Myra Golden

APRIL 26, 2018

Last week I facilitated a team building workshop for one of my favorite clients. Typically, I only deliver training on customer service, but my client had a special request. So I designed a unique Team-building Customer Service event built around a 12-foot pole. We spent the rest of the workshop discussing the exercise.

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Myra Golden

JULY 16, 2020

Digital workshops are super fun and include engaging learning activities, scenarios based on issues you bring, guided small group discussions in virtual breakout rooms, polling questions, and PDF workbooks. I’m facilitating digital workshops on de-escalation, call control, empathy, telephone skills, and more.

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Myra Golden

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

I facilitated five live digital De-escalation workshops last week. The meanness of the public has forced many public-facing industries to rethink what used to be an article of faith: that the customer is always right. If you need help de-escalating customers in the new era of customer service, check out my De-escalation Academy.

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Myra Golden

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We have to give customers a lot of bad news these days. As a result, we are no longer supporting customers over chat.” ” No one likes to deliver bad news to customers, but providing terrible news is a regular part of business for a lot of us. .” ” (True story). So let’s figure out how to fix that!

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Heart of the Customer

DECEMBER 4, 2014

“Customers aren’t filling out our form completely. ” “We just need to teach our customers how to use our website so they won’t call us so much.” ” ———— These are all actual quotes from employees we’ve worked with while leading customer experience workshops. .”

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Myra Golden

JULY 2, 2019

For all of my onsite customer service workshops and keynotes, I arrive at least 45 minutes before we start so I can meet and talk to the people who’ll be spending several hours with me. And, it’s the same with customers. Now I didn’t always do this.

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Myra Golden

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In my De-escalation Academy today, I taught how to politely yet firmly say ‘no’ to a customer. ” I’m sharing with you the very teaching from today’s workshop. I call the method “U S A.” Try out U S A and let me know how it works for you. Practice the U S A Method.

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Storyminers

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Something better can happen for the customer, the employee and the business. This is the Triple Bottom Line Design. Build-a-Bear Workshops are a great example of how this works. It also works for B2B experience design. Experience Design Customer Experience Design interviews'

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Heart of the Customer

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Choices make or break your customer experience. Design them well and they make life easier on your customers. But leave them to chance and they can drag down your customer experience. I’m teaching a series customer experience workshops for an insurance company.

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Myra Golden

MARCH 19, 2017

Every interaction your employees have with customers is an opportunity to make the customer experience easy, helpful and friendly. The wrong words can cause dis-ease in customers, or leave customers thinking you don’t care. Customers, especially if they happen to be angry, need options. I’m fine.”.

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Myra Golden

MAY 7, 2019

In my customer service workshops, I improve the customer experience by challenging employees to consider, “ What else does my customer need to know? ” And then meeting that need without the customer having to wonder, fret, or even ask. What’s Your Customer’s Panic Question?

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Myra Golden

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

In customer service workshops, like the one I delivered Friday in Columbus, I challenge my clients to use the empathy I’ve heard (and felt) to inspire them to come up with their own empathic responses. We appreciate customers who let us know when things aren’t right. Thanks for taking the time to let us know. Was This Helpful?

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Myra Golden

OCTOBER 20, 2021

People in my workshops ask, “What do I say when a customer threatens suicide?” ” Customers in distress are stressful for customer support teams. When customers threaten self-harm or harm to others, they’ve taken the interaction outside the boundary of sincere conversation. Understand this.

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Myra Golden

DECEMBER 13, 2018

You’re either serving customers, or you’re serving someone who serves customers. I want to talk to you about how to fulfill your responsibility of serving, particularly when it comes to your co-workers – your internal customers. I do an exercise in my workshops using a 12-foot pole. Work together.

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One Millimeter Mindset

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Let’s move forward with a facilitated pandemic storytelling workshop. Instead, this internal customer discovery exercise allows you all to uncover what external clients really value. Retaining Clients leverages Innovative Customer Retention Strategies. And move forward with a facilitated pandemic storytelling workshop.

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Myra Golden

APRIL 13, 2020

We’ve suspended our onsite workshops, but if you have a LinkedIn Learning subscription, you can take Myra’s most popular customer service classes online. Head on over to LinkedIn Learning and start training with Myra now!

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Myra Golden

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

One of the skills we practice in my onsite customer service workshops is Empathy. Here are some of the exact phrases that I share in my training sessions for use in our role-plays – and in real life with customers. Learn more or try for free.

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Myra Golden

MAY 7, 2020

They’re likely seeing a rise in customer frustration. Here are some engagement ideas I’m hearing from people in my virtual workshops. They need contact, connection, and communication – and the break from serving customers. Make sure you get employees off the phones and chat dashboards at least once weekly. They need to exhale.

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Myra Golden

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

N o matter what your product or service is or what business you’re in, your employees will have to deal with difficult customers. So that’s why I’m sharing these tactics… to show you a fast and easy new way your employees can create calm and regain control with difficult customers. Not only that, but my agents were overwhelmed.

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Myra Golden

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

N o matter what your product or service is or what business you’re in, your employees will have to deal with difficult customers. So that’s why I’m sharing these tactics… to show you a fast and easy new way your employees can create calm and regain control with difficult customers. Not only that, but my agents were overwhelmed.

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Myra Golden

DECEMBER 17, 2018

No one likes to deliver bad news to customers, but for a lot of us, giving bad news is a regular part of business. You know the feeling – you probably get nervous, or you have to transfer a call to your supervisor because the customer won’t accept your word as final. More than anything else, customers want help.

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Myra Golden

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

If you say “because” when you’re telling a customer something, you’ll significantly increase the chance that they’ll accept your word as final. Using the “because” tactic, you can increase the chances of a customer accepting your word as final. Customers are still upset.

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SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

The Super-Heroes of Customer Experience are here! Customer Experience – The new focus of 2020! Customer Experience has become a top priority for businesses in 2020. They have not only brought new perspectives on the table but have redefined the customer experience exceptionally!

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Myra Golden

MARCH 22, 2021

Many people are surprised when I bring up empathy in my de-escalation workshops. They’re looking for hard-hitting tools and frameworks to help them bring down the temperature in interactions with customers. With customers in intense situations, empathy helps you begin the de-escalation process. But empathy?

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Myra Golden

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

A workshop I’m facilitating in Tulsa in a few weeks is now online. ” and “What do you do when customers politicize masks?” ” If you’re struggling with face-covering issues with customers, you’re not alone. We thought we’d be done with COVID by now. Yet, here we are.

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Myra Golden

APRIL 15, 2019

I end all of my customer service workshops by asking participants to write down three words. By reflecting on the day and successes, and setting goals, my workshop attendees are more likely to adopt and apply their insights, and this makes my training more effective. Start, Stop, and Continue.

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Storyminers

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Mike Wittenstein is the founder of StoryMiners, one of the world’s first customer experience design consultancies. The company is renowned for its ability to hone into the core values of a company and translate them into captivating experiences, enabling their clients to reach their full potential.

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Myra Golden

JUNE 13, 2017

Have you ever checked out my onsite training workshops? Workshop attendees have said, “ Myra’s positive attitude really makes me feel that one person can completely change another’s state of being ” and “ Each one of us walked away with something new, and all of us feel we could have sat and listened to her for days! ”.

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Myra Golden

AUGUST 27, 2018

For all of my customer service workshops, I like to arrive at least 45 minutes before we start so I can meet and talk to the people who’ll be spending several hours with me. But I’ve found that talking to workshop participants before the training starts helps me to connect with my audience before I speak my first word.

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Myra Golden

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Convey Empathy to Customers. One of the skills we practice in my onsite customer service workshops is Empathy. Here are some of the exact phrases I share in my training sessions for use in our role-plays – and in real life with customers: Now you can get even more tips for the very best telephone customer experience.

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Myra Golden

JULY 10, 2019

All of my customer service workshops begin with what I call a Discovery Discussion – a video conference where I discover the problem my client needs me to solve. Focus questions help you, help your customer to focus on why they’ve called you. Ask Questions That Are Easy For Your Customers to Answer.

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Myra Golden

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Your customers want friendly employees, but more than that, they want reliability and for you to stand by your word. If you’re not a dollar store, there’s an excellent chance your customers prefer quality and performance over super cheap. That’s the goal, too, for your customer experience.

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SuiteCX

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

My design thinking team was soon using it in most of our meetings. Whiteboarding is just one tool in the huge box that is customer experience design. Simply resting at the two-dimensional representation of the customer journey, however, is tantamount to getting the job only half done. Built-in sticky note packs!

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Myra Golden

OCTOBER 5, 2021

I revealed the number one training request I get directly from frontline employees, and I take you inside my digital classroom for a high-impact workshop. I hope to see you tomorrow at the official Customer Service Week celebration. . If you missed us live this morning, no worries, I have the video below.

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Myra Golden

MAY 7, 2021

A participant in a workshop this week asked, “Should I tell the customer to have a good day after I’ve just given them bad news?” While we want the customer to have a good day indeed, and we want to follow the company call framework, we need to be genuine. ” SMART question! GET MORE ADVICE LIKE THIS.

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Myra Golden

OCTOBER 29, 2018

If you find it hard to get customers to accept your word as final and if too many of your customers just go over your head to talk to a supervisor who will tell the customer the exact same thing, you need to read this. I have for you five little tricks that I share in my onsite de-escalation workshops. Show regret.

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Myra Golden

MARCH 18, 2019

While sipping a Bloody Mary, I reviewed a random sample of phone calls ahead of a workshop I’m delivering for a medical clinic in Los Angeles in a couple of weeks. I want to talk to you about your tone of voice with customers because this is the biggest problem I picked up on the recordings today. Authoritative. Unapologetic.

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