Let’s start off this new year sharing 2026 top customer service conferences. This selection includes international ones that are focussed on one or more of these hot topics: Digital Customer Service, Gen AI and Customer Culture. I hope you’ll enjoy this global selection and if you have further ones to recommend, let me know the [...]
“Half the work is done behind the scenes.” My music teacher used to say it to stress the importance of the preparation in order to offer a great performance. And he was so right! In fact many years later, such a mantra is valid for Digital Customer Service managers and teams because developing focussed skills [...]
“It’s the ability to recognize, understand, and manage one’s own emotions, as well as recognizing, understanding, and influencing the emotions of others.” That’s the definition of a person being emotionally intelligent. So why on earth as a customer service manager do you need to strengthen and leverage such a skill? And why emotional is bound [...]
A few weeks back a client asked me: “Paolo, where do you take so much inspiration from to create fresh, weekly content?” So I went: “firstly working with my client companies, mainly big ones. Then from my personal customer experiences, whenever I need to ask for support or information”. And I happen to do that [...]
Optimizing time io crucial, for you as a manager and also for your customer service team. So, what are the main intrusions you want to prevent or erase to protect your agents’ time? As more than one I have worked on that delivering training & up-skilling sessions, most of the times the bottleneck lies in [...]
