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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.

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

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The customer. Ask, What do we want the customer to experience? If CX were a sport, what position would you play and why? Thats sales and service combined! Shep Hyken is a customer service/CX expert, award-winning keynote speaker, and New York Times bestselling author. Start with the end in mind!

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Five Things Not to Do When Giving Gifts to Customers and Employees

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Instead, consider giving employees a bonus day (or two) off or an experience, such as tickets to a sporting event or concert. Swag in the form of clothing is nice, and employees are proud to wear a logo on their sleeve but dont turn your employees into walking billboards of your products and services. Those are memorable.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of February 10, 2025

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My Comment: We kick off this weeks Top Five roundup with a nod to yesterdays biggest sporting event in the US, the Super Bowl. This article focuses on how the NFL (National Football League for those outside the US) continues to work on the customer/fan experience. Connect with Shep on LinkedIn.

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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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Don’t Throw Fellow Employees Under the Bus

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She said a few other words that insulted her coworkers, but I stopped her and said as nicely as I could, “I’m sorry you’re frustrated with the team in the kitchen, but you really shouldn’t complain about them to us.” Customer service is a team sport. There are others who support you and those whom you support.

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Playing to Win in Customer Service

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So, what does this have to do with business, specifically customer service and CX? Plenty! In any team sport, the goal is to win. In the customer service world, we should create a “game plan” to deliver an experience that is perfect, never requiring a customer to reach out to us because of problems.