Avoid these slippery conversational hiccups

Avoid these slippery conversational hiccups

A customer having a conversations with your support team? Regardless of the channel, rest assured that they will notice every little detail: interactions flow, tone of voice, clarity, coherence proactivity and empathy. In fact most customers are excellent service assessors, because they’re able to detect any conversational hiccups and take them into account within their overall experience evaluation.

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Highlights 

  • 00:03 Intro episode #43
  • 00:41 Distraction is a dangerous poison
  • 01:21 Avoid these 2 slippery conversational hiccups [with example]
  • 01:41 1st Forgetting about the customer…in person!
  • 06:21 💡 Lesson learned: don’t take customer’s patience for granted
  • 08:30 2nd Speaking a foreign language with them [with harsh example]
  • 14:01 When the customer went “what the hell are you saying!?
  • 15:01 💡 Lesson learned: use simple words to gain customer’s trust
  • 15:33 To get more info drop me a line: paolo@customerserviceculture.com
  • 16:00 Check all corporate services on CustomerServiceCulture.com*
  • 16:27 Subscribe to the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcast or Amazon Music
  • 16:41  Check out the ‘Customer Culture Academy’ for your organization
  • 16:51 Closing remarks – have great conversations!

Related links 

  1. Missed previous episode? Listen to ‘why you need more thinking customers
  2. Check out my Digital Customer Service assessments in the consulting page
  3. Up-skill your customer service team with customized training paths
  4. Want to boost your next conference? Here are my keynote speeches
  5. Read my book ‘The Power of Digital Conversations‘ 
  6. Learn about the Customer Culture Academy.
  7. 🎧 Subscribe to this podcast on Spotify, Amazon Music or Apple Podcast.

Over to you

How often do you get your digital customer conversations assessed? Are you checking out and leveraging areas of improvement to get your customer service team up-skilled? I’m asking that because many companies are still struggling with recurrent pain points. Even the smartest ones!

👉 To learn more about my method and results let’s chat informally.

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About Paolo Fabrizio

Digital Customer Service Consultant, Trainer, Author, Speaker. In the 90s he took part in the startup of the first online insurance company in Italy, following the customer's entire life cycle. Since 2013 as a consultant and trainer he has helped companies to exploit digital customer service as a business lever. Founder of CustomerServiceCulture.com, he is the author of thematic books at thematic conferences in Italy and abroad and lecturer at the Bicocca University of Milan.

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