Customer Service
How do your customers see you (can they)? Do your windows (access points) attract visitors and encourage interaction?
And how do your staff view the world?
Hospitals are judged by the bedside manner of their doctors. Our products and expertise need great service, otherwise customers and patients will leave
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A Simply Communicate Customer Service workshop at the PMB Chamber of Buisness. Empower your employees to focus on what matters every day for each customer.
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People talk about our mistakes, and especially about how we made them feel. Hire people who will make your customers feel great, even after mistakes are made
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We can’t force employees to go the extra mile; we have to create an environment that makes them want to. If we don’t, they won’t shine and nor will our business
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In hospitals, customers are disguised as patients, and customer service might slip.
The rest of us have no such excuse. What are you doing to provide better than normal service?
What matters in your business? We know what we DON’T want; we know what employees are NOT supposed to do. But, how much time do we spend discussing, reaffirming and encouraging the behaviours we DO want to see. In her grade one class, my wife spends less time criticising errors and transgressions, and more time…
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I was in Pavilion’s Exclusive Books Cafe recently (before it suddenly and unceremoniously closed down). I found myself looking out into the very busy passageway watching what seemed like hundreds of people walking, sauntering or rushing past. Some were alone, some in a group, others were with family or a special friend. Some were very…
Read MoreSimply Communicate is three! What a privilege it has been to do what I love these past three years and to share my passion. I have met some wonderful people, sat in a host of delightful coffee shops around KZN and drunk barrels of coffee. I have been privileged to journey with a variety of businesses and people…
Read More‘It’s not our job’, screamed the newspaper headline as I sat in a Coffee Shop at the Musgrave centre last month during a round of load shedding. The story was about Durban Metro Police claiming that traffic control at intersections when the lights go out is not their problem – they have other things to do. No one seems…
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