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A real-world, plain-language how-to guide for delivering amazing customer service to customers and end-users.
Now in its third edition, The Compassionate Geek is the definitive guide for delivering amazing customer service to customers and end-users. Filled with practical tips, best practices and real-world techniques, The Compassionate Geek is a quick read with equally fast results. Each chapter contains a reflection and discussion section to help improve customer service skills. Inside are lots of personal stories and examples of mistakes made and lessons learned in addition to an entire chapter on overcoming personal and professional obstacles. All of the information is presented in a straightforward style that can be understood and used right away. There’s nothing foo-foo, just down-to-earth tips and technical support best practices learned from years of working with technical staff and demanding customers and end-users.
Here’s what you’ll find:
- The four intrinsic qualities of great customer service providers
- Customer service tips on how to say no without alienating your customer or end user
- Best practices for communicating with email, including examples
- Best practices for communicating using chat and texting
- Ten tips for being a good listener
- Two practical ways to keep your emotions in check using emotional intelligence (eq) techniques
- A six-step flow chart for handling customer and end user calls
- Customer service skills to use when the customer or end user is wrong
- How to work with the different generations in the workplace
- Motivational stories of human triumph with reflection and discussion questions
- Techniques for overcoming personal and professional obstacles
All of the information is presented in a straightforward style that you can understand and use right away. There’s nothing “fru-fru”, just down-to-earth tips and technical support best practices learned from years of working with technical staff and demanding customers and end users.
The 5 Principles of IT Customer Service offers a new and refreshing approach to IT customer service. Instead of prescribing rigid scripts and protocols, The 5 Principles of IT Customer Service shows the reader how to live a more compassionate and empathetic life as a pathway to delivering exceptional customer service. Ignoring the dictates of most customer service books, The 5 Principles of IT Customer Service focuses instead on the timeless principles of pride in your work combined with compassion and empathy for our customers and colleagues, excellent listening skills, and an ability to treat all people with dignity and respect. It gives the reader credit for being able to think for her or himself without being burdened by phony sounding scripts or rigid protocols. In The 5 Principles of IT Customer Service, the reader learns how to become an intrinsically more caring person, better equipped to understand the frustrations of an end user or customer struggling with a computer or software problem.
In The 5 Principles of IT Customer Service, you’ll learn:
- The importance of technical competence and how to achieve it
- How compassionate people know the right words to say in tough situations
- The power of empathy to defuse emotionally charged situations
- The top 10 ways to be a better listener
- The critical difference between feeling respect and showing respect and dignity
The 5 Principles of IT Customer Service manifests the author’s firmly rooted belief in the basic goodness of all people and the ability of all people to grow, adapt, and achieve excellence in every aspect of their lives.
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