should be right up there with corporate synergy and outside the box thinking. (Inc.com has an amusing list if you want a primer.) Nevertheless, making connections is vital to the survival of your business, so—cliché sounding or not—this is a subject to take seriously. To that end,…
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