This practical, real-world text presents the skills essential for success in customer service. It brings together a wealth of the best information from professional books and academic textbooks, and the author's broad consulting experience.
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Preface
I wrote this book in response to a need for a different approach to learning .tie skills needed to succeed in the challenging arena of customer service.
The other customer service books displayed in bookstores everywhere typically take one of two forms: They either tell the story of one company's efforts at boosting service quality, or they reveal a series of tips and ideas. These are fine as far as they go. I have written several such books myself. And books like this can have value so long as the reader effectively translates the ideas into application for his or her organization. But these books seldom show how to apply these diverse ideas to your organization.
The few textbooks available in customer service tend to offer over-simplified suggestions on how to phrase conversations, how to smile and polite with customers, and the like. Their simplicity defies the real world sere real people don't speak from scripts and real human relationships e complex and ever-changing.
This book takes a different approach. It ties together the best information from bookstore trade books and school textbooks—and then adds more. In this book you will find a clear and usable process for developing the kinds of skills, attitudes, and thinking patterns needed to win customer satisfaction and loyalty. The process includes developing
a heightened awareness of the challenges and opportunities, the tools for dealing with unhappy customers by using the power of customer expectations and by creating loyalty, the ability to lead, expand, and empower the service process, specific skills for professional success, and a clear understanding of the future directions of customer service.
Perhaps no arena offers as much opportunity for organizational and professional success as customer service. It lies at the heart of any organization's reason to exist. The companies that do it well experience enormous profitability, marketplace acceptance, and genuine satisfaction among their employees.
Apply Customer Service and enjoy the rewards of professional excellence. Then, let me know how you applied the ideas. I can be reached at email: DrTimm@AOL. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The author and editor would like to thank the following commentators for their expert reviews: Garland Keesling, Towson State University; Shek True, Fort Lewis College.
Paul R. Timm, Ph.D.
March 2000
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Key Benefit: This practical, real-world book presents the skills essential for success in customer service. Key Topics: Customer Service: Career Success Through Customer Satisfaction provides a clear and usable process for developing the skills, attitudes, and thinking patterns needed to win customer satisfaction and loyalty. It provides practical examples of real situations and demonstrates how to apply the successful techniques to any company or situation. Market: An essential resource for any employee, business owner, or professional who deals directly with customers.
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This review is from: Customer Service: Career Success Through Customer Loyalty, Fifth Edition (Paperback)
This book is extremely helpful if you need tips for working in the customer service industry. Very easy to read, not many pages per chapter, lack of color in the book. Phone tips are very helpful especially if you are on the phone with customers a lot. The book gives good insight into what you need to look for in a company to see if they provide good customer service or not. One assignment my class had was to be secret shoppers over the weekend in grocery stores, coffee shops, and gas stations. This book helps raise awareness of how we interact with each other, and tips on how you can provide the best service for your customers.
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I purchased this for a college course, and I think I will actually keep this book. It has some great information and I think it could be beneficial to a lot of people. And quality of book is good, came in nice secure packaging, no damage.
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I only bought this because it was mandatory book for a culinary class I took. The minute I could sell it I did.
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