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