Pat answers to peevish questions and provocative customer comments, smart answers to even tougher questions, questions with no easy answers, and customers say the darnedest things.

Create a service advantage with the help of customer service guru Ron Zemke. In practical, easy-to-follow steps, learn trusted techniques and positive approaches that will inspire you to believe in the value of customer care and give you the skills and style to deliver it. This book takes these winning concepts to a new level with interactive features that enable you to turn the Knock Your Socks Off Service advantage to a competitive advantage in your own workplace. You will learn how to: ¿ See things from the customer¿s point of view ¿ Meet customer expectations and satisfy their needs ¿ Create a memorable experience for the customer ¿ Become easy to do business with ¿ Determine the right time to bend or break the rules ¿ Become a fantastic fixer and powerful problem-solver ¿ Cope effectively with "customers from hell" ¿ Avoid the ten deadly sins of customer service ¿ Formulate smart answers to tough customer questions

Authors Kristin Anderson and Ron Zemke provide a practical guide to the day-to-day challenges that arise in training superior customer service people. Knock your socks off service doesn't just happen. It requires coaching on an ongoing basis. As part of the Knock Your Socks Off series, Coaching Knock Your Socks Off Service explains how to: help frontline employees hone their skills, maintain the motivation to perform, and meet new situations head-on. The authors present a model for successfully coaching anyone, anywhere, and they show you how to apply it in familiar coaching situations. Everyone can appreciate Zemke and Anderson's strategies for handling the toughest coaching problems. You will learn the most important new skill? teaching employees to be peer coaches, a growing need in the current era of teams and of doing more with less.

The successful "Knock Your Socks Off" (KYSO) formula for wowing customers is back, adapted into a surefire strategy for winning sales by the illustrious consulting team of Gitomer and Zemke. The book will help salespeople succeed in today's complex and stiffly competitive sales environment.

Today’s customers are demanding service that is faster, better, and more personalized than ever before. How can organizations ensure that they are prepared to meet that challenge? The latest addition to the best-selling Knock Your Socks Off Service® series, 101 Activities for Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service provides readers with the practical tools and cost-effective training required to help meet their customers’ needs. Taking the unique position of seeing things from the customer’s perspective, this collection of fun and enlightening exercises teaches customer service managers and employees valuable ways to help their organizations provide world-class service, and helps them create an action plan for improvement. Written in the same accessible and humorous style that made Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service so popular, this companion guide covers such topics as: • how to say no • empathy vs. sympathy • service recovery • listening • email • telephone skills • customers from hell • winning words and soothing phrases • anticipting customer needs • building reliability • customer feedback • keeping a stress log • and more These simple but effective activities take only minutes, but deliver truly powerful, lasting results.

Dr. Wright L. Lassiter Jr. became the first black chancellor of the Dallas County Community College District in June 2006. His leadership skills have served him well in the past and present. As the third volume of the Essential Voice series, this guidebook provides lessons and insights that Lassiter has gleaned during decades of public service. Divided into six parts and more than one hundred key topics, he focuses on topics such as habits you can use to seize the day; the top ten distinctions between winners and losers; the power of place in a learning community; ten lessons learned in over thirty years of higher education. These teachings apply to everyone, especially the thousands of employees of the Dallas County Community College District and anyone involved in higher education. Lassiters lessons will help you develop leadership skills that connect to core values and beliefs and that achieve results. Regardless of your position, youll improve yourself and those around you with the insights and advice in The Friday Messages: Food for Thought.

Based on the popular, breezy approach of the Knock Your Socks Off Service series, the authors provide managers with an upbeat primer on creating a first-class recovery system--showing what it costs to lose customers and how little it can cost to win them back.

Another knockout in the grand tradition of "Knock Your Socks Off Service"!

Chip R. Bell--author of the popular Managing "Knock Your Socks Off" Service--presents a clear blueprint for maximizing business success by enhancing customer loyalty and building lasting relationships. Each chapter includes an illustrative story and key principles. "Excellent advice".--Ken Blanchard.