Create a service advantage with the help of customer service guru Ron Zemke. In practical, easy-to-follow steps, learn trusted techniques and positive approaches that will inspire you to believe in the value of customer care and give you the skills and style to deliver it. This book takes these winning concepts to a new level with interactive features that enable you to turn the Knock Your Socks Off Service advantage to a competitive advantage in your own workplace. You will learn how to: See things from the customer's point of view Meet customer expectations and satisfy their needs Create.

This book offers insights into the demands made on staff in service encounters in tourism, events and hospitality roles. It hinges upon storied incidents offered by workers about which the reader can reflect and apply theoretical knowledge. Each chapter includes learning objectives, questions and summaries.

This book offers conceptual discourse, empirical evidence, application of existing and emerging theories, and implication of practical findings. It discusses the perspectives of both providers and recipients of quality services across a wide spectrum of hospitality and tourism sectors.

This program features the seven service skills. These are the basic courtesies and people skills that makes customer feel important, appreciated and understood.

Customer Service Intelligence uses a wide range of management and educational theories to provide different approaches that can be incorporated as part of the customer service trainer's toolkit. Concepts such as: emotional intelligence behaviour modification role modelling dimensions of procedure and conviviality expectancy theory socio-cultural concepts of (service) community customer service as dynamic 'object' in activity theory Zen

People really appreciate knowledgeable and skilled, real and live telephone representatives. This video discusses proper telephone etiquette.

In today's globalised and digital world, consumers can move from one retailer to the next across the world at the click of a button. Online access and social media mean that consumers are more market savvy, more informed and more discerning than ever before. What brings them back is an enhanced shopping experience, and key to this is good customer service. More and more marketers are focusing on retaining their customer base or trying to erode their competitor's customer base through better customer service. After all, happy customers are repeat customers and become advocates for the business.

Explains how to deal with difficult customers. Various role plays are included and interviews with professionals in the customer service industry.

Highlights the importance of dressing for the job as well as a clean and neat appearance, regardless of the workplace setting.

This program gives a simple plan for dealing with tricky customers. Many behaviours qualify as tricky. Customers may be impatient, rude, ungrateful, complaining or just hard to please. The behaviour that most people find hard to manage is the angry or irate customer. This program shows how easy it is for the service giver to be drawn into an argument. The focus then moves from the issue at hand to who is going to win or lose. Take the H.E.A.T. is a simple plan for dealing with angry or irate customers. Hear them out, Empathise, Apologise, Take action. The techniques in this program will have a positive influence on most tricky customers. They will feel they are being dealt with professionally and the service giver will know they have done their best. This combination will secure the best outcome.