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Customer Service Is a Team Sport

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The employees recognized that customer service is a team sport. It’s everyone’s job to make sure the customers leave happy. Unfortunately, I’ve also witnessed the opposite at a restaurant. Get more information on The Customer Focus ™ customer service training programs. I liked what I was seeing.

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Let’s Play 20 Customer Experience (CX) Questions – Part One

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EVERY interaction your customers experience. Based on the experiences customers have with the best customer-focused brands, they continue to get smarter about CX and will demand more from you. The customer. Ask, What do we want the customer to experience? Five words are not easy!) So be ready.

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Put Some Fun Into Serious Business

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But this gentleman’s company does something different… so different, in fact, that customers actually ask to be put back on hold. Many of the trivia questions are about sports, but they’re not necessarily questions that would require you to be a true sports fan to answer. For example, “Why is home plate-shaped the way it is?”

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Leading Customer Experience as a Team Sport

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Leading Customer Experience as a Team Sport Lynn Hunsaker Author Lynn Hunsaker at Super Bowl LVII stadium 2023 Leading customer experience as a team sport is essential because every player in your enterprise helps or hinders customer experience performance. It’s indisputable, enduring value.

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Creating World-Class Customer Experience Teams

ClearAction

Creating World-Class Customer Experience Teams. In sports, a great deal of thought goes into creating winning teams. Choosing the right players, getting everyone on the same page, practicing hand-offs and executing a clever playbook are how winning sports teams are created. Such a loose confederation would never fly in sports!

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Winning Decisions Are Sometimes Tough Decisions

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Louis Cardinals are known throughout the sports world as being some of the best fans in all of baseball. What fans of any sport celebrate the opposition scoring against them in that way?! But there’s one person who doesn’t understand the importance of being customer-focused. I enjoy going to a baseball game. I live in St.

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The Culture Challenge

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Principle Seven: Make sure there is a good coach – When I look at the best teams in business, whether they are customer service teams, sales teams, finance teams, etc., The leader of a truly effective team is like the coach of a professional sports team. And, have your customers saying, “I’ll be back!” . So there you have it.

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