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Smile Training Isn't Enough: The Three Secrets of Excellent Customer Service (PSI Successful Business Library) [Paperback]

Richard S. Gallagher (Author)
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March 1998 PSI Successful Business Library
There really are three secrets to great customer service: taking care of your customers, taking care of your organization, and taking care of yourself and your team. Smile Training Isn't Enough proves that the principles of good customer service apply equally both inside and outside an organization and that good customer service stems from a business' stance toward its customers and employees.

To make your transactions with customers friendly and productive, you must be more than nice. You must pay attention to what they say and do in order to treat each situation with a certain degree of class and integrity.

Your attitude and relationship with your employees may be more important than your customer transactions. The thinking behind your managerial decisions is a reflection of your customer service standards and affects how your employees will act and react in certain situations. Customer-driven organizations who treat their employees as partners create a good working environment and great service. The development of yourself and your team goes beyond a single customer transaction. The most successful companies treat their employees and customers as valuable on all levels. Practicing customer service inside and outside your organization enables your company to grow in any market, under all economic conditions.

When the three steps to customer service are followed in harmony, your customers will be happy, your employees will enjoy coming to work, and your business will be profitable.


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Demonstrates how the three secrets of customer service (taking care of customers, taking care of the organization, and taking care of yourself and your team) make your daily transactions satisfying and productive. Gallagher maintains that the most basic issue behind customer service is the management of the company as a whole and that this directly relates to the concept of fair treatment of all contacts - in-house employees and contractors as well as customers.

About the Author

Richard Gallagher provides corporate training and consultation services to companies throughout the United States through his Ithaca, N.Y. firm, R.S. Gallagher and Associates. He helped oversee the growth of a West Coast engineering software vendor from a small business startup to a major NASDAQ firm, and is an author, business columnist and former customer service executive.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 200 pages
  • Publisher: Oasis Press (March 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1555714226
  • ISBN-13: 978-1555714222
  • Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,152,517 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

My specialty is teaching people how to communicate in difficult situations. As a former customer service executive - and now as a speaker, trainer, and practicing therapist - my books and training programs explore the mechanics of how we communicate, based on recent principles of behavioral psychology.

I am perhaps best known for my book What to Say to a Porcupine (AMACOM, 2008), a national #1 customer service and business humor bestseller on Amazon.com. My most recent book How to Tell Anyone Anything (AMACOM, 2009) explores how to have painless discussions on your toughest interpersonal situations at work, using techniques from strength-based psychotherapy.

If you are looking for "smile training" or basic advice on communications skills, there are lots of books out there. But if you want to learn what to say to someone after you've just towed their car away - or how to talk to a co-worker who needs to shower more often - or what will defuse a toxic boss - you've come to the right place! Enjoy my books, or Google me to learn more. Welcome!

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars A "must-have" book in your customer service library!, October 20, 1998
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This review is from: Smile Training Isn't Enough: The Three Secrets of Excellent Customer Service (PSI Successful Business Library) (Paperback)
Rich Gallagher is an expert practitioner who really understands customer service from the trenches all the way to the executive suite. This book is easy to read and, better yet, easy to apply to your company situation right away. Good stuff!
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