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Make ‘Em Say Wow: 11 Tips For Building A Strong Service Team

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If you want to combat this at your business, you have to make providing great service a point of pride for your employees. Yet many leaders and employees seem to fear it. And if an employee is not confident in his abilities and decisions, he often does not want the responsibility of being empowered. Acknowledge achievements.

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The 4-Star Turnaround: How A Struggling Island Airline Revolutionized Service

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Yet for many reasons — not the least of which is how tough it is to get thousands of employees aligned in both understanding and behavior — we fail. Your Service, I deploy a proven methodology for helping big organizations (many of them with thousands of employees) make this powerful cultural shift. Sometimes spectacularly.

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Can You Really Overhaul A Nation’s Customer Service Culture?

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If you’ve never heard of Mauritius, take note. Before the global recession, Mauritius was a popular vacation destination for Europeans. The nation and the people of Mauritius needed to set themselves apart, to express their service brand and culture to the rest of the world. Mauritius is working on taking similar steps.

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